So my recent trip to Annecy was a bit of a disaster with various motorhome related issues! What I'm trying to do is connect the dots, so when it goes back to the dealers on Wednesday, I might have some idea of whats going on.
1) The drive from Essex to Lake Annecy through Belgium and Luxemburg, avoiding motorways/tolls etc, was faultless. Everything worked as it should. Towing a trailer and smart car resulted in 27.5mpg and it pulled like a train going uphill.
2) The central locking ceased to work as we were setting up at Annecy.. The system beeped once and that was that! Then the alarm went off......for 2 hours, removed connections from siren but couldn't remove the siren, so covered in vet bed to try and dull the noise.
3) The hab door and passenger door wouldn't lock/unlock via the key, so we couldn't secure the van at all. I then removed the door actuators, which were both in varying degrees of mis-shaped, melted plastic.
4) The van battery died and was replaced with a like for like (ish) agm battery. Original was 90ah and i got 105ah. Charged for approx 72 hours on Ctek charger with gel setting.
5) Went to leave Annecy and the battery was completely dead, no dashboard lights, nothing. Reconnected charger and straight away the status lights confirmed charge in the battery, tried starting and it fired up first time. Filled up with derv and the fuel gauge didn't move, at all and stayed like it.
6) Drive from Annecy to Troyes was super smooth and the van pulled like a steam train.
7) Left Troyes and it stumbled to start. Filled up with derv and fuel gauge started working again. Troyes to Calais was Ok but not as smooth and seemed to struggle up hills, not as smooth a drive and occasionally having to change down.
This is the second time in a year that the door actuators have failed and the second time that the fuel gauge has played up.
Would I be wrong to think this could be earthing issue or certainly a contributing factor?
Apologies for the long post but things never seem to happen individually!
1) The drive from Essex to Lake Annecy through Belgium and Luxemburg, avoiding motorways/tolls etc, was faultless. Everything worked as it should. Towing a trailer and smart car resulted in 27.5mpg and it pulled like a train going uphill.
2) The central locking ceased to work as we were setting up at Annecy.. The system beeped once and that was that! Then the alarm went off......for 2 hours, removed connections from siren but couldn't remove the siren, so covered in vet bed to try and dull the noise.
3) The hab door and passenger door wouldn't lock/unlock via the key, so we couldn't secure the van at all. I then removed the door actuators, which were both in varying degrees of mis-shaped, melted plastic.
4) The van battery died and was replaced with a like for like (ish) agm battery. Original was 90ah and i got 105ah. Charged for approx 72 hours on Ctek charger with gel setting.
5) Went to leave Annecy and the battery was completely dead, no dashboard lights, nothing. Reconnected charger and straight away the status lights confirmed charge in the battery, tried starting and it fired up first time. Filled up with derv and the fuel gauge didn't move, at all and stayed like it.
6) Drive from Annecy to Troyes was super smooth and the van pulled like a steam train.
7) Left Troyes and it stumbled to start. Filled up with derv and fuel gauge started working again. Troyes to Calais was Ok but not as smooth and seemed to struggle up hills, not as smooth a drive and occasionally having to change down.
This is the second time in a year that the door actuators have failed and the second time that the fuel gauge has played up.
Would I be wrong to think this could be earthing issue or certainly a contributing factor?
Apologies for the long post but things never seem to happen individually!
