Hello everyone welcome to Cappadocia I'm
Justyna
and I'm Omar. This is our Fiat Doblo micro camper. The coolest micro camper you
might ever possibly see. ever ever ever ever! we've been living in this van for almost two years.
one year and nine months to be specific and in that time this van has seen a lot, it's taken us
through thousands of kilometers through Europe, through the UK, it's seen us get married in this
exact van in Gibraltar, we've been up mountains, we've been in minus temperatures, we've been in
plus 35 degrees, we've seen earthquakes in this van, we've met loads of people. it's been amazing.
and we want to show you what our van looks like after almost two years on the road with upgrades.
let's go. It is a Fiat Doblo from 2007 it is the 1.9 diesel multi-jet, the highest power engine
you can get, it is a standard wheelbase there is a long wheel base edition, there is a high top,
this is the standard one. it used to be an MPV so it had seats in the back and it has Windows all
round and is classed as an MPV just like a car as you can see it's very dirty right now we're in
Cappadocia in Turkey there's lots of off-roading to do and it's a lot of fun so hopefully you
like it looking like that. we've got a lovely big roof box up there we bought that second-hand in Germany for about 30 Euros and it's been amazing tinted windows five percent as dark as possible
we've got a little light bar down here this helps us out when we're reversing in very dark places
because the tints are quite dark and we don't have a reverse camera bigger all-terrain tires
these are Nankang FT-7s and these are basically the biggest size tire you can fit on a Doblo
without making any really crazy changes because um there's yeah yeah there's not
much space these are 175/80/15s slightly bigger than the original tires which give
us a little bit of an extra lift and talking of lift we actually made a lift kit for this van
so it's lifted 30 millimeters on this side of the roof we have the solar panel which is 100
Watts we can actually tilt this and we have an additional outside light which was a white
light but we just made it yellow to make it a bit nicer and we can tilt that at night time so
we can see what we're doing in the dark and you may have noticed on the first van tour or any
of our videos we had a nice big scratch here but that's now been fixed now that we're in
Turkey and we also have some wind deflectors usual standard thing for a camper van so you can
crack the windows and let that sweet ventilation come in and out as we come around to the front we
have a new light bar which is very very powerful quite nice quite chunky and I think it makes the
van look quite cool. two other subtle additions that you may or may not notice an exhaust pipe
for a diesel heater and a filler for LPG we'll get more into those when we get inside. okay before
we get into the back we're going to show you the cabin area and basically what we've done here
is made it more comfortable and more entertaining to drive we've upgraded the stereo we've got
upgraded speakers additional speakers here we've got tweeters and additional speakers up by
our heads the dash speakers are upgraded and the door speakers are also upgraded under the driver's
seat we've got an underseat subwoofer which we can control the level of bass from here there are
also four USBS which we've replaced the cigarette lighters with we also have air conditioning which
is super nice not all Doblos have air conditioning but it is really nice in the winter and in the
summer it is very useful. for decoration we've got a couple of additions a Cappadocia balloon and a
lovely little plant that lives here and something that has changed in the front here is down by the
passenger's feet there is a Chinese diesel heater we installed this after being in the mountains
in Spain and seeking some warmth and heat and basically lives down here because it's the only
spot we could really fit it after building the van but it has been amazing it's a total game changer
and we absolutely love it heater pipe runs under the seat and blows hot air straight into the back
of the van and it gets very toasty very quickly the heater is also plumbed straight into the
main diesel tank so don't have to worry about any additional tanks filling or leaking it is super
easy and simple now another major change we did to this van which totally transformed it is turning
this front area into a lounge let me show you Lounge slash office whatever you want to
make it so Slide the front seat forwards and swivel Welcome to The Office lounge and basically
I've made this a very comfortable working Space by adding a little slide out
table here and then my laptop goes here this pillow goes here on my lap Bluetooth keyboard
get me Mouse which I use either here or here and then ah we got comfortable working space I can
sit like this if I want I can stretch my legs out and it's really nice because I'm looking straight
at the screen not having to do this or something silly very comfortable and I love hanging out
here and Justyna can say the same because she gets to hang out in the back yeah the swivel seat
was from a Fiat Ducato and we had to customize it there's no swivel seat bases available just to
bolt in for the Doblo so it was a bit of a custom-fab operation but uh not too bad thank you Adrian
for helping and it is totally transformed the van under the passenger seat we have
the diesel heater outlet here which we can basically kind of direct rotate
whatever prop it up and shoot hot air wherever we need to shoot it and next to the diesel
heater outlet we have a big 100 amp hour lithium ion phosphate battery from Deadweight Industries
the Dakar battery this has been amazing like we had a Lithium-Ion battery before from them
it was only 20 amp hours it was basically used from my previous car and we put it in here because
we had that so we used it now we have five times the power and it's absolutely awesome we can
charge all of our electronics the laptop we can run the diesel heater, blender, all of the
electric things and talking about electrics we're going to continue on to that section now so
over here is our electrics panel and there are a few changes that have been made one them is the diesel
heater controller lives here and a new bigger inverter- and a new bigger inverter this is six-
and a 600 watt inverter which means we can run any household appliance up to 600 watts we also
have two USBS here we have an additional cigarette lighter here so we've got a total of two of those
and we've got the main electric cut-off switch and a volt gauge which doesn't really get used
um I just made this little cover for it because the blue light from it is quite bright so we just
leave it covered up really. carbon monoxide alarm which is never triggered in the almost
two years that we've been living in this van . The battery can be charged while we're driving through
a DC to DC 20 amp charger we don't have to use it all the time we have it on a switch so if we need
to we can turn it on and the battery will charge as we're driving. it is also charged by the solar
panel on our roof which is controlled by an mppt 20 amp solar controller as well. a big advantage
of this van being a passenger vehicle is having two sliding doors so we can have all of
this stuff here and have great access to it which basically, we'll move this box,
under the floor here that's where the DC to DC charger lives along with a few other
random objects that don't get used that often same here we were able to put the solar controller
here through the sliding door nice and handy and we also have our nice full bag of laundry we
need to do laundry soon and our water containers so while we're here let's move on to
the subject of water because we have here our 20 liter water container
this is our main big tank for the van it has a 12-volt water pump in it
which is powered by this switch here and we have a lovely household tap it is a mixer
tap but we only have cold water and it looks like that we can also pull this tap out and use it as
a shower which we're going to show you a bit later just next to the fresh water we have
the grey water container which is also 20 liters anything from the sink goes straight
into there and it means we don't have to drop our waste directly to the ground I'm not
sure if this was here the last time we did the van tour but yeah it's basically a soap
holder right next to the sink because I think last time we just had a bar of soap and it
was kind of annoying to get soapy and yeah this is just much easier if you're wondering
what this is I'll tell you about it in a bit in total we have 37 liters of water four bottles
of water live here under the seat on the top of the subwoofer and it has six and a half liters
here we have five liters of water and here in the back we have another five liters of water
we added those bottles over time because we realized that 20 liters is definitely not enough.
this van may look small from the outside but on the inside it's a bit like a tardis so
let's start off with some storage shall we under the floor here we've got a bit of storage
where the rear footwells used to be. above the driver's cabin we've extended the original
overhead storage and this basically holds all of our bed things so on this side we've got pillows
on this side we've got our duvet and a blanket and in the middle we have the front window covers and
the curtain that separates the front area from the back even the driver's seat is used for storage
we have our head torches here nice and handy from when we need them and we have this hanging uh
storage bag thing which used to be a clear plastic here but that didn't last very long and up here
we have our lovely roof which has two dimmable LED lights it's really nice being able to dim them
because sometimes you don't want full blast at night or in the morning and just over here we
have the light switch for our exterior light as for ventilation we have a little mushroom
vent on the roof here that's what these holes are for and inside that mushroom vent I fitted
a computer fan which is switched on just here a cool thing about this van is we have pop
out side windows which we made still accessible this one has a mosquito net on it for the bugs and also here we have a new addition which is
storage and behind here we've got basically books before this was just kind of dead space so I
decided let's try and squeeze every centimeter we can out of this little van. let's talk about the
kitchen although we have a small fan I wanted to have a big kitchen because I like to cook and it
was important to us to comfortably cook inside and the kitchen is the best part of this
van for me and our kitchen extends like this if we need to have more space we can put stuff
here as well and also we can cook outside but in this whole time maybe we cooked
three times outside and that is it only because I like to cook inside because
everything is handy and I don't need to jump outside and inside of the van
we have a nice big three-hob cooker which Omar modified a little bit so it is
fixed it doesn't move when we drive by two bolts and wing nuts so we can easily remove
that and place over here if you want to cook outside. the cooker is powered by a six kilogram
refillable LPG bottle which holds about 11 and a half liters it lives in here in our messy
cupboard which doesn't look really different to what it used to we still have our lovely little
brush here and before we used to have to take all of this stuff out and take the gas bottle out
to refill our gas it was a bit of a process and it kind of became like annoying if we knew we
would have to get gas so what we did is add an external filler kit which is basically a pipe
running from the outside of the van to the gas bottle which means this doesn't have to move
it stays fixed in place and if we need to fill up our gas all we have to do is pull up to a
petrol station connect the LPG nozzle to the bumper down there and fill up our gas just like
you would fill up any LPG car it's been a total game changer having this bottle and additionally
having the external filler kit before it was a bit stressful trying to fill up this bottle and
maybe not technically legal in every country because filling it directly into the bottle some
places don't like that so it's now safer and more legal and less stress we love this bottle and we
definitely recommend it because traveling through Europe there's all different kinds of bottles and
just trying to exchange them and swap them out it's it's a faff so a bit more cost to start with
but I think in the long run you'll save money this only costs us maybe six or seven euros to fill up
totally and that will last us maybe a month and a half two months depending on how much we're
cooking. this is our main big kitchen cupboard which stores uh plates, cutlery, dry food, spices and
on the very bottom frying pans, pots, bowls and this time we have an Omnia oven which means we have a
mini version of the oven in the kitchen which is really game changer for cooking this was present
for my mom and now we can make pizza bread cakes literally anything you can imagine to make
in the oven we have one slider table over here which we're using for chopping the veggies or
eating and we have another second table over here which we discovered just one day by
accident we can just put top of the cooker on the open cupboard and we
have another table which is great great accident. this is just blank because
behind there are water containers and this little cupboard has our bathroom box and
electric box. all of the cupboards have magnets and little hooks to keep them secure
when Omar is driving like a madman Our sink is a bamboo Bowl which comes from a particular Swedish furniture shop and
it costs only 10 euros we have up-cycled it because it used to be our old fruit bowl so we
thought it can be a great use for our little van and this fruit bowl is very old it comes
from my home and it has been in my home since I was a child it doesn't slip while we drive
because we have a bungee cord holding it and non-slip layer underneath but we can move it if
you need to this is the space where we hold our Kitchen Essentials with spices coasters from Egypt
oils tea cups very simple but very effective and for extra ventilation we have pop-out window which
is great while I cook. Omar made me also little vase which is very cute little addition for the
van because that was something what I was missing. Right so this is our sofa
as you can see we can cook very easily reach everything very easily you can also
open the back door here we've got a little door pull thing. one important thing for us in this
van is because obviously you cannot stand up in here uh whilst being able to sit comfortably and
that means not building the bed too high so I can sit straight yeah my head is just about touching
uh but it is comfortable so the sofa slash bed it has a few modes and I'm going to show you the
first one now and that is extended sofa mode this one pulls out here and then we fold out this let's remove this pillow
cushion mattress thing here and then we have a lovely large
sofa or single bed we can easily fit four five people on this bench plus one in the
swivel seat yeah there's been a few occasions where we've had four people in here all having
dinner and it's absolutely lovely and comfortable and cozy and everyone says wow I can't believe
how easily we can fit in here and how cozy and comfortable it is the next mode is mini bed
mode so I'm gonna put extended soap remote away so this put this back in wait and then it looks a bit of a faff it's because we have
these basically a mattress used to get a bit wet with the condensation this is like a breathable
squishy layer and it has helped with condensation our mattress no longer gets wet but it adds a
little bit more faff to making our bed we can still make our bed and do everything from inside
but yeah it's just two extra pieces to the puzzle okay this goes back like that okay all right and this is mini bed
mode where we can basically if we want to have a little nap midday or if
you just want to have a little lay down ah we can just like this and it means
we can still access this area I can get in and out of the swivel seat we can
still easily get in and out of the door another mode is almost- almost bed where usually maybe
I'm chilling on the swivel seat or editing a video it's getting late Justyna wants to go to
bed uh she can kind of do it like this and we have still access to this little area for
my feet or whatever and then full bed mode this one folds up over to here this one
goes here we slide these up to the seat and we have our lovely bed oh so this bed is 185 centimeters
long and 97 centimeters wide I am 178 centimeters tall and for me this
bed is very very comfortable and actually now that we've added the swivel seat on
the passenger side there is even more space for extra tall person as you can see lots of
space and let's make the bed shall we also have a little fan here which used sometimes when
we need to dry wet things. so pillow number one pillow number two extra pillows slash children blanket these things keep
coming out of it whoa and our nice duvet wow look at this usually in the winter we sleep
with this blanket on the top of us but in the summer this is nice and light and yeah it's good
we've got a cable here so you can charge your phone and watch all of our cool videos oh if you're not
subscribed subscribe to Team Ateem um and we can also sleep the opposite way if we need to if we're
parked somewhere not quite level we can sleep with our heads this side of the bed but over time we've
learned to prefer this way for most people in this size van they will just go for a big bed and then
they'll have to kind of maybe make the kitchen um come somewhere outside and they have to
cook outside but for us it was important to have the fixed big kitchen so we were happy to
compromise with a bit of smaller bed basically it is fine we we're a very cuddly couple so
we're quite happy to sleep cuddly all the time it's very cozy it's very comfortable I know
the mattress doesn't look that thick it is only six centimeters but it is actually really
comfortable and if we go for example to sleep in a different bed and we come back to the van
we're really happy to be back in the van because it's just so comfortable and we're just
so used to it yeah we love it especially with that extra layer under the mattress it's
even more comfortable yeah so it is great for Windows we have insulated blinds made by my
mum they live just over here nice and handy and they simply stick
with magnets just like that nice simple and fast we also have a curtain that separates this area
which we just hook on these little hooks we also have blinds for the front windows these front blinds used to be like a really light
color and I think they didn't really look great when they were on the van so we changed them
to black and it kind of matches the rest of the windows and I think it looks pretty cool and
kind of hard to tell that maybe it's a blind or if it's a tinted window we don't use these too
much but in the summer or if it's really really cold at night like -10 then we'll use them and
yeah this front one we use quite often even on a day like today where it's quite Sunny a lot of
heat comes in through the front window which is nice to a point but we don't have a fridge also
so trying to keep the van cool inside helps our vegetables last a little bit longer all right give
me that I'll show you how dark it is in here now okay lights off and that's how it looks like usually we have
like a jacket here which hides that extra bit of light but if you needed to you could sleep
in here when it's bright sun outside and it's dark enough. now that the bed stuff is out
the storage you can see uh is quite dark but we also have a hot water bottle here just
in case we actually got that before the diesel heater and we can store like food stuff like
really deep in here and it goes behind the bed stuff yeah and stuff like baby wipes some
moisturizer and a mini Hoover which we use a lot our bed looks pretty much the same except of two
little changes we did to make it easier to access the clothes which we store underneath the bed
we moved this piece of wood a little bit this direction so it fits perfectly to pull out this
Basket in the middle and we sand this wood so it is also easier to pull we don't need to reach and
pull basket in there it was a little bit tricky before but now it's much much easier also if
we need to access from the top of the basket we can pull up this side of that and um have an
easy access to those I have one basket of clothes one basket for Omar and we share the
middle baskets which stores pants and socks also around this side of the bed we do have
some additional cosmetic things in this bag and I also moved our torque wrench here so I
could actually access it when I need it just in case I need it at night to to check the torque of
the wheels you know and we also have our toilet which is this little bucket for emergencies and
this is used when we don't have access to a public toilet or we don't have enough Wilderness to do
our business outside you may also remember that little bottle next to the solar controller well
you can probably imagine what that's used for okay last but not least is our shower and our
roof box so we're going to show you that right now so to make a shower we have these three pieces of
wood we've got one in there we put one in there if we put one like this and then we open our door rotate our tap, extend and place our shower like that and that's our outdoor shower to be honest it
doesn't get used that much it doesn't really get used in winter at all we mainly use it when
it's warm weather we actually used it yesterday because we just came back from a hike and it was
really lovely and sunny and we didn't mind having the cold shower if we really want to we can warm
up water put it in the bucket take the water pump out of the container put it into the bucket and
run water through here 40 50 degrees and have a hot shower but by the time you're done all that
it's a bit of a faff and it's just a bit easier to get that warm water scoop it in a cup and give
yourself a shower with a cup like that but when it is warm it's nice to pull this out and quickly
have a nice wash we do also have shower curtains for this so when we're somewhere where we need
a bit of privacy we can make a little cubicle and have a private shower so up in the roof
box we have a few things like a camping chair we do actually have a hammock we have our hiking
boots, we have our backpacks, we have some tools basically everything extra that doesn't fit or
have a place inside the van goes up there it does restrict us a little bit with some car parks
but it would be very difficult to live in this van without that roof box as I mentioned earlier the
solar panel can also release and tilt up like this I'm not going to do it now I'll just put in some
footage of it being tilted but uh basically we haven't actually had to use that but it can
be handy when you have a consecutive amount of not very clear days and you're running
low on power and you don't want to move but so far we haven't been in that
situation with this new battery so we haven't actually had to tilt it that's our
little Fiat Doblo which we built in Poland it took us three months initially and then we
spent maybe another three months doing all these different little upgrades that you've
just seen hopefully you guys like it let us know in the comments if it's the best micro
camper you've ever seen because for the best is a full-time van life and it
is absolutely awesome thank you for watching and we're gonna see
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