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Hi all, just joined and hope I can glean advice and perhaps give some...
Name's Andi, am old enough to know better, but young enough to keep making mistakes 
I do this for a living:
and this:
Somme of this:
I love taking photo's of this, that and the other as you can see, but I love taking arty shot's:
Fun shot's:
And one of my favourites, my wife on a beach in Tenerife with waves crashing on the rocks...
Anyway, I am married with a 5 year old son who is an energy vampire, but the best thing to ever happen to us. He loves camping in our campervan as he calls it.
Had a few vans here & there, but recently bought a Swift Corniche 15/4 of 1991 vintage. No paperwork, no cutlery or crockery, but water & waste containers (I now have two which is very handy when you have a wife & son who think leaving a tap running is artistic  )
I got the van and towed it home over a hundred miles through the hills of Blairgowrie. I tow it with my Doblo, a monster in hamster clothing. She's a 1.9 jtd with a remap giving just a shade under 180bhp. Great fun when the VAG brigade think they can pee on your picnic with an undertake, but the look on their face when the wee dragon bites their ass, ha ha ha!
I got to my work yard and used a scissor lift to get up and clean the roof which looked as if it has sat at the bottom of Loch Ness for twenty years!
Before:
After:
Anyway, the van has an Alko hitch, which is epic for towing and storing with the lock to prevent some clown helping themselves. She sits beautifully at 60mph (I may have wandered up to 75 at one point and had to lift off to bring her back down...that's one problem with a powerful car).
Got home and tested all the fittings & fixtures. Blown air heating = excellent. Water heater electric/gas = excellent. Fridge on mains = perfect, on gas, only got it working last night after finding a grotty switch contact needed filing to clean the rust. Lit first tic. Need to connect up my 12s to test the fridge on 14v from alternator. Toilet (cassette) = excellent working order, now all I need is a slave to empty it 
I removed the grotty old VHF antennae and replaced it with a Status 550 which was a bit of a chore. I had to place it farther from the original hole left by the old antennae as it has a periscope, but a bit of fibre glass and some swear words fixed it. End result was epic TV pictures and no drop out.
We went to Grannies Heilan Hame to test it Friday past and it was so warm, we didn't need the heating. Not sure that's an aspect of a well insulated van or just the weather was nice (apart from the wind & rain on Saturday night).
Anyway, we had so much fun, we decided to book Lochloy this Friday night for two nights.
So that's pretty much my life story  I hope I haven't bored anyone, or worse, posted in the wrong section! 
Hope to be able to provide good banter, help and stories of caravaning tales to anyone who will listen/read 
Regards,
Andi
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