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How do you get the coffee grounds out of cafetière when you don’t want to rinse them under your tap into your grey waste tank? I need (well, I don’t need) a gadget for this. And please don’t suggest a different way of making coffee - we‘ve tried all those and keep coming back to our favourite...

We have the Dometic RML9435 in our van. The shelves inside the door keep breaking and we're now out of warranty so it'll start getting expensive... Anyone else have this fridge? I think the 9430 and 9431 are physically the same. Anyone else had this problem and fixed it? (Apart from adopting...

We haven't used the van for a few weeks so I got it out of the barn where we keep it and started to sort it out. Filled with water, turned on a tap - nothing. Checked the 12V, checked there really was water in it, checked the fuse. Went inside for a cuppa for inspiration. Went out, turned power...

OH read a story about a couple who woke up in their van to find two blokes stealing their stuff, and we started talking about alarms. The van has an alarm, but I'd only ever thought of it as something to use when we're not in it. When we go to bed, I just lock all the doors with the central...

I finally got time to work through my jobs list and spent a really happy day pottering around the van. I replaced a dodgy alarm sensor I washed the bit under the skylights that you can only reach standing on a stool inside I fixed a couple of eyes to hold a bungee cord that'll stop things...

After my recent foray into finding a slow gas leak I was wondering about these: TPI 725L Pocket Combustible Gas Detector | Gas Leak Detectors | Screwfix.com Or cheaper https://www.amazon.co.uk/Propane-Detector-Portable-Combustible-Flexible/dp/B07TDHR111 Anyone ever tried one? I see you can...

I started on a new cylinder on the last trip and I thought we used more than I expected but wasn’t sure. This trip I’ve been checking it (via my Truma level check) and it does look as though it looses a bit - around 0.1kg every day or maybe every two days. It’s not the connectors or pigtails...

Sorry if I’ve missed a thread about this, but Mrs J found an article about new pump labelling being introduced in France (across Europe, I believe - maybe here, too?). But I think the point about France is that they’ve decided to offer two diesels - B7 and B10. I think we need “B7”, the cheaper...

***** and Tezza33 were kind enough to tell me that the Gorge du Verdon was easy peasy. What about Mont Ventoux anyone? The road looks spicy but I saw a YouTube video suggesting cyclists were the main hazard, making people slow and stop all the time.

Ours fridge (RML9435) has a removable freezer compartment. We hardly ever use it so I’m thinking of taking it out to get more fridge space, but I see that the shelves won’t fit where the freezer was. So I’ll have a big hole and no way of putting anything in it... am I missing something?

Anyone done the Gorge in a Motorhome? The bits of road I’ve looked at on street view all look fine to me - reasonably wide, steep here and there but not too bad - but some guidebooks say ‘not for the faint hearted’, ‘drive at your peril’ and so on. I dare say tricky in winter, but fine in...

Out of curiosity I've been looking into things like the ACSI Id card, the Camping Card International and the Camping Key Europe card. For about £5-£8 you get a card which seems to be a form of id to use on campsites abroad instead of your passport. You also get some insurance cover that you...

There I was, on the M23, in the middle lane doing 60ish, overtaking a truck. An old wreck sped past me in the outside lane and I saw its nearside rear wheel trim come off and bounce and spin towards me. I couldn’t do an emergency stop (too much traffic behind), couldn’t dodge (both lanes...

I ordered some Fenwicks window scratch remover back in May as an experiment, but I didn’t get round to using it until Monday just gone. Today I had an email from Amazon asking me to rate my purchase.... spooky! The Fenwicks worked btw.

Anyone know why lots of newish Ducatos, mine included, have engine cooling fans which keep coming on for a few seconds then going off, only to come on again 10 seconds later and so on? You can only hear the fan when you’re outside the vehicle so maybe when you’re moving at a sensible speed...

I keep finding threads where people saying they’ve “heard all the stories about Puriclean damaging Truma boilers” but I can never find those stories, just people talking about them. And I rang 4 shops/maintenance places today and they all said it was fine to run Puriclean through a Truma...

I'm probably being very slow here, but my insurance (which includes European breakdown cover) is up for renewal soon and I've been looking around at the breakdown element of it. Am I right in thinking that I can get: Either: European breakdown cover, in which case I call a contact number and...

We fancy a tasteful decal or two for the back of the van - which is a huge, plain, white slab. But we don’t want anything twee. And no slogans, nothing lurid, just something interesting and tasteful. Any ideas of anywhere different I might look? Most of what I’ve found is all the same stuff...

The CAMC and CCC both offer discounts off Eurotunnel bookings. We used Tesco vouchers to book the outbound and CAMC to book the return. We’ve had to cancel the trip because I had a stroke and rather than lose the tickets altogether decided to rebook for a date within 1 year of purchase - which...

Morning all I had a stroke a few days ago and I'm trying to sort out some admin - DVLA and insurers - and wondered if anyone else had been through this recently and can confirm the process I'm grounded for 4 weeks from the date of the stroke, but I believe I don't need to inform DVLA unless...