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23/8/2012 at 9:27pm
Location: south cheshire
Outfit: VW Caddy Maxi
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The fitter is coming tomorrw and just rung to say when he will be here. After a quick chat about my peculiar caravan, he says if I need spacers, they are an extra £35 each, so two at £70, and if I need something else (can't remember the name of those) it will cost an extra £90!! ULP! He thinks the battery will be ok at 75amp, but will bring one with him which I will also have to buy if my own won't shift it.
The sales person I spoke to didn't say there were extra charges for these... ah well.
So my bargain price at the end of the season might not be quite so cheap! However, as I need a mover quite desparately now, I shall have to cough up if necessary!
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23/8/2012 at 10:16pm
Location: whitstable kent
Outfit: sterling eccles sport 584 freelander 2
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Ooh congrats, we love ours, it is a godsend.
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24/8/2012 at 12:42am
Location: coventry
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just done mine myself brilliant bit of kit
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24/8/2012 at 9:31am
Location: south cheshire
Outfit: VW Caddy Maxi
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Thanks for the reassurance! Battery on charge as we speak as he's coming at 4pm this afternoon.
Whatever it costs, I do need one. Might mean I won't be able to use it until next year though, if the extras are necessary! As far as I know its a standard Alko chassis, but the caravan itself is only 10ft long x 6ft wide and weighs only 460 unladen. Max weight is 700kg, but I could never fit that much weight in it! LOL! However, the mover (enduro 2) will weigh an extra 36kg, so the unladen weight will go up to 496kg.
Another thing tha's worrying me is that the battery is wired into the front locker, along with the gas (well it is 30 years old!) and he might consider that unsafe?
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24/8/2012 at 5:00pm
Location: welsh
Outfit: sante fe swift challenger 580 sr
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would have thought you could push that size about.........
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24/8/2012 at 6:03pm
Location: south cheshire
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Quote: Originally posted by cliffystephens on 24/8/2012would have thought you could push that size about.........
You can if you're not disabled. But back probs and a 5ft-nowt 8 stone dripping wet body means I can't. I had a Mr Shifta which helped, but I still had to push and shove that about as well and it dug into the drive surface. Believe me I've tried everything!
Now I have one, and I've whizzed it round the drive, it's brilliant! Expensive, yes, as I also had to pay extra for drop plates.
Can anyone answer this question - is 6 inches ground clearance enough? The fitter said it was, but I'm not so sure, mighty big speed bumps around here in places. I'm just going to put a pic of it in my gallery so you can see what I mean, if anyone can help me out, I would be extremely thankful!
ETA: another quick q. Can I still disconnect my battery altogether as I used to do without it? It's wired into the terminals.
Post last edited on 24/08/2012 18:10:10
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24/8/2012 at 6:46pm
Location: south cheshire
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Thanks Taffy, mine is connected in the same way, I just wondered if they should be disconnected or not. Thanks for answering my q.
Any advice on the other q? re the ground clearance?
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24/8/2012 at 7:03pm
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Thanks for that, Taffy. I'm going to get it out tomorrow and go around the block, plenty of speed bumps to practice getting over around here! Got a pic (3rd one down) of the exact clearance it has on the drive.
Now is that going to get lower when I put it on the towbar?? Only reason I ask is that I had a great huge pnumatic jockey wheel tyre which looked fine ground clearance wise - until you put it on the car, at which point it scraped all the road humps and I had to take it off completely in order to get off the estate!
I know the mover is nearer the wheel, so won't go down as much as the hitch, but thought I would just ask the question. The fitter said it looks low because there's no skirt on my van like there is on others - that was when I pointed out that I could see the whole thing, rather than just the rollers, like on other vans.
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