- Dec 2, 2024
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- Adria Vision i677sp
Hi everybody!
Roger and Anne here with our two Jack Russells, Buster & Jack. We've just joined the site as newbies to the world of motorhomes, but are eager to learn and look forward to any advice you may have.
We're both retired and are looking forward to spending quite a bit of our retirement looking around the UK and Europe in our recently acquired Adria Vision i677sp. We're concentrating on the UK at the moment but plan to start exploring Ireland and the Continent next year. Hopefully getting to chat about it all and compare notes with others on this site.
We acquired the 'Vision' in the Spring this year and have been doing several short trips while getting to know her. So far she's proved to be ideal. We've visited several sites and overnight stops in Gloucestershire, Cornwall, Mid and West Wales and are really enjoying both her and the new experience of motorhome-living. Buster & Jack love it too - lots of new walks to go on!
The Adria is an older girl, built in 2008 on a Renault Master chassis. She's in lovely nick for her age though and is powered by a 2.5 litre diesel engine with a six-speed manual box. Seems to have plenty of power and low-end torque and, having done just 55k miles since new, runs like a dream. Inside she's just what we were looking for - a nice fixed-bed layout with lots of useful features and space and everything you need for all- season touring and on and off-grid living.
Shortly after getting her we upgraded the satellite finder to a new Snipe Platinum unit and added a Smart Car with A-Frame to the outfit, which has proved to be a boon for getting around. We have also just bought a SunnCamp Swift 390 awning for next summer, although we haven't used it yet. The Vision came with a wind-out Thule awning, which we found great for our earlier summer breaks.
Next is to upgrade the habitation battery, replacing it with two 120ah VRLA AGM leisure batteries, and to look into what we need to do, if anything, by way of supplementing the two existing solar panels. Solar energy is a new world to me and I'm still trying to get my head around it. Finally, ready for next year, we're planning on changing the Smart Car for a small trailer so we can tow Anne's Fiat 500C behind us when we venture overseas.... which has been our aim from the start. Hopefully, with all that done, she'll be ready to take us on our great adventure!
Anyway - that's all for now..... I hope that gives you a flavour of what we're about and if there's any other 'Visionaries' out there, we'd love to hear from you.
bfn!
Roger & Anne
....and the two boys!
Roger and Anne here with our two Jack Russells, Buster & Jack. We've just joined the site as newbies to the world of motorhomes, but are eager to learn and look forward to any advice you may have.
We're both retired and are looking forward to spending quite a bit of our retirement looking around the UK and Europe in our recently acquired Adria Vision i677sp. We're concentrating on the UK at the moment but plan to start exploring Ireland and the Continent next year. Hopefully getting to chat about it all and compare notes with others on this site.
We acquired the 'Vision' in the Spring this year and have been doing several short trips while getting to know her. So far she's proved to be ideal. We've visited several sites and overnight stops in Gloucestershire, Cornwall, Mid and West Wales and are really enjoying both her and the new experience of motorhome-living. Buster & Jack love it too - lots of new walks to go on!
The Adria is an older girl, built in 2008 on a Renault Master chassis. She's in lovely nick for her age though and is powered by a 2.5 litre diesel engine with a six-speed manual box. Seems to have plenty of power and low-end torque and, having done just 55k miles since new, runs like a dream. Inside she's just what we were looking for - a nice fixed-bed layout with lots of useful features and space and everything you need for all- season touring and on and off-grid living.
Shortly after getting her we upgraded the satellite finder to a new Snipe Platinum unit and added a Smart Car with A-Frame to the outfit, which has proved to be a boon for getting around. We have also just bought a SunnCamp Swift 390 awning for next summer, although we haven't used it yet. The Vision came with a wind-out Thule awning, which we found great for our earlier summer breaks.
Next is to upgrade the habitation battery, replacing it with two 120ah VRLA AGM leisure batteries, and to look into what we need to do, if anything, by way of supplementing the two existing solar panels. Solar energy is a new world to me and I'm still trying to get my head around it. Finally, ready for next year, we're planning on changing the Smart Car for a small trailer so we can tow Anne's Fiat 500C behind us when we venture overseas.... which has been our aim from the start. Hopefully, with all that done, she'll be ready to take us on our great adventure!
Anyway - that's all for now..... I hope that gives you a flavour of what we're about and if there's any other 'Visionaries' out there, we'd love to hear from you.
bfn!
Roger & Anne
....and the two boys!
. Being an older Adria (2008), the Elctrobloc only has the option of switching between Lead/Acid or Gel. There's no Lithium option. Being a newbie, the idea of the wholesale replacement of the charging system was a step too far, so I just went for VRLA AGM for the time being. Being delivered this weekend! Gel is still an option for the future though but I'm not convinced that the benefit over VRLA AGM warrants the much higher price.
