Doc goes to Turkiye

following your thread is going to be a real treat for those of us stuck at home..

apologies for the following comment, but can’t stand stale eggs..

Minxy said:
We have 4 frying pans in our MH! :giggle: 1 small one for doing eggs (prevents the whites spreading too much
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the white spreads because they’re old eggs and not fresh, can’t beat a decent egg..
 
Lenny HB said:
The slip roads on the older Autobhans that were built in the 30's are fun. When you turn off a dead straight quite short slip road with a Sharp right angle bend at end & you find yourself nearly doing an emergency stop to get round the bend.
Built when they were built cars weren't as fast but they didn't have any brakes either.
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You want to try it on a Harley!!!
Scraping the footboards (you can’t lean it any further) round the bend and nearly kissing the Armco!!
Nigh on 💩 myself the first few times😁😁
 
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Lenny HB said:
The slip roads on the older Autobhans that were built in the 30's are fun. When you turn off a dead straight quite short slip road with a Sharp right angle bend at end & you find yourself nearly doing an emergency stop to get round the bend.
Built when they were built cars weren't as fast but they didn't have any brakes either.
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Or n&b flairs with iffy brakes:giggle:
 
Whom do you have your insurance with?
Do they cover Turkey or you buy local insurance as for Morocco?

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I never fail to find snow on a trip lol but I didn't think I'd get it this early .. but i am up a very steep mountain near obertaurn, its bloody freezing and coming up at 15mph in 3rd gear was no fun ... I get lots of air escape noises so I'm sure there is something still not right with doc ....I just can't believe its that underpowered.....and I had the weird brake thing again this morning when I left holzkirchen ....solid pedal...lasts a few minutes then it's gone and its back to a not very good softish pedal ...I'm just confused to hell with it because dodgy servo wouldn't cause soft brakes only hard so why am I getting both intermittently, would be great if all roads were just flat.
 
Brakes went again today twice ....coming down the mountain and then just as I was turning in to this parking spot in friesach where I've stopped for the night as I'm fed up driving lol. This route is very beautiful but you can't enjoy it in this van ....I'm going right off the bloody thing.


Slow as Fiddlesticks up the hills and freewheeling like a bloody rocket down the hills , doesn't matter what gear you put it in you still have to constantly brake and then the brakes either fade or go rock hard . Meanwhile the engine is revving its head off if anything below 5th gear.

I wish I could find someone else with the same van , same engine etc and see what they say about theirs. When going up hills all I can hear is loud sucking air from engine bay , I also get air noises when I press the brake pedal . It doesn't seem right to me at all .

I'm seriously contemplating going home
 
dryad said:
apologies for the following comment, but can’t stand stale eggs..

the white spreads because they’re old eggs and not fresh, can’t beat a decent egg..
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We don't eat eggs that often so can't help having some eggs that are a bit older however if we do get fresh larger ones they still spread a bit due to their size so the smaller pan keeps them contained and we end up with a thicker white and a nice plump yolk, also means they don't take up too much space on the plate thus allowing more stuff to be crammed on it! :giggle:
 
Barclaybasher said:
Another reason to stay (or downplate to) 3500kg

I know you can't but maybe that's why so many in Europe do.

My vignettes for Austria, Slovenia and Croatia were done online (y)
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Aye but I'd struggle to have a van under 3500kg
I like the comfort of this van , but the sluggishness annoys me at times . And these flipping brakes are just driving me insane.

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And as you can see from this I'm not the only one with iveco brake issues .. and same things get suggested , master cylinder etc but it doesn't fix the bloody thing. I freed off the sliders a few months back but wondering if I've the same issue again . Moby had rubbish brakes too

Spongy brakes - Iveco Daily Forums https://share.google/fNAMoP3ZwYEywbEEW
 
Tam,you seem to have gone from being on an “up” to being rather down…….It may help to put things into perspective. You were aware of the potential problems with the brakes because you weren’t sure your previous repairs were permanent. You know that in an older van,problems are more likely to arise. You are very experienced and very competent at repairing just about everything on the van,so now you’ve got to try it again. It is well within your capabilities but will take time. Meantime you may need to change your route in order to avoid the steepest roads,you’ll still see lots of interesting places,I’m sure.
Anyway,keep your chin up,and get on with it,it could be a hundred times worse! :giggle:
 
Northernraider said:
And as you can see from this I'm not the only one with iveco brake issues .. and same things get suggested , master cylinder etc but it doesn't fix the bloody thing. I freed off the sliders a few months back but wondering if I've the same issue again . Moby had rubbish brakes too

Spongy brakes - Iveco Daily Forums https://share.google/fNAMoP3ZwYEywbEEW
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On there they’re also saying some sprinters and transits have the same problem.
Ours is a 2005 Iveco 3 litre 166bhp and doesn’t have any issues.
Our 6 tonne Hymer with 156bhp was terrible on anything but downhill which is the reason we got shut, yours is a 6 tonne with only 145bhp so it’s not going to be quick, far from it, especially as you’ve been going up steep mountain roads. Ours was shocking, embarrassing on uphill.
This one, 4,9 tonne, flies up steep hills in 6th gear it’s like lightening.
Not sure about the brakes though on yours it’s got to be something as it wasnt like that from new surely but even from new your van will have been sluggish on uphill roads.
The first generation iveco 3 litre was a massive improvement power wise which is why I looked for years before I found one in less than 6.5 metres, probably not as reliable though as the previous 2.8.
 
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Northernraider said:
And as you can see from this I'm not the only one with iveco brake issues .. and same things get suggested , master cylinder etc but it doesn't fix the bloody thing. I freed off the sliders a few months back but wondering if I've the same issue again . Moby had rubbish brakes too

Spongy brakes - Iveco Daily Forums https://share.google/fNAMoP3ZwYEywbEEW
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Shame the thread never really got to the bottom of the issue
 
Northernraider said:
Brakes went again today twice ....coming down the mountain and then just as I was turning in to this parking spot in friesach where I've stopped for the night as I'm fed up driving lol. This route is very beautiful but you can't enjoy it in this van ....I'm going right off the bloody thing.


Slow as Fiddlesticks up the hills and freewheeling like a bloody rocket down the hills , doesn't matter what gear you put it in you still have to constantly brake and then the brakes either fade or go rock hard . Meanwhile the engine is revving its head off if anything below 5th gear.

I wish I could find someone else with the same van , same engine etc and see what they say about theirs. When going up hills all I can hear is loud sucking air from engine bay , I also get air noises when I press the brake pedal . It doesn't seem right to me at all .

I'm seriously contemplating going home
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Don’t take this the wrong way Tam, but you can only tempt fate for so long, one of these days you get your self killed and/or some other innocent members of the public.
We all know that you care, have done so many things to try to solve it, however it is not solved, and people worry about you and the dogs and about other people, we all love your travels and your honesty and therefore a lot of people care about you.
Would it be me then either I would not travel until it got fixed, and for that to happen you need to find an outright specialist who has dealt with these vehicles an awful lot and knows where to look for, as you have tried so many things already, without finding the cause, finding this outright specialist will not be easy but through an for example owners forum it might be possible , no main iveco dealership as they will just replace parts until they get lucky, you need a backstreet iveco specialist who has tons of experience of your type of vehicle, I would think that the best place to find someone like that would be Germany, as it is a vast country , with an enormous amount of MH specialist, if you need someone to translate, my German is pretty good so if you get stuck I would help with that.
Failing to be able to repair it I would sell it and get something else, as it obviously really takes out the pleasure from your motor homing adventures.
I hope you find a solution and get your Mojo back👍

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Northernraider Tam do you talk to JockandRita I think he has an old style mechanic (ie someone who knows 1 end of a van to other without a laptop telling him) that is Iveco trained he might be able to point you in a better direction than people you have spoken to so far
 
In Slovenia we parked in the centre of Ljubljana for the night, got the bus in and the ticket inspector got on !
The dogs needed to be muzzled!
We walked back!
 
Dutch 68 said:
Don’t take this the wrong way Tam, but you can only tempt fate for so long, one of these days you get your self killed and/or some other innocent members of the public.
We all know that you care, have done so many things to try to solve it, however it is not solved, and people worry about you and the dogs and about other people, we all love your travels and your honesty and therefore a lot of people care about you.
Would it be me then either I would not travel until it got fixed, and for that to happen you need to find an outright specialist who has dealt with these vehicles an awful lot and knows where to look for, as you have tried so many things already, without finding the cause, finding this outright specialist will not be easy but through an for example owners forum it might be possible , no main iveco dealership as they will just replace parts until they get lucky, you need a backstreet iveco specialist who has tons of experience of your type of vehicle, I would think that the best place to find someone like that would be Germany, as it is a vast country , with an enormous amount of MH specialist, if you need someone to translate, my German is pretty good so if you get stuck I would help with that.
Failing to be able to repair it I would sell it and get something else, as it obviously really takes out the pleasure from your motor homing adventures.
I hope you find a solution and get your Mojo back👍
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Uneccessary (n)
 
Also found few spots that the community had provided, electric, dump point and water all free, except from the electric.

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This is probably going to show up my complete lack of any mechanical knowledge but could you/someone install/design a new break system?
 
Northernraider said:
After Nancy I had lunch and then headed to strasbourg ...I wanted to see little France and I headed for a park4night parkup , had to go through loads of little villages, up steep mountain roads , down steep mountain roads with my usual uninspiring brakes ....and then sit in miles and miles of traffic to get in to strasbourg only to discover the park4night spot was impossible.....I'm then in a dead end street trying to do a u turn ...hazards on etc and this silly cow wearing full Muslim gear on a push bike with trailer ran in to the back of my bleedin camper ... I couldn't believe it I mean its a huge white box , add to that I had lights flashing etc but still she managed it and she had the cheek to be shouting and screaming at me and pointing to her bent trailer ...she's got the phone out and rabbiting in to that flapping her arms about .. I decided I wasn't having none of that so just got back in van and drove off ...over the bridge in to Germany... stuff strasbourg its ridiculously busy.

Come over the bridge in to kehl and traffic still chaos because there's about 50/60 police , around 15 vehicles and they are stopping and checking every single vehicle entering from France... including the trams .

He only asked if I was only person in the van and where I was going to which I just said I've no idea at the minute....he seemed happy with that and off I went , about 100 yards anyway and in to a big carpark just off the main road. It's not pretty but a few other motorhomes here and it will for tonight .
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We were really surprised to be stopped at the border entering Poland from Lithuania. In fact, we were stopped twice, a few miles apart, and our documents checked. At the second stop, we even had to give our parents first names, which they checked on their system. All very friendly, all the same. There were also police at the border when we entered Germany from Poland, although we were not stopped. Back to the bad old days!
 
Podney said:
Tam,you seem to have gone from being on an “up” to being rather down…….It may help to put things into perspective. You were aware of the potential problems with the brakes because you weren’t sure your previous repairs were permanent. You know that in an older van,problems are more likely to arise. You are very experienced and very competent at repairing just about everything on the van,so now you’ve got to try it again. It is well within your capabilities but will take time. Meantime you may need to change your route in order to avoid the steepest roads,you’ll still see lots of interesting places,I’m sure.
Anyway,keep your chin up,and get on with it,it could be a hundred times worse! :giggle:
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I'm not sure I was on an up this time to be honest ....I find each year I seem to be less and less enthusiastic, not entirely sure why that is , possibly because I no longer view it as a holiday but just a way of life and one that's becoming increasingly more difficult to do.

But who knows....I just get down when I'm constantly worried about stuff.

Overall I love this van , there's things that do annoy me with it and mostly I can live with those but I feel I can never relax with the thing , everytime I think I may have solved the issue it comes back or different. Its now to date had 5 different mechanics at it and passed an mot and still I've issues with the brakes , fluid has been completely changed twice , master cylinder has been changed ( didn't think it was that) , brake vacuum pump changed ( did think it could be that ) , calipers have been checked a few times , sliders ( common fault ) greased 3 times now but are bad for sticking . I don't understand how it can have 2 completely opposite symptoms and as such makes diagnosing the issue difficult.. .. hard pedal every mechanic will say vacuum issue ... soft pedal hydraulic issue , yet I seem to have both . And from the iveco forum I'm not the only one who finds the spongy pedal a thing , and apparently the air escape noise is normal too.

I'm just no further forward with it
 
Northernraider said:
What a mission it is getting places these days ...just been looking at Slovenia and seems wildcamping is illegal there too .. so it'll either be one night in a supermarket carpark on route or I'll be crossing it in one day in to Croatia..

Probably spend tomorrow night near austrian/Slovenia border.
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There are plenty of very recent reviews on Park4Night places in Slovenia that say they stayed with no problem. I just checked 6 random places.

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