Recent content by Gary_5075845

Good morning to you all. All of last caravan season I towed my caravan with my 1.8 freelander. Unfortunately, last month the the car suffered the dreaded 'K' series head gasket failure, much to my discused as it had only covered 55K. I have also had to fork out £2000 for the work to be done...

Hi all, I think the title of this subject sums up my issue but basicaly, when we bought our new awning it came with those grey plastic pegs. Our first long trip out at the Blue Dolphin all the pegs went into the ground fine put when we extracted them, 80% we bent and un-usable. Granted, the...

Hi Jason, I have recently entered the world of sat nav and it was the best move I ever made but my option was even cheaper. Curries do a PDA with a built in GPS system and it works better than my mates Navman. Plus you've got a portable computer as well. It's called the Acer N35. It costs...

Hmmmm. It seems that every forum has a Kanga of sorts. As I said on another forum about a member that does exactly what Kanga does. Myself and other forum members found out that he was just a sad lonely person in search of some attention. Just like Kanga, he never actually contributed to the...

Thanks for that Kanga but we don't need to know about your personal problems. Although, I would be interested to know if you did get your length issue sorted!!!

Bit of a funny one this. As you will be aware, most caravans have a water inlet on the side of the van so you can just plug the pump in and the aquaroll sits to the side of the caravan. With our 1993 Sprite Finesse this is not the case. The pipe is loose under the front seat and there is a...

Good morning all, Myself, the wife and my son went to a local site for the past bank holiday in our Sterling/Sprite Finesse. After we were all setup I went into the loo to wash my hands only to find lots of black bits shooting out of the tap. I ran the tap for a while and it seemed to get...

Hi Steve, I had exactly the same experience on my 1993 sterling finesse at home on the drive while hooked up to the electric. I was just taking the wheel clamp off and I had a short sleeve teeshirt on and my arm was just touching the aliminium body of the caravan and I felt what you described...

Hi all, I've just tried to book in at Hatfield Water Park near Doncaster for this bank holliday and there full. This is only my third outing and I'm just beginning to get the message that you need to book well in advance for bank hollidays. Could anyone please recomend a site within a 30 mile...

Hi all, Thank you all for your response on this one. I have been and returned from the Blue Dolphin and we had a fantastic time. I can't wait to get hitched up and back on the road again. I think I'm addicted. Anyway, I went for the 36psi, the tyres looked fine and the caravan performed...

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has/is towing with a 1.8 Freelander. I have a 2000 X reg towing my small 950K(fully loaded) Sprite Finesse but I'm not all that impressed. On the flat it's ok and still pulls well in 5th but as soon as you hit a LONG hill I find myself dipping down to 4th...

Thank you all for your response on this. We now have two new budget tyre's at a cost of

36 PSI seems about right then acording to the chart supplied by Lutz but what is the difference between 175R13 4PR and 175R13R. Plus my tyres are of the 'C' type which I believe means light commercial and I've also read somewhere that the 'C' type tyres often require more inflation that the not...

Hello again, I have a bit of an issue here. Our caravan is only small and weighs in at about 950K fully loaded. We have just had some new tyres fitted but I'm finding it difficult to find the correct presure. The hand book isn't the exect one for my van but comes extremly close and they...

Hi all, My 1993 Sterling Finess has one good tyre but the other one has a few cracks in the wall. Firstly, How stable are tyres with wall cracking. I know it's like asking how long a piece of string is but to give some idea, the cracks are only on one part of the tyre as if it has been stood...