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Good afternoon, We had our 'van on a storage site for about three months maximum until recently when we've brought it out of storage and parked up behind the new house. The storage site was behind a dairy farm and as you would expect there were quite a lot of flies. When we got it back the...

Hi Tom, Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I should have mentioned that there are five of us altogether. I can imagine that making beds up every night is a pain but I think in our situation we might be left with little choice. Thanks again, Chris

Incidentally, is there any meaning to the numbers that a lot of vans seem to bear? Taking the Swift Challenger 490/5 as an example, I'm assuming the suffix '5' denotes how many it will sleep but is there any significance to the prefix '490' and if there is, is it a proprietory meaning to...

Good morning again, I'm looking for a decent family van, probably of mid-ninties era as I don't want to spend a fortune if the family hates it and we end up having to sell it all again. Not having ever had a caravan before I really don't know what to look for (apart from obvious physical...

Good morning, Greetings to one and all! I'm completely green to caravaning so I've joined the forum in hope of some good advice. We haven't bought our van yet but are actively looking so I'll probably be posting some questions over in another section of the forum shortly. We have three kids...