The Motorhome is finally home



The motorhome, Boo, (formerly known, by her previous owners, as Patsy) has had the part fitted, has been MoT’d and has had a habitation check.  The external gas BBQ point is now fully functioning key wise and the main living area roof bug screen looks like it would actually keep bugs out.  The latter two were my pick ups from our look around.  There are, in this world, blue jobs and pink jobs and when it comes to vehicles I am strictly lightweight.  


Off we went to Bradford on Saturday to pick her up.   S got to drive it home (blue job - though I will need to get used to it).  Consideration was given to alternative options to collect ie so we could both travel back in it but an out of town industrial estate near Bradford is not exactly on a direct route for us.  Consequently we drove up and I drove back in the car and S had the treat of manoeuvring an 8m long motorhome pretty much straight onto a motorway.  Better him than me is all I can say.


Much of the rest of the weekend was spent getting acquainted.  A stage that may take some time.  A few things have been taken out somewhere between it being part exchanged and finding its way to the dealer we bought it from which have complicated things.  The bods who went for a spot of stripping out parts have no doubt benefited financially from the exercise to the detriment (both financial and convenience) of everyone else in the chain.   I do get they are in business to make money but…….   It certainly looks like that was the reason for the part needing replacing which has taken 4 months to sort and has eaten into the margin that the dealer we went through was probably hoping to get.  


Euroway Motorhomes, https://www.eurowayleisure.co.uk  who we got Boo from (and we do not believe responsible for asset stripping) had replaced the Turbo, amongst other things, to be on the safe side.  Again, such conversations are definitely ‘blue’.   However, we were aware that the previous owners did have the turbo go and take the engine out during their ownership so this being new ‘on the safe side’ suited us just fine.  We were aware of this from Facebook.  Not stalking honest!   S indulges in Facebook, I do not.  I have enough distractions in my life without adding another and I took the view a long time ago that Facebook did not need me.  Occasionally, I do feel I am missing out but not enough to sign up, especially since I let YouTube into my life.  A bigger thief of time it is difficult to imagine - at least since the TV Channels went up to 4.  


The former owner has been very generous with his time following S contacting him re a couple of questions, then a couple more and ….. you get the picture.  He does rather know the ropes re motorhomes (and Hymers) and has a motorhome Aire up in Sanday, Orkney.


https://59-degreesnorth.co.uk


We are very grateful for his help.  It has saved us a lot of time, effort and energy (possibly even discomfort/embarrassment re the loo).  We do now know how the loo functions.  Got a bit of a surprise to discover it doesn’t have a cassette.  It has a tank!  Some useful tips from him plus a translation App - the instructions are in German! .  We’re not big on German.  Being typically English we are not big on any languages, other than English, but German did not feature at any point in my education and I failed to pick up much, that I have remembered, from living there for a few months in the 1980s.


First trip out is scheduled to be Sandringham.  There are certain limitations on where we can go for a getting acquainted session due to the time of year and camp site closures.  We do, however, want a try out session or two before we head off skiing.  Rather want to be sure that the heating is working amongst other things though preliminary checks are positive.


Also want to work out what we still need to get for it.  Windscreen cover to name but one.   That is a cover for the windscreen, we have the windscreen insured as you rather need to with an A Class motorhome on the basis that a stone hitting it might well result in bankrupt otherwise.  The new tracker is due to be fitted next week and a new router is on order along with the specialist macerator friendly dissolvable toilet paper.  Tad more expensive than Lidl is all I can say!


More may follow……

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