Engaged Motor Mover
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The problem with "park" is that it is implemented by a very small pawl in the gearbox. It is really just to "park" the gearbox, but it can actually hold the vehicle. Should a vehicle in "park" with the park brake not engaged get even a small dunt from another vehicle, the pawl can give way leaving it free to roll wherever.
So, park brake on public streets or anywhere on a slope.
[Why call it a "hand" brake when most are operated electrically now from a finger swithch?]
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Extract from M Class handbook-
Always secure the vehicle correctly against rolling away. Otherwise, the vehicle or its drivetrain could be damaged.
To ensure that the vehicle is secured against rolling away unintentionally:
the electric parking brake must be applied.0 -
it might if it were a manual gearbox but it is auto,even then I would have expected it to release by driving forward and backward but it has not...so wheels off !A caravan braking system is different as the system is designed to collapse when reversing which will usually free off seized brakes.My advice would always be....do not store a vehicle for weeks on end with the brake applied unless it is on a public road.(during my working life I spent 25 plus years working on motor vehicles and 17 years on touring caravans so I feel well qualified
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If one needs to read a book to find out how something works, then it is badly designed and not intuitive. It's bad enough having to look up how to load the CD.
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Isn't there a film about how to do that?
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Do any of you know please, if the motor mover is left on touching the wheels, for a few days like that, can it do any damage?
Reason I ask is this was the case with ours, we never noticed it was still attached on wheel and had been for a few days, hubby was able then to get it moved off but since it won't do anything, not even a peep out if it, won't go back on at all.
Thank you
Maureen
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I have a similar conundrum. I have an Al-Ko wheel lock. Each time I disengage the motor mover having set the handbrake the caravan moves. I don’t want to put lateral stress through the wheel lock. Any one have an idea to stop the caravan moving as I disengage. Will chocks be enough on a gravel hard standing?
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The subject title tickled me and I wish the mover every happiness for the future! Maure, I think your question has been answered in earlier posts. Back to James' question. Position caravan using mover, block wheels, hand break on, steadies down then disengage mover. Caravan should not move. Reading through discussion I have an auto car, use hand break when parking on public roads but 'P' when on level drive at home. On caravan rarely use hand break but have both hitch lock and wheel lock (not Alko one but a Milenko that goes over the wheel) and always disengage mover when positioned caravan.
On the subject of movers. We are currently in Italy; on the morning of leaving home for tunnel I tried to move caravan using the mover to get caravan out of drive; one of the movers failed to work! It had worked ok 3 weeks earlier. Swore at it tapped with hammer but still no go. No time to get an engineer to look at it so decided to go anyway. Neighbour helped to push caravan and attach to car. Two days later on a site in Luxembourg tried mover and it worked and has done since. So fingers crossed.
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A very good question we had the same problem and the only way we found is to chock the wheels then put on the Alko lock then disengage the mover.
This with the fact that it was so fiddly to get the lock aligned is the reason we changed to a Milenco Wraith, fitted in literally a minute.
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