Away next weekend in the caravan for five days then that's it until next year although it will be used as a extra bedroom over Christmas and new year .

Not long to go now, we pick our 2017 Elddis Crusader Aurora up next Sunday and cant wait, been without a caravan for 2 months, cant move in bedroom for all the stuff out of it, put every thing in it and going to have to have a week away to give it a go. It will be the first time we have towed with the SD4 HSE auto as we have changed from a TD4 GS manual too, the TD4 towed the Bailey Unicorn spot on so SD4 should be no bother, fingers crossed.

Towing with an Auto Freelander is a pleasure & so easy to tow.
For me the only difference was that my auto had a horrendous thirst whereas the manual is just so good.
Just done a 327 mile round trip and averaged 42.2 with my manual one.
my auto was only really good for 26-29 unless you drove it like a nun.

Enjoy your auto, it will be fab. when you switch from towing to solo the auto-box takes about 50 miles to re-adapt. so gear change points will be different but it applies both ways.
Enjoy the van. 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 !

Just got back from 4 days near Knaresborough, Yorkshire, caravan now away until March next year. 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

Come home to a living fire in wales
 Wales
Were the mud is thicker, and the ruts are deeper.
(And we have the water to wash it off, and more on the way..! )
Sd4 and chrome Ar*e piece, Auto box for best fun
09 Xs Gone
12 xs Gone
HSE with Leather seats and 4 years warrenty.. staying for now !

AMO123456 wrote:

Just got back from 4 days near Knaresborough, Yorkshire, caravan now away until March next year.

. That's were we have been since last Monday ,got back home today half 11 ,we stayed at the caravan club site , I now have a few jobs to do on the caravan over winter repairing the hot water heater which went up in smoke on Thursday , don't know what caused it to do that but luckily it happened while we were in the van so I was able to turn everything off just got a smell of burning and put 2 and 2 together so I now need to get that checked out and sort out a water leak on the caravan door window seal .

We were on Pitch 12 just past the club house came back on Friday, nice area 2nd visit this year. 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

Van sold and given up for good, Scotland was too cold and wet and not needed in Cyprus, may look at a yacht again, there's something about being splashed with warm water that is more pleasurable than being hit with hail  my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.

I think that qualifies you to enter the "Woose of the Year" contest, and with a good chance of winning. Everyone can spread it - Anyone can catch it. Stay home - the life you save can be your own!

wait a minute

Flushing loo, warm shower, blown air central heating, fridge full of cool beer, sprung mattress, satellite TV, mains electric and water / waste hookup

Anyone with a caravan is hardly up for "roughing it in the wild" award Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

Andy , that's the way I like to rough it .. done the Cyprus thing , the place has got way too expensive. Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

Did the working abroad, living out of a suitcase, cheapest hotel that someone in the office can find, for 10 years.

For some reason I like taking my home comforts with me.

Also at 17 stone I don't fit in airplane seats
Worst flight, middle of a row of 5, rugby players either side, Belgian aircraft, movie was dubbed into French with German subtitles, from Johannesburg to Brussels, several hours wait in Brussels, then 8 hour wait in Heathrow, for cheap connecting flight to Manchester.
Or the 48 hours it took to get from cairns to Manchester, Or turning up at JFK Christmas eve to find the plane was overbooked.

Gill at 7 stone doesn't see the problem with aircraft seats! Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

A low of 16deg taking he dog for a walk at 8 am warmed up a bit after an hour now at comfortable 19 in the shade, I can handle that I don't know about woose of the year award, what's the enjoyment of taking a walk in freezing rain in July and worse in November to sit in a tin box with steamed up windows caused by a wet dog lying by the hot air vents steaming away. only bought the van to explore the French Med coast as a possible retirement area. With OH picking up a plum job over here that is now a touch academic.  my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.

Do you have the air conditioning running as it dries out the air. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

UK caravans and air con are almost as rare as hens teeth unless they are taken to southern Europe in mid summer, then only the larger examples, available payload after air con is fitted reduces the capacity to a couple of tooth brushes and a bar of soap  my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.