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PersonDaylem94
16/1/2014 at 4:17pm
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Hi everybody i am new to this forum so i just want to introduce my self

My name is dayle, im 19 years old and i tow my own caravan!

My caravan is a 2004 bailey ranger 510/4
With motor mover and alko hitch etc..

My tow car is a 2005 vauxhall astra 1.7 cdti with DTUK diesel tuning red box (it pulls my caravan extremeley well!) although i would like to upgrade to a 1.9 cdti 150 in the near future

Yes i am 19 and i do tow my own van! I will get some photos up soon :)

I have never been on a towing course although i wouldn't mind going on one, i have mainly tought my self and learned from family members along the way

Im currently preparing my caravan for a holiday away in cornwall this year 600mile round trip and i cant wait !

That's me introduced

Thank you :)

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Personjeff juke
16/1/2014 at 4:26pm
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Personblueexpo97
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 Yes, welcome along.

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Personflufftec
16/1/2014 at 4:35pm
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Welcome,

I thought I was young when I started at 25, 18 months ago,

I also have a 2005 astra 1.7 cdti which I was told not to bother towing with (bought a 2.4 diesel volvo to tow with aswell) so its nice to hear someone who does tow with them, also before jumping into the the 1.9 apparently they are quite bad compared to the 1.7,

Hope you enjoy holiday

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Im new to this please be gentle


Personcaptainevo
16/1/2014 at 5:07pm
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welcome aboard,


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PersonDaylem94
16/1/2014 at 5:22pm
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Thank you all for the welcome :) nice to see their is friendly people on this site :)

Flufftec thanks for the welcome i think my 1.7 tows extremely well but they do need that little more tourque tho!

My uncle and other family members have the vectra sri 150 with a dtuk box and he flys past me up hills with his ABI award on, the main problems you find with the 1.9 150's are, dual mass flywheel, egr valve and swirl flap bars falling off! And the springs snapping! I am still looking at a wide range of diesel tow cars tho :) my 1.7 has been bomb proof and never wanted for anything and she had 152k on the clock !


Thank you every one for welcoming me, and i will be sure to upload photos soon of my car and van :)

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19 year old caravaner!!


Personflufftec
16/1/2014 at 5:31pm
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To be fair it sounds like a cracking car mine has been nothing but problems, DMF went, a sensor went and wouldn't let the car start, now there is a problem with the gearbox not selecting gears tidy and that's not to mention the list of faults on the code reader as long as my arm.

I was looking at the SAAB 95 1.9 tdi as something diffrent to the vectra with the same engine.

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16/1/2014 at 5:45pm
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I bought my first caravan when I was twenty and my training was from working and driving tractor trailer units on the farm.

Those were the days when it was generally the cloth cap brigade that caravanned.
I used to laugh when we arrived at a site and the old cogers would have a smile and expect to get a laugh at me reversing onto the pitch but I had the last laugh as I had been doing it on the farms since I was a young boy.

Good luck and am sure you will continue to enjoy your caravanning.

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Personjeff juke
16/1/2014 at 5:57pm
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Watch that Blueexpo 97 mate

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PersonDaylem94
16/1/2014 at 6:16pm
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I know what you mean, i attend alot of vintage steam rallies and the stewards thought it would be funny to give me a pitch on a steap incline, thinking i wouldn't be able to reverse it, the look on all the old codgers faces as i done it with ease was priceless! And then 2 60 ish year old men came over to me and said "some people call them self professionals that have been driving for years, and that was the smoothest pitch up I've ever seen" they said.

I also have to remember the van is roughly 1ft wider either side of the car so i don't catch any bollards at the services! Because I've seen people take out the sides of their vans on them!

I should also point out that my car is an estate :) more room for my aqua roll and spare diesel cans! :)

Also the 1.9 tid saabs are lovley looking! But stay away from the 3.0 v6 cdti ones!

Insurance is only just cheap enough for me on a 1.9 :( luckily caravan insurance is next to nothing :)

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16/1/2014 at 6:23pm
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Brilliant

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PersonBob61
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PersonShirley + Steve
16/1/2014 at 7:03pm
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Welcome Dayle, Well its nice to hear of a nice young lad getting his own van, bloody good for you, did you caravan with your parents. I would have loved to set up early, I loved caravanning as a teen, but we only got round to buying one in 2005, but have never looked back. Wish our daughter would get one (20) I did offer to go halves on her first vehicle if she got a small motorhome lol. Good luck and enjoy.
Shirley + Steve

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Brilliant to see younger people caravanning without parents. How old were you when you passed your b&e test? Bet you were the youngest there lol

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Nice one. My gram bought me my first van at 18...it was an elderly Thompson T-line, 10'6' 4 berth ( bunks at the front ) I pulled it with a vauxhall chevette....with chevette HS running gear including a 2.3 litre engine. !! Straight up Garrowby Hill to Brid on my first outing !!


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Hi daylem
Many happy years caravanning . I wish we were just starting . Look at the fun your going to have.

You will love it on here, and find out about anything and everthing you want.
Good luck have fun.



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