Caravans and motorhomes with offside door
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Having owned a PVC in the past I can honestly say I did my level best to close the sliding door as quietly as possible as I’m sure many other owners do too. But having my children with us didn’t always make this easy. There are many aspects of our pastime that have the potential to annoy but I’m sure the vast majority of us are considerate and understanding. Consideration works both ways and for some that essential opening and closing of doors can be incorrectly perceived as being done perpetually by some. Oh, and just closing them becomes slamming!
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I accept that they can annoying and in consideration tend not to slam mine unless going out or closing for the night. Unless closed firmly they will not lock properly. That said, there’s plenty of habitual annoyances from other sources that I tolerate as a trade-off.
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We now have a PVC. It has a sliding door - soft close - on the drivers side. We mainly camp in this country. We did flag up to ourselves the position of the sliding door when considering the van. We decided it didnt matter.
Our previous van had the hab door on the passenger side. We have positioned the van in forward and backward - including on Club sites - without any problems. It depends on slope of pitch, some club site pitches are worse than CLs, view etc.
There are issues that annoy us on sites, but which side doors are on isnt one of them.
What annoys us most is dogs that bark at anything or anyone that goes near them, and owners using extending leads beyond the 2m that I believe is in the rules.
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Means confused or undecided which rather negates any point in the post where it was used.0 -
Your final point is definitely up there as one of the ‘habitual annoyances’ I referred to, but I’ll say no more for fear of upsetting some on here.
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When we had the PVC one aspect of keeping the closure of the sliding door as quiet as possible was how level the pitch was and, as a result, which way round we attempted to pitch. Gravity helped a great deal in the ease and subsequently the quietness of the shutting of this door. I now wonder which was the more considerate, nose or rear in, or the quietness of closure? I did my best as I’m sure the vast majority of PVC owners do.
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I just wish that many others with M/Hs with sliding doors were as considerate as you then, because there are plenty that aren't.
I do notice that there haven't been any caravanners that have expressed favourable comments about sliding doors on M/Hs.😁
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I don’t think you can consider my responses as self serving or defensive unless you've totally misunderstood again.
As for emojis, I could add a few that you’d clearly understand!
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It becomes more problematic when the emoji’s are used with insincerity thus becoming a painted smile☹️
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I agree, I didn't know it could be a problem until today.
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Door rage, peg rage, emoji rage... so much rage!
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Morning
Interestingly the biggest growth sector of the motorhome market is the panel van conversion. It can be used by younger folk among us to camp and also be small enough as a daily driver.
Older panel vans (like mine 2013) need much more of a slam to close, I'm in the process of replacing all the moving linkages and cables etc to make closing a bit easier.
Whirrrr Clunk
JK
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I think-if I’m woken early by a slammed door of any design & I can’t go back over then I get up-it ain’t racket(rocket) science👍🏻😊. My body don’t need anymore sleep. Then again that’s from someone who wakes up around 5-6am daily🤷🏻♂️
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Rocky that is so true. If I'm ever woken up while on site then I just smile and think to myself that I'm not at work, don't have to get up, the day's my own... and just go back to sleep or lie there daydreaming.
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It wasn’t me it was corners👍🏻. Look at the name of the quoted post-it ain’t me-you are most welcome😊
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There is one point in a Slammer/Whizzbangs favour, they have got a lot less doors than some tow cars when some are getting ready to leave
I have noticed with the newer PVC conversions ,the higher one goes up market they seem to now have quieter? Electric closers on the side door
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If we all adopted that stance C, the World would be a better place🤟
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Whole heartedly agree, and you know what, I was woken at 4am this morning by the local kittiwakes and their own dawn chorus. Some even complain about the wildlife disturbing their holidays. Not me!🐤🦚😴
Oh, and I’ve even read reviews complaining about cows and sheep disturbing some, you couldn’t make it up. Just turn over and count the latter.😉
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It takes all sorts Mickey Boy🤷🏻♂️. Some folk are at their most blind when on holiday, they miss the natural world☹️
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meanwhile, back to the world of the OP.....
As has been mentioned, many Continental converters provide a soft close option....was Wild Ax also mentioned?
although i dont know the answer, i would imagine the option comes fitted at the Sevel factory and not fitted as part of a conversion.. although im sure inread of someone fitting one themselves on an older van.
fitting later around fitted furniture is always going to be tricky so best to speak to dealers about availability if interested.
ive seen them in action and they do what it says on the tin....soft close.
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Perhaps a solution for PVC owners is to not close the door but to just pull it too. Unless one wishes to lock it or it's cold enough for a draught to be problematic it would reduce the sound to the whoosh without the bang and perhaps be less intrusive.
A picture is worth a thousand words. An emoji is worth a thousand exclamation marks.
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