Some advice from the experts please - excuse my ignorance

Ich_2

One of the biggest problems could also be the permissible nose weight of the caravan.
The car (if designed for towing, check the handbook a lot of smaller models are not) will have a low limit which will be difficult to achieve, lower nose weights can affect stability and safety

Go on either The Caravan Club or The Camping and Caravan Club websites they have a lot of useful advice on towing.

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agrinnall wrote: »

Dearie me, we are a bit touchy aren't we? Not got much of a sense of humour in Kent?

Indeed. No sense of humour in Kent but then again your patronising comments were not particularly funny. Hurtful and useless but certainly not amusing.

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muckybutt wrote: »

Another alternative would be a trailer tent or folding camper ? bigger and still roughly the same weight.

I have now been thinking along these lines too. From the advice I have been given here I think this might also be a good alternative and just enough for us to manage. As stated we would not venture far (hardly Scotland :rotfl:). Thank you for your comments.

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Ich wrote: »

One of the biggest problems could also be the permissible nose weight of the caravan.
The car (if designed for towing, check the handbook a lot of smaller models are not) will have a low limit which will be difficult to achieve, lower nose weights can affect stability and safety

Go on either The Caravan Club or The Camping and Caravan Club websites they have a lot of useful advice on towing.

Thank you,I will look at these sites too.

Ich_2

Thank you,I will look at these sites too.

Check your PMs as well

Joe_Horner

Nicola, a trailer tent could work perfectly well for what you want. We used to use one with my 1969 Triumph 1300 (62BHP):



It was an older model trailer, about 500kg, but the car towed it without problems and, despite some of the comments above, didn't hold anyone up - it was more than capable of sitting at the 60mph towing speed limit all day long.

We used it for 3 years from Anglesey to the New Forest, including getting up Crickley Hill near Gloucester without a problem

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Joe_Horner wrote: »

Nicola, a trailer tent could work perfectly well for what you want. We used to use one with my 1969 Triumph 1300 (62BHP):



It was an older model trailer, about 500kg, but the car towed it without problems and, despite some of the comments above, didn't hold anyone up - it was more than capable of sitting at the 60mph towing speed limit all day long.

We used it for 3 years from Anglesey to the New Forest, including getting up Crickley Hill near Gloucester without a problem

Thank you so much for the pictures and the idea - the Turtle caravan is a bit expensive (but really super), I think I will definitely look for a trailer tent. I am certain that would suit us just fine. We don't travel more than 10 miles as our area has some lovely camps right next to the beach.

forgotmyname

If the trailer tent is unbraked you need to be very very careful..

The maximum gross weight of an unbraked trailer is 750kg. Or a maximum of half the cars unladen kerbweight whichever is the lowest. Or sometimes even less if the manuafacturer specify a lower limit.

So its going to be a maximum of 400kg and maybe quite a bit less. I cannot find my files with the actual weights at the moment.