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out and about with Synthia & Tin Hut

The Caravan + Contents are @1170Kg

Which is 130Kg below Citroen's stated limit of 1300Kg .

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I can , and sometimes do go up to 1270Kg , but I have 30+ years experience of being frightened witless by rogue cross winds ... :shock:

Posted in wrong section - sorry - should be in towing weight question - Mods to the rescue ???
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Is that caravan made of cardboard or magnesium?
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DickieG wrote:Is that caravan made of cardboard or magnesium?
Cheeky Bugger - It's a Lunar !

Cardboard is their Carbon - Fibre.

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Dippy wrote:Cheeky Bugger - It's a Lunar !
I don't noe niffink abart dem van fings, literally! Lunar what?

It just surprised me how large it is yet still within the weight limit IIRC for my estate.
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Nice outfit that Dippy.
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lexi wrote:Nice outfit that Dippy.
Thank you Zir . Such praise fer a meer Sasenach ! :)

Yep, suits us fine - it has required a substantial amount of preventataive maintainance to keep it in this condition .
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DickieG wrote:
Dippy wrote:Cheeky Bugger - It's a Lunar !
I don't noe niffink abart dem van fings, literally! Lunar what?

It just surprised me how large it is yet still within the weight limit IIRC for my estate.
Lunar Solar 505 , 505 Centimetres being the appx' internal floor lenghth.

Any of your listed here vehicles would lope along with it . no worries .

If the " experts " are listened to , my Syn is rubbish with only 90 ish ponies.

But, a Van / Mpv makes a big hole in the air and you tend not to suffer the " who tossed the parachute out ? " effect common to lower roofed vehicles when driving into wind .

e.g - this months Caravan Club mag ' rates a 138 ponies HDI engine as " average" in pulling power - Oh really !

It's not that long since my 406 2.1 XUD Estate won towcar of the year competition , and my BX 1.7 DTR Estate before it .

Journo's live in an Effluent Society :evil:
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Dippy wrote:Journo's live in an Effluent Society :evil:
I think they're as guilty as most people driving new car's they don't pay for, I see it regularly at work myself.

Despite driving LGV's (artic's) I think I've only once briefly driven a car towing a caravan, is your caravan light in weight as it looks very large to me being a non caravanner.
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The simplistic reply is - Yes. Lunars of this era were generally regarded as lightweight vans'

In reality , caravan construction is extremely " variable " being polite.
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e.g - this months Caravan Club mag ' rates a 138 ponies HDI engine as " average" in pulling power - Oh really !
Sounds like some spoiled little barstewards are writing these articles.!!

I towed the old 16ft Sprite Major around with a 75BHP Rover 2000 P6 :shock: . I went on to the 3.5 v8 Rover and Triumph 2.5pi after that.............but boy did you pay the fuel when towing :lol: :lol:
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The only good caravan is a scrapped one ! :P
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The only good caravan is a scrapped one !

There is always one !!! :P

I have a tiny caravan compared to dippys van, An Avondale 390 but it gives us cheap and fun holidays !
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8-)
1999 Xantia exclusive 110BHP !! Now RIP !!
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And endless misery for the rest of us :P Yes, it's true, I hate them with a vengence :P
Now using '00 Xantia LX HDI, pov spec :(
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Post by addo »

So you would retitle the thread "Weighing In is Believing"?
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