Letting Family Use Your Cherished New Purchase.
We have just returned from a month away in Cornwall and just had to write this up and maybe give warning to allowing your family to use your new van if they are novices. On the pich in front of us arrived a brand new Nexus and Brand new Swift caravan. Mom
and Dad towing followed by two adult sons, wifes and children.Mom and Dad with the help of the boys sited the caravan and Mom and Dad left.First the two Son's cars didn't fit on their pich as the van was too big , so they used the next door's spare space.
Then they went out and left all the roof lights fully up and we had two hours of heavy rain. They seemed to have issues with the toilet cassette and hand books were produced and many hours of poking and prodding, and then the new tool kit came out. Then the
gas cylinder was giving issues. So off they went to get a new one and it took two hours to fit it in the caravan.
After allowing the children to wave the water hose all round the water and electricity supply to the annoyance of others we had the finale. They decided they were on the wrong pitch and decided to move the van and unit by walking the awning while backing
up ,but fist they had to hitch up. Step one was to lower the caravan front legs some more and he was struggling to keep winding the legs down.Then he tried to lower the van onto the car hitch,caravan legs still down fully. No joy and no amouint of winding
the red handle helped. So he tried the other car and the same problem again, so now he tried to wind the legs down further, by now the van was pointing to the sky and this time the inevitable happened a very loud crunch and he had broken the front leg. Three
hours later they managed some how to get it hitched and started to back up the field without lifting the back legs,and the awning was dragging along. They did lift the legs eventually and he backed up to the correct pitch and ended up with a bottle jack
under the front leg.. and his caravan was 12 inches away from the A frame of the adjoing caravan on the next pitch. ...Poor Dad when he came the following Saturday.........An expensive lesson to be learnt here I think........