Recent content by OnlyFoolsAndTouring

Thanks everyone for the advice, it is appreciated certainly as a newbie. I'm just quite shocked the nose weight seems this heavy as it seems to go against everything we were told in the dealership, but I guess that's the way it goes in a sales place 🤷‍♂️ As per the advise, I've moved everything...

Thankyou for that Tobes. It is on a slight slope (caravan isn't quite level left to right, but is perfectly level front to back), but the slope didn't seem drastic enough I thought to cause a problem.

What is also confusing is the Lunar handbook, the wording is: "Towing nose weight should be a minimum of 50kg and heavier for twin axel models ." The way I take that rightly or wrongly is that the nose weight would surely be lower than 50kg when unloaded?

Thanks all for clarifying. My problem is though, its around 90Kg's with absolutely nothing at the front and with only a few kitchen things in the cupboards above the axel. I don't even have a gas bottle in the front locker at the moment and don't particularly want to travel with it in the car as...

Good point, thanks Sam. Mind you, when we left the last site I did open up the drain down tap and a lot of hot water came out the pipe underneath, so I am assuming the hot water tank is empty. But I'll check to make sure there isn't a different way to drain it to make sure its not that (its a...

OK, in what way shouldn't I have too much trouble? In the sense of the car rating or the actual towing? Just concerned obviously that if I go and put more weight in the van, if it makes the nose heavier, our car is only rated to 75kg as nose weight. Although the witter towbar fitted does take up...

Thanks both for the advice. I just found it rather strange it was sat at 90kg with no gas in front locker also with absolutely nothing inside the van. I will experiment with our camping gear more to the rear to see if this brings it down enough to put 1 gas bottle in the front..

OK thankyou. So if I was to put more weight in the back, it's to essentially counter balance the weight at the front?

Hello I'm new to caravanning and picked up our first caravan ( a Lunar Eclipse 19/4 2014) a few days ago. I bought a cheap nose gauge and it read over 100kgs, so bought another one and it was also reading about 95kgs, I've now used a set of bathroom scales which confirmed they were about right...