Road trip south, Showtime and CBD
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It was a busy couple of months over winter for us, with a couple of trips around the country catching up with RV industry friends. Early July saw us driving to Christchurch for the NZMCA Motorhome Caravan and Leisure show. This trip we elected to go via Taranaki on our trek to Wellington to get the Interislander ferry. We woke in the morning in Urenui to find a puddle of water under the back of the motorhome, and our freshly filled water tank was empty. This caused some angst for an hour or so. A phone call to the Nationwide RV service centre in New Plymouth saw us driving in to get the service team to check out the problem.
It only took half an hour to diagnose the problem. No it wasn’t a broken pump or a leaking hose, or any of the dramatic possibilities we had been envisaging; knowing we were away for a week or two in the motorhome, having water issues as well as fridge issues would be super vexing.
I am sure many readers will recognise the problem and the lesson learnt – for the second time in our case, as we had had the same occurrence with our Webasto hot water system. Yes, it was a frost in Urenui that night, so the frost protection system kicked in, essentially emptying the hot water system and water pipes to prevent possible freezing, which would potentially cause a lot of damage. For the Webasto, a click of the switch inside reset the system, but for
