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We're travelling saturday morning. The problem with the A roads is that you're never sure when your next services will be which isn't much fun with a screaming 9 month old three feet behind your head! What also isn't fun is sitting in endless motorway jams - I really can't decide! Taking the...

Hi, I'm travelling to Dorset from East Yorks and am trying to figure out the best route down. In our tenting/no children days we used to take the A43 & A34 through Oxfordshire straight down to Southampton. Now though with two young children (one of whom is teething and needs lots of...

Hi, It's a 1992 Swift Corvette. The 12v installation is the caravans original and the the 'charger' is a KT12 Transformer / Charger. The battery (which came with the van) is a bloody huge Mercedes Benz truck battery which doesn't appear to hold its charge very well (i.e. the voltage indicator...

Hi, The battery is in a sealed box however the seal is badly perished and is going to be replaced before the van is used again. It doesn't, however, have any means of ventilating (it's in a box under the seats). Like you say hydrogen is explosive so improvements to the ventilation are in order...

Well it turns out it's the battery. If it's left charging it sets the alarms off. If it's off, it doesn't. I've also bought a CO 'patch' which goes dark if there is CO in the air but it has gone 'light' instead indicating that it has been damaged (which according to the instructions is down to...

Well I've bought a second one and both are in the van (and have been for five hours) and not a peep out of either of them! The van has been left all day as it was last night (i.e. battery charging, fridge on) so you'd think that the concentration of CO would have increased as the day went on but...

It's a brand new detector - literally had brand new batteries fitted last night - perplexing!

I'm going to get another one and put it up in the van alongside the current one - if the new one goes off with the old(er) one then I know I have a very weird (and quite worrying) problem!

Have spent the last week de-winterising the caravan (including patching a gaping hole in the roof!) and are planning on going away this weekend. I've also installed a CO detector which after installing yesterday has been going off during the night. This puzzles me because the only things that...

That's where I expected to see it. I've followed the +ve cable all the way to where it enters the base of the cupboard but there is no fuse attached.

Hi all, The 12v electrical system in my 1991 Rapide has stopped working. The first problem I have noticed is that the light no longer comes on in the charger switch when it is turned on which makes me think that either the charger is dead or the supply to it is not working (the fuse in it is...

My van only weighs 700kgs but I have been stuck 3 times this year in my fwd zafira (always at camp sites - never with the van attached tho). Might have second child on way so next van will inevitably be bigger and much heavier. Will definetely opt for four wheel drive next time both for better...

Once the water's in - it's in. It can take years to rear it's ugly head unfortunately. My last van had some quite severe damp in its back end and I was quite nervous about repairing it myself but after a dig around on this site I managed to sort it for about 100 quid and about 6 hours work. The...

Try whatcar.com or here to be more precise http://www.whatcar.com/car-review-performance.aspx?RT=692&ED=53672&U=0

Same here in Yorkshire, point the aerial at any of the big ones (Belmont, Bilsdale or Emlay Moor) and the aerial is horizontal, but at the booster station near Scarborough it has to be vertical - don't under stand why it just does!