09' Multispace to van conversion

[jemselectrical]

I've not driven down to 'The Smoke' in quite a few years so am a bit puzzled about ULEZ and how it applies to diesel Vans vs Cars. Don't they both have to be Euro 6 compliant?

For the load bed extension, you may get an advisory on your MoT if the rear seats are missing?

The ULEZ requirements are that diesels must comply with Euro 6 which all diesels registered on or after September 1st 2016 (66' reg onwards) must conform to. That has wiped out the second hand commercial vehicle market from the upper middle downwards. I know many colleagues who have 16' plate vans/pickups/cars who are still under finance and are essentially stuffed with a £375 extra monthly outgoing on top of their finance payments, and to add insult to injury have consequently got devalued assets that are unusable as of the 29th of August. Horrible situation which I'm fortunate to not be in as I own my transit outright. 

Petrol engined vehicles only have to comply with Euro 4 regulations, so any petrol vehicle registered on or after 1st March 2006 will be Euro 4 compliant. This is why I'm going through the colossal effort to revert a petrol Multispace back into a useable van. Citroen did not make petrol B9 vans until the last generation of Euro 6 1.2L B9's, all of which are silly money. Even the old hounds 1.4L M59's with 200k on the clock are fetching silly money in London now

The ULEZ applies to all vehicles. £12.50per day all year round apart from Christmas day. If you're a Euro IV +, anything above 3.5Tonnes and not compliant, then the daily charge rises to £100 per day

[cancunia]

Understood on all points!
Good luck with the changes.

[Sol]

That's why I chopped my 2012 van in, had a car in between and then bought a 2017 (66 plate) van as ULEZ is here too. Had to pay nearly £10k for a 66 plate HDi with 60k on it.

[jemselectrical]

Progress report:

Van side doors from a Partner installed and de-wrapped. Wheel well trims fitted and altered to accommodate the rear seat support/retention loops and template made for sheet steel blanks for rear window openings. All the extra seat mount modules installed ready for the split twin passenger seat, van door cards with no silver coating or material on arm rests, grey dimpled dash trim installed albeit got an issue with the airbag side (it seems the dimpled grey options from the van model don't have airbags installed??), Leather gear stick gaiter installed and transit connect gear knob on its way

Waiting for the factory rubber mid floor section insert to be delivered(off a 14' reg LWB Partner) , and hoping to find the front one to match. Carpets nfg, so may well end up getting this one covered somehow.

[jemselectrical]

More pics:

[jemselectrical]

Also got all the bits needed to prepare for barn doors to be installed. A bit of a pig of a job as it involves removing the reinforcing plates from the donor vans cutouts, then taking a template from them to overlay where the holes go for the door hinges, the door check straps, the two mounting holes for the tail lights and the loom pass through hole. 

To remove the reinforcing plates from the donor van cutouts involves drilling the spot welds off, then inserting them into the pillar void to line up with the inner side pillar holes and the newly drilled rear main face hinge holes, then bolting them down and tack welding them onto the hinge face so they are retained as they would in the van with spot welds. The side face of the pillar is just a single M8 Torx bolt through the existing hole that's unused in the multispace so relatively easy that side.
The barn door latches and door stop mounts are an easy install as the mounting positions and captive nuts for them are still in place in the multispace chassis. They just cover them with thin black plastic disks to seal the air path shut.

[jemselectrical]

Today's work:

[jemselectrical]

Weekends progress:

Load bed extension and rear window blanks being welded in this week?

[Sol]

Could you not have just fitted the load extension after removing the rear seats, tinted the rear windows limo black and just used it as it was?

[jemselectrical]

Could you not have just fitted the load extension after removing the rear seats, tinted the rear windows limo black and just used it as it was?

No, not without having to haul all my gear in and out daily. The whole point is to replicate what I have already, only petrol powered, not end up in thousands of pounds in debt to replace a fully functional and low mileage fully owned van. I'll not be beholden to that swine Khan, or an equally parasitic finance company. Just robbed of my time, not my money. I've got a house renovation to finish.