Club 80-90 Forums

A quick update:-

I found this lot online www.tyre-shopper.co.uk

they quote £50 for avons fitted National quoted £64.90 which is weird as the tyres get fitted by a local National branch......

they have continental vanco for £52 fitted.

Hi there I have to replace the front tyres (185x14C) on my 2.1 holdsworth vision. I was holding out for some alloys but none have appeared at sensible money, so i have run out of time & tread! So what brands give good grip/wear/noise all the garages down in Bournemouth seem to stock are own/budg...

When i was at Uni i used to study in my camper to get some peace & quiet! I found thAT a laptop lasted an ok ammount of time with an inverter, which prolonged the battery life. This did depend on how hard i was pushing the processor & graphics card, it always went flat in the end though. I g...

Thats good but i just creep under the height restrictions in the Newquay carparks so i dont want anything on top. Plus how do you get stuff up there?

What im after is some j shaped bars for the side of the hi top, a mini mal in side is a royal pain....

Anyone know of some?

Cheers Clive

Hi I welded up old beetles etc with my dads arc welder but if you have the money get a mig, even a cheap one will give you much better results. Seam welds are simple with a bit of practice on a mig, with and arc you have to stich and then go back otherwise the panel will really buckle or worse still...

Hi I spent most most of the last year in the van as an office completing my university & when not running on mains i used the maplin charger which works a treat. I'm running a fast dual processor pc with a 3D grapics card and working the pc quite hard. When i used a mains inverter it didt fully ...

Hi we are in the camping club which is good for sites, they have weekend meets which are a handy base for exploring.

Caravan club have loads of small CL - Club Listed sites which are v basic but tucked away and really cheap. Bonus is someone has set them up for tomtom

Cheers
Clive

Hi
We went camping in April for a week with our 4 month old and he was fine. We did have electrical hookup though and a fan heater.
He was in one of those grow bags in-between us in our sleeping bags.

Clive & Gina

Well now I know its supposed to light up Ill add it to the list of other jobs to do!!

Well from my experience of bombing about in one about 10 years ago with boards strapped to the roof........ Slow, painfully on a long run down to cornwall. 3rd gear is a way of life up hills :) lazzzzy handling. rust....rust....rust...new panels that dont fit....couple of years...rust...rust not ver...

I bought the PH ones and they did many years service carrying 2-3 canoes, or wind surfers. The worst bit is tieing them on - a right faff. The PH ones can be adjusted in height which is handy.

Clive

Just an update...

Well got it back from the garage, they have fitted a genuine sender and the pointer is in the middle just where it should be.

No disco & a working temp gauge = happy Clive

I had something similar the light would flash then go off as it should then occasionally it would come on as i was driving. if i stopped and restarted the engine it went off - yes i checked the coolant each time! Occasionally it wouldnt go off at all. So thats why i took it back to the garage i boug...

Hi

Cheers for the reply, I have taken it back to the garage and asked them to fit a genuine temp sender.

Hopefully this should sort it out..... will keep you posted.

Cheers
Clive

Hi only had the van a few weeks so might be an easy one. Just got my van back from tha garage where they replaced both my oil sensors and fluid sensors, due to a disco effect on the dash. now when driving around town today the pointer is about 2/3 over to the right, before the work it was smack in t...