Woodys Upgrade Projects

 Upgrades to Woody Since New!

Removed the tables.

• These were little / individual tables that could be swung round and tilted, but were really quite fiddly and less useful than having one of the rail mounted types.
• We bought a folding / collapsing one from Amazon and it means we can have it inside or out.

Upgraded the headlights. 

• Full LED tor replace the 'Stevie Wonders'.

Added a set of LED bars to the front grille.

• Operate with full beam, like daylight when needed.

Added a Blue-Spark tuning box.

• Couldn't find anyone with a reliable re-map for the T6.1 at the time.
• This has the benefit of allowing the performance or efficiency to be adjusted via an app over bluetooth.

Removed an all but useless cupboard from the back that was under the R&R bed.

• It was a pain to get things in and out of and had a drop down door that meant you had to get everything away from it to open it.
• Replaced with a slide out tray with rear panel and lashing eyes. Sat on some old filing cabinet runners. Made from 9mm plywood and covered in the same anthracite carpet / lining as the rest of the van.

Extended the pop-top bed.

• The first time we tried sleeping 'up-top', my feet got stuck under the low end and found it difficult to roll over.
• Added an 18" section of 18mm plywood and covered the whole bed-board in the same lining as he rest of the van, which had the added advantage of adding more insulation.
• Made it in such a way that it can fold back over when not in use.

Created an illuminated VW logo for the underside of the bed with a Woody yellow inner to match the front and rear VW badges.

Added a remote LED under the cupboards to allow us to find the main control panel when returning at night.

Added some custom made drawers to the large cupboard that only had shelves.

• The shelves were ok, but stuff either had to be in boxes or loosely packed a nd prone to spilling out whenever the roller door was opened. 
• Due to the shape of the shelves and tambour door, the drawer fronts needed to have a quarter rounded front panel. So out with the laser cutter to make some flexible plywood fronts that allowed them to flex round the corner.
• Sarah finished them in a matching Woody Yellow vinyl.

Added a Wireless charger to the front passenger side dash. 

• Sarah can now charge her phone without causing connection issues on the headunit.

Removed the underseat drawer after a mishap in 2025, sent it careening out of it's runners and sending BB's all over the floor.

• Added a new split set to give us room to store the Porta-Potti and have a couple of smaller drawers either side.

Added a fan/vent to the pop-top roof.

• June 2025 in Italy was scorching hot and very uncomfortable. 
• We didn't feel comfortable leaving the windows fully open at night, so endured it as much as we could but decided we'd need some kind of vent 'up-top'.
• Pop-Top Vent / Fan Installation

Sarah made a custom fit fly screen for the tailgate.

• We purchased one from Ebay, but even though it said it was for a T6, it must have been one of those special 'slim-line' ones, as there's no way it would have fitted a real one, but the seller was OK and refunded us.
• We bought another from Amazon that was also for a T6, and now we kknow where the missing 6 inches of width from the Ebay one was, along with another 3 maybe.
• Sarah got her sewing machine out, put her thinking cap on, and now we have one that is perfect, and she reused the Amazon material, as buying that and zips, etc, would have been more expensive.