Fetch Camper Vans

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XB 20 Mar 3:40pm, 20 Mar 2024 17,572 posts	0 XB We are in the queue for the ferry home. Something like 3,100 miles in 10 weeks around Spain. I love the freedom of the campervan.
GimmeMedals 20 Mar 4:47pm, 20 Mar 2024 26,768 posts	0 GimmeMedals I've enjoyed following your travels, XB.
SarahWoo 20 Mar 5:15pm, 20 Mar 2024 20,029 posts	0 SarahWoo I’ve enjoyed them too 😊
Mandymoo 20 Mar 7:00pm, 20 Mar 2024 18,597 posts	0 Mandymoo Apart from the van issues, sounds like a fab trip XB
Eynsham Red 21 Mar 6:41pm, 21 Mar 2024 10,843 posts	0 Eynsham Red The oven in our Motorhome has stopped working! 🙁 Bacon and eggs instead of fish pie for our last meal on site tonight.
Mandymoo 21 Mar 7:13pm, 21 Mar 2024 18,607 posts	0 Mandymoo How frustrating but good you had a reserve We are on our last night at a CL site just outside of Malmesbury and have had a lovely day today. Been to Lacock Village and then to purchase favorite pub in Devizes, the 3 Magpies, where we finally met Alice the Camel
GimmeMedals 21 Mar 8:35pm, 21 Mar 2024 26,773 posts	0 GimmeMedals She beat me to it, MM!
Mark J 🇳🇿 21 Mar 9:24pm, 21 Mar 2024 1,964 posts	0 Mark J 🇳🇿 Feeling pleased this morning. I bought a new fridge for our van the other week and couldn't get the bugger going on 12v. Fine on 240. Had a new mobile electrician round just now. Found the issue, dodgy connection and rather luckily, a reversed polarity on the wiring that he discovered before plugging in, phew!! A nice chap and a reasonable price ($120 or 60 quid in UK cash monies). Now we can get ready to head off again in a few weeks.
Big_G 3 Apr 1:02pm, 3 Apr 2024 3,341 posts	0 Big_G I’ve been away for 3.5 weeks and then ill with a bad cold for 10 days and in that time the van hasn’t moved. Jumped in it today and it started first time, as expected, but as I pulled water came into the passenger footwell, and a few seconds later, started dripping through the roof at the front (it’s a pop top). It’s obviously been collecting rainwater whilst stood there unused, which is not a problem I’ve had before. It’s usually parked facing up a slight uphill, but I left it facing down a slight downhill this time, so maybe that’s highlighted a problem. On a bit of inspection, there is a rubber cover over the door hinge, and that was very wet inside, and I think basically full of water. I’ve dried that out and can’t see any rust, so okay. I’ve popped the roof and can’t see anything wrong with a seal - no cracks and no blocked drainage holes that I can see. We have had a lot of rain in the 5 weeks it’s been stood but I’ll need to keep an eye on it - and park it up the slope instead of down Or if there is anything I should check please let me know, otherwise I may ask my chap to look at it when it’s serviced in June.
forest plodder 3 Apr 3:49pm, 3 Apr 2024 2,444 posts	0 forest plodder Hopefully it will all be ok now Big_G We're planning a weekend in Oxford (pub stay as the campsite has permanently closed) with hopefully Oxford parkrun, and an O for my alphabet. I got a U there at University parks early last year. My alphabet is a very slow work in progress.