Recent content by tjambarker

I'm on my second TD4 and I love them. They get a lot of bad press by people who expect them to have the same performance as say a Disco. I tow a 1360kg Abbey with no probelms whatsoever. That said I would probably not take on a van as large as 1560kg. My biggest concern as has been said by...

No there isn't. This is one of the reasons some people say they can't fit in them! My wife is also 5'4" and she loves that feeling of being high up. It just takes a bit of getting used to.

Hi Keith The optimum noseweight for the van, using the 7% guidance advised by the CC, is 119kg. At 112kg your're about 6% down on the optimum. I'm not sure I understand the problem with measuring the nosewieght of the van. Are you saying that with the corner steadies up and shifting...

Hi Keith All I would say on the weight ratio is drawn from my own experience and that is as the weight of the van increased in relationship to the car the "floatier" the van felt on the back. I towed my current Aventura with a Mondeo TDDi at about 91% and although the car pulled the van fine...

Where do I/we start? There are so many things that could be causing the problem. I'll put a list down which I would check in no particular order: 1. Noseweight, the ideal noseweight as recommended by the CC is 7% of the all up weight of the caravan. For the sake of argument we can assume...

Hi Gill If you do a search for my nickname you'll see that I've got nothing but praise for the TD4. I tend to speak as I find and I can honestly say mine has been fine. The surveys that people cite are fine as far as they go and I also looked at them myself before buying ours. I also asked...

TD4 Freelander (1619kg kerbweight/140kg noseweight) and Abbey Aventura 320 (1360kg MTPLM/95kg noseweight). Gives us 84% weight match and 68% noseweight match. Outfit suits us

I've used Le Grande Large as well. Great site with a very enthuisiastic owner for whom nothing is too much trouble. Great stop over.

What I would do now is, with the charger on and the battery connected up, check the voltage across the battery terminals. It's going to be something like 14.5v.

We've booked all the major school breaks now: Easter = 8 nights in the Lake District, Castlerigg May Bank Holiday = 3 nights in Cornwal, Trewethett Farm Whitsun = 8 nights in Cornwall, Merrose Farm August = 16 nights in Southern Ireland, Glen of Aherlow, Eagles Point and River Valley Will...

Hi Lee I fitted one of these Towsure carriers to my Abbey which has an Alko chassis. A piece of cake. The only advice I would give is to use plenty of grease on the sliding parts and threads as a friend of mine also fitted one dry and he had to use the spare wheel one day and couldn't get his...

Actually re-reading your symptons again I'm wondering if there is a problem with the onboard charger. Do you have a voltmeter?

It's going difficult to analyse the problem without being with the van. Anyway I'll give it go. If I'm way off base then I'm sure there'll be someone along in a while to tell me so. If it was my problem the 1st thing I'd being doing is trying to work out where the fault lies ie is it a faulty...

Having the GRP walls was the main reason for me buying the Aventura.

For me this wasn't an option as I have a swan neck towbar. Also I'm not sure, but I seem to re-call from somewhere that as the Alko bolt-on towball already has an extension your are not advised to extend it too much further. Actually I think it was some friends of ours who wanted to put a...