Which caravan mover?
Hi All,
Now that we have our nice new Bailey Pegasus Milan (new but not '"new"!), im on the look out for a caravan mover to make life easier as already my back is breaking moving it around.
Ive been doing alot of digging and ive heard good things about powrtouch and also reich. Im thinking about getting a local company to me called midland caravan movers to supply and fit. Has anyone had any dealings with them good or bad?
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Cannot help on the fitting company but our Powertouch works well but it is a manual actuation and is hard work. If I fitted another I would go for the automatic version. If you are tempted by the manual type I would suggest you try one first if you can.
Powertouch have a good reputation for service though if anything does go wrong and according to a survey are by bfar the most popular in the UK.
Not sure if it will confuse you but we had a Pruple Line mover on the last caravan and that lasted six years with no trouble. Frankly I doubt there is a lot between the different makes but the actuation may be what swings you to any one type.
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Cannot help on the fitting company but our Powertouch works well but it is a manual actuation and is hard work.
Try motorcycle chain spray grease on the moving parts my power touch is very easy to actuate upto the point of the rollers pressing into the tyres and that's not too difficult.
I'm a big fan of my power touch, I've watched other people using there's and a high pecentage seem to be harsh when starting were as the power touch has soft start.
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Agree that auto actuation (moves both drive cogs onto each wheel in one action) is definitely the way to go especially if you store your caravan near a wall etc as there may not be room to manually wind it on/off. Better still pay a little extra and get one that engages/disengages using the remote control. I have had both and would definitely not go back to using the manual wind on.
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I am got my first caravan last March, and have been 4 Times. I opted for the Automatic powrtouch evolution and it was the best decision ever. the fully automatic was a couple of hundred Pounds more than the manual but well worth the money.
the remote control is easy to use and at a push of a button the rollers engage or disengage and parking/manoeuvring is a breeze. I certainly will always buy powrtouch
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Another fan of power touch. We had our original one for over 10 years, in the end the bearings went I replaced them and it still kept going. At 11 years sold it for just under £200.
We now have a quad for the twin axle also a low touch and it is great. We have only had manual engagement, we don't find it a problem at all
Kev
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Had a Reich for 6 years with no issues at all.
Had a Powrtouch now for 8 years, had to replace handset at £80 about two years ago when a button failed.
Both do the job as I expect they all do. Prefered the Reich's engineering and the motorunit maker they used. Only at the time of purchasing they had not a unit to suit my new van.
Both have been manually applied, the Reich a wind on, the Powrtouch an over centre type, both applying to the two tyres together.
Not a fan of auto application only in not wanting the complication with inherent risks and not wanting to pay for a feature I don't need.
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Having done lots of research we've decided on the powrtouch automatic, being fitted next week.
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Again like many posts afraid havn't had any dealings with 'your' proposed fitting company and again like many others I have the Powertouch and agree the auto version is just great. Also Powrtouch are very helpful and customer friendly if contacted by phone.
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I also went for the Titanium.
Primary reason is I have a TA. I was unhappy about the costs for an all wheel mover if I could get by with just driving two of the wheels.
So far so good but the clincher is that this is then only upgradeable mover I could find, all the others you throw away/trade in your two wheel mover and bight four wheel mover, with the Titanium you just buy the extra twin mover and magicallynit is a four
wheel mover.So far I am happy with just driving the two wheels but I know I have a fall back position! :-)
Robin
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We had a Truma SE on our caravan and would highly reccommend. Had it on 3 vans never a problem and easy to use. Powertouch have great servicd but they need it as most of the movers break down, better imho to go for one that would work 100% of the time
with no need for customer service.Admittedly not the cheapest but lighter and compact.
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Had the E-Go Titanium fitted yesterday - only used it once so far to park up on site - very easy to use and accurate to place the van. Regarding fitting, I suspect that fitting is very regional and often subcontracted - so good or bad experiences are probably
pretty random and a good mover installed by a good fitter in one region doesn't gaurantee a good fitter elsewhere. Very happy with our mover0 -
Like Hillclimb, we recently had an E-go Titanium fitted and have been very happy with it, vey precise and a hec of a lot lighter than my old one which had packed in. Mobile fitter put it on at my storage place and he was very good.
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As Hillclimb and Swifty have previously mentioned I have just had my E-go titanium fitted by Autofix. Well pleased. They came out to my storage site and were done within a couple of hours. Now to try it out on site
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Had a Reich EasyDriver Pro 1.8 fitted by Midland Motor Movers back in May. Great piece of kit, very well designed and engineered. Looks nice and neat compared to some of the others around. MMM came highly recommended and their service was first class. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.
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Powrtouch. Had ours fitted last month as our driveway is gravel. Can move it about with great ease. Think I might change the jockey wheel from plastic to air as it was digging into the stones. That said, the mover is brilliant and worth every penny.
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Power touch for us too. Their after sales support is also first class as I've been talking to them recently about a couple of points.
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We also have a Powertouch evolution. Had it fitted to our 6 berth caravan for a year and its worked brilliantly for us. Ours is the manual one but its never been an issue engaging it - think someone else said it but see if you can try a manual one first
as the auto ones are more money. I seem to remember paying around £900 for ours and that included fitting by our local fully qualified and certificated service guy.0 -
Does nayone happen to know if a manual Powrtouch can be converted to auto?
I know how easy it is to engage it manually, but
I like stuff that does it automatically
Write your comments here...I took off Powrtouch classics yesterday . Out New Evolutions Autos are sat in conservatory ,to be fitted by powrtouch engineer tomorrow . But i would say to convert from manual to auto needs new ECU has an extension on the end
for the actuation side .A new remote .which alone ,I think , makes it cost prohibative . The old ones were only rated to 1500kg and our van is 1650kg and they were strugling to shift van on bad surfaces and I like the thought of pressing a button instead
of running around with the wrench .0 -
Does nayone happen to know if a manual Powrtouch can be converted to auto?
I know how easy it is to engage it manually, but I like stuff that does it automatically Write your comments here...I took off Powrtouch classics yesterday . Out New Evolutions Autos are sat in conservatory ,to be fitted by powrtouch engineer tomorrow . But i would say to convert from manual to auto needs new ECU has an extension on the end for the actuation side .A new remote .which alone ,I think , makes it cost prohibative . The old ones were only rated to 1500kg and our van is 1650kg and they were strugling to shift van on bad surfaces and I like the thought of pressing a button instead of running around with the wrench .
Thanks. I thought that cost might prevent it from being worth it. Confusingly, my remote seems to be the same one as for auto engagement.
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Does nayone happen to know if a manual Powrtouch can be converted to auto?
I know how easy it is to engage it manually, but
I like stuff that does it automaticallyWrite your comments here...I took off Powrtouch classics yesterday . Out New Evolutions Autos are sat in conservatory ,to be fitted by powrtouch engineer tomorrow . But i would say to convert from manual to auto needs new ECU has an extension on the end
for the actuation side .A new remote .which alone ,I think , makes it cost prohibative . The old ones were only rated to 1500kg and our van is 1650kg and they were strugling to shift van on bad surfaces and I like the thought of pressing a button instead
of running around with the wrench .Thanks. I thought that cost might prevent it from being worth it. Confusingly, my remote seems to be the same one as for auto engagement.
Write your comments here...Have you checed all the individual prices on the powrtouch site ? might be worth it . I thought remote was different . The old ones are easy to get off, I just Ran the van up some planks with old movers . and then whipped them
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......Have you checed all the individual prices on the powrtouch site ? might be worth it . I thought remote was different . The old ones are easy to get off, I just Ran the van up some planks with old movers
. and then whipped them off ,saved 150 quid .I had a brief look ..... I'll probably keep what I have, I just wondered
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We now have an automatic Powrtouch too. The mover is much better than our old one, however the rollers the one side didn't move on to the wheel on one occasion. It needed resetting. Just a few seconds to reset it and an hour to try and get the blooming
plastic cover off.David
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Cannot help on the fitting company but our Powertouch works well but it is a manual actuation and is hard work.
Try motorcycle chain spray grease on the moving parts my power touch is very easy to actuate upto the point of the rollers pressing into the tyres and that's not too difficult.
I'm a big fan of my power touch, I've watched other people using there's and a high pecentage seem to be harsh when starting were as the power touch has soft start.
Write your comments here...Powrtouch (note spelling) actually recommend Waxoyl as a lubricant and preserver.
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