Rattle free!
Having motorhomed for many years I understand that the dream of a rattle free journey is difficult to achievable. So what tips and suggestions do folk have to achieve this?
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Drive on smooth German roads all the time
We line all cupboards and drawers with rubber matting store cups face down and apart from anything else, rubber matting between each place/dish/pan etc. Glasses stored in the cardboard box they are sold in shops in so separated from each other, take shelf out of oven.
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Drive on smooth German roads all the time
Yes, and avoid Italian roads! Turning the radio up is good too.
We use plenty of that sticky back foam stuff that comes in rolls/sheets of various sizes.
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We lined our cupboards with the mesh stuff used on trays to stop things sliding around, cheap as chips. We use cheap baskets in our food cupboard to hold jars and bottles more securely, this helps when selecting items as well. We put tea towels between pans and pan lids when travelling. Oven dish slides neatly into a tea cosy, oven trays are firmly wedged by pans. Oven shelves and toast pan stored elsewhere, tea towel folded between cooker lid. Our MH came with its own china, this slots into purpose designed storage trays, held secure and tight by Velcro straps. If wardrobe isn’t full we take out spare hangers. Our MH wasn’t new when we bought it, so we made sure all locker doors have those little pads inside that deaden rattling as much as possible.
Having said all above, our County has some of the most shocking roads imaginable, and we usually have orchestrated proof that we are close to home! Once the china starts “jumping” we are almost there! Speed retarders add a whole new Bass section!😂
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I use the rubbery matting sold on rolls too, tea towels between things like pans. I bought a roll of foam draft excluder and went round all the cupboards and doors with it. Made all the difference.
Nora
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We did everything takethedogalong has said, and used draught excluder foam around the cab doors, more for draught than noise 😉.
We had those mug stackers, a jaycloth under the top one into the bottom one, it was long enough to do both holders. Plus IKEA crockery in the plate racks, as tightly as possible until arrival. I also used plastic container lids as padding here too.
I put a folded tea cloth over the cutlery tray as "jumping" cutlery lands at different times 😂. I use those folding crates, sitting on non slip fabric, in the large cupboard for dried and tinned food and a large one for teacloth wrapped pots and pans.
We've found packing cupboards tightly, at least until arrival, means things can't move and rattle.
Ours was an older motorhome and we found engine noise was a bigger offender! Sadly he had to go recently - the jury is still out for buying another. Not because of the hobby itself but the horror stories of newer models 😱😱 amongst other things.
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Reduce the tyre pressures especially at the front. You do need to get the MH weighed with all your kit in it including passengers etc. Once you know the weight on the axles you can check with the manufacturers what the pressures should be. 80 psi as recommended by most MH suppliers is way to high. We have 80psi in the back tyres and 65psi in the front.
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ours are 50 ish front and 60 ish rear...corresponds to our axle weights.
rides really quietly, leaving our van rattle free, arent they all
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