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Quote: Originally posted by flyingbarbera on 17/5/2011

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How do you know how much weight u have on the nose, are we taking the bathroom scales

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Quote: Originally posted by kevtore999 on 17/5/2011

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Quote: Originally posted by neil and lena on 17/5/2011

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Quote: Originally posted by kevtore999 on 17/5/2011

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I've not got a mover fitted to my Caravan, and to be honest i wouldn't have one given to me for free (serious)..... I can get my Caravan out of Storage without having to move it by hand and i'm confident when reversing. If your new to towing you might find a Mover useful if your not great at reversing your unit.....

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Yeah I used to think I never needed a mover until I started going to Portugal and Spain where often the pitches are nigh impossible to reverse on to and not because of there size but the access roads are often very narrow (width of the van) and with pitches ajacent which are often already in use which makes it impossible to swing I been beaten a few times
And as a Retired Class 1 driver with 29 years experience if it can be reversed on a pitch I can do it .

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Well please tell me what people did before motor movers came along? After all us british have been caravaning on the continent since the 1950's! I can understand people owning them if they can't physically move there caravan without one but like i said I don't require one....

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Quote: Originally posted by flyingbarbera on 17/5/2011

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What does the wyoming nose weight start at before you load it, im thinking with the double axel to spread the load everything mid to aft position no problem . How do you keep an eye on the car weight, not having done this before am i thinking to much about this, i can see myself weight everything as if i was going on a flight.

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Thats what we did first time around and we aren't nerds either - we set up a spreadsheet and weighed everything going in - its the easiest way without going to a weighbridge of working out how close to your payload you are. 

I think the Wyoming is a lovely van, only thing I remember reading in Caravan magazine about the Indiana (also a lovely van) is to be a bit cautious as they were apparently very popular warden vans so some have had a lot more use than an average van - it didn't however say how you would be able to tell.

Good luck with your choice

Quote: Originally posted by johnks on 17/5/2011

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Quote: Originally posted by Greendemon315 on 17/5/2011

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I wouldn't have a motor mover given either. Just a lot of extra weight to haul about. We never move the caravan by hand, it can all be done with the car.
Jim

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It really does depend on your situation with movers. We have to use a mover to get our van off our drive as there is not enough room to do it with the car. If movers didn't exist then we would have to put our van into storage.

I still reverse the van onto a pitch if it can be done.

 

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Same here. I saved the cost of the mover in a year with the caravan on my drive rather than in storage. It's a tight squeeze up a lane and round a corner through my gates at an angle. Trying to reverse it on the car or push it (it's uphill too) is out of the question.

It's also usefull for getting onto levelling ramps. I always find that towing up them I either drop off the top or by the time I get the brakes on and un hitch I have crept back to the bottom again.

Don't knock movers - they are a godsend to some people, us included. We'd never get our van up on our drive without one.

If you don't want one, just don't get one. Easy.