How To Make Winter Motorhoming More Enjoyable

[Ian Bosman]

This thread fascinates me because we didn't do anything different (i.e. no special prep) when we travelled through Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania etc in 2007 Christmas. We were very often below zero and quite often around the -10 mark. Once we were -14 (that was our coldest). I think we simply used up a bit more gas.
Maybe it depends on the van, our's is a P-reg Euramobil with nothing exposed (water, waste, batteries and stuff is in the heated underfloor cavity).
I recall the biggest challenge was starting the vehicle in Bulgaria at the Borovets ski resort when it was pretty cold. The engine ran pretty rough for about 30secs when it finally started. I had about three attempts to start it. We used snow chains at least three times that I recall.
Naive or stupid?
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You had a good make for winterisation as all EuraMobil are built with two floors. Reason for buying ours. The diesel starting issue may be you forgot to wait for the glow plugs to finish warming up. Easily done as you fail to look at the symbol. Diesels will eventually start without any but run, as yours, very rough until warmed up.