Recent content by Barry C

One more gotcha to be very careful of when buying a tow car. We have now got ourselves a very nice Skoda Karoq diesel 4x4 (tows our Swift Sprite Alpine 2 beautifully), but could have fallen foul of this obscure issue. Only found out when talking to a towbar fitter. No matter what the...

Interesting thought. Might try turning the pump off at night anyway, as would only need a little bit of water to wash hands during night. Although our pump is now much quieter, it can still be heard under the bed.

In which case I may have a go at something similar also. Although the pump is much quieter now (much much quieter!), it can still be heard ticking away when it runs, so I may just see if that would make it even better still.

Many thanks. To be fair our beef is with Swift themselves, not the dealer. The AWS dealer we bought our caravan from is an hour away from us, so a bit of a trek, but we need to be careful to not invalidate the warranty. But the dealer is very good, not displeased with them. Our brand new...

The only thing that would worry me there is if the pump motor started overheating, especially if on for a little while, such as when showering for instance, or maybe when priming the system. But it's an interesting thought.

The pump only runs when a tap is running. The problem is that at my age I need to pay a visit during the night, and then use the tap to wash my hands. The pump has to run in order to get water out of the tap. The pump is under the bed my wife is still asleep on.

In case this helps, we have had a similar problem with our brand new Swift Sprite Alpine 2 2024 caravan, and have managed to solve it. The pump still makes a little bit of noise, but much much less than it was doing. This is our first caravan with an internal water pump, so feared it was...