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Do yourself a massive favour and talk to Aidan. I managed to kill my gearbox at the end of last year and he brought it back to life. Hundreds of miles later and it is as smooth as silk. A true gent into the bargain as well!!

I had exactly this problem with my '88 1.7 ky diesel. After new glow plugs, new fuel filter, manual priming pump from a Peugeot 406, you name it, I caught sight of a snippet of info in the wiki regarding a non return valve. £6 and ten minutes later the problem was solved. Just fit it into the fuel l...

Hi Just to let you know - when we got to Devon ad plugged into the hook up, the fridge worked!!!!We were sooo happy, cold beer and wine all week - which was jst as well as the weather was diabolical! Not sure why it didn't work but just glad it did in the end. Thanks to you all r your helpful commen...

We'll have to pick this up when we get back...early start now down to Devon. Fingers crossed, maybe it'll start working!!

We're on a very slight slope ( our drive) but have used chocks to level as much as possible. We have done this before and it has worked.

We have an electrolux 3 way fridge in our autosleeper and the night before we're due to go on our longest jaunt yet it has packed up! We have it hooked up to the mains, and the vent is getting hot but the inside is not even remotely cold. It has always worked fine on gas, hook up and battery until t...

Hi there Just to let you all know, we called a fridge engineer and he suggested taking the knob off and trying and blow me down, it worked. So pack the knob out a bit and hey presto, cold beer all weekend. Yipeee. Nice one Luke (fridge engineer, number available if anyone needs him). Thanks again fo...

Thanks for all the replies, plenty of food for thought. When taking the fridge out, where do you disconnect the gas? and do you have to remove the outside vents first?

Hi there We bought our 1988 Autosleeper in February and have not been able to get the fridge to work on gas. The pilot light ignites but goes out once you release the gas control knob. We have held it down for a while and this makes no difference. Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? The fridge...