What pushes you to the edge? (1 Viewer)

[SmithsInFrance]

We love our MH and have had some amazing trips, but there are a few triggers that make us - momentarily! - feel like just selling up and never wanting to see it again. With age and experience we are getting better at coping now (haha) but these are the things that set us off:

• When Eric the satnav decides to take us up some really narrow one way street in a busy town (and we've set it for a 4 axle, 10 ton truck when we are really we are only 3.5T twin axle!). Also when he doesn't know where he's going and suddenly recalculates, or takes you somewhere and then says do a u-turn. Eric and I have a very love-hate relationship...
• When the fridge starts playing up on gas, especially when its 30+ degrees outside, the freezer is full and you are going out for the day and don't know what you will come back to
• Roundabouts. Why spoil a nice straight bit of road?

So what about you?

 

[Dorwyn]

Roundabouts. Why spoil a nice straight bit of road?

So French drivers can take a pop at you

 

[pappajohn]

Is Eric's surname Tomtom by any chance.

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[JFD]

Re: The fridge playing up on gas. We had this problem a year or so ago whilst touring in Italy, and managed to fix it temporarily by removing the grills on the fridge vents. That seemed to allow the fridge to work in 36 degree heat!
Longer term, a pair of computer fans installed in the upper vent, as explained in several posts in these forums, will give you a switched/automatic resolution!!

 

[Larrynwin]

Due to unplanned unpredictable little hitches unable to use our pride and joy enough, it rattles me to see it in the drive when we could be somewhere different.

 

[SmithsInFrance]

Is Eric's surname Tomtom by any chance.

No, he's a Pioneer with radio etc that came with the MH. But I think he may have gone to the same school...

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[Chris]

Just the French

 

[138go]

The thing that gets me is when you get a call from home about something serious that you can do nothing about.

The other thing is when one of you is ill and far away from home.

 

[TUCANO]

I just want to get in the van and drive away no hassle, there is almost always something that goes wrong but when it is good it is GOOD.
Very much a love/hate relationship

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[Burgo]

What pushes you to the edge?
1) People who pronounce the word 'project' as 'pro' 'ject'. You project projectiles; you work on projects.
2) Hybrid car drivers who creep up behind you in silence while you're walking down the road with the dogs and then get snarky because you didn't get out of their way. Like that French twat who lives down the road.
3) Aires / sites that don't make it clear if the khazi is 'sin' or 'con' papel. Especially ones that are with paper, but the paper is in oneof those special dispensers and, just when it's all over apart from the shouting, you discover the end is jammed and you can't get anymore paper out. Thank you, Malaga Beach, you owe me...

 

[dipsie]

We replaced our standard fit Fiat radio/rev camera/sat as it was a bit slow when relying on the sat nag for directions. It would tell us to turn as you actually passed a junction or 100 mtrs past and then suggest turn around or take the next turn obviously to get back on track, we tried that a couple of times and stupid thing wanted to go down a farm track that possibly was too narrow or rough to contemplate.
We replaced it with a Pioneer set up, we could enter size, height and weight. This set up has worked well and was worth the cost.

BernieT

 

[PeteH]

What pushes you to the edge?

Political Correctness In any form!.

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[RubyOptics]

Watching too many you-tube videos of brand new vans....drooling over them......then remembering I have a 15k budget!!!!

 

[Kev and Carolyn]

People going on about "Green" and its issues!

Kev

 

[rangi]

Bastards in their flash sports cars that try to stop me overtaking , on the brow of a hill, with a blind bend ahead, on double Whites!!!

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[Kev and Carolyn]

Bastards in their flash sports cars that try to stop me overtaking , on the brow of a hill, with a blind bend ahead, on double Whites!!!

I may have been that flash bastard? ........In my dreams!

Kev

 

[Off da Grid]

Balls being bounced on the site road and hitting my van or whist in France my breakfast table, I don’t speak Dutch but they got the message.
There were plenty of grass pitches and a play area

 

[Podney]

The pillocks who pull out from a side road as you approach,then dawdle along at 40mph holding you up for the next 20 miles.

Motorhomers that have paid £50k plus for their van but use it only twice a year. The same people who drive 20 miles to buy diesel 1p a litre cheaper than round the corner.

People who type “your”,when it should be “you’re”.

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[Enword]

Folk who set out for breakfast at 6 in the morning but drive that slow they'll be lucky to get there for afternoon Tea

 

[DBK]

My earliest camping trips into Europe (Dad was driving!) didn't involve satnavs or fridges. It is possible to survive without them.

Roundabouts are to help you get your bearings.

 

[PeteH]

Balls being bounced on the site road and hitting my van or whist in France my breakfast table, I don’t speak Dutch but they got the message.
There were plenty of grass pitches and a play area

The reply?. Involving "Anglo Saxon" Epithets?.

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[Off da Grid]

No I was actually very polite according to the wife no blue words, I think the older French couple and their young grandkids opposite who were a joy to watch playing quietly, were pleased too.
We noticed their annoyance, the universal body language shows no boundaries, the Dutch left the next day.

 

[Wildbill]

Folks who forget that motorhoming is camping Worry abut friges and thing like gas
bill

 

[abforfun]

Wife

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[nicholsong]

Administration when trying to re-register a MH in another country.

 

[EuroTrotters]

UK drivers

 

[PeteH]

Administration when trying to re-register a MH in another country.

Or in my case "All Administration, Almost anywhere else". and Especially the overwhelming number of "suits" verses the lack of front line staff in the NHS!.

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[63720]

UK drivers

Middle lane hoggers.

 

[tonyidle]

The thing that gets me is when you get a call from home about something serious that you can do nothing about.

When my kids were at home my instruction was no mention of anything other than house burned down, serious hospitalisation, or a family death .

 

[Captain Pants]

Vans that park up near you, seem like normal, nice enough people.... then out come the flag poles and flashing LEDs!

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