Motorhome levellers

ShaunS
ShaunS Forum Participant Posts: 3
edited March 2016 in Parts & Accessories #1

Hi all. We are new to motorhoming and want to buy a set of levelling ramps. Are the Thule style stepped ones best or the normal Fiama gentle gradient ones?

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  • briantimber
    briantimber Forum Participant Posts: 1,653
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    edited March 2016 #2

    Hi Shaun, we use the milenco triple, have used it for a few years and still as good as new. Before that we used the fiamma which collapsed after a short while, they don't like hard  standings with large chippings as they crack. Thats just our experience,
    no doubt there will be others with different opinions, you will have to sift through the replies and make your own mind up. Good luck..Cool

  • kenexton
    kenexton Forum Participant Posts: 306
    edited March 2016 #3

    Depends on preference and convenience really.We have a set of the smaller Fiamma levellers because they fit in a bag neatly under the cab passenger seat -we have a PVC,so compactness is important.They are six years old and still in good nick.We have a set
    of large Fiamma levellers left over from caravanning days but they tend to live in the loft unless we know we are going to a really sloping site.A tip for conveniently carrying the larger ones which we picked from a pal is  to buy two long ,thin coach bolts,large
    washers and wing nuts and to pass these through the gaps between the uprights on the Fiamma cycle rack-the larger levellers have holes right through them so you can fasten the levellers hung vertically on the cycle rack.We try to keep "stuff" inside the van
    to a minimum.

  • ABM
    ABM Forum Participant Posts: 14,578
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    edited March 2016 #4

    As  Kenexton  said,  it  depends  on  the  sites  you  use Happy !! 

    my  medium  w/base  Fiat  levels  quite  well  using  the  Fiamma  stepped  ones,  except  for  one  stay  in  Dorset  each  year  on  a  steep  sloping  farm  field  when  I  have  to  take  the  Four  Level  Milenco  Quads.  They  all  seem  ok  for  the 
    jobs  I  ask  of  them  but  the  Quads  are  certainly  large.

    Brian

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  • QFour
    QFour Forum Participant Posts: 442
    edited March 2016 #6

    Try some waffle boards ..http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/waffle-boards .. We have some blocks of wood and a pair of waffle boards. You can make any hight you want. If it's wet you can put the front wheels on them so you can move off in the morning even if the back wheels have sunk in overnight. Also very easy to get up. keep ours in the back locker but we also kept them in one of the lockers in the Swift.

  • IanH
    IanH Forum Participant Posts: 4,708
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    edited March 2016 #7

    Can anyone explain why they don't just make motorhomes such that the internal floor is level when the wheels are level?

  • Quasar524
    Quasar524 Forum Participant Posts: 148
    edited March 2016 #8

    Our motorhome has quite a long wheelbase for its overall length, with a short rear overhang.  This tends to make levelling more difficult, but we get by with a Milenco triple set.  Can support Brian in that the Milenco set seems pretty strong and has coped with grass and all types of hard standing that we have come accross so far.

    I should add that I find the stepped type better than sloping for the motorhome.  We swapped to a MH from a caravan and still had the old yellow sloping levellers, but they were not high enough, plus you get no feedback unlike bumping up the stepped ones!

  • ShaunS
    ShaunS Forum Participant Posts: 3
    edited March 2016 #9

    Thank you all for the helpful tips and advice. We have just got a set of the large Fiamma levellers for a really good price, so will try these out next weekend in Dorset. Hopefully the sites we will be visiting in August will be almost level ishHappy Thanks
    again

    Shaun

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