german electric hookup?

[mariner]

Hi

new to the forum, new to owning a t25 and looking to tap into someone else's experience!

Bought our first camper a few weeks ago and after several weeks in various garages for various issues almost ready to hit the road. Need to buy a hookup cable and when I checked the external hookup point on the van I initially thought the top pin (earth?) had snapped. Since been told by a very helpful bloke at a camping and caravaning shop that we have a german hookup point with just the two pins. He sold me a connector for the hookup point (fits perfectly) and suggested I bought the usual 25m cable and simply replaced the UK connector with the one for the two pin hookup. Is this the best thing to do?

I did think about buying 25m of cable only (you can get it without the eartg wire, which I presume I don't need) and fit the appropriate connector either end. This could be suicide, don't know, really am on zero knowledge here.

Going away in Ruby this week regardless, desperate to start enjoying her, but having mains hookup would definitely be a bonus!

Any help/advice would be great. Sorry about the long winded expo!

John

[California Dreamin]

I would convert the bus to standard UK install using something like this:

http://www.justkampers.com/shop/t4/acce ... 13291.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Euro plugs inside? convert with low profile UK sockets (I used one with an LED so you could see when it is powered)

Martin