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Does anyone/everyone else have problems when towing with the transit cover billowing up along the back end of the camper. We tow ours with a 4X4 and when the cover rises up it cuts down the rear view mirror vision. I should say this does not happen all the time, it's maybe just a wind direction thingy.

Is it as easy to cure as just putting some sort of tie down strap across it?

I've only towed my Pathfinder once (home from the dealer) but didn't have any problem with billowing, even on the motorway.

Is the shock cord tight enough? I know with mine it's quite difficult to get it on!

Glen

Hi

   We tow our Pathfinder with a Seat Alhambra and have had this problem many times. Seems to be fine at low speeds but when on motorways or dual carrageways the rear end of the cover lifts up blocking rear vison.Was told by a fellow camper that it was the down braft caused by the car.We have over come this problem by making a long bungy cord. I attach this towards the rear of the camper and strech it over the top of the transit cover. Have had no problem since.

Hope this helps, nigel

Nigel thanks for that, thought I was the only one  Is it a reeeeaaaaly long cord that you hook underneath the camper. From looking under the camper the only place that I can see to attach something, is the corner steadies.

Quote: Originally posted by steer_2001 on 12/5/2009

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Could you not hook a bungee onto the noggins that the transit cover elastic hooks onto?

We tow ours with a discovery and occassionally get the same billowing.

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I did not think the hooks on a bungee would catch on those noggins, but have now tried it and  yep jobs a good un. I just need to buy an extra couple of bungee's.

Thanks everyone for your responses. It seesm it must be to do with wind and high backed vehicles.

Sorry should have explained it a bit clearer.If you work from the rear of the camper, hook the bungee on the second noggin in and strech the bungee across the rear bed to the other side.I found the bungee at one of the diy shops on a large roll,i think we brought about 3m and cut it to size.

hope this helps a little, nigel .

Yes we had the billowing problem too on our Sterling behind our Grand Scenic. It happens even with a roof load but did'nt happen when the camper was young.

However we might not have been able to see it as the Vectra we had before the scenic was so low we could not see over the top of the camper. We traced the problem down to the elastic shock cord on the cover losing its stregnth . We cured it by replacing the elastic cord with new identical black cord (bought from a marine chandler Northampton sailboats with the jointing clips for under a tenner - much cheaper than Pennine).  Only tricky bit was feeding it through the sleeve at the front which we achieved with the help of a long curtain wire and some scrap talcum powder. Before  we joined the two ends of the cord together i also put a piece of black heat shrink sleeve over the joint and borrowed the wife's hairdrier to shrink it on so it even looks like a factory job!

( the joint not my haircut)