Our MPV camper table turns our humble MPV into a mobile office or weekend van
Now I know you’ll be thinking ‘A table in a people carrier? You’re kidding, right?’ Well no, it’s serious, and it’s all part of my masterplan to turn our MPV into a truly multi-purpose work-rest-play vehicle.
You see I use my MPV for work during the week, where it has to double as both load carrier, mobile office and client transport (I remove 3 of the 7 seats most of the time). A table makes a lot of sense when you want to do what I do in my car! I have to work on a laptop, and I mean for up to a couple of hours, comfortably! I don’t want to sit with it low down on my lap. And its ideal when you want to have some food, and not just shove stuff in your cakehole and drive off. I mean actually brew up a cuppa, heat some soup, butter bread etc.
So I utilised a good friend during the times he wasn’t busy running his own Travel Health Consultancy and we set to measuring, cutting, planing and ordering legs for what must be one of the very few MPV folding tables in existance.
A local spraying and powder coating firm charged a small fortune spraying the MDF to match the interior, but most of the cost was absorbed by the pricey paint matching service, which cost £50 alone. Next time I’d just say ‘any colour you’ve got in stock please!’
Said friend made some brackets which are screwed into the table underneath and hook down the window channel. It’s not uber stable, but it stayed firm with my Apple Macbook Pro connected to a new 1000W inverter on top whilst I drove round the city centre for 45 minutes yesterday.
I found and bought the folding table leg from the Caravan Store Online for roughly £14.00, and it’s excellent; better than expected with a handy little catch to release the leg into it’s folded flat position. We cut it to 22″ to fit in the Synergie.
Office on wheels: MPV with new table for working away from studio
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