MOAR.
Picking up from the most recent instalment, here's some more switch panel. One of the little cubbyholes is intentionally phone-sized, so I put a USB socket in there to charge same:
Popped a speaker into one end:
Connected up eleventy bazillion wires to the panel:
And screwed it into place:
But from where is the music coming, I hear you cry? MAGIC. Actually, merely sufficiently-advanced technology. Hidden inside the panel there's a 12V-to-USB gizmo powering a Bluetooth audio receiver connected to the amplifier, so we can stream music from phones or whatever:
Mount the amp, panel to finish the front of the storage cubbies, other speaker, DONE:
(apart from filler and paint, obvs).
In other news, various maintenance jobs have forced themselves upon us. The wipers have been iffy for ages because the motor's been gradually dying. Buying a motor turned out to be only slightly cheaper than getting a motor with new linkages attached, and I suspected that all the bushings were pretty weary, so got this:
which turned out to be most entertaining to replace, necessitating the removal of all this lot:
and leaving the van looking like this:
Still, got there in the end, all works. I don't recommend removing and refitting a Ducato bonnet singlehandedly if you can possibly avoid it
More soon!