Recent content by Perry525

I have a Swift single axel just over 7 metres and much the same problem, except my approach is from our more or less flat drive down a one in four slope, onto our car parking space which is one in sixteen. sloping down and away from the entrance. The problem comes when the jockey wheel leaves...

I recommend GreenFlag/Mayday. I have been a member for 30 years, possibly 40 years. They will rescue caravans of any size. I have used them several times, they always arrive late, but who cares, we are on holiday.

When you drive round London, you see thousands of roads where there are cars parked nose to tail 24 hours a day. People cannot park outside their homes, many homes have several cars. There is no way that there can be enough electric points for all these cars. Are these people to be deprived of...

The Earth moves round the Sun in an eliptical spiral, it takes 750,000 years to complete and return to where we are now. For the past 22,000 years we have been gradually moving from the last ice age, as we do the Earth is gradually getting hotter. There is nothing we can do to change this...

It was the EU that forced our Labour Government to promote diesel vehicles. It is the EU that are forcing the pace on pollution from road vehicles. Yet heating by wood and gas produces more pollution. But, that would not be an easy target. Once we leave the EU, we can forget all their...

Because cold air drops, homes, offices factories, caravans have their air con units on high, but cars do not. Cars usually have theirs at waist height and the air is blown from vents in he dash board and at floor level. Would it not be more logical to have caravan air con under the double bed...

For a number of years I have used a TP-Link MiFi. Popped inside the kitchen roof light and powered from our Microwave socket it has worked perfectly. I look on line before booking to see who has the best signal at the site. Then using an Android app I ascertain the location of the nearest tower...

Keeping in mind that most people are sitting, laying or standing in a caravan, they need little in the way of air, in fact the average person uses 7 liters of air a minute sitting or doing light chores. Which is very little. And while we all breath and sweat not much water vapor is produced. In...

I have a Swift Challenger580SR which is about 7.5 meters long. My entrance slope is a downward 1 in 4 joined to the car parking area, that also slopes down and away at 1 in 16. with a slight curve joining. With the jockey wheel pushed up inside the A frame, there is four inch clearance...

This is what I do. My Aquaroll stands on two inch thick polystyrene. It has a insulation jacket, which is badly designed, having a loose fit lid. But, I have a heated plastic pad wrapped round it and several layers of bubble wrap. This plus my onboard water heater has kept everything working...

With a lot of sites, its not that there is no signal, its that there is no signal from your provider. I find that a simple search online before booking, will provide the required information, then I buy the required sim card for my MiFi. You can also ascertain the position of the nearest tower...

May I just mention that over 57 years of driving and over 400,000 miles driven, I have torqued my wheels every weekend on my cars/vans. And every time I move my caravan. If I, or someone else has removed a wheel I check it after about a mile. It takes just moments. I have never had a loose wheel...

Every year the newspapers provide pictures of caravans that have turned over. Is it that after such an experience, they give up caravanning? Or is it, they do not use this forum?

Perhaps, it would be helpful, if some correspondents gave us their opinion as to why caravan are lost every year, due to overturning? Does anyone think they have been saved by ATC and or tyre pressure warnings?