‘Silver Screens’ – Thermal Windscreen Covers

Whatever type of van you have it is worth investing in a set of thermal windscreen covers.

Ducato based Motorhome – fixing judder when pulling away from standstill

October 23, 2018 / Dan / 0 Comments

A nasty judder through the vehicle when pulling away from a stop seems to be a common complaint with Ducato based Motorhomes – read on to understand why this happens and how to sort it…….

Trav-L-Cool Air Conditioner – Explanation and Servicing

July 22, 2018 / Dan / 49 Comments

Trav-L-Cool air conditioning system

Like a number of old vans (and possibly some new ones!) our Hymer B544 came to us with a Trav-L-Cool air conditioning system installed. These are ‘evaporative’ coolers so work differently to compressor driven air conditioners like you would find in cars and offices everywhere.

Clarke IG950 800w Generator Review

March 14, 2018 / Dan / 3 Comments

‘Wild camping?’- This is what you need (in our humble opinion)

Generator Review – If you are going to spend considerable amounts of time ‘Wild camping’ your are going to need some way of re-charging your 12v batteries – while solar can be a good solution in the summer we needed something to support winter use in the mountains, where the sun is often too low to reach down into the valleys even on cloudless days!

New Bukkits!

March 13, 2018 / Dan / 0 Comments

The ‘2 bucket method’

When winter camping lots of Motorhome travellers prefer to not use the on-board grey water tank, instead going with the ‘2 bucket method’

Tips on choosing/modifying a Motorhome for the winter

March 1, 2018 / Dan / 6 Comments

Winter in a Motorhome?

Many motorhome/camper owners just use their vans when the weather is warm, assuming ‘camping’ is just a fair weather pastime – but they are missing out on one of the best reasons for owning a motorhome – ski season!