Saturday 29th February
Back on the 20th February, JW and I had a problem with the habitation door not opening from the inside. Subsequently, I can’t remember which day, but the door became well stuck and, in my endeavours to open the door from the outside, the external handle snapped off in my hand leaving the attractive look below!
This means, every time I go out, to get back in I have to climb in the passenger door and open the habitation door from the inside. Not the end of the world, but a pain.
I asked the ‘Ralliers’ if there might be a caravan/motorhome repair place I could take the motorhome to. They said there was a British mobile engineer who travels all over France and Spain, basing himself on around 6 sites at various times of the year and travelling from there.
Where was he now? Camped at the first pitch on the left as you come in the gate at Playa Tropicana! What are the chances?!
I made an appointment and Kris – an extremely tall Welshman – drove the 50 yards to my pitch!
The bike rack indicator issue became a complete mystery, he was there for 2 hours; he changed bulbs, re-wired the whole thing, took it away, brought it back and tried everything. Eventually we established it would now work on his van’s tow bar, so by elimination, it was the motorhome that was at fault. He really did try very hard to resolve it for me, but having decided it was the motorhome electrics (in which he wasn’t trained) that were the problem, we agreed I would simply travel home with the bike rack unplugged (as before, not legal but at least the light panels on the motorhome are set wider than the bike rack). Let’s hope I’m not pulled over!
The door handle required a new handle/fitting; I asked my dealer in the UK, then the engineer found a reasonable supplier on-line who would deliver to the site in 10 days or so, so I could then travel home with a working door handle – all good. (Until coronavirus intervened……).
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