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Old 24th April 2018, 10:30 PM
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But now she is in my car like a drug sniffer dog......
What an amazingly accurate description of MJ’s pride in her work!

Plus I cannot stop laughing!
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Old 24th April 2018, 10:35 PM
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I love the terminology. Perpetrator = Moron!
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Old 27th April 2018, 10:26 PM
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Wee... without knowing said perpetrator had installed the fridge she discovered new flaws there!

The S8 isn't shy anymore. She's in the progress of showing all and any shortcomings to MJ now, and if it seems there's none left a new one shows. MJ isn't easily scared away though! :-)
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Old 29th April 2018, 10:00 PM
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Been mostly fiddling and fettling this week. Now that most of the big jobs are out of the way it was time to do something which has been bugging me for a while.

Because of the LPG tank, the boot carpet doesn't fit any more. This is a, most uncomfortable when working in the boot, and b, a most excellent tool-trap when things fall under the tank! I should imagine its also quite vexing if you want to use the boot too!

Nicht gut.



Cut a piece of 10mm plywood to fit the space.



Cut it in to two pieces. This is where the new floor will 'hinge'. The leading edge of this is tapered to lead the new carpet on to the original floor.



Painted the visible surfaces on the top



Sprayed the underside with sound-deadening paint



Cut the new carpet using a spare as a template



Made a support brace at the front end of the spare wheel well. This will support the front end of the lifting piece of the new floor.



The front piece of the new board sits on top of the support and is held in place using the studs for the original floor



New board in place. It all fits nicely



New carpet stuck to the board with contact adhesive



Stuck some anti-rattle felt on the LPG tank support braces so it doesn't squeak



All stuck together



In place and held down with the tie-down loops, and with D2 fuel-line screws going through the board on to the original studs.



Made a little handle to lift the floor up. The original plastic handle won't fit because of the tank, but since there's no spare wheel and the tyres are run-flats, I can't see much need to go under here!



Finished



Its black rather than dark grey since I've never been able to find aftermarket carpet that matches the D2 boot, but it beats no floor at all!

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Old 29th April 2018, 10:23 PM
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Threats an excellent solution MJ....and given me ideas when for when I do my sound install

I like how you retained the clips and handles
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Old 29th April 2018, 11:10 PM
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This is what I did with my sub install:



The amp board is attached to the back of the sub enclosure with a couple of large pieces of extruded aluminium joining the tie-down hooks to their original mounting points in the floor so I can still use them I used a genuine D2 non-ski-hatch carpet so the colour matched.

Two Infinity Kappa 12s firing through the ski hatch They use the entire boot as a 500 litre ported enclosure with the ports in the original speaker mountings in the rear shelf.

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Old 29th April 2018, 11:19 PM
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That is EXACTLY what I was planning to do....even down to sacrificing the rear shelf speakers

The only part I hadn’t figured out was the ski hatch....this 8 doesn’t have one but my last one did
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Old 30th April 2018, 01:59 AM
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That's one of the neatest LPG installs I've ever seen!
Much better than the one my old Commodore had.
All the more nearer now thanks to Michaela!

What's the usable litres in the donut tank?
The tank in my Commodore used to sit across the suspension hump at the front end of the boot and was a standard cylindrical tank. It had 65 usable litres in a 80 litre cylinder (80% max due to requirements for thermal expansion allowance in the tank).
I was half expecting to see something similar in Vera's S8, which would have made fuel pump access interesting!
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Old 30th April 2018, 08:54 AM
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The only part I hadn’t figured out was the ski hatch....this 8 doesn’t have one but my last one did
That's dead easy, but to discuss would be a digression from this thread. You can open it up (and even fit the hatch mechanism) without removing the rear seats in a FL D2; I did.
Pretty sure I posted a few details somewhere here too. Ah! Found it: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7005 - ask away there.
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2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!

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Old 30th April 2018, 11:26 AM
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What's the usable litres in the donut tank?
It says 83 litres, but I think that may be total volume. Going on 80% thats 66 litres usable.

Probably 250 miles / 400km range?
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