Recent content by SeaDog

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    New Insurer enters Caravan Market

    I have moved to them, £126.00 new for old. My current insurer upped the cost to over £300.00, CMC wanted over £450.00, nothing was below £285.00, I got disenchanted looking. I am hoping this is a kick to all the insurance companies to return to sensible prices.
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    Dash Cam advice please.

    We have a Next Base and Halfords wired it in to both of our cars so we can move it from car to car. The only thing I found was that when I was sitting in the car one afternoon and saw three people acting in a suspicious manner, I downloaded the footage, but the light was so poor you could not...
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    skiing in Scotland

    Having learnt to ski in Scotland at the Cairngorms (Aviemore) at the base of the hill is the Glenmore Campsite which is equipped for winter activities. I found that if it snowed it would come in a westerly horizontally, no two days are rarely the same when skiing in Scotland. I would think...
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    Diamond brite...yay or nay

    We had Paintseal applied to our van when purchased in 2013, still good today, we ran out of the shampoo supplied by Paintseal but a friendly detailer said just use Fairy non bio clothes washing liquid. Works a treat. But if we wanted to protect another van I would contact a firm called...
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    Air awnings.

    I agree with all that has been said, over the years we have had about five full sized poled awnings, three porch poled an then we purchased a Kampa 400 Ace with poles. We found that this model pooled water on the roof so returned it and are now on a Ace Air 400. It is heavy pulling the awning...
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    Total Knee Replacements

    I believe the problem after knee replacement is that of kneeling down. My sister in Law has had a knee replaced and has been told she is not to kneel on that replacement knee. A small stool or a double step to sit on while hammering in the pegs might be the answer
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    Waterless wash. Caravan polish

    iOn our previous caravan we used Grease Lightning Showroom Shine, which is a waterless polish/cleaner. It's very good as long as you keep changing the microfiber cloths. Our latest van we had Paint-sealed and have not put any polish on in five years and it still looks new when washed. I think...
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    Dish washing on caravan site.

    What about one of these:Folding Trolley
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    Water Filter

    Firstly I don't think there is a requirement to filter all the vans water, yes for drinking. We removed the filter from our Lunar after the first season, it was easy to do, just unscrew the outside cap, remove filter and replace cap. Not sure where yours would be but if it is in-line it is st`ll...
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    Brakes, or rather lack of...

    Hello JayTea, Very impressed with the work carried out. I always feel satisfied if I can manage it myself and all goes well and it looks though you have ended up with a superb result.
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    Hello

    Hello OtherClive & Mealson wheels, Yes come a long way from that little car, it was given to us by my step Mother and the caravan was £95.00, no electric & no foot pump. The car gave up the ghost and for a number of years towed with a Cortina Mk2 Estate. We remember meeting a chap on a CL in...
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    Caravan Mud Flaps

    Although our Clubman came with mud flaps I do agree with Custard that the use of a front cover is well worth the expense, very easy to fit and does save a lot of muck and grit on the front panel.
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    New tyres: best provider

    Our caravan is now in its sixth year and needing tyre replacement. I rang all the local tyre fitters who gave me some good deals, but when I mentioned we have Tyron bands fitted, the replies were various from "what are they", to don't touch them, so I rang our dealer who advised me who they use...
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    Service frustrations

    We use a local mobile engineer who is NCC approved. He opened our eyes to a few things when servicing the van. I am lucky that we can store the caravan at home.
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    Hello

    Having been caravaning for a number of years, this was our first caravan. I think it was called a Nene Valley or that was where it was made. This was us at Ashurst camp site in the New Forest 1976.