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Baileyjake

19/1/2017 at 10:12am
Location: West Midlands
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Humberwolf thanks so much for your interjection. These figures sound more reasonable. I may have read the previous posts wrong but it sounded to me like any car having a drop more than 25mm was defective and some how breaking a law. From my experience of motor vehicles that can't be right and your figures prove it.

There's something about the caravanning community is starting to irritate me. Someone has a car problem and the only advice that is offered is "your car as broken, you need a £40k car like me because that's the only way. "My car is so good you don't notice the caravan is thereetc etc....Some one has damp problems and the only advice is "you should have been more careful when you bought it, your caravan is most likely scrap, my caravan I change every 2 years is drier than the Sahara" etc etc etc...

I am a biker and find the forums so much more sympathetic, humble and helpful.

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Jo n Jon

19/1/2017 at 12:30pm
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Many thanks humberwolf anf baileyjake for your time and expertise, it is much appreciated! Seeing the mechanic tomorrow to look at the possibility of the spring assistors. Happened to see a Land Rover today in a car park with an adjustable height tow bar. Looks just the thing I may need for my Passat if the spring assistors don't work! But think I have read somewhere that they are only approved for off road vehicles. ☹️ Fingers crossed the assistors provide a solution as I am not at all happy towing with 'the caravan dragging this arse on the ground' 😂 Or the idea of adding loads of weight to the rear of the caravan to try and take the nose weight down!!

Collecting the caravan a week on sat so will measure the unladen noseweight then. Although I have read this before I cannot understand how an unladen caravan can have a nose weight higher than most cars can take?!

Many thanks again for your time
Jo

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JTQU

19/1/2017 at 1:08pm
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Quote: Although I have read this before I cannot understand how an unladen caravan can have a nose weight higher than most cars can take?!

Many thanks again for your time
Jo

That is simply that stowages aft of the axle that take quite heavy items are empty, but would be expected to be filled in use so the van is designed to accommodate that.
That is giving credit to a proper design process being in place, sadly I have my suspicions that some UK builders only employ stylists not engineers as their designers.

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