Hint for caravan owners.

Mankysteve

I would say if your going to go holidaying in a field do it proberly and get a teny

rds60h

owen_money wrote: »

Or simply have a proper holiday and stay in a hotel and stop clogging up the roads.............

Or as it was nicely put in the inbetweeners....

Jay: It's a sense of freedom you don't get with other holidays.

Will: It's a sense of shi**ing in a bucket in a cupboard you don't get with other holidays... in England... with your parents!

Obviously you have never been inside a modern caravan.

Richard53

I have the rubber band type mirrors and they have been fine, very secure, no vibration, good field of view etc. The driver's side one even survived a direct hit from the door mirror of a Discovery that crossed the white line on me last week in Scotland. I have never felt the need to upgrade them.


On the original point, if there is a screen in view of the driver, I'm pretty sure there is some regulation that says it can only work when the vehicle is reversing. Also, if it's run by a cable, does the cable run through the caravan, across the tow hitch, in through the boot lid and over the passenger seats to the dash? It doesn't sound a very neat arrangement.

Quiet_Spark

forgotmyname wrote: »

eh?? Why would i do that? I would be travelling at the legal limit. If you want me to go faster then lobby to increase speed limits.

I can think of plenty of roads where I live that if you travelled at the legal limit with a caravan in tow then you would be a definite candidate for the nuthouse as well as a reckless/dangerous driving charge.

It's not just about speed either, the extra time it takes to get rolling off the line, manoeuvrability, etc, all come in to it.

nobbysn*ts

harveybobbles wrote: »

Remember, if you have a queue if traffic behind you to do a complete circuit of a roundabout to let the traffic flow speed up.

You could just imagine a caravan circling every island it got to. Round and round at 20mph, blocking every junction, then carrying on to the next one, and doing it over again. Please don't do it.

BillJones

forgotmyname wrote: »

eh?? Why would i do that? I would be travelling at the legal limit. If you want me to go faster then lobby to increase speed limits.

If you dont want to follow me then take another route.

The legal limit for you will tend to be lower than the legal limit for other road users, and the highway code, rightly, tells you to pull over and let traffic past when you have a queue behind you.

I know that you are in a rush to sit in that field, but there's no reason to be an !!!! en route.

BillJones

rds60h wrote: »

Obviously you have never been inside a modern caravan.

I have, and fully agree with him.

If you are still a fan of it, I;d say that it's more likely that you haven't stayed in the right hotels...

BeenThroughItAll

Richard53 wrote: »

On the original point, if there is a screen in view of the driver, I'm pretty sure there is some regulation that says it can only work when the vehicle is reversing. Also, if it's run by a cable, does the cable run through the caravan, across the tow hitch, in through the boot lid and over the passenger seats to the dash? It doesn't sound a very neat arrangement.

A screen can be on all the time for use as a rear-view mirror. A lot of the high end coaches, and things like big tipper lorries and cement mixers now have a camera on all the time used as a RVM.

Richard53

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

A screen can be on all the time for use as a rear-view mirror. A lot of the high end coaches, and things like big tipper lorries and cement mixers now have a camera on all the time used as a RVM.

Ah well, live and learn. Thanks.


Is the image reversed in the software? I can imagine it could be confusing otherwise.


I'm still not keen on the idea of a cable stretching from the rear of the caravan to the car's dash, though.

Nodding_Donkey

Richard53 wrote: »

Ah well, live and learn. Thanks.


Is the image reversed in the software? I can imagine it could be confusing otherwise.


I'm still not keen on the idea of a cable stretching from the rear of the caravan to the car's dash, though.

The ones I've seen have the facility to reverse the image and you can get wireless ones