Nigel Heyward

Interesting, as that's how ours operates, the leisure battery is on constant charge via the solar, which in turn charges the main battery, which we never switch off, obviously you must have a slightly different system to ours. Good luck with solving the conundrum.

So just to be clear, you have a leisure battery and solar?, I have the exact same, doesn't your leisure battery excess power your main battery?.

Please let the forum know how you resolve the issue Hillclimber.

What would the good folk in this club do without Picasso?.

Definitely check out conversion companies, North Star told us they throw them out by the skipload.

My first thought would be Jap Auto parts.

Glad they were of use.

Haven't seen any updates on the meet up for this year, unfortunately we were unable to attend this one so just wondering how it went.

That's very useful info guys, handy to know.

Have to agree with Rojie, as you live on the IOW, take a visit to Northstar and have a chat with them, outstanding company in all things Alphard.

Hi Phil, we have a 2003 Alphard with rear conversion, our mattress is a Vango 75cm self inflating purchased from Amazon, and I can confirm it's very comfortable.

Still, the extra length would be nice 😃

Good advice Charlie.

The big problem here is everyone who gets a conversion done ends up with seats that seemingly nothing can be done with, and as you say, they are quality, I also have two rear seats left over and I'm hoping at some point to make a base for them to fit on and use in our Summer house.

Kramerica, sorry, I have no idea about that.

Oh good, all sorted then.

Well that's a surprise Eddie, Steve was usually pretty good with comms when I had dealings with him, hope nothing untoward has occurred with him, other than that, don't know what to suggest.

We had ours made by Steve at Odysseycarpets.co.uk, very pleased with both the quality and the fit, recommended.

My first thought would be Auto Jap spares.

I finally took delivery of my cover from Auto covers UK a couple of weeks ago, and fitted it today for the first time, well, to say I'm disappointed with it would be a bit of an understatement, the quality of the cover itself seems fine, but where they got their sizes from is a mystery, it's about 3 inches too short in length, so doesn't stretch under the rear bumper, and I'm the width it comes up a good 5 inches short on each side, in addition, the positioning of the front straps is such that I have to literally feed it through the wheels to get it to work, generally unimpressed.

Thanks dezufo, makes good sense.

OK, upon further investigation, I now think this may actually be some kind of drainage tube as I discovered a small white clip of the correct diameter that points the tube down the bottom of the van, I think that it was never put back correctly before.

Hi Guys n' Gals, a little enlightenment needed if anybody can help, I have removed the rear seats from my 2003 Alphie and found in the lower storage compartment that everything in there was wet, upon further investigation I found a tube in the space that houses the Jack and safety triangle, that isn't connected, but did have a little liquid in it, common sense tells me that it's the rear washer feed as it clearly runs up the inner frame to the top of the vehicle, however, I can neither see, nor feel anything that it should be attached to coming from the front, any ideas gratefully received.

As I write, I am STILL awaiting delivery from Auto covers uk, it's getting ridiculous now.

Rojie, there sees to be a bit of a grey area on sizings with these covers, especially the 'off the shelf one size fits all', varieties, there's a company on Amazon, Mobile Garage, that do a lot of van covers, and each size is designed to fit a few vehicle models, so obviously just a 'general' fit, which I suppose would be OK, however, I'd be worried about it flapping off in a stiff wind, which is mainly the reason I stuck with Auto covers, it's a bit more expensive, but hopefully will fit perfectly.