September 2021

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We Would Love To Hear From You
Share your motorhome adventures, your campsite reviews, your motorhoming DIY tips and advice and even your gripes with MMM readers. Just email us at: mmm@warnersgroup.co.uk Join the debate twitter.com/MMM_Magazine Join the community facebook.com/moto
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Welcome
I wonder what all the newcomers to motorhomes and campervans who have flocked to this lifestyle will do in the coming months and years. I hope, when foreign hotel holidays become an option again, that they jump into their ‘van instead of the shuttle
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Ain’t No Table High Enough
In response to Hilary and Adrian Moore’s problem (Summer, p11), I have a possible solution or at least a partial solution. We, too, have a new Auto-Trail V-Line Sport and, for a completely different reason, decided to switch the offending cupboard do
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Blackbird Stops Play
We don’t know whether you would be interested in our recent resident nesting blackbird under the bonnet of our Carthago Malibu 640LE campervan. We had to cancel the service date as well as not use the ‘van for a month on finding the nest with three e
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Your Letters
Have your say by emailing or writing to us at: mmm@warnersgroup.co.uk Your Letters, MMM, Warners Group Publications, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH Join the debate twitter.com/MMM_Magazine Join the community facebook.com/motorhomemags With so ma
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Scrapheap Challenger
Having read the letter from Ian Pedley (August, p17), I wondered if the two guys who did the restoration would be interested in renovating this old ‘van. Now that really would be a challenge! ■
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A DAB hand
Having read the question from Keith Lamond (Why is my DAB signal intermittent?) in the Summer 2021 edition of MMM, I have also experienced the DAB intermittence on two previous motorhomes: an Elddis built on a Peugeot Boxer base vehicle and a Bessaca
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A Song For Our Motorhome
We have been wild camping in France for many years in our now-vintage Swift Bel-Air, which has been a fantastic home from home for us. Beside motorhoming, my other pastime is music. I write and record songs at home, mainly for my own pleasure. I was
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On The Road Again, Maybe!
Here is a pic of a 1980ish Thomson Glendale 1000 that I saw at our local garage. It’s been standing for over three years, but the owner wants it brought back into use. It still had pressure in the tyres; a squirt of easy start and some fresh fuel, a
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Your Favourite Photos
We had driven around the usual parts of Australia before, but in 2005 we decided to try to visit Mount Augustus in Western Australia, described as Uluru – but much bigger. The route was along the Kingsford Smith Mail Run, a trail used in the 1920s to
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Motor Muse Monthly
Those outdoor motorhome shows that Warners, which also publishes MMM, organises in the slightly warmer months don’t always have a lot to do with motorhomes, do they? Quite a lot of folk are there for the bits and pieces and, in truth, we always buy a
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Our Month
Helen Werin MMM Travel Editor (pictures: Robin Weaver) No, I’d not had one too many glasses of vino! I honestly thought that this rather cute light/hook-up was a quirky feature of our smashing campsite at Furze Hill House Farm in Lincolnshire  furze
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NEWS &EVENTS
French manufacturer, Pilote, is launching into the entry-level market with a new range called Joa Camp, which is aimed at a younger audience who have a ‘more modest budget’. The new line-up consists of five low-profile motorhomes, which range in leng
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Autumn Glory
There are at least four rivers called Stour in England. However, on this autumn trip, we were only interested in the one that rises in Wiltshire and spends most of its time meandering through Dorset to the sea in Christchurch Harbour. This River Stou
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Imagine the Ochils
‘Welcome to Clackmannanshire. More than you imagine’ reads the road sign as my partner, Heleyne, and I cross the border into Britain’s smallest historic county. I’m troubled. ‘More than you imagine’. Is that the same as ‘better than you think’ or, ev
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September Sojourn
By September, the summer crowds have gone and the weather is often favourable – not too hot, but with plenty of sunshine. So, we headed for north Burgundy and Haute-Marne. Our first stop after overnighting at Vimoutiers was the municipal site at Cour
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On The Road…
We were travelling south on a narrow winding road down the west coast of Portugal when we came across a dirt side road leading into thick forest. It could have been a service road or a fi rebreak, and looked navigable for a four-wheel drive vehicle b
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Go Wild On… EXMOOR
Exmoor, which sits astride Devon and Somerset, is one of the least visited of our national parks and that, in itself, is one of its attractions for me. When I think of Exmoor, I’m reminded of the dramatic coastline and deep, fissured valleys with tum
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Get Away For… THE WEEKEND!
My view as I sat on a picnic bench chopping vegetables for our evening meal with friends was over a patchwork of fields. Hens clucked and pecked around my feet, looking for titbits. I couldn’t have been more relaxed; but then this is one of my best-l
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Sites for... BREATHING SPACES
1 Tretio Caravan & Camping Park 2 Exe Valley Caravan Site 3 Shepherds Views Holidays 4 Serenity Camping 5 Oakwood Caravan & Camping Park 6 Greenacres Camping & Caravanning 7 Clippesby Hall 8 Talybont Farm Campsite 9 Woodland Springs Touring Park 10 H
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My Travels…
“I feel that, with most holidays, there are good and bad elements, particularly on longer breaks. Perhaps a journey may be tedious, the weather may not suit, something may go wrong with the motorhome, many things, really, though not all at once… But
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Your Campsite Reviews
For a very well-kept site with excellent facilities, just 15 minutes’ walk from the seafront and with a restaurant, bar and even entertainment if we wanted it, I couldn’t believe the price. It was less than a tenner a night with electric when we visi
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Win £50
When you have solved the crossword, the coloured squares highlight a motorhome-related anagram 7 Display (6) 8 Removable locks? (6) 9 Joint connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur (4) 10 Kerosene (8) 11 Christian religious sect in southern Fra
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Back To The Future
Price from: £50,229 Berths: 2 Travel seats: 2 Base vehicle: Ford Transit Length: 6.80m Gross weight: 3,500kg Arear lounge – seating at the back only, not with a second seating area up front – is, perhaps, the classic British layout. It’s the one that
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Our Motorhome
I always dread those immortal words spoken by my husband, “I have seen a car/bike/van!” It usually means that he wants to change something. This time it was swapping our motorhome, Boris, an Adria Sport coachbuilt, for a campervan. I was a little sur
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Doing A Bunk
Price from: £55,995 Berths: 6 Travel seats: 6 Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato Length: 7.32m Gross weight: 3,650kg Introduced in the summer of 2019 as a new entry-level range, Swift’s Edge coachbuilts received an additional layout for the 2021 season – the
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Tech Help!
Q Why is my water tank level indicator erratic? I have an Auto-Trail V-Line Sport, bought new in Nov 2018. It uses Sargent electrics. The problem is with the fresh water gauge, which has rarely worked properly since new. It sometimes does work, but w
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Knock, Knock, Knocking On The Shower Wall
There must be many, like us, who spend a great deal of time ensuring that their motorhome is as rattle free as possible when embarking on a long journey. There are always the usual culprits: the cutlery drawer, the hangers, but also we have found it
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My Project
During the last government- enforced motorhome enhancing period, I decided it was time to improve all-round visibility from the driving seat. Whilst our Benimar comes with a reversing camera and the reversing beepers that I fitted (p179, October 2018
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My Project
Recently, I had the two front seats in my Fiat Ducato-based Rapido motorhome reupholstered in leather. The seats were on the cusp of worn, and becoming uncomfortable. Being swivel seats in a front lounge format, the seats are used a lot more than jus
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Engine Remapping
...established a new van rental firm in 1997 and realised that Fiat had great products but some pretty awful dealers; quickly, Nick had to become an expert on the Ducato and has not looked back since Recently, two readers asked about the pros and con
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Tracking Systems
...is our resident technical guru. He enjoys nothing more than getting his hands dirty modifying and tweaking his Renault Trafic-based campervan Sadly, with the growth in demand for motorhomes and campervans has come an increase in thefts. It’s hard
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Buyingadvice
Finding the right campervan or motorhome (among the massive choice, but limited stock currently) is the most important part, and then you’ve got to find one at a price you can afford. Being able to negotiate can help in this respect and the skill com
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Classic Corner
I did promise more Auto-sleeper history, as we celebrate its sixtieth anniversary. Let’s deviate slightly from the well- known models and peek at a lesser- talked-about campervan, which left the Willersey factory over 20 years ago. There were several
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Vintage Vans
...lives and breathes classic motorhomes. He has just bought a 1990 Talbot Harmony for a great price and thinks he may keep this one for a bit... Getting gooey-eyed for a H-van replica Back in 2017 I mentioned the body kit produced by Italian company
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On The Market
• Year: 1998 • Mileage: 49k • Base vehicle: VW T4 • Berths: 2 Just look at the mileage on this classic Auto-Sleeper – under 50,000 from new on the Volkswagen 2.4-litre diesel engine! This two-berth coachbuilt is certainly at the top end price bracket
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My View...
Roy ‘Tin Cup’ McAvoy (Kevin Costner, who was nominated for a Golden Globe) is a golf pro, who owns a rundown driving range that he lives on in his Winnebago “with an outside hot tub” – a 1973 Indian he won playing golf. Roy has an amazing game when h
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Accessories
Everyone loves a good campsite barbecue, don’t they? It’s the perfect way to enjoy the outdoors (whether that’s basking in the late evening sun or huddling under a brolly while it lashes it down), and there’s not much fuss involved for the chef, eith
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Next month MMM
There are some cool touring features in the October issue. Climb Scotland’s best-known mountains, discover Norfolk, enjoy coastal capers and great scenery in North Yorkshire and Northumberland, be enchanted by Stamford and Oakham and be inspired to g
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My View...
“I started work for Martins Caravans in 1972. I still have my first wage packet that contained £14.72; £7 was for my mother for board and lodgings and the rest for myself! Martins Caravans was established in 1929. By 1972, you could buy a brand-new A

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