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I only rely on a standard TOM TOM sat nav in all my Motorhomes the largest being an 8 metre tag axle Hymer and travel extensively in the UK and Mainland Europe and Morocco never having any problems with that and the TOM TOM. if I do not like the look of a Road or Lane JANE [ Miss TOM TOM ] hee hee tells me to take I just say SILLY GIRL and continue driving till she tells me otherwise, all very easy, Once in HOLLAND she told me to take the FERRY which turned out to be little more than a Rowing boat , but the up side of that is that we stayed the night river side and had a lovely view of the comings and goings on the River loved it .

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I have just reset my AD BLOCKER so see what happens, thankyou for your help Malc,

thankyou I have been seeing pop up video junk such as this day years ago , is this the sort of thing you point out ?

HI all not been on this site for a while, logged in Yesterday and am now being bombarded with stupid adverts , is this the norm now or have I missed something Please ?

Why wont the RAC transport it back if they have appropriate cover ?

We have just sold our van on Facebook Market place all very easy, flurry of time wasters and a couple of apparent Scammers, then a couple turned up and were serious buyers and my van sold next day to them £1000 less than my asking price, all happened within a week, bank transfer of payment went through very easily, and I still had the van in my possession, checked my bank and money there, bought more Premium Bonds with the proceeds, Sad to see the van drive off but hey ho things move on, we are in the process of selling our home and looking for a new abode, when we finally get settled we will buy another newer van, So if you are thinking of selling a van I recommend Face Book Market place based on our experience,

Your vehicle MUST be road legal in the UK to use it across the Channel, ie Taxed MOT and Insurance

TYRE was 4 years old passed the MOT last September all ok the MOT man said, I think I went over some debris in the Road , now have 3 new tyres, two on the rear wheels and one on the new spare wheel that I obtained and had a new tyre fitted on that, My front tyres are about a year old now, had the rear wheels both checked out at my local garage on our return home all ok and the van passed its MOT again last Wednesday so am confident all well again, Very scary happening the burst tyre , too dangerous a place to get a breakdown to me at the point of blow out said the Police that is why I had to drive OH so SLOOOOOWWWLY to the slip road off the Motorway , someone up there was watching over us that day and to find a Tyre Bay at the pull off of the Motorway was unbelievable and the fact that the Spanish cop involved spoke perfect English was un believable too ,

100% spare wheel any time, I had a rear tyre blow out on the way home from Portugal recently , nearly lost control of the van as doing 60 mph on a Motorway, long story short got to a tyre bay and lucky for me my van ,Chausson carries a spare wheel, the blown tyre damaged my inner wheel arch too and as I had to drive on the Wheel rim about 800 metres to a tyre bay escorted by Police vehicles the wheel rim was destroyed , but thanks to my spare, the wheel was change quickly , the tyre bay dumped my damaged wheel and tyre fitted my spare and would not take a penny off me , so any type of repair kit was a no no for me ,

We went to Portugal via France and Spain this year took all sorts of food stuff fresh and frozen ,no problem with Officialdom anywhere, our passports were stamped , but don't see why a stamp in a Passport would be a problem to any one ?, passport stamped out of GB and again back in .

Started out at Calais , into Holland then Germany On our route to Norway we drove to Putgagarten Germany, queued half an hour for the ferry to Denmark, drove through Denmark, took us 9 days, and got a ferry to Sweden , from the top of DENMARK then drove through Sweden into Norway at GRONG fantastic trip, came back VIA the Oresund bridge, the cost of the bridge equaled the cost of the 2 ferries used, We wild camped and Aires the whole time away with no problems at all . Did not book anything in advance just winged it plenty of Ferries , just wait for the next one to come in .

https://ibb.co/VvtPFP2 Took mine apart and replaced all the guts easy to remove the whole toilet, only 4 screws hold it in place

Hi all we are just home from a trip to Portugal,great weather best yet, we went Dover Calais there and back easy through the check in etc both ways no one cared that we had a Fridge and Freezer full of food we wild camped and Aires the whole trip, surprised how easy it still is most of our old stopovers were open to us , met some great people on our travels surprised how few Brit vans about though , we used 80 days of our 90, intended to do the full 90 but had a few problems with the van, first was I stupidly put Petrol in the tank instead of Diesel Eeeekkk , but that was soon sorted , transported to a garage on the back of a breakdown truck about a mile away , Estremoz that was, lovely town, this was on a Saturday morning, so nothing could be done till Monday BUT Monday was Independance day in Portugal so Public Holiday so stuck there till Tuesday when a couple of hours work and the tank was drained , I drove about 400 metres with the petrol diesel mix just to get off the pumps so no contamination of filter or injectors etc 75 euros that cost me plus a full tank of mixed fuel thrown away and then a refill hey ho that's how it goes , we were outside the Garage during that time on a large grassy area , very comfortable , Supermarket near by with a service point and a short walk to the town centre, in fact several other vans joined us where we were parked, Birds of a Feather Eh ? hee hee . Next problem was a steering wheel judder started on breaking, oh oh I thought discs or pads , it turned out to be both but I had that fixed here at home by my local Garage the other day so all OK now, most scary problem was that our rear offside tyre burst on a fast Mountain Motorway, I was doing 80 kph , BANG, van all over the road , nearly lost control but managed to stop safely, problem was it was a 2 lane Motorway, No hard shoulder , on a bend and huge lorries wizzing past, I called 112 the emergency number for the Police but the road was so noisy I could not hear the phone and it was not safe to re enter the van , so hi viz vest for both of us triangles out and I walked back a few hundred metres and waved the traffic down, suddenly a Police car turned up, they had been traveling the other way and saw what was happening and turned around and came back lit up like a Christmas tree and then 2 more Police cars arrived, One of he Cops spoke good English and said it was too dangerous to get a breakdown truck to us and asked me to drive forward about 350 metres where there was a slip road off, well I could see my wheel was caput ,all bent and useless , the busted tyre still on what remained of the rim , so I drove very slowly to the slip road police right behind me and down a short hill and stopped outside some industrial buildings, and can you believe the one we were closest to was a TYRE BAY, The Cop who spoke English spoke to the guys in the Garage for me but they said they never had tyres my size, no worries I said the wheel is Kaput any way but I have a spare under the van, which the fitted in place of the damaged wheel, and would accept NO payment, The old wheel and tyre they also disposed of, So we decided on a slow run up through France to Calais and cut our trip short , because I was worried about the rear wheel as I had driven a short distance on the Hub, but as it happened all was well even though we had a long drive from Dover to Southampton, So on our return home I took the van into my local garage, had the front Discs and pads replaced 2 new tyres on the 2 back wheels bought a new wheel on E bay and had a new tyre fitted on that too, and had both rear wheels , hubs etc checked too all well, I have some damage to the inner wheel arch from the blow out but I am going to fix that myself later , So a great trip full of adventure but life is never boring is it.