|
18/6/2013 at 7:37pm
Location: Lichfield
Outfit: Coachman Amara 450
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 15/5/2008 Diamond Member 
Forum Posts: 9588
| Site Reviews Total: | 23 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 3 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 1 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 4 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 11 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 3 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 24 |
|
I believe that you are supposed to change to a pneumatic tyre on the jockey wheel anyway when you have a motor mover fitted on a caravan to allow it to grip and steer as the plastic ones will just slide and happen to drain the leisure battery quicker due to loss of control. If you do some research in books etc. you will find this is the advice plus from professional motor mover fitters too.
|
| Discounted Insurance Quotes for UKCampsite.co.uk visitors! Up to 12.5% off! |
|
|
|
18/6/2013 at 7:50pm
Location: North Yorkshire the bit at the bottom
Outfit: Buccaneer Cruiser ordered + Jeep GC
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 10/7/2003 Gold Member 
Forum Posts: 394
| Site Reviews Total: | 9 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 1 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 2 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
I have used a pneumatic with my last four vans, all with movers fitted. Life is so much easier, especially on gravel. Careful though because there are pneumatic wheels and there are rubbish pneumatic wheels. I have always used genuine BPW ore Alko wheels, and have never had a problem. Avoid cheap ones on plastic wheel rims. They are guaranteed to fail on you sooner rather than later.
|
18/6/2013 at 8:11pm
Location: Midlands
Outfit: Mondeo Avondale Gram
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 11/5/2008 Diamond Member
Forum Posts: 6893
| Site Reviews Total: | 2 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
I have a standard hard rubber wheel on my caravan, No issues with the mover even in soft grass.
One thing i watch carefully is the direction the wheel is facing. If i reverse it back onto a pitch. When i go to move it forward again i rotate the caravan sideways slightly then inch it forward so the wheel is trailing.
Not try to drive it forward with the wheel just waiting to jacknife.
|
19/6/2013 at 9:55am
Location: south cheshire
Outfit: VW Caddy Maxi
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 07/9/2007 Diamond Member
Forum Posts: 4034
| Site Reviews Total: | 7 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 1 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 7 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
I had pnu. jockey wheels for a few years and like Alistair said, there are bad ones out there and I had my fair share of them! I now have a solid but wider jockey wheel which does the job on my shale drive very well, and using the motormover.
-------------
|
|
Topic: Jockey wheel
