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It's the caravan that needs the cuddle!@derwendolly would like a cuddle as she is having issues with her caravan!!
It's the caravan that needs the cuddle!@derwendolly would like a cuddle as she is having issues with her caravan!!
I have nearly finished the house referb so I am starting to relax into being a layaboutI’m sat at Bristol. was in a queue for 40 mins only to be told wrong queue. So once round the block & join the other 1.
well it’s been over 12months since I was last here.
Think I’m local(ish) today.
hows retirement feeling? @My Old Landy
One of the reasons I gave up was the commute! I still get up at stupid o'clock but I don't have to go anywhere!Guid morning
Back in the office after furlough
Enjoyed getting up at 05:15 and my 70 mile commute.....not !
Awaiting my restart medical and Drug and Alcohol test, mmm perhaps I shouldn't of had the Isle of Jura last nigh.
Enjoy the Level 2 freedom all
Posh git prolly thinks it counts as outside catering for his dinner party£52 sovs ferra take away.
He's gorra disco. He'll buy anyfink.Posh git prolly thinks it counts as outside catering for his dinner party
It's the difference between a restaurant that also usually operates a takeaway, like our chinese place which charges more for you to sit down and eat it, (same type of meal, two starters two mains plus veg would work out at £20 to £25, as a Takeaway), and a restaurant that never did takeaway, so charges normal menu prices then doesn't do takeaway very well, to put it mildly.Posh git prolly thinks it counts as outside catering for his dinner party
Agree totally, but at least they do colour matching nowadays. I can remember the days when the technology just wasn't there....that I wish purveyors of paint would stop changing their ruddy colour range.
The whole $odding house has "Moonlight" vinyl matt everywhere and so this was required for the walls & ceiling of the mini-barn.
We had some already and I bought another 2.5L tin(well, plastic) online some time ago because I could no longer find the colour stocked where I had bought it; and its not going to be enough.
I go online to get more and.... guess what? No longer carried as a pallete colour in our arty-farty "latest craze" ranges.
I am going to have to get my local man to try and colour-match with a sample swatch/piece of painted card.
Why can't all paint manufacturers declare the RAL/PANTONE code for their paints so you do not get left in the lurch for repairs etc.
You'll find that to be a very easy task.so I am starting to relax into being a layabout
The toilet maybe?I still get up at stupid o'clock but I don't have to go anywhere!
Thanks for that BUT ..... It was always going forward! I have not tried to reverse it yet.Well my day has been pretty sh!t.
This bug has not left me, struggling for breath so went to bed until teatime.
Bit better now but chest still stupid tight. Wifey has a bug too so think we both got it at the same time. all this staying indoors doesn't do our resistance any good.
@derwendolly I read an eight page thread on a towing site about the problems with over-run brakes and reversing same, as I too have problems. The bloke in question was trying to reverse his twin axle boat trailer up a very slight incline. He went everywhere to try and find someone who could work out what was going wrong and locking his brakes up. For years his rig had reversed fine prior to this. Even the trailer and brakes manufacturers couldn't find the fault. If he disconnected the brakes from the drawbar, it reversed like a dream. So in the end he made a slight modification so that he could insert a short bolt, not into the drawbar itself, but into part of it's housing, to prevent the drawbar activating the brakes when reversing. Basic cure but efficacious so I think I will look to do the same.
Don't know if this has any connection to your problem as at least part of it is to do with the "mover".
But reversing up hill and/or on a surface that it not tarmac seems to be when problems raise their heads, with auto-reverse on overrun brakes.
Sorry I cannot be of more help.Thanks for that BUT ..... I was always going forward! I have not tried to reverse it yet.
I got part way up the drive, unhitched and got rid of the car as I can not get it out If I go up attached to the van. Then with van alone, I engaged the mover, it did a about 10 metres fine and then the rear mover on the offside just failed to do any gripping on that tyre. As it was only a short way up the slope, I got the car and drove it up forward as far up as I could dare ( I knew I had to extricate the car ), three of us then pushed it up the rest of the way using just the mover on the front wheels ( we disengaged the rear ones). This was not easy as the single mover had a tendency to pull the van off to one side (?).
When this chap came he said that the rear offside wheel was locked-on, it was, BUT, thinking about it afterwards, it certainly wasn't locked on when we had to push it - two elderly gents and one ancient lady would never have been able to push it up an incline if it had been, I think we just might have noticed!.
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