Additional Storage in Walkthrough Step

Hi all

Just finished adding some extra storage, in fact more than we realised to our Symbol. The step at the front of the van by the walkthrough. We looked at it and thought, what's under there? Turns out nothing other than a few thin cables for the floor lighting.

We templated the original floor and cut out a new piece (keeping all the original bits in case the next owner wants to put it back to standard).

Added a flap to the new piece and a bit of cutting, drilling, and sewing later we have a whole new cupboard 

Bit of a faff having to screw it down as AS hadn't done the best job in the world and ended up having to take the seat out to get clean access for drilling. All told, straight forward enough though.

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Several members have had similar thoughts, here's a previous thread...

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Well done SuperGypo, an excellent job.

A very neat job. It's exactly the sort of thing I'd love to have, but would prefer someone else to do it for me. If I did it myself, it probably wouldn't look quite that good!

I'd also change it slightly by removing the table base, as I never use that table and don't even carry it anymore.

Just noticed that some of the pics didn't upload. So here's another of the carpet.

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v8oholic wrote:A very neat job. It's exactly the sort of thing I'd love to have, but would prefer someone else to do it for me. If I did it myself, it probably wouldn't look quite that good!

I'd also change it slightly by removing the table base, as I never use that table and don't even carry it anymore.

Luckily, Mrs SuperGypo is a dab hand with a needle and thread 

v8oholic wrote:A very neat job. It's exactly the sort of thing I'd love to have, but would prefer someone else to do it for me. If I did it myself, it probably wouldn't look quite that good!

I'd also change it slightly by removing the table base, as I never use that table and don't even carry it anymore.

Would save a lot of hassle not putting it in, trying to get it lined up was awkward. We use it a lot though 

In our 2019 Kemerton XL there is no blown air outlet to the right of the 13 amp socket, what we have instead are two outlets built into the step. Each outlet is fed from a separate pipe from the Truma unit.

Incidentally when I was fitting a Votronic solar controller a while back, I did remove the top of the step to connect a wire to the vehicle battery. There was a bit of storage space potentially but not as much as has been featured in this thread. Nevertheless I like the idea of being able to store shoes in this area, even if it isn't my high heels.

I'm going to see if I can squeeze me knee length boots in there 🧐