Recent content by woodsieboy

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    Caravan polish

    I think the two colour cloths are so you know which one has done the first polish and then the second one does the finishing polish.I have used GL with good effect and then a finish with Sonax Supreme spray, polished with a microfibre towel, the towels are larger than the cloths and have a...
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    Expensive French trip, time to own up

    So we arrived at our site,turned into the field for our pitch, horrible crunching noise, school boy error and the mover on the offside is grounded on a rock,which I didn't see. So can't go forward or back with the car, unhitched and mover is rammed solid on offside wheel, moved the nearside...
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    Dodgy Practices

    Would never use a major national name for MOT I trust my local service garage, owner is also caravanner
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    Sahara rainfall?

    Picked up the caravan from the valeter Monday night, Tuesday morning covered in the muck, £156 not wasted but deffo soul destroying
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    Roof Cleaning Advice Needed

    You don't know my wife..........looking out of bedroom window,and also on the ferry in her words 'It's disgusting' so despite my protests that no one else worries, it has to be cleaned, there will only be one winner and it won't be me!
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    Roof Cleaning Advice Needed

    I see on another forum Paul from Tourershine has given up, traffic problems, age related issues, and moving to France, given as reasons I have booked our caravan with a local valeter who specialises in caravans, says it will be an all day job , just for the outside, and charges by the hour, cam...
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    Corner brackets in the front gas locker

    You could try removing the brackets and refixing using an adhesive, then larger screws, with some super glue or mastic in the screw holes
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    Car finance Supreme Court Ruling

    Hi Buckman My reference to 'random companies' referred to the lawyers who claim to be able to recover the 'unfair'payments on behalf of gullible customers Of course the many substantial finance house offer a use ful and well documented service. I am uncomfortable with the use of the word unfair...
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    Car finance Supreme Court Ruling

    It's frightening, there are people out there siging up to, in some cases, very significant financial commitments,and when contacted by a random company they have never dealt with brfore sign up to try and recover money that they did not realise they had agreed to pay. Whatevevr happened to...
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    Car finance Supreme Court Ruling

    I agree with Mr Plodd If I sign up for something and then find out I could have got a better deal, that's my tough luck, if the situation was reversed and the finance companies undercharged these people on the commissions, would they agree to pay more to the finance company? I take the view that...
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    Never again!

    Did you resort to unity
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    Got there. 100,000 miles

    If our SF is as good as yours we can keep it for another 12 years, at 7k miles per year
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    Swift Challenger 560 island bed - extension?

    I have just checked the 560 layout and see your problem, the only other suggestion I can think of, is to replace the rounded edge mattress with a domestic one to fit.
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    Swift Challenger 560 island bed - extension?

    If you are looking to make the bed longer, could you use one of the Swift 'mattress blocks' that fit at the top of the bed, problem with them is that once the bed is longer, it is more difficult to get sround the end of the bed