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This weekend we are off as a family en convoy to a C+C rally in Cheddar and as the daughters new van has reached the 90k mark and is well into its second 5 year period for cambelt, I decided Yesterday to change the belt and tensioner. The belt kit from my local factor was £108 a Gaites belt so...

Thanks Phil, to be honest I only put the photos up because I'd started the thread and thought I should show the finished product. But the photos don't show the technical head aches I went through on this one, as the space usable made it difficult to fit everything in. Phil

Thanks Mates, I have convinced myself that this really will be the last. Phil

I know I stopped posting about my daughters van build but I thought I'd post some photos of the finished article. My daughter on site with us in Darley Dale near Matlock this weekend, on a Camping and caravan rally. Phil.

As I said there is always a reason, glad you finally sorted it. Phil Very odd though as the two 155s that I have installed in the past both switch on and off the front and rear light power when the power switch is operated.

Just as thought do the other lights extinguish when the power button is pressed off? It could be if they do but the touch sense lights don't that the touch lights have a capacitor and don't turn off immediately till the capacitor has disopated. Have you waited any time after you have pressed...

I think you will have to do as I suggested in cutting the slate wire close to the unit, that way you know for sure that there is no other connections in the circuit and if it still does not go on and off with the power button there has to be a fault in the unit itself. If it does go on and off...

When you say you re earthed it, are you saying that there was a short to earth then?

Ok change the fuse and get your multi meter and check the slate wire with it, disconnect all lights, if poss cut the slate wire close to the unit and check that it is operating as it should, make sure you don't cut it too short give yourself enough wire to rejoin it after you've checked it out...

If it's blown a fuse it must be earthing out between the unit and the lights I'd have thought.

Is this a secondhand unit? Did you have the wiring all ready set up to the 12volt multi plug and all you had to do was plug in the multiple or did you have to physically add the pins to the wire and make the plug up yourself.

Are the touch sense lights the only lights you have fitted? It is odd that when you press the power button on the 155 unit that should turn all 12volt power off other than the Radio wire. So it would seem that the lights are getting power from another source, which seems most unusual. However...

2 possibilities. 1) are your touch sense led lights pos/ neg sensertive ( Some led lights can be wired up either way round and others will only work if pos is connected to positive terminal on light unit) 2) Sounds silly but are they earthed correctly, i.e. is the earth your using actually...

Ebay is a good go to I find, they defo do handles rollers and runners etc for Ducato sliding doors. Really depends what you mean by ' Catch " . Phil

Few pics. Floor now completed and ceiling with all the lights fitted. The floor was brilliant and easy to fit with sticky backed floor tiles a bit like Carnion floor tiles that I put down in my van but at a third of the cost, these cost £54 for the complete floor of a medium wheelbase Ducato...