Vented brakes worth it or a waste?

gfromleeds said:

at the time i dint know the caravan brakes dint work

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When you have a vehicle designed to retard three and a half plus tons as standard. Then the brakes are iffy with your mobile road block attached, would have thought that the caravan brakes being dodgy was pretty obvious.

gfromleeds said:

at the time i dint know the caravan brakes dint work

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Don't know how old or how long you've owned the caravan, but the the first thing I do when buying a trailer is to service/overhaul the running gear...or could it be just a lack of caravan servicing for a weekend gipsy.....:behindsofa:

zzr1200 said:

Don't know how old or how long you've owned the caravan, but the the first thing I do when buying a trailer is to service/overhaul the running gear...or could it be just a lack of caravan servicing.....:behindsofa:

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was when i first bought the caravan
on its first run home its was like "#### it takes some stoping" not dangerusly just enough to notice and since i knew the brake pads were due for replace and i had a suspected warped disc i thought id upgrade!!
wasnt until i pulled it out when i got to the site i unhooked it and the van was started to roll off i had to realy yank the hand brake up to stop it and it was then i relised the brakes arnt as good as maybe they should be

gfromleeds said:

wasnt until i pulled it out when i got to the site i unhooked it and the van was started to roll off i had to realy yank the hand brake up to stop it and it was then i relised the brakes arnt as good as maybe they should be

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I read that with a caravan/trailer you should use wheel chocks on a slope just in case the brakes should fail...first rule of safety...