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Originally Posted by animalambulanceman
Hi there Bruce,
You could be the answer to my problems as a week ago yesterday I bought a 1992 LHD Euromobil 540 on a J5 chassis with a Peugeot 2.5 td engine that had no English appliance information with it-Everything was in German -and although I used to have a 1988 RHD Fiat Ducato Highwayman that had virtually the same interior fittings/appliances the water/heating system is different in the Peugeot.This camper has a Trauma heater/boiler with a hot water storage tank and combined blown air heating system but my other one had an Ascot style water heater with seperate Propex blown air heating.From playing about I've managed to get both hot air and hot water coming out but this was a bit hit and miss as I just turned dials and switched switches to achieve it and I could really do with some English instructions to follow so that I can properly control the temprature of the heat and hot water.Do you have an English Euramobil owners manual that I could get a copy of please Bruce?A complete English owners handbook would be perfect but if not just the heating/water heater manual would suffice-unless you happen to live fairly near to Kilburn(NW London) and I could pop round for a demonstration and make my own notes?Also I wonder if your camper has the leisure battery located under the drivers seat which is a pain to get at?I think that I may need to change this battery as it does not seem to be charging via the zig unit when the engine is running-I am going to try charging it using an ordinary battery charger and an extension lead from my home before removing the seat and trying to check the wiring as there are so many wires under there and it may just be the battery that's past it's working life.Do you have any suggestions please Bruce?Looking forward to hearing from you Michael-The Animal Ambulance Man
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Hya Michael - sorry for the enormous delay in replying but I don't get on here very often.
A bit difficult to pop round to your place....as you'll see from my profile we live on the Costa Blanca in Spain!
No, I'm afraid I didn't get any English manuals with my MH...just a demonstration of how things worked from the previous (English) owner when we bought it from him here in Spain last year.
But I have to say that everything is reasonably self-evident. What specifically is it that you are have trouble figuring out?
Yes, the leisure battery on mine is under the passenger seat, and would be a bugger to get at (you'd have to unbolt the seat from it's runners to get it out. As it happens, I've not needed to do that...it gets charged when the MH is running, and seems to hold it's charge with no problems to date.
One thing I have doen, as we spend most of our outings in the MH wild-camping (it's so easy to do so here in Spain) rather than on organised sites with elecric hookups, is I changed ALL internal light bulbs for LED ones. Ace! Cheap as chips off ebay, and generate no heat, and reduce the drain on the battery substantially.
Also, even on the rare occasions when we need to use the gas heater, we don't bother with the blown-air bit....seems a bit of a waste of time to me, as the heater kicks out enough warmth to fill the MH very quickly, and we save battery power by not using the fan thingy.
Generally, the quality of fittings on our Euramobil is extremely good! It's now 16 years old, but everything works fine, and the internal carpentry is still robust and functional.
Externally, someone had the brilliant foresight to get it waxoiled from new, thus there is stil no (I mean NO) rust on the cassis/cab bodywork whatsoever.
All I do is change oil/oil filter regularly, and drive it!
The biggest value extra, by miles, that I added was a set of spring assistors on top of the rear axle to solve the "soggy bottom" syndrome. Fantastic improvement, for only around £130 from Grayston Engineering (self fitted in about two hours).
Peugeot J5 based Motorhome.
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