more misadventures/mishaps!

[adriacoral]

Following on from the misadventure thread...whats the worst thing that happened in your camper? I don't mean horrible things like theft or injury but things that go wrong but later when sorted you look back and laugh.. On our recent trip to mid wales we had a 2 litre bottle of coke fall of the table and burst! Showered brown sticky liquid all over the ceiling! not to mention most of cab when hubby rushed in ,picked it up and exited camper with said bottle, showering passing couple with it too! Luckily baby wipes cleaned off most of it although we were coming across little sticky spots for days. We will get upholstery done soon as it will attract dirt like no-ones business!

 

[Haaamster]

Went for a 3 month skiing trip to the Harz mountains in Germany,was due to meet 17 friends there so I went 3 weeks early to spend xmas there.
100 km from my destination I hear a grinding noise so pull over and lift the bonnet, as I did the alternator went BANG,big sparks flew everywhere.
Cut off the belt and used cable ties to keep the water pump running,made it to a Fiat dealer who quoted 600 euro's for the part alone.Decided to head to the camp site without it, paid 30 euro's per night for the site and another 19 for electric.
Anyway decided to make the most of it and find the slopes,i'm a long time skier and quite good but the slopes were awful,too small and crowded and the weater was atrocious.I intended to move around the area and try all the slopes but without an alternator it wasn't worth it.
So I headed home,only driving in daylight,using no heater,no lights and no radio I managed about 150km a day then had to recharge the battery with my genny at night.
I was cold miserable and fed up,the cable ties broke and I had to refit them 17 times,it took me 5 days to reach Brugge where I decided to stay for 3 days and recharge my batteries on hook up.
When I finally did get back I had to book a flight with German Wings (who were fantastic) to go with the ski party.
But the strange thing is looking back i'm still glad I did it,ergo we motorhomers are a pretty silly lot really.

 

[kimbowbill]

mines not as bad as haamster but, paid £1200 for a new roof that was leaking really bad, i know i could have done it cheaper myself but, hey ho, so, new roof, off to scotland for 5 weeks, parked up in callender for the night, woke up with water pouring through about 5 different spots, bring out the saucepans, bin liners, towels, next morning i rang the repair dudes, 'oh just pop it back down' they said, erm sorry but we are in scotland, FOR 5 WEEKS, we had discussed turning back, scotland been scotland and renound for rain, we decided to soldier on, scotland had the driest month on record that month, phew, we only had one day of rain and managed to seal the holes with gaffa tape. The repair centre wernt too happy tho, they had to do the whole roof again

Jen

 

[Pollik]

Driving along and the wardrobe door falls off. The (insufficient quantity of) glue had failed, the door came apart at the joins and we ended up with a flatpack just needing someone to assemble it.

 

[Deleted member 11815]

We were in the Pyrenees and the only people at a campsite we were just stopping off as it was en route.

Snow/ice everywhere.

Asked where to empty loo and was told. So emptied our very full C400 chemical loo (19 litres) into the CDP (which was inside in the toilet block and was one that was similar to a WC). After emptying the lot, the pipe on the back was obviously broken due to ice, and the entire lot gushed out all over the floor.

That woudn't be so bad, but the floor was sloping to a centre drain between 2 rows of loos.

So yep, 19L of blue/green sh*t all over the floor of their toilet block.:scared:

Nothing I could do

I told them and they were very apologetic to me (!) We left very quickly.

 

[Piglets Pilot]

Hi , We were stopped by gendarme (french police) few miles from dunkirk as we pulled in on there command fridge door burst open spilling everything all over van floor several spillages!! gendarme quite polite wanted to see documents check tyres lights etc . Then the wife took exception she noticed all five vehicles pulled were english ,could she keep quiet no way .She had to find out why zee only pick on the english !! Gendarme not amused . So I had to placate him and try to get better half to shut up and go get fridge sorted . needless to say it all turned out to be my fault !! gendarme overall quite good about it ,sent us on our way thank goodness. WOMEN what can you do with them or without them?

 

[Bambi 2]

more misadventures/mihaps

We drove up a mountain and when we stopped I needed a Wee! so went into the toilet, leaned over to open the toilet blade and BANG!! there was an explosion and it hit me full blast in the face, there I stood covered in sh...t! :rolleyes2: and my husband was yelling at me what have you done? I could not answer him because I did not want to open my mouth.
We now have a sog fitted to the toilet and it has not exploded since Tee Hee. Bambi 2

 

[Deleted member 11815]

We drove up a mountain and when we stopped I needed a Wee! so went into the toilet, leaned over to open the toilet blade and BANG!! there was an explosion and it hit me full blast in the face, there I stood covered in sh...t! :rolleyes2: and my husband was yelling at me what have you done? I could not answer him because I did not want to open my mouth.
We now have a sog fitted to the toilet and it has not exploded since Tee Hee. Bambi 2

lol! The newer cassetes have a pressure relief mechanism to stop this happening

 

[Barbt]

We were in Wales at Easter and our dog rolled in a load of fox mess. Although we washed her in the river the van still reeked of something horrible and it was very hot that week! The smell was definitely getting worse by the day.
On arrival home we decided to pull everything out, shampoo the carpets and upholstery etc etc. However on cleaning out the freezer compartment of the fridge we found a very elderly lamb chop stuck right at the back !! Apologies to the dog!