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Following a weekend just using the cabin of our Countryman we would like something a bit bigger but will fit through the doors of our garage ie no wider than 202cms.  We'd like longer seats with seat backs (ours are small with just a little bit of padding along the sides of the beds. We still want a folding camper with the cooker, fridge etc built into the cabin.  Having looked at some brochures for older Conways I think it might be possible.  Can anyone tell me which of the Pennines could fit?

Any ideas welcome

I just went out and measured my 2004 Pathfinder out of interest. It's probably very slightly too wide due to the gas struts. Without those you'd just about get it in - although with nothing to spare and it wouldn't be easy!

Glen

Thanks for that.  Our garage is plenty big enough for the bigger campers, its just the doors & as its rented from our local housing society theres nothing we can do about it.

I was thinking about making one side of our garden into hardstanding, would block paving be the cheapest option?  Also, do you know how to go about getting a dropped pavement?

Homebird

I expect we could manage without a dropped pavement but  the road does get chock-a-block with cars as theres parking only on our side of the road so if we couldnt get onto the road we'd have to pull the camper across everyones garden until we could! We're open plan gardens but everyone is quite possessive of their patch,

Homebird

Hi Homebird

   we have a 1998 conway crusader and it is 2m wide but I do not know when they started to make them wider i.e. 2.12m I think you will find the same with the cruser .So I think you may find a crusader will fit in your garage we love connie to bits best £1900 we ever spent  

                    cheers Bruce

I've checked the 1998 brochure which tells me the crusader is 202cms (so if in reality its 200 that would be a bit tight but  possible), & then the 1999 brochure says 210 so I could be looking for a 1998 Crusader

Homebird

Thanks for the info icequeen40,

Homebird

Hi Homebird

 I have just got the tape out and you are right the 1998 crusader is 2.02m wide but with the cover on it is 2.08m wide so sorry but there is no way you would get it in your garage ,sorry about that .We to had hoped to fit a folding camper in the garage ,but we are lucky as it fits on the drive with the car and my van ,but good luck anyway .

                             cheers Bruce

Oh well, perhaps a newer Countryman is the answer as its wider with perhaps a side annex.  Isnt it strange. When we first got the Countryman we were so thrilled - it seemed so spacious after using a tent but I think we've "grown" into it.

Homebird

Quote: Originally posted by icequeen40 on 23/6/2010

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Re dropping your pavement - contact your local council. Ours sent us out a form on which we had to detail the length/no. of curbstones we wanted the curb dropping by and if we wanted a white 'H' painting across where it was dropped to stop people parking.

We were going to do this to keep a space for getting my [then] partners motorbike down the entry to the back of the house. It was going to cost the princely sum of approx £250 quid for 3 curbstones length and an H.

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wish we lived where you live they want £600+vat around here!also i belive if you park of road without a dropped pavement they can fine you upto £1000 these days.

My brother was fortunate enough to get his kerb dropped for free! The council were putting in some parking spaces either side of the road in plsce of the very wide verges and offered to do dropped kerbs at the same time for a reduced price.

In the end the job was under budget so they never got charged. It was handy that he'd managed to hit the end of the fence the week before and knocked it over - they built the dropped kerb to the full opening width which is handy for getting the Cardinal in and out!

Glen

Nice to hear fo something good happening to someone!!

Homeburd