5 Simple Caravan Tips 

Great tips Keith and Michele, thanks for your experience and helping others .

Some great tip Keith & Michele. Yes guilty of releasing the van without extending the draw bar. Many Thanks Phil & Juliet.👍🙂

Hi Keith & Michele , thank you for the tips. We’ve been vanning for 5 years and still learning, keep up the good work!

Hi Keith & Michele , just found your channel and subscribed, love your videos , it’s amazing no matter how long you have been caravanning you always pick up new tips from others . Thanks for taking the time to do these Best wishes Howard

Real helpful tips, thanks for sharing your experience.

Hi thanks for the tips ,its always good to know what ever little things you find someone has already experienced them , Thanks again Ian

Great tips!

That was fantastic. Thanks a lot for the tips. For someone starting the adventures in "caravaning" that was really helpful. Also allow me to say that you two make a lovely couple.

Great video, nice people

I turn the mirror auto fold off to save the towing mirrors doing any paint damage to the door if you lock the car with them on. May sound stupid, but I've placed a label on the mirror glass to remind me to switch this off (getting to an age where I forget things!!!!).

Caravanning since last year and found some useful tips in this vid. Thanks from the Netherlands!

Great little tips cheers, thanks Michele and Keith, 👍.

Massively helpful for a first timer like me. Thank you. Keep them coming 😀

These tips are great. I hopefully am buying our first caravan this year 2021. Your videos have nudged me into buying a caravan which I have been thinking of doing for years. Thankyou.

Thanks for the tips Keith & Michele,wel appreciated.

Hi guys, just bought my first caravan and haven’t got a clue! Thanks for the tips and can I say you just seem like such nice people. All the best 😀

Great video Keith & Michele, excellent tip with the elastic bands. We could've used that tip last weekend with storm Freya

Great tips, especially for newbies (like us!) and particularly the unhitching and mirror ones, thank you! Live 'n learn, always good advice, but there will always another way and some will have different preferences for surmounting the same problem - human nature... 👍🏻

We are new to owning a caravan,after having years of motorhoming,yet i still find im still learning.Thanks for your tips.

Really useful video, many thanks, some great tips.

Lovely tips for a new caravans thank you.

Really useful and done in a really thoughtful manner...top job!

These are great tips. I am returning to caravan life after a gap of 17 years, so need to remember how things are done, and some have changed too. I have watched a few of your videos and they are all simply brilliant, perhaps the BBC will be after you for presenters soon. 😀

Thank u..great tips. The wood under the steps one is one i will use from now on.

thank you for the tips, i will be using all of those! weve been vaning now for 2 years and absolutely love it, i have just subscribed and i look forward to watching more of your videos :)

Great video you two! Loved your tips and could relate to most. Looks like you had a lovely weekend away with amazing weather. Our first trip out was last weekend and we were bombarded by Storm Freya....enough said!! Keep up the good work :)

Great tips there. Especially like the one for pulling car forward a couple of inches

Great advice for newbies. Thank you.

excellent video, you two have a great easy going style,...and very informative!!

Excellent thank you,Stay happy.

We are new to caravanning and about to set up for the first time. Top tips thanks very much.

Thank you guys. Great advice.

Hi Keith & Michelle, just found your channel. Love these top tips, always really useful. Will be getting a few of those water carriers, what a great idea. Subscribed 👍 Thanks Helen & Dave

Very helpful, just about to start caravanning so these as fantastic, thank you :)

Just found your channel. Excellent tips, used to use cable ties to stop the flap blowing up and down, not any more. Just found 2 elastic bands dropped by the postman !!

Hi Keith and Michele very useful tips it's good to pass tips on to other car avers it helps a lot It looks like u were bless with good weather look forward to your review of the site tour thanks for sharing .kev

Just found your channel and subscribed. I've been caravaning for a few years and thought I knew quite a bit but I leaned a few new things. Thanks great content and good presentation

hi, I bought caravan for me and my friend to go fishing, I got it for 140 pound. I fitted towbar onto my car myself and took caravan onto a site last weekend. none of us had a clue what we were doing, we got caravan stuck because we had span it round on the spot twice because our cable wasnt long enough. we had numerous other problems but in the end it was a great weekend. we got help from another couple of people who seen the mess we were getting into, they said it was hilarious lol. jst wanted to share that

Hey guys, some really useful tips there, and some things that I still suffer with every time, like the tow hitch into the bumper and the flapping water inlet cover! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

Great tips guys, we want more 😊

Good stuff, nice useful advice, keep em coming

A small suggestion on Aquarolls (and similar containers)....they're heavy when full and I've never understood why folks struggle to stand them upright on return from the water tap (if you have a weak back it's an action risking hurt or worse)....Most of the modern containers have a separate access cap in the side, so simply roll the barrel into position with the side cap at the top and drop the pump/pickup pipe in.... it's one more lift avoided. Energy thus saved can be used to pour more beer/wine.... :-)

Some really helpful tips. I use the same water carriers in my 1960’s caravans ;)

Some useful tips guys, as a footnote I've just attended a C & M H manoeuvring course, they recommended when you reverse your van onto a pitch, always make your last move a forward one, this then takes the tension off the hitch and aligns the brakes, only a small movement is needed, I hope this helps.

Love your videos 😊

Wish I had seen your fridge tip before I went off grid for the first time in my swift challenger! I bought it second hand and I don’t think it had ever been used on gas.I’ve now subscribed

Fantastico! more please! xxx

really good tips, especially the tow ball one, watched a few of your vids really enjoyed them, newbie here lol

Great vid Keith & Michele, some great tips. We put a door matt under our step to protect the awning carpet. Keep up the good work. Martin 👍

Loved the tips thanks. We learnt the water flap tip many years ago but then found driving a motorhome on the motorway with the unsecured flap constantly hitting the side of the van is also incredibly annoying. Especially when it wasn't me who forgot to secure it! Going back to a caravan now and had forgotten the extending hitch issue; thanks for saving my bumper. 😁

Great tips and best of luck to both of you

A few good tips which we will use,thank you

Great guys 👍🏻 thanks for those. I noticed you attach the mirrors to the top side of the car mirrors. If you find they vibrate making viewing wobbly, try attaching to the underside which has less leverage.

Great tips, thanks you so much 👍

Excellent tips ….thank you

Great video! Tip 1 always get me with my Brian James trailer 🙈😂

Fantastic tips 😉👍🏁

Thanks for the great tips

Very useful tips. Keep them coming guys 😎🍷

I've no idea how I'm going to remember all of these tips over RU-vid in the near future when I take my debut voyage of caravanning in New Zealand. My head is spinning ! I have driven a 40 foot designer transporter with 2 lwb fridge vans onboard across the country for Polar Motors in York UK in the 90s before I left the Homelands but that was a rigid chassis and didn't seem so daunting as 21 feet of a wobbly caravan behind an Isuzu SUV ! Goodness ! I guess I should sub so I can post at the time of emergency advice LOL Winter Greetings to you both from Middle Earth 🙃

Just purchased my first caravan, I don't know my aqua roll from my alko, so thanks, helpful video!

Re: the water containers, my top tip is get yourself a second aquaroll, fill both to start with, when one is empty or low, simply swap the pump head over to the full one, then take the empty one to refill at your leisure. I've been doing this for years now as do many seasoned caravanners and never have to worry about running out, or hand carrying 10 litres of water.

Just new to Caravanning, thanks found your video really helpful . That’s me subscribed 👍🏻

Great tips I can relate to the rattling water inlet cover used to drive us made. Looks like we have the same caravan bought from the same dealer, who are very local to us. Best wishes Jon and Karen

Brilliant, thankyou soo much

Thanks. Great tips👍 especially the tilting mirrors! I didn’t realise I could turn them off! Fabulous!!

I'm new to caravanning, great tips.

Alternative for Tip1: If you have a motor mover - engage it and carefully move the caravan backwards away from car until hitch has extended. 5 great tips - happy caravaning!

Great stuff guys.

Great tips as I'm just starting caravaning

Good Tips. Thank You

Good tips… Thanks 👍

Would be great here in the US to have the hand break installed on our camper. I've used the "emergency" break away twice to help. Lol!!

Very informative thanks for sharing

Brilliant - thanks

Hi New subscriber I like your tips especially the water carriers I will be putting them on my shopping list also the wood under the step excellent 👍

Some very useful tips. I love simple solutions to a problem. Regarding caravan steps we had the same problem of the step sinking.so we got a new step the type with tube all round the bottom of the step this makes more surface area with the ground and works perfectly.might save you carrying that piece of wood

Novice here, thanks for the tips..the aqua rolls were a great idea!..thank you!

Hi guys. Great tips. We're getting back into caravanning after a long break from it due to hectic work schedules. We're both now retired. I've given you a thumbs-up and I've subscribed to catch up on your other vids. I've watched a lot of people on this type of thing and had to leave before the end. Well done to you both on your presentation skills.

Thank you for the tip :)

Great tips especially about the tow bar thank you I just bought UK caravan as not many videos are here in down- under about them.

Great Tips Keith Thankyou Mick Atkins (Taunton)

Great tips 🤙 regarding the step goin in to caravan buy 4 new jack pads and attach those to the bottom of the step saves carrying the piece of wood and stops steps sinking

Hi Keith and Michele, putting strip of masking tape on your car mirror prior to fitting towing mirrors will stop the rubber feet marking your painted mirror cases. Remove the tape after arriving on site. 👍

Very good tips thank you

The first really useful similar video.

The de rigueur caravan tip which you missed was after you have hitched up use the the jockey wheel to lift the car marginally to show that the hitch up is complete and safe.

Great tips thank you, just a thought, if you clip the mirrors onto the bottom of the car mirrors instead of the top it won’t knock them off when selecting reverse. You may need to change the sides of the extended mirrors.

My answer to the steps sinking into the ground (no carpet involved) is to use 40mm diameter plastic tubing such as is used for internal or external domestic plumbing. Cut sections out of them to insert the legs of the steps into. This spreads the load preventing any sinking into grass or fine hardstanding. Very lightweight and easily dropped into small spaces in the boot of the car for transporting.

"if you are brave enough to reverse on to pitch" ! electric movers are creating a whole group of caravaners who have lost the art of reversing, wonderful when you come face to face with them on a country lane, the look of sheer panic on their faces is a joy when they realise someone will have to go back :-)

thank you for that tip on the on the spring chasiss on the caravan i try to tell my wife i put my handbrake on but the van moved forward marked my bumper so thank you

Nice video thanks On the Aqua roll well it a role why carry weight when you can easily role 40lts Again as you say what ever works for others I just thought you have turned an easy job to a harder job James

Thanks for the tips, a couple there i will be using, thanks again. ... ps. ive subscribed to your channel .

Some great tips. Instead of carrying a piece of wood around for the steps I bought some furniture castor cups off good old amazon. They are about 2 inches in diameter so should fit most steps.

I'm 16 and this really helped me and my dad very much thanks

We loved all your Caravan videos. Been on the road recently?

Tip 1. for the truma water inlet. On the inlet pistol, smear olive oil or vegetable oil on the two o-rings. This will stop the cracking around the bottom of the plastic inlet plate nossle fixed to the caravan shell, that usually happens over a period of time because the pistol slides in and particularly out much easier. This will save you buying a new inlet plate nossle which costs an unbelievable £38 or more. Tip 2. Always travel with the Truma water heater gas outlet shroud removed. They have a habit of falling off in transit costing you £22 or more a go. Tip 3. Never buy one of those £9.99 nose weight gauges, get a better make that is usually calibrated like a Milenco one. Better still pay nothing and use your personal scales and two small wooden boards, beneath and above the scales to spread the load and steady the scales alongside a stout shaft of wood placed vertically between the alco cup and the wood placed on top of the scales and lower the jockey wheel to find the nose weight. Tip 4. In my experience using a ramp in conjunction with a motor mover is a nightmare, whilst side to side levelling the caravan. I have found that an adapted Milenco mechanical leveller is the quickest, quietest, most mechanically robust and cheapest option for side to side levelling on a single axle caravan. It does have a problem though. It comes supplied with a cheap ratchet, which takes a lot of effort to use in practice. Instead i have bought a drill drive to square drive ( set of 3 sizes for £3.50 from screwfix, which you only need one) and a 15 mm socket i already had, to operate the Milenco leveller with a portable drill. When levelling always ensure the caravan handbrake is on of course with a chock placed either side of the wheel that is not being lifted, to level the caravan. Tip 5. Use a drill drive to operate the steadies. Much quicker and far less effort but be careful not to damage the floor of the caravan by lowering the steadies beyond just steadying the caravan. A drill drive can apply a lot of force very quickly, if you are not careful using the drill, with the steadies in the fully up or down positions.

Add to the mirror tilt, switch off the auto fold, if like mine your mirrors fold right in the towing mirrors his the window glass. So when I fit the towing mirrors I switch off the auto fold. On my Mercedes it's done by the menu buttons on the steering wheel.

Just ordered my first ever caravan for jan/feb delivery. Any site recommendations would be appreciated, in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset,New forest etc. Don't know how many sites have fully serviced pitches these days but that's what we would prefer. Thanks and great channel

Tilting mirrors! 😂 The things manufacturers think up!