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After my Wife hurt her back earlier this year we had a Rhyno fitted to our GT60 540/6 in August, just before our holiday to France - One of the best moves we have ever made - if you pardon the pun!

We went for the Rhyno mover with the lifetime guarantee to make sure we had plenty of oomph to move the van. it was fitted on the road outside our house in a couple of hours - works fine with an 85amp battery.

We chose Rhyno over Powrtouch for a couple of reasons.

1. Ground clearance - it has better clearance over the Powrtouch

2. Customer attitude - when I contacted Powrtouch they couldn't seem to care about trying for the business - "this is the list price & we will price match if you find a better deal", whereas I had a long chat with the Rhyno guy about his product - offered me the Rhyno or Rhyno lite (both OK for the weight of van)with no hard sell about which one to choose and also said the existing 85amp battery should be OK to use, so again no attempt to get us to buy a higher capacity battery from him.

Negative is the remote looks a bit "strange" but once you are used to it, the buttons make sense

I could say it was all about the Buy British pitch, but this was secondary to getting the right product at the right price.

Admitedly only had it for a short time but very pleased so far

There's more posts about PowerTouch motor movers and their wonderful customer service on here than any other make.... !?

We have a Reich - I have no idea what their Customer Service is like !!!!

as i have said before we a powrtouch and its warranty of 5 years has just finished.the service and the speed of service has been first class in each case.one time delivered a new remote by 24 hour post to keswick site and said send the old one back when you return. 

october 2008 quote from another forum may be old news but not to me.

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Hi,

As the New Zealand agent for Powrtouch I have obviously an interest in the situation so I copy here the reply I received from Powrtouch in Christchurch UK to the e mail I sent them.

Reply

"Thanks for your recent e:mail. The true picture is....we have been purchased by the owner of Truma, not Truma themselves. This happened over 6 months ago and the decision to go public now was made to reinforce the message that nothing is going to change. Our brand, location, products, market strategies and infrastructure will all remain unaffected. Truma certainly did not promote our product on their stand at the NEC show, in fact we still compete with them directly, particularly when selling into the trade, we have in fact won Truma accounts since we were purchased.

In summary, nothing changes. How are things down in NZ?? ... "

Hope this clears up everyones concerns.
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Dave

takes a lot of force. Considering a lot of people get the mover because they are elderly, disabled

agree we have the full bar across and it is not easy.

Quote: Originally posted by michael on 24/9/2010

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takes a lot of force. Considering a lot of people get the mover because they are elderly, disabled

agree we have the full bar across and it is not easy.

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I think there is a huge difference between actuating the crossover bar on a motor mover and trying to push a 1000+kg Caravan/FC up a grassy bank on a caravan park.

We have the Truma Mover with Actuating Bar and know the power required to operate it.

Having just bought a FC with no motor mover, we are now looking at the different makes and models of mover before deciding which one to go for.

I was quite taken with the Rhyno until I realised that it had no cross actuation. Okay, at the moment we do not need that but we have been in situations in the past, on CPs where it would have been necessary.

Caravanning/camping for us is all about choice both in where we go and what we can expect when we get there and to spend all that money on a piece of kit that is severely restricted in how you can use it, is just plain daft.

If you need a motor mover to go caravanning, then you need one that will cope with all situations.

Quote: Originally posted by generalhawk on 24/9/2010

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Try Reich

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