curtains open or closed

[lyn_374350026]

Topic of conversation when travelling.When towing should caravan curtains be open or closed?.

thanks lyn

 

[cooky1]

We leave ours open, even though I can't see through the van anyway as it has a fixed bed at the back.

 

[tj1]

we always leave our,s open aswell, and we never pull the blinds down when traveling especially on a nice sunny day, other drivers get dazzaled hope this helps ..

 

[Steve L]

I'm probably selfish here on this one, but we always tow with the blinds down to stop Johnny Blagger from seing what's in the van worth taking.

Being a rear fixed bed, our van has a solid rear panel so no real danger of reflections dazzeling drivers. I haven't experienced any major irritation from reflected sunlight on vans with their blinds down.

I drive about 22k miles per annum.

Steve L.

 

[RogerL]

Crime prevention advice is to leave curtains and blinds open so that lowlife can see there's nothing desirable inside - closing them gives the message you've got something worth stealing.

So our blinds/curtains are always open except on site.

 

[Phillipcharnwoodforest]

Well you can't see through the back of the 45ft trailer that I on occasion have behind me can you, so .....................

 

[Cathryn1]

Open - there's less strain on the spring mechanism whilst driving over our pothole ridden roads.

 

[Tapestry]

Hi

We tow with curtains and blinds open. This proved useful with our previous van, kids once spotted that the loo door had opened and was swinging. As kids, my parents towed with their van curtains open. Annette

 

[Heethers]

Annette, l agree my daughter told me this on the way down to Cornwall on the M5 that the toilet door had swung open, she is now thirty, shows you how long ago it was she was five at the time, even now tow with all curtains open and blinds up due to that experiance, good call.

NigelH

 

[glake]

not sure that it matters!!!!!!!!!!!

if the van is on tow then who can nik anything, and the strain on the blind springs is nothing for that short trip!

don't worry about it!

gar