Hello,
Let me introduce myself and my new old caravan.
I'm 44 yrs old married with a 7 yr old daughter.
We have just upgraded our trailer tent to a 1991 Abi Monza 450s Caravan, she was cheap £550 off the dreaded Ebay.
We travelled miles yesterday to collect her bearing in mind we have never towed a caravan before and to my surprise it was relevantly easy and stress free with the Mondeo but I must get some towing mirriors.
So 1st impressions are she's vintage (old) and needs some TLC but what do you want for the money. Cosmetically on the outside she has had a few bumps and knocks but nothing is hanging off and apart from the 2 side lights on the front everything works including the brakes.
The inside of water tight and bone dry and surprisingly in semi decent order she would benefit from a few homely and cosmetic touches, New carpet and vinyl in the toilet area.
The floor is reasonably solid apart from 1 small are near the toilet door, I think this is more down the the fact i'm 26 stone not that the floor is rotten but I am going to put a few strengthening beams under neath this are just to be safe.
The previous owner did not use the hot water tank or the gas on the fridge so I'm not going to bother either a kettle for washing up and the fridge works fine off 12 & 240V. The cooker works fine off the gas.
The battery on her is flat and loos like a car battery 72ah I have manged to find a leisure battery for £57 brand new delivered from Battery Megastore. I am planning on changing the plus for USB versions and the lights for LED and did see the article on the home page on how to do this.
The only main concern I have is the 240V electrics. When we collected the caravan the owner had her connected to the 240V supply and put a electrical testing plug in to the socket and all seemed fine? I have today had a look under the seat where the fuse board is and found that some rewiring has been done using electrical connection blocks and I'm not keen on these so we could be looking at rewiring the van??
I have pictures of this but I'm unsure how to add them to the post.
So that is the story so far, I have a couple of questions that you have probably been asked 3546 times sorry.
Should I get the van service/inspected and if so to what certification bearing in mind 1 local caravan service centre near me said they don't deal with vans over 12 years old??
Thanks for the advise
Regards
Ed
Let me introduce myself and my new old caravan.
I'm 44 yrs old married with a 7 yr old daughter.
We have just upgraded our trailer tent to a 1991 Abi Monza 450s Caravan, she was cheap £550 off the dreaded Ebay.
We travelled miles yesterday to collect her bearing in mind we have never towed a caravan before and to my surprise it was relevantly easy and stress free with the Mondeo but I must get some towing mirriors.
So 1st impressions are she's vintage (old) and needs some TLC but what do you want for the money. Cosmetically on the outside she has had a few bumps and knocks but nothing is hanging off and apart from the 2 side lights on the front everything works including the brakes.
The inside of water tight and bone dry and surprisingly in semi decent order she would benefit from a few homely and cosmetic touches, New carpet and vinyl in the toilet area.
The floor is reasonably solid apart from 1 small are near the toilet door, I think this is more down the the fact i'm 26 stone not that the floor is rotten but I am going to put a few strengthening beams under neath this are just to be safe.
The previous owner did not use the hot water tank or the gas on the fridge so I'm not going to bother either a kettle for washing up and the fridge works fine off 12 & 240V. The cooker works fine off the gas.
The battery on her is flat and loos like a car battery 72ah I have manged to find a leisure battery for £57 brand new delivered from Battery Megastore. I am planning on changing the plus for USB versions and the lights for LED and did see the article on the home page on how to do this.
The only main concern I have is the 240V electrics. When we collected the caravan the owner had her connected to the 240V supply and put a electrical testing plug in to the socket and all seemed fine? I have today had a look under the seat where the fuse board is and found that some rewiring has been done using electrical connection blocks and I'm not keen on these so we could be looking at rewiring the van??
I have pictures of this but I'm unsure how to add them to the post.
So that is the story so far, I have a couple of questions that you have probably been asked 3546 times sorry.
Should I get the van service/inspected and if so to what certification bearing in mind 1 local caravan service centre near me said they don't deal with vans over 12 years old??
Thanks for the advise
Regards
Ed
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