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Just one point is that if you are protecting the liesure battery with an 80amp fuse to the starter battery, if the starter battery is flat for whatever reason on starting the engine the starter is likely to be drawing in excess of 250amps and will blow your 80amp fuse, if that's how you are...

Either way they are both simple fixes and cheap with no complications. 👌😉. Phil

In all honesty it's far better to make sure your cab battery is in good nick from the get go. Of course it could be done using a heavy duty dual battery switch the kind that is used in marine environments (In the main), and heavy duty high ampage cable going from hab battery through the switch...

Van terrier is suggesting that a choke cable and pull knob is fitted to your van just as in the (Old days) with carburettors which not only closed the choke flap but also put a certain amount of fast idle on as well, the Mitsubishi Shoguns/ Pajeros had a similar set up only it did not operate...

Each to their own Dave, to me in today's traffic it's an expensive gadget and getting less and less useful as traffic increases at the rate it has. I moved from Portsmouth to South Wales 35 years ago because I couldn't stand the amount of traffic in the south of England and especially in...

I have cruise control on my present V70 Volvo and have had it on previousVolvos, to be frank I've tried it out but a handful of times, I can see that in a country like America or Australia having cruise control could be a help towards driver fatigue however here or in europe I have found it...

Yes I think your right Mark, and there is in my view many self builders that are intentionally or maybe unintentionally abusing the system too, which has obviously pushed the DVLA to tighten up their views on what is a motorhome and what is not, again a situation where a few have spoiled it for...

Hi Mark, In general it's (A) Speed restrictions (B) Insurance much harder to get agreed value (C) Toll road, Bridge, Tunnel and in some cases Ferry costs. (D) Wild camping is not so easy ( As plod is far more likely to investigate you ) NPRC (E) Resale value. (F) Being a member of the " Caravan...

Without sounding defeatist Mark, I feel that the money time and effort really does not add up as if they have broken in the damage has been done and with today's modern police they will thank you for the footage and put it in their evidence store never to be viewed again, as it's just another...

Hi Phil, I would recommend that in the last paragraphs of your letter you wrote "Many many people" and not hundreds and instead of " Twaddle" I would put " Meaningless opinionated pseudo official speak" or something of that ilk, and finally instead of "Stupid" maybe unfathomable reasoning, this...

They must have been aware it was a self built as there would not have been a standard to go by in their data base of vehicles, so if they did not ask if it was registered as a "Motor caravan" they must have maybe assumed? But they must have also agreed a write off value in the event of "Not...

What did you actually tell the insurers, did they ask if the vehicle was registered as a " Motor caravan" .Phil

That wasn't the point of my post Dave, it was to clarify that major insurers such as Saga will insure self builds, but none the less they did not as I remember ask if it was registered as a motor caravan I would have to go back through all the correspondence which is archived in the loft. Phil

Just a note on having to go to specialist insurers if self built is not actually true, I am insured with Saga, they did ask for an engineer's report on build quality though, for this I went to my local MoT station and they charged me £25 to write a letter stating that in their opinion the...

Would be interesting for others to see some photos of your conversion, so that we can see what direction the DVLA are going. Phil

Inventive if nothing else. 🤣👍

By the way talking of Ducato 2.3 headlights, those that do have to change headlight bulbs it is far faster to remove the whole headlight unit than fiddle around attempting to do it with the headlight in situ.Phil

Not criticising DRL'S Dave just suggesting that they are a little pointless if you use dipped headlights anyway. Sweden has had this rule for decades and have one of one of the lowest road accident rates in Europe so there must be something to be said about it. In Poland you legally have to use...

If you don't want them for bling Phil, it then must fall into the category of safety in which case I would humbly suggest that you save money and time and continue as I do and drive with the headlights dipped. For 42 years now I have always had Volvos (Secondhand ones 😜) and have always followed...

You are spot on with your guestimation at 20 20 20. Our van cost us new £21, 000 we then spent a further £18,000 in building it, we already had the cmos sat dome from my previous van, but to buy an equivalent van from a recognised builder it would definitely be £65,000. The difference being that...