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It’s been to Kia today and the diagnosis is a leaking EGR valve and an ECU update needed. They couldn’t find anything that they felt would cause such a loss of power when towing. I’ve checked the caravan brakes and the wheels rotate freely with a very slight scraping noise as the shoes touch the...

Fuel pressure seems good with my OBD reader, but a leak off test might be a good idea for the injectors. I’m still thinking EGR valve not closing properly and letting too much exhaust into the combustion mix. I think the burning smell is from too little torque when pulling away meaning the...

Sounds like you’ve got a completely different car to me Grahamh even though they’re identical ha ha. Solo on a long motorway run with economical driving I get 41 mpg and urban is 27 - might have a look at a tuning chip. Towing I was getting about 21mpg on my only trip away so far. The car had a...

Thank you for the reply. There is plenty of slack with the break away cable and everything else looks good. On the flat it tows ok, but as soon as there is any sort of hill it dies. The car should be a better match than the S-Max was, but the S-Max was way better towing. The car is off to Kia...

Thanks otherclive. The car is rated to 1,800kg and is the 148bhp engine. The clutch and flywheel were new 6 weeks ago. The van is 1,497kg fully laden. It’s going to Kia next week for a recall on the chassis (front and rear subframes need replacing) and they’re going to do a diagnostic on it at...

Thanks Mike. It was our first tow with the car. It’s definitely not the brakes - I always park it with the handbrake off and the mover has no trouble with it. It’s got ATC but I doubt that’s holding it back. I just wondered how others find the car with a 1,497kg van. The car is rated to 1,800kg.

I have just bought a 2010 Kia Sportage Titan 2.0 CRDi 4WD to tow our Bailey Unicorn 2 Valencia. Our last car was a Ford S-Max that towed the caravan effortlessly, but the Kia really struggles. The caravan is well within the Kia's towing ability, but going uphill the car nearly dies and pulling...

Of course. I am just mooting, venting and letting others know to beware of shoddy dealers.

So now, after categorically stating there is no way the shower could be leaking or be wet underneath it, the dealer has contacted me to say they have removed the shower tray at my insistence and found the floor to be very wet under it as well. He still is saying it must be ingress from outside...

Never have and never will use a pressure washer. The dealer is suggesting the battery box or locker for frame must be leaking so they are replacing and resealing both. There is a known issue with the shower leaking on a Unicorn 2 as it uses the caravan wall rather than a contained cubicle, and...

Thank you ProfJohnL. To be honest the whole dealing with the dealer has been awful over the past 6 months. A few staff have been amazing (sales manager, bodyshop technicians, one or two service technicians), but others have been rude and even aggressive. The owner has now taken over and has an...

Following my thread earlier this year when we bought a Unicorn Valencia 1 from a well known dealer that turned out to be completely rotten underneath, we now have damp woes with our replacement Valencia 2. We picked up the new (2013) Valencia in March having had it fully inspected for damp...

Without breaking the rules.... We purchased a caravan from Robinsons and would agree with the 'would not buy from them' sentiment in this thread. Having had a very long discussion about our problems with their managing director today, I am finding a positive difficult to find..... they have a...

Thank you Mel. I mean the Bailey bit with the master switch etc not the Alde bit. Until 2 days ago the panel display (date, battery voltage, temperature) was going dim when he panel went into standby mode but now it stays brightly lit all the time. Nothing has changed and no setting seems to...

Hadn’t thought of that ;-) Yes of course I did - the manual has no info and I can’t find any relevant post on the web, so I thought I would ask other Bailey owners. It worked until yesterday and now it isn’t. I’ve reset the panel by disconnecting power to it, but there may be another reset...