Off to Knaresborough in a few weeks for a week, have been to Castleton (Peak District) in December but got a bit scary when it snowed as its in a valley all up hill out. Also the water barrel froze so had to defrost. Not a problem with this van I have now as it has an on board water tank Freelander 2 TD4 GS 2011 Manual Satorini Black (Current)
Freelander TD4 S 2004 Silver Manual (Gone)
Landrover Series 3 Manual Long Wheel Base Safari (Gone)
Landrover series 2A Manual Short Wheel Base (Gone)
Numerous different vehicles inbetween

Drained down the water today and shut up for winter before the anticipated arctic weather forecast

Lurcher wrote:

Just as a matter of interest where do you park your caravans when not in use ? , only ask as there are none on the estate where I live .

Lurcher wrote:

Just as a matter of interest where do you park your caravans when not in use ? , only ask as there are none on the estate where I live .

I store mine in a 5 star caravan club yard , I say yard there must be 500 vans Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

When we bought our current house (34 yrs ago) , it was flagged up to us no caravans allowed on drives and can't remember seeing one in all that time . FL2 gone now in 2016 Discovery 4 Loire Blue .

Missed the start of this thread as I was away - in the caravan! Everyone can spread it - Anyone can catch it. Stay home - the life you save can be your own!

Purplemadboy wrote:

I store mine in a 5 star caravan club yard , I say yard there must be 500 vans

Lurcher wrote:

Just as a matter of interest where do you park your caravans when not in use ? , only ask as there are none on the estate where I live .

We always had ours in store at a storage compound, but now we have moved into my parents house after loosing my Dad and Mum going into care with advanced alzheimer's we have a lot of room to keep it at home, had some big locked gates made and it's behind them all safe and sound and saving a lot in storage charges.

HappyNomad wrote:

Lurcher wrote:

Just as a matter of interest where do you park your caravans when not in use ? , only ask as there are none on the estate where I live .

At home. We have a hookup point installed which is useful for maintaining the battery and chilling the fridge before trips etc.


There are 4 caravans in our little close... happily all in good order.

Ours is all drained down and wrapped up for winter now. We keep it a storage facility so just pop in once a month to change the moisture traps and make sure its all OK.

just returned today from a week in Brixham. The site was fantastic as there were less than 10 vans on site. Smashing weather and 19 degress on the warmest day.
Fully serviced pitch too with views of the sea. Jaguar x-type sport gone
Jaguar x-type 2.2d sport one of my best cars ever sadly gone
Freelander 2 GS auto 2008 most unreliable ever ! gladly gone
Freelander 2 GS manual 2013 only time will tell !

Drained down the water in the van and tried to remove the inboard filter, supposed to be a quick release fitting but I could not move it , ended up cutting the hose
Has anyone removed the filter permanently and replaced with straight through pipe?

If yours is the replaceable in line charcoal filter, the connections are easily separated by depressing the end collars before applying any 'pull' 10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)