Awful behaviour!!!

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  • johnathome
    johnathome Forum Participant Posts: 101
    edited March 2016 #62

    Next time you get a glare or worse, ask the wife to get a beach towel out for them.

    The tell them they can then walk off to mark out the pitch they want, until you have finished.

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  • JVB66
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    edited March 2016 #64

    If its Watling you use they dont do one for my car and I wouldnt be about to have one anyway when I have perfectly useable  moverHappy

    ..They will make a bespoke one for youSmile which will then enter their list of vehicles off the shelf

    I have just bought a beautiful new car and there is no way I am sticking an unecesary lump of metal on the front of it, the lump on the back retracts when not in use. I will stick with the moverHappy Which as someone else has pointed out will be a lot quicker than pratting about unhooking, turning round and hooking up again

    ..Not much time in it (if needed?) and gives me 30kg+ more for OH to load in van,and it is invisible when not in useWink

  • EmilysDad
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    edited March 2016 #65

     .......Not much time in it (if needed?),and it is invisible when not in useWink

    Just left with what looks likes someone has kicked a hole in the lower grille Undecided http://www.watling-towbars.co.uk/images/watling-img-mondeo-towbar-on.jpg

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2016 #66

     .......Not much time in it (if needed?),and it is invisible when not in useWink

    Just left with what looks likes someone has kicked a hole in the lower grille Undecided http://www.watling-towbars.co.uk/images/watling-img-mondeo-towbar-on.jpg

    ...Rubbish ,as with the insert fitted its almost invisableand looks part of the grill as fitted to our last three tow cars

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  • KjellNN
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    edited March 2016 #68

    Our dealer moves the vans in and out of the workshop and around the yard  using a front towbar.......fascinating to watch.

  • IanH
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    edited March 2016 #69

    I think a picture is needed, JVB......Smile

  • EmilysDad
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    edited March 2016 #70

    .......Rubbish ,as with the insert fitted its almost invisableand looks part of the grill as fitted to our last three tow cars

    just going off the picture from their website ...... there's ahole that needs covering

  • Phillippa42
    Phillippa42 Forum Participant Posts: 84
    edited March 2016 #71

    I can't have a motor moved due to weight issues.  I caravan solo so cant push my caravan onto a pitch either.  I do consider myself to be very good at reversing.

    made the mistake at Borrowdale of turning into a dead end 3 pitch little area last year.  Two bays next to each other, far bay at a right angle to the others.  the far bay was occupied so I couldn't pull into that and then reverse into one of the others.
     and not enough space infront of the two empty bays to swing the caravan across and line up.

    I did manage to get the caravan into the middle bay without touching the grass but nearly wrecked the clutch in the process And took about 20-30 turns.  Was a bad layout for sure.

  • Navigateur
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    edited March 2016 #72

    In the days when I had a Series I Land Rover as my daily driver there was a tow ball bolted to the front bumper.  Great for all sorts of things including awakening the drivers of German made cars to how close they had come to my vehicle when not looking.

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  • KjellNN
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    edited March 2016 #74

    Totally agree with BB, is there no possibility of a weight upgrade on the van Phillippa?

    Failing that, I would pack a box of stuff that could be transferred to the car while travelling.

  • johnathome
    johnathome Forum Participant Posts: 101
    edited March 2016 #75

    If your van has a spare wheel,could you not carry this in the car and fit a mover, wouldn't be much weight differance.

  • Phillippa42
    Phillippa42 Forum Participant Posts: 84
    edited March 2016 #76

    Ive no idea if the caravan has a spare wheel or not but i need my boot empty for the dog.  My main problem is the fact I tow with a Ford Focus which doesn't weigh much more than the caravan!

  • Phillippa42
    Phillippa42 Forum Participant Posts: 84
    edited March 2016 #77

    But stuff like the awning and my bag of clothes travels in the car.  To be honest ive never been in a situation where I've really felt I could do with a motor mover.  I know I will be fine at the storage yard and worst case scenario at a site I would just
    have to ask for help!

  • KjellNN
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    edited March 2016 #78

    Ive no idea if the caravan has a spare wheel or not but i need my boot empty for the dog.  My main problem is the fact I tow with a Ford Focus which doesn't weigh much more than the caravan!

    You should check re a spare, if you have a puncture on the van, some breakdown companies will not cover you if you do not have a spare.

  • MikeW
    MikeW Forum Participant Posts: 8
    edited March 2016 #79

    We were on Chester Fairoaks site last week and my wife and I were both surprised with the amount of damage that there was on the grass all around the site. At some points it looked like local joy riders had been in doing hand brake turns around the site.
    Cannot think how some of the damage could have been done.

    This site has very ample pitchs and to my mind there is no excuse for some of the damage.

  • 1Tracey1
    1Tracey1 Forum Participant Posts: 240
    edited March 2016 #80

    Can I suggest that people probably don't mess up the grass on purpose and there are people that are new to caravanning and perhaps haven't mastered reversing onto a pitch.  To compare it to vandalism, which is an intended action, is a bit strong in my humble
    opinion.

    As a fairly new caravanner I have only ever stayed on CLs.  I am not confident in reversing, despite being ok at it when I don't have an audience :) . We are planning on staying at a larger site in the summer, however I don't every envisage trying a club
    main site as it just seems so scary to have to pitch up perfectly.

  • SteveL
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    edited March 2016 #81

      We are planning on staying at a larger site in the summer, however I don't every envisage trying a club main site as it just seems so scary to have to pitch up perfectly.

    I don't think you have to be worried. Even if you don't have a mover, as long as you don't get to the site very late in the day, there are usually enough pitches to choose between to find one that is fairly straightforward to reverse onto. It might not be
    the one you would normally choose, but that is the real benifit of a mover, it can get you into the more difficult spaces. 

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  • huskydog
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    edited March 2016 #83

    Can I suggest that people probably don't mess up the grass on purpose and there are people that are new to caravanning and perhaps haven't mastered reversing onto a pitch.  To compare it to vandalism, which is an intended action, is a bit strong in my humble
    opinion.

    As a fairly new caravanner I have only ever stayed on CLs.  I am not confident in reversing, despite being ok at it when I don't have an audience :) . We are planning on staying at a larger site in the summer, however I don't every envisage trying a club
    main site as it just seems so scary to have to pitch up perfectly.

    Tracey, dont worry about what people post on CT, you take as long as it takes to get your van on the pitch, the "experts" could probably do no better.......................

  • black caviar
    black caviar Forum Participant Posts: 242
    edited March 2016 #84

    Hiya what would you say is the best time to arrive on site so as not to have a queue of huffers and puffers behind you whilst you get reversed onto your pitch? Because we are going to west ayton in april for our first ever!! trip out and mr bc gets agitated
    if he thinks hes holding someone up and being "watched" reversing for first time lol ..... Bound to lead up to a "domestic eh? "

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  • huskydog
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    edited March 2016 #86

    BC, arrive when you want to ,you have as right on the site as everyone else , take your time and do your own thing , remember you are on holiday and don't get in to a domestic , if things start getting tense then just laugh it off , enjoy Cool

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2016 #87

    The main reasons at this time of year that in some areas on some sites that damage to grass occurs is 

    1   The ground is still very soft after winter,as the ground drys out it will not be mentioned

    2   The Layout of some older sites was set out when vans were big at 15ft,and its very few places that the ground opposite the pitch where people are reversing on to is not used.

    3  Some trying to rush to pitch, everyone is supposed to be on "holiday"just take as much time as you need,I would think that anyone who says they have never made a "pigs ear" of getting on to a pitch at some time is telling "porkys"  

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