Motorhomers running engines whilst dumping water
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I don't have a motorhome but the climate control in my car has a program that clears the screen, windows and mirrors of any ice or condensation. It doesn't work without the engine running and nor do the heated seats.
I always run the engine for 10 minutes or so in the winter and summer if I need it cooling down.
I usually have a cup of tea while it's warming up.
I like to set off safe and warm.
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I do / did the same. Now I am retired I try and give the sun a chance, before resorting to scrapers etc.😀
It is in fact a legal requirement to have a clear field of vision. Those peering through a small hole in a misted or frozen screen are not meeting that requirement.
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"Just had another thought... When we had a caravan, we used to crack open some side windows at night to reduce condensation... Our van has NO opening side windows so that I imagine makes the condensation worse...."
justus, cant you slide down the side door leccy window just an inch or so if this would help?
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Not when you can't see out of the windows it isn't!
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We recently returned from France and on one of the sites we stayed at the dumping point was next to a pitch and whilst dumping our waste we were politely asked to switch off our engine by a German couple who spoke to us in broken English; to which we did so and there was no offensive language, just apologies and smiles! To be honest we just hadn't thought it through and were just concerned with our routine for travelling on! Having had this drawn to our attention we will not be future offenders! Perhaps if more people spoke to each other whilst on site (eg a cheery good morning rather than turning the other way!) mouthful of abuses wouldn't occur! After all we are supposed to be like minded people.
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Very common abroad to be asked politely to switch off engine, never known it to come to fisty cuffs
We have a m/h and like when we had a caravan try not to linger with the engine running, lets face it no one wants to sit breathing in fumes do they.
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We have just returned to what is now The Caravan and Motorhome Club after a few years break. We are now caravaners, but when we were last in the club, and it was The Caravan Club, we were motorhomers.
The reason we left last time is that we found we weren't using our membership, and the reason for that was the stuffy attitude of a lot of caravaners. It would appear that a name chang hasn't had much effect.
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So you're the one that leaves their engine running when dumping water!! Disgraceful!
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I'm no authority on this bit, but there is a myth that it's better to leave a diesel engine running. Apparently with modern engines this is no longer the case, it damages them more to be left idling, and shortens their lives.
Not my authoritative information, something I learned while looking into the matter of the parents who park for our local school & leave engines idling for up to 45 minutes while poisoning the air their children are about to walk into.
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We hardly ever used the MH service point when we had ours. I used to empty the grey water into a carrier every few days. And fill the water tank by hand, that way there was less chance of over filling and driving around with umpteen gallons of water sloshing around adding to extra weight.
Oh, and we were in the "ignition keys on the same ring as the locker keys camp".
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with largish fresh/waste tanks that most MH have these it shouldn't be necessary to fill/dump water very regularly.
if we are showering/washing up etc in the van (perhaps on aires, THS sites, CL or its too darn cold to go to the block) we can run for 5/6 days without filling or emptying.
if we are using site showers, this extends to 9-11 days, so for most of our stays (certainly in the UK) we would only need to fill once on entry (if not done on previous site) and once on exit.
water doesnt 'slosh about' in properly designed water tanks. they are either irregular shapes (many joined 'cubes') like ours or (like most UK vans) underslung rectangular shaped, presumable with baffles.
incidently, we also have our ignition keys on the same ring as our locker key.....and our bike lock key and our bike battery keys and our home keys and.....
am i in the right (or wrong) 'camp'?
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