Why oh why? (1 Viewer)

[Dare_Devil_Dennis]

How long have they been designing motorhomes and caravans? Do the designers never use their designs and see their shortcomings?

Go to a locker to put something inside. Of course, you have that something in your hand, so why does it always take two hands to open the locker? Press one button (or pull n one latch) and as soon as you do the same to the second, the first one re-latches and you are faced with putting down what is in your hand / arms

Small and annoying detail, (not so when it is raining), but c'mon, should not be hard to think through.

I'm sure I must be the only sad person that this winds up.
(Just felt like a rant)

 

[Boringfrog]

I'm sure I must be the only sad person that this winds up.
(Just felt like a rant)

Correct, you are.......

 

[chaser]

Correct, you are.......

Ours are just pull and open, simples, why would there be anything different

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[Deleted member 29692]

Ours only need one hand to open.

 

[Badknee]

Our cassette hatch has two buttons, it also winds me up a tad. All the others only have one latch thankfully.

 

[Minxy]

Ah, I see you haven't got the most universally desired but very rare motorhome accessory ...
























a pet octopus!

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[tonyidle]

Sticking plasters: why do 'they' think everyone has a nurse on hand to unpack and apply them? With one hand dripping blood it's almost impossible to tear one from its friends, remove the outer cover, remove the inner cover, and at the same time reassure ones cowering wife that it's just a scratch.

 

[Silver-Fox]

Sticking plasters: why do 'they' think everyone has a nurse on hand to unpack and apply them? With one hand dripping blood it's almost impossible to tear one from its friends, remove the outer cover, remove the inner cover, and at the same time reassure ones cowering wife that it's just a scratch.

Thats why i use electrical tape its kind of manly

 

[Minxy]

Thats why i use electrical tape its kind of manly

... just don't mix it up with gaffer tape!

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[barsteward]

How long have they been designing motorhomes and caravans? Do the designers never use their designs and see their shortcomings?

Go to a locker to put something inside. Of course, you have that something in your hand, so why does it always take two hands to open the locker? Press one button (or pull n one latch) and as soon as you do the same to the second, the first one re-latches and you are faced with putting down what is in your hand / arms

Small and annoying detail, (not so when it is raining), but c'mon, should not be hard to think through.

I'm sure I must be the only sad person that this winds up.
(Just felt like a rant)

Should'a bought a Swift

 

[Silver-Fox]

... just don't mix it up with gaffer tape!

@Minxy Girl believe it or not if no tape available i have used mitre mate (two part super glue) before now.

It stings a bit but does the job cant get blood on nice oak timber doors etc

 

[pappajohn]

@Minxy Girl believe it or not if no tape available i have used mitre mate (two part super glue) before now.

It stings a bit but does the job cant get blood on nice oak timber doors etc

My chest was glued back together after heart surgery, as was my leg wound where the donor vein was harvested.
Just as well, as I don't like needles.

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[GWAYGWAY]

Thats why i use electrical tape its kind of manly

Gaffer for real men. sellotape If you want to see how it is getting on underneath.

As for designers and equipment. I spent a fortune and there is NO BLOODY WASTE BIN in it, and nowhere to put one except on the door. Hymer make one to go on there, it is tiny and peculiar shape so useless. AND it cost £85 + vat.
Plastic thing bought for £4 and stuck on the bathroom wall but not a good place and rather small.

 

[denisejoe]

Only have doors so can't complain

Joe

 

[movan]

I just use my nose ....

...waiting for all the bigger men to come on now

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[Silver-Fox]

I just use my nose ....

...waiting for all the bigger men to come on now

For what

 

[movan]

For what

I would have liked a 'don't be cheeky' button there.

 

[Silver-Fox]

@GWAYGWAY gaffer tapes no good for me I have sausage fingers so gaffer tape won't allow them to bend so I can hold my tools

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[GWAYGWAY]

Make it into narrower strips and it bends then.

 

[Stealaway]

Funnily enough I spotted a uplifting door last week with gas struts fitted. My Burstner has two button catches and a bonnet like stay to keep it open.
So I've just bought 2 of these, hopefully I'll only need to press the button catches and the door will lift up just like magic.

 

[cruiser]

I only need one hand. To open mine. Or get the wife. Or @movan and her nose.

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[ambulancekidd]

I just use my nose ....

...waiting for all the bigger men to come on now

Personally I've never used sticking plasters, if its trivial enough to only require a sticking plaster then it doesn't need any kind of dressing, wash it dab it dry & let the air heal it naturally, that's why ambulances don't carry sticking plasters & why paramedics laugh when people chip up on a saturday night looking for them. One point to note there though is that its usually woman who chip up asking for plasters as their heels are cut to blazes with the things that their calling shoes!! That might just pop the sticking plaster question back to the girls side of the arguement lol, but then the girls would open the aforementioned plasters with one hand & apply them.

 

[Silver-Fox]

Make it into narrower strips and it bends then.

I may of bled to death by then

 

[tonyidle]

Personally I've never used sticking plasters, if its trivial enough to only require a sticking plaster then it doesn't need any kind of dressing, wash it dab it dry & let the air heal it naturally, that's why ambulances don't carry sticking plasters & why paramedics laugh when people chip up on a saturday night looking for them. One point to note there though is that its usually woman who chip up asking for plasters as their heels are cut to blazes with the things that their calling shoes!! That might just pop the sticking plaster question back to the girls side of the arguement lol, but then the girls would open the aforementioned plasters with one hand & apply them.

My use of (whatever tape is nearest) sticking plasters isn't to help healing: it is to stop dripping. As you say uncovered is best. On the subject raised by the OP there are numerous irritations built in to motorhomes (and caravans) : why do overhead lockers only open to forehead bruising height; why do sinks not slope towards the plug hole by more than the absolute minimum; why do ovens rattle?

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[ambulancekidd]

My use of (whatever tape is nearest) sticking plasters isn't to help healing: it is to stop dripping. As you say uncovered is best. On the subject raised by the OP there are numerous irritations built in to motorhomes (and caravans) : why do overhead lockers only open to forehead bruising height; why do sinks not slope towards the plug hole by more than the absolute minimum; why do ovens rattle?

One further question to add to the OP is why are the beds in motorhomes only made for oompaloompahs commonly known as midgets or munchkins? Any time I've questioned this on the forum the standard answers come back "oh there's only so much space" but that arguement simply doesn't hold water. I don't give a toss about limited space, the big issue for me is that I don't fit into the average motorhome bed & I'm only 6ft 2in. Have a look at the height of the kids strolling out of any secondary school nowadays & you'll get a crick in your neck whilst looking up. I have a nephew at 6ft 7in & in his social circles that's looked upon as normal. If moho designers don't waken up to this worsening issue they'll end up out of the game as the moho industry will die a slow agonising death. These up & coming (please excuse the pun) potential customers of moho's aren't going to pay £50k £60k or £70k for a machine that they've to fold up like a penknife simply to go to bed in, it's bloody uncomfortable for a start so why would you take up motorhoming if their first experience is one of extreme discomfort? So that potential customer drifts off to a hotel room on the Costa Del Plonk & never returns. Wake up motorhome designers before you end up losing all of your potential customer base. The industry is quite buoyant just now & I for one would like to see that continue, so I don't need a wonderful big walk in wardrobe, I want a wonderful big sleep in bed cos I go away to chill out & not to keep a chiropractor in business. A little person fits in a big bed but big people don't fit in a small bed.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

I am 5' 6" and do not fit the single bed on the left side so I go to the drop down bed and get as much as I like to move about, SHE stays in the single on the right which is longer. I get more sleep without listening to the moaning about being restless.

 

[BusyBuilder]

Our Hymer has side opening doors (like kitchen at home) I thought they were all like that ?

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[GWAYGWAY]

No, the new ones go up and when there jam the loo door open as well.

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

Thats why i use electrical tape its kind of manly

Great stuff.......after one of our horses injured herself and exposed both knee capsules I managed to perfect the art of dressing her knees and it staying on in the field. Electrical tape was an important part of it.
SO if any of you need a dressing on a sore knee I can sort it for you......

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

@GWAYGWAY gaffer tapes no good for me I have sausage fingers so gaffer tape won't allow them to bend so I can hold my tools

No use if you can't hold yer tool...................

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