Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Looks good out-n-about

Riccy wrote: Looks good out-n-about

Feels good to be out-n-about too  

It's great to see the buggy in it's natural habitat, well done!

I was doing some DIY in the house today, boxing in some pipes after the plumber had finished installing our new boiler... I was just finishing off when the wife text me from the shop... Our Vape / Mobile SIMs Rep' was in the shop and had heard I'd finished the buggy... He then appeared on the driveway... "I've got 15 minutes to spare" he said... Yup, he wanted a ride! LOL :lol: So I took him for a spin...

 

And up a local greenlane "Bryn-y-Pin" just up the road from our house...

 

I got back, he went back to work - off to the next call, and I couldn't help but notice the spatters up the door again...

Mud-flaps! That's the next job then...

Into the storeroom in the shop... as I remebered... a customer of our Post Office used to sell rally mudflaps online, and had given me a few (about ten!) samples a few years ago...

 

So I measured the buggy's wheel arches, and then cut one of the rally mudflaps into two strips (and an offcut)

 

The offcut was handy to kneel on! Wheel off, drill some holes...

 

That should do it!

 

At the same time, being as the front wheels were off! I swapped the wheel nuts to the new 17mm head ones, so that a standard wheel wrench will fit it, and fitted the locking wheel nuts that the insurance company wanted me to fit..

 

That should stop most of the spray up the doors and onto the rear wheel arches...!

 

I then fitted the trusty old iPad RAM mount onto the dashboard, that runs "Memory Map" GPS software for me (and Alan).

I then went for a test drive... a late lunch... as far as the local KFC drive-thru and back

Just enough time to walk the dogs again and have half-an-hour sit down on the sofa with them before going back to the shop for the evening shift...

nice, whats going in the holes where the radio and ashtray used to be?

Also, I hope the ipad stays dry when it rains or in "river crossings"

It's not worth fitting a radio / CD as I won't hear it?! :woohoo:

I've got a handheld CB and earpiece... so that I can hear the others when in a group...

So, Ummm... a blanking plate? 

A load of switches? Nooo... keeping it simple this time around.

A sandwich? 

Dunno...?