Irritating minor points!

A few points that seem to indicate that Motorhome designers never actually take the completed vehicle out for a day or two to try and see if everything in, and fitted to the MH, is as practical as it should be.

There seem to be some items that really should in my opinion be fitted as standard (Smoke alarm, Carbon Monoxide alarm and fire extinguisher) but none of these safety features were with the MH when we took delivery – they are fitted now!

Did MMM send the 'long test' families away on holidays without any of the three items or have they taken them out of the vehicle after the tests?

The toilet roll holder was behind the toilet and almost impossible to reach, when perched on the seat, unless you're extremely supple - i.e. - contortionist!

The toilet seat wouldn't lift up and stay up because it was stopped from getting beyond the vertical by the toilet roll on the holder.

The light switches just inside the habitation door were the 'wrong' way up but all other switches in the MH were the correct way.

The height given by Pilote in their literature is 2.85m – yes, it is from the top of the rear of the MH but the roof lights add another 5cms giving a total of 2.90m – it may not be a lot of extra height but it's still something to be aware of.

Anything else fitted to the roof, for example TV aerial, will need checking for extra height.

One of the 'testers' mentioned the difficulty with positioning the MH when dropping off waste water and to stop having a similar problem I've added a plastic pipe underneath from the waste water outlet to the side of water release handle and clipped it in place.

This now allows much more flexibility when parking to drop off waste water.

On the dashboard there are brushed aluminium trimmings which reflect in the windscreen causing a 'U' shaped and two 'V' shape lines more or less in the driver and passenger eye lines and are an irritation when driving – they've been covered with black Electricians tape.

The Remis blinds rattle on each cab door and seem to have no obvious way of stopping them make a noise.

The folding shower doors are secured by a thin plastic strap that is clipped at each end – this allows the doors to rattle – a piece of sponge wedged between the doors and the wall are a short term solution – a clip or clips will be a longer term answer.

Inside the compartment that houses the battery, fuses and electrical boxes (beneath the seat behind the drivers seat) there is plywood board, about 450 x 400 mm, which should have been secured by clips to other boards to ensure it remained held in place.

But some bright 'spark', either manufacturer or dealer, has run a cable behind the board instead of over it, despite there being a 'cut out' to allow the cable to go over it, and that ensures the board cannot be aligned correctly with the clips and just flaps about noisily.

 

A quick and simple reroute of the cable and the problem noise is sorted out and the board is now movement free.

Some door and cupboard catches were rattling as they were not as well set as they should have been – they are now correctly aligned and do not move about and rattle.

Slowly but surely the minor irritations are being sorted out!