Wheel Lock Spares?

Pippah45
Pippah45 Forum Participant Posts: 2,452
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edited January 2019 in Parts & Accessories #1

I can't believe I am the only person to have lost the yellow plastic insert to use when driving without the Alko-Wheel lock in place?  I don't seem to be able to find one online.  For over £100 you can buy all the other little bits - and keys but I can't see the yellow filler thingy!  I know where mine is/was - and that is on my pitch just vacated!  It fell under the van when I arrived and I forgot to retrieve it!  

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  • JVB66
    JVB66 Forum Participant Posts: 22,892
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    edited January 2019 #2

    You are not alonewink

    Alko website part number SKU 1552863 £8.95 for pack of 5 do not know if that includes postage

  • Pippah45
    Pippah45 Forum Participant Posts: 2,452
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    edited January 2019 #3

    Your are a Star JVB thank you very much.  They don't charge postage.  If anyone would like a spare let me know!  I didn't get the right name for them that's why I couldn't find!  

     

    I imagine they are fairly necessary as the grit and grime would make fitting the wretched things even more difficult!  

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited January 2019 #4

    It's bright yellow, how could you miss it Pippah. ........... only joking wink

    A few years ago OH had gone off for a shower. I stepped out of the caravan and the left lens pf my glasses fell out. My right eye does not work and I was not going to trample ove the gravel looking for the lens. I waited on the step for Fliss to return in order to warn her and for her to find the lens laughing

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
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    edited January 2019 #5

    £1.79 (p&p?) for a plastic plug seems very expensive for what they are ... I rarely think to refit mine for the journey. I don't have any more problems fitting the wheel lock with grit than without. If I lost a blank I'd just use a short bolt instead or find something of a similar diameter to screw in .... it'll cut its own thread 😉

  • Pippah45
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    edited January 2019 #6

    Quite right EasyT - I didn't really check the pitch properly - in my defence there was a MH trying to exit the site and I was in the way - so I didn't complete the hitching and got out of the way and stopped in a less blocking space - leaving the electrics - which today simply would not attach until a very kind fellow camper managed it!  Thank you that kind man at Ferry Meadows!  

    And yes I did have one of those aligning dubreys for the electrics - but still couldn't do it! I didn't search for the silicone spray which actually wasn't hiding as deep in the car as I had thought!  Is there always something?  Last time I arrived home from a relatively glitch free 4 weeks I couldn't actually lift the stabiliser off the hitch.  I now have a lever pipe to help do the job.  I do think the 13 pin electrics are not as easy to do as the old ones but I am told they are much more efficient!

    Each time I need help from a fellow camper - I remind myself that I have given help to others in my time - but I may run out of credit one day!

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