Author:
Ines Kröger
In the winter you want it nice and warm but in the summer refreshingly cool. For the best possible thermal insulation, low heat loss outwards and an always pleasant room climate, we insulate our Sprinter Campervan with Armaflex-AF!
For thermal insulation we are using Armaflex-AF from Armacell, it’s an insulation material made of caoutchouc/rubber. Because of its closed cells, the material does not absorb ...
To minimize the general loud and rattling background noise of a cargo van, we will put up noise insulation in our Sprinter in the course of the van conversion.
If you ever drove a cargo van, maybe when you were moving or bought some bulky furniture, you know it is usually much louder in such a van than in your regular car. Most of the noise doesn’t come from the engine though. The vibration of the engine ...
What you need to know about insulating a Campervan: useful and practical basics & facts
Why should you insulate your Campervan?
In cold areas (e.g. Alaska or Patagonia) the cold should be kept outside, while at the same time the heat loss from the Diesel-heater should be as low as possible
In warm areas (e.g. the Caribbean) it should be nice and cool inside of the van, despite high outside ...
The sub-construction is important and fundamental to install the new floor plate as well as the future furniture and interior of the Sprintervan. Our basis are spruce slats glued to the vehicle floor with Sikaflex.
We already told you about removing the old floor panel and the small surprises we found below. Now we install the sub-construction wich will function as the base for all further ...
It sure is a small surprise to find out what's beneath the original floor plate. Close your eyes and hope for the best? Rather not, because the floor is the base of the future interior build of the Sprinter, so the old floor panel has to go.
We definitely took a very close look when we chose and bought our basic vehicle, because we were prepared about what aspects we had to pay attention to when buying a ...
If the doors do not close correctly anymore, they have to be readjusted. We had to change the door hinges to install our spare wheel holder, so they are actually the reason we had to readjust the Sprinter's back doors. We show you how to do it in 7 steps!
STEP 1 Start off by removing the four closing hooks with guide mandrels (two at the top and two at the bottom), so the doors will ...
STEP 1 Start off by removing the four closing hooks with guide mandrels (two at the top and two at the bottom), so the doors will ...
Before we could install our new spare wheel holder to the back door, we had to change the 270 degree door hinges of our Sprinter to 180 degree hinges. No sooner said than done!
Regarding our travel destination and wanting to discover remote places, we will probably not always drive on paved roads. Not without reason did we choose a four wheel drive vehicle. Even though it does not necessarily have to ...
Fiamma offers a great range of accessories for campervan awnings, such as wind baffles, bars and hooks. We equipped our awning with LED lights on the awning arms.
The LED light strips have a self-adhesive backside, very easy to apply. Just a small piece of advice: Of course we applied them as the manual suggested, but then we could not close the awning completely so we moved the LED lights a little, now ...
Because of the height of our 4WD Sprinter, the supporting legs of the awning Fiamma F65 S do not reach the ground! That’s why we installed the brackets to the wall of the vehicle.
To protect the awning itself as well as the vehicle, the supporting legs of the awning should be secured to the ground with the pegs after pulling out about 1 meter of the fabric before it is completely opened. But: our ...
We want to make our small living space as big as possible, that’s why we expand it by some outside space, like a patio. Therefore we equip our Sprinter with an awning: the Fiamma F65 S!
The awning makes it possible to enlarge the tiny space of the van without much effort. The awning is rolled out quickly and the supporting legs are easily stuck into the ground or to the vehicle. In less than no time you ...