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Fill it with food.
Fill it with fuel.
Hopefully stock up with beer in Belgium

I'm being told I have to go so i am trying to get time off away from the family. Ferry pricing looks good and I do have a choice of weapons to take.

The Doka needs an MOT and some minor fettling. I may give it the long threatened coat of camo I have been promising.

If I take the new van I need to get the interior in (however temporarily), get it serviced and the front suspension refurbished. It's got perished rubber abounds

Gotta fit a new CV that we threw in Salisbury at the weekend
Fit new brake hoses all round
Wife says i've got to polish off the porta potti
got a few advisories when it flew through the MOT in DEC, best check those out
general service things
Keep gettin "gotta get some red cups" in me ear, priority stuff of course!!!

Whose going on the 0800 from Dover on the 28th???

jester1467 wrote:
Whose going on the 0800 from Dover on the 28th???

welsh dragon = martin ,suzanne and katie
PC52 = Pete, Sharon, Andrew and Georgia
Mot falia = Jason, Pauline, Holly, Amy, Paul & James
HarryMann = Jenny & Clive
Brish & Suresh
Syncropatrick = Patrick & MrLandy90
Syncrodoug = Doug
v-lux = al & (possible passenger...)
Dai = Dai and Debs
Futbus = Dave
MatFlint = mat
SyncroAndy = Andy McC
pmrad4d = Phil and Terri-Lianne
Syncro up = Alastair, Michelle and Abby (2 year old) [out bound only]
Mrs Bodge - Anicia & Lizzie

Who does recovery insurance?

i am coverd with my bank, our insurance company also sell it as an add on about an extra £50 per year including europe recovery (full monty cover) which i took out on the camper in case sally was out with maddy and got in to trouble. aa and the rac offer it but it is costly when the car or van is over 20 years old.

neil

Last time i bought some the best i could find was brittania rescue, could be worth a go.

I don't think RAC's cover includes recovery to UK. Sharon suggested Glynwoods.

AA Ireland max age is 8 years!

v-lux wrote:Last time i bought some the best i could find was brittania rescue, could be worth a go.

Based in Huddersfield Railway Station!
I use them, have done for years, usually the cheapest and use local garages much like Green flag.

Fit a properish bed and cubords inside would be good, not done it in 2.5years so maybe Germany is the push I need?

Stuff I need to do...
Service engine, including changing injector pump and recon injectors
Change front brakes
Buy ferry tickets

Other stuff I'd like to do...
Wire up Cruse control
Paint scabby bits
Fix bumper cap I wrecked yesterday
Fit split charge/inverter
Sort stereo speakers
Recalabrate speedo drive

Injectors, tickets and paint will have to wait till mid march when I get some money, the rest of it should start to happen once the series 1's MOT and useable again, which has ment to have been finished "within the next week or so" since mid Jan, but this time I mean it!

thank god for ebay this week been and brought and now got to fit
interior
eberspacher heater
Swivel base

got to get stereo and speakers find invertor and get the speedo working

Amend ferry booking cos i'm a short a*** girl and mis measured the van this coould be an expensive mistake

just got engine and gearboxes to install, take tank out reinstall, fit propex maybe even some suspension stuff, change tyres on to new rims, then an overall check to see everything is working ok and brakes etc, maybe then even spruce up interior (which may entail ripping out the interior not too much oh and work aswell

mrsbodge wrote: and mis measured the van this coould be an expensive mistake

In all my trips to and from the UK and the Continent, I've never seen anyone measure a vehicle before gettin on to a ferry!

syncropaddy wrote:

mrsbodge wrote: and mis measured the van this coould be an expensive mistake

In all my trips to and from the UK and the Continent, I've never seen anyone measure a vehicle before gettin on to a ferry!

They do it automaticly by laser beams or something now, have a look as you drive through checkin! Only an issue if you trip one of the magic figures though and didn't declare it, 2.4m is the expencive one I think so you'd need a hightop or big roofrack. They sometimes like to know about 1.8m+ but thats so they know roughly what'll fit on the car decks - I'm sure a computer calculates what'll fit on each boat, they'll probubly only care if its full.