THIS week I bought

By chance, I spotted a 'Cuisine' sticker in a shop. It was the last one. We already have a 'Bain' sticker in the same design (courtesy of the previous owner), so I thought it might be fun to have the 'Cuisine' one, too. It was only €1.99 so not the end of the world if I chose not to actually use it. Anyway, we're away right now so I thought, while I'm sat doing nothing, I'd put it up. An easy thing, you'd think. I cleaned the wall where it was going to go, opened the pack and took out the sticker, which has two two-sided sticky pads on it. Then came the problem. It's actually mounted on a stiff piece of cardboard!! No amount of slow teasing would release the pads from the card, without the top layer of card staying stuck to the pads :mad: So, I'm now going to have to wait until I get home, to buy some sticky pads :rolleyes:

Here's a pic of my 'Bain' sticker, so you know what I'm talking about :)


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JimmE said:
Ideal! I went for the Marcle Leisure manifold with gauge instead - allows equalising both sides and/or filling one independently of the other. Although, having now installed I can see how we could easily fit a compressor and controls in the future if needed.
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My 'van came with one of those on AirRide kit.
Bit puzzled - why would you want to fill one side independantly of the other?
 
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stuartholmes said:
My 'van came with one of those on AirRide kit.
Bit puzzled - why would you want to fill one side independantly of the other?
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They have to be independently isolated . If they were interconnected when you went round a left hand corner the right bag would vent all its air into the left bag and vice versa .
 
stuartholmes said:
My 'van came with one of those on AirRide kit.
Bit puzzled - why would you want to fill one side independantly of the other?
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I fitted 4 solenoid valves,2 pressure sensors and a dual digital gauge Two switches control up/ down independently..gives about 3 to 4" lift each side so a potential difference of 6 to 8 inches for levelling the van

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gus-lopez said:
They have to be independently isolated . If they were interconnected when you went round a left hand corner the right bag would vent all its air into the left bag and vice versa .
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In operation yes, but I thought the comment I was responding to was about filling them independantly.
When mine need topping up I open both taps to be sure they match - so fill them together not separately (& then close the taps for driving)..
 
oldiesontour said:
I fitted 4 solenoid valves,2 pressure sensors and a dual digital gauge Two switches control up/ down independently..gives about 3 to 4" lift each side so a potential difference of 6 to 8 inches for levelling the van
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Ah got it. Thanks. But isn't it a bit of a faff blowing them back to level for driving?

I mean, I'd love full air suspension with automatic self levelling etc but I thought the comments were about simpler air assisters. Or maybe I presumed wrongly because that's what I have with the guage thing & two valves in the pic.
 
oldiesontour said:
No operate both switches at the same time both sides fill to same pressure switches and gauge on dash)
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So they're permanently connected to air source when you run the engine? I have to plug mine into a battery powered tyre pump.

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stuartholmes said:
So they're permanently connected to air source when you run the engine? I have to plug mine into a battery powered tyre pump.
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Permanently connected to compressor that is switched through dash switches (when in up position) solenoid valves do the rest ( can be raised or lowered regardless of ignition on or off)
 
oldiesontour said:
Permanently connected to compressor that is switched through dash switches (when in up position) solenoid valves do the rest ( can be raised or lowered regardless of ignition on or off)
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Got it! Think we might put that on the long finger for sometime in future.
 
stuartholmes said:
My 'van came with one of those on AirRide kit.
Bit puzzled - why would you want to fill one side independantly of the other?
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To empty the grey waste?

Scares Mrs Emmit witless when I press the button and the whole van starts to tip.
 
Emmit said:
To empty the grey waste?

Scares Mrs Emmit witless when I press the button and the whole van starts to tip.
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Possible, but seems a bit of faff. Do you carry a blower-upper? Maybe I'm spoilt by having a goodenough fall on the tank so it always empties well enough on level..

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I bought some yellow adhesive outdoor vinyl. I'm going to cut out several different sized stars and use them to cover up the peeled paintwork on our Fiat Ducato bonnet. A short term measure to 'pretty' it up until it gets so bad it needs a total respray. If it looks ok, I may also buy some blue and grey to match the factory applied decals. I'll upload some pics once I done it, although it won't be for a while yet :)
 
stuartholmes said:
Possible, but seems a bit of faff. Do you carry a blower-upper? Maybe I'm spoilt by having a goodenough fall on the tank so it always empties well enough on level..
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No. We've got VB Full Air.
When arriving at an Aire or site, a press of the button and the van levels. It doesn't have plates to the ground.
In addition, the system can tip the van to the offside to fully drain the waste.

No faff at all..
 
Emmit said:
No. We've got VB Full Air.
When arriving at an Aire or site, a press of the button and the van levels. It doesn't have plates to the ground.
In addition, the system can tip the van to the offside to fully drain the waste.

No faff at all..
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Cheating!!
🙂

I was thinking about oldiesontour whose system I thought we'd established was air assisters not full air.
 
stuartholmes said:
Don't doubt I would too 😃 but they quoted me nearly 9k to have it fitted & you can buy a lot of ferry boat rides with that much!
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It's a wicked price and I wouldn't pay to put it on and I'm more than satisfied that it wasn't in the price I paid for the van.
 
A new cadac, the burner mechanism had gone on our old one after a bit of a mishap, unfortunately needed complete new part only £20 less than a new one, so off to go outdoors, also bought a small table which may prevent another mishap.
Fortunately it was only the corridor door of the awning which melted and a bit of the 'wont affect integrity' skirt will be pleased to explain to anyone i meet, our motorhomer neighbours didn't laugh till i did.
 
Jon Stewart said:
I thought they weren't required any more?

Law quietly dropped, was what I read on another thread.
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That's a very old post you were replying to. Lots has changed since 2012.

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Today I received a delivery of two new 400 x 8 wheels for my dinghy trailer, ready to fit with tyres and tubes and two new wheels with tyres and tubes for the launching trolley.
The trailer wheels were pretty rusty and the tyres were cracking. I was going to spend a couple of days removing tyres, wire brushing and spraying the wheels and then get tyres and tubes online and fit them myself. However, the best price I could find online for just the 4 tyres and tubes would've come to £126, whereas 4 brand new shiny wheels complete with tyres and tubes bought online and delivered ready to fit came to only £114. Just didn't make any sense not to buy all new and save myself a lot of graft and Swarfega. All fitted in 20 minutes and ready to go racing again.
Daft, innit.

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