Message Forums

Blinds up for various reasons, for us we get a degree of being able to see through the car's rear view mirror and caravan back window, especially at night when anything following is shining its lights through them, although we do have good vision down the sides of the caravan through the side mirrors also, it just adds another bit of a feeling of security.

Next reason is that if you tow with them down, and one of the blinds catches fails, they can flirt up and retract within the casette bit at the top causing damage that is rather expensive to repair.

Final reason is as above, the silver reflective backing can dazzle other drivers if the bright sunshine is shining on it.

Julia   

Always with the blinds up. Not only will they probably damage the small springs but they can dazzle other drivers, as stated above, if the sun hits the window. Also enable other drivers to see through the van and I can also see down the van if something comes adrift.

i dont have blinds just curtains, but i travel and store my van with the curtains up, i have nothing to hide so i dont try,

mike

Quote: Originally posted by mikecandsarhab on 01/8/2010

---

i dont have blinds just curtains, but i travel and store my van with the curtains up, i have nothing to hide so i dont try,

mike

---

 Its not so much that we need to hide anything, but we do store our van with the blinds closed to help stop the upholstry from being damaged by strong sunlight that can easily fade and weaken the fabrics, and cause some types of laminate to become brittle. whilst curtains may suffer a similar fate if left drawn for long periods of time, at least they are far more simple to replace than a full set of upholstry or fixed furnishings.

Julia

Ive just realised, Ive never used the curtains!  Always use the blinds.  Van is stored at home with the blinds down, this is because we have a sort of terracotta upholstery and the sun would fade it.  we used to travel with blinds down as well, but we dont now because of the reflection to other drivers.

Dealer told me not to leave blinds down, but I reckon it would be cheaper to fix one of them than re-upholster the van!

Hi, We travel with the blinds up as well, our curtains are for effect only so they dont meet if we close them ! , Thats how they were when we bought the van so we only use the blinds at night or if its really sunny during the day and we want to keep it a bit cooler inside.

         atb Bill