What spare parts do you carry

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What spare parts do you carry ?

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Freezing in the Pyrenees

It is therefore prudent to carry a spare gas regulator.
If yours fails it may be difficult expensive and very inconvenient to get a replacement quickly
No gas is a nightmare (see Admin's Mayday video)

Our regulator failed on a Friday night last April !
We were on a C&CC site with EHU so we survived with the aid of a small fan heater.
I knew of a local mobile mechanic.so on the Saturday I contacted him....
He checked the had the part (there are 2 main types?) and we were duly sorted by early afternoon.

But what else is sensible
I suggest we take spare wheel and light bulbs for granted so

1 Fanbelt seems an obvious choice
2 Aerosol tyre repair may help
3 Air compressor (12V) Not a spare part but..

And more...
I believe some carry a spare clutch ?
What about "internal spares such as waterpump (probably not)
 
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Clutch cable is the important thing especially if you have rhd on the continent

Channa
 
I carry a spare wheel, a small selection of tools, and a breakdown card, there are so many parts to a motor home, you would need to carry a spare motorhome just in case.
 
When I fitted my gas it bottles, I also put in a barbecue point on the outside, for my generator should I want it. This gave me an access to the gas system downwind of the regulator, I have another spare regulator to run the Generator off a separate cylinder so can also take my gasit cylinder an run the whole system that way if the regulator fitted fails. The most likely failure is oil from a gas fill up getting into the system blocking the pipes and regulator so I may be fitting a trap for that.
 
Is there such a thing as a 'fan belt' in recent years? I suspect a lot will have a serpentine belt which may not be very easy to change at the side of the road like an old fan/alternator belt used to be.

Useful thread this though for experienced motorhomes to list what they have found useful to carry
 
Breakdown recovery details for the front end, bugger all for the hab end. I spend my time in the uk so if I had an issue with anything in the hab end that I couldn’t fix using my limited tool kit which includes fuses bulbs etc I would head home or find a local repair place.
The days of yours truely crawling around under any of my vehicles are long gone, I would rather pay someone to do it.
 
a few simple tools, multimeter,basic socket set , spare wheel and good jack

and a tow rope. not for being towed so much as helped out of a soft patch, or bump started etc
 
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