Recent content by Jules_ht

The lnbs are different for regular and q. A hybrid lnb (such as I have at home) can do both, and has 2 ports for sky q, and 2-4 for old style boxes. £30 odd off the bay of e. Of course the question then becomes "does your dish take a standard sky lnb"? You can probably measure against your...

Well I got the 4" wide version of the Rooflock tape, and spent a few hours cleaning the van and applying the tape a few weeks ago. The tape itself has a very tough UV resistant backing, and the adhesive is really thick (2mm) grey gunky and incredibly sticky gluey substance that is more like...

What do you want a quad LMB for with Sky Q? You only need 1 Sky Q silver box to then connect your second sky q box to (assuming you need multi room in your caravan!) so only 2 cables needed. All you need for Sky Q is a new wide band LMB. When my home Sky was upgraded to Sky Q the engineer was...

We've got a TP99 and have just had to change the batteries on the sensors after about 6 years (well, one died so we pushed the boat out and replaced all 4). We don't do that many miles though, 5K a year tops.

I'm thinking the leak (which was too big, in my totally non expert opinion, to have been caused by a few hairline fractures), is along the great big roof to front panel join that looks like where two carpets are joined together. The previous owner told me he'd resealed it, and I can see evidence...

Well here we are, 5 months down the line and we went to van yesterday. All seemed good, cover still nice and tight and looking brand new. Opened up enough to get in, and the place did not reek of damp so that was a nice start. Had left all the doors and cupboards open with cushions stood up...

The similarities between cars and caravans comes from the fact they are both a lot of money to buy new- second only behind your house probably. For that money you are entitled to expect it to be fit for purpose, and if you don't you're selling yourself short. I can see Icarus' point about...

Indeed, although it contains more information to support my initial comment (which was that impact on braking of towing a braked trailer is nominal, provided the trailer's brakes are rated correctly and the van isn't overloaded) than to dispel it. The most useful part of that article appeared...

That is by design- it beams the info to the receiving unit every 5 mins I think it is, and if the wheel is not rotating then it doesn't do it, in order to save battery.

Faulty logic there. It has been fine for the vast majority of the time I've had it, across many sets of tyres, but about 6 weeks ago I realised one had siezed on.

My only problem in about 5 yrs of ownership is that the sensor has currently welded itself to the valve on the rear nearside tyre of the car. No amount of plus gas or dual plyer encouragement is moving it. So I'm dreading the day it reports a pressure that warrants a pump up- think it'll have to...

Which was my instint. I'm happy planting all 100kg of my weight onto the brakes of my car on a test track, safe in the knowledge that ABS and stability control, combined with my own not insignificant track based driving experience, will have a good stab at controlling any inclination for the...

I'd be too frightened of jack knifing it or something!

With a braked trailer I would have thought the tow vehicle is unlikely to bear significant additional pressures under breaking. Certainly my car does not feel heavier even on steep downward inclines. Clutch though, yes!

Not sure about the emboldened part. If you're legal I don't see what grounds they would have.