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Project Yellow has been progressing.

Firstly I have been adjusting my driving style to Van driving. This means I no longer need to use my mirrors, can beep the horn at attractive ladies and generally ignore the welfare of other road users, makes life a lot less hassle. I have started to fill the various trays and boxes full of pay and display tickets, half finished packets of sweets etc.

As winter is on its way I've decided I'm going to get a set of winter tyres, and thought some 15" steels would be better than my 16" alloys, both from a cost point of view and wear and tear. So I got this set of 4 off ebay, also off an ex-AA "Bang" Bus.

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Now to source some cheap but not crappy winter tyres with a sufficient load rating.

The van came with an old VW stereo with buttons missing,only two speaker outlets and no speakers. So I dropped by a car stereo shop and after the salesman quickly sized up my holes (oooer..) I came out with the following:

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The fronts speakers are orange, the backs are grey. The stereo is a Pioneer, back in the day it was Pioneer or Alpine for the XR/SRI crew, so I knew this had to be a quality bit of kit. Plus I can plug my Ipod in.

Firstly the old unit came out:

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Leaving a hole:

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The iso block worked, apart from the fact there was no link for the speaker cables that went from the back to the front under the floor on the vehicle side.. I identified the cables using a little 9v battery, cut the corresponding cables off the unit's iso block and spliced them in.

After many trips to Halfords for connector spades and bullets and some self tapping screws the professional install was in.

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And my favourite part of the install, I let the front speakers nestle down just off centre then banged in some self tappers, I'm born to grace the ICE/Show and Shine scene with this level of innovation:

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The one on the otherside is offset slightly differently :lol:

And the rears, a little better as the previous owner had left me some cout outs and mounting clips in place:

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They look kind of lost! Close up:

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it all sounds pretty good which is the main thing, an old sub box that came free in the BMW may also find its way in their to solid up the bass.

I also found out how to fold the back seat, it makes a useful work surface:

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My only other adventurs was a visit to Morrisons. I discovered that my van with extractor unit is not less than 2m high :lol: A bit of reversing for me and a nice queue of Saturday shoppers soon had that sorted :thumbsup: Perhaps I should lower it slightly after all...