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Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 29/3/2025

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I guess with a folding camper it's slightly more complicated than with a caravan, as you can hardly unfold it and put your spirit level on the floor as you would do with a caravan, then adjust the level by moving it up a ramp. I'm thinking you need an external surface when still fully packed up to use for your spirit level placement, BUT is there one that is in effect parallel with the floor to get good levelling?

I'd guess a Lock n Level airbag would lend itself rather nicely to the levelling task, because after determining roughly that levelling was necessary, you could place the bag under the appropriate wheel, unfold the camper without pegging canvas, access the floor to site your sprit level, then do fore-aft level with jockey wheel, then do side-side with L n L airbag. Once level, on with handbrake, down with steadies, and peg the canvas.

The Lock n Level was aimed squarely at the caravan and MH user, but unless someone more knowledgeable with Folding Camper experience can see reasons against, then would seem well suited to a FC too.

I suppose one of those wedge shaped wheel lifts that you screw up would also work, if it suited the wheel size of a FC. TBH, I used one and hated it on the caravan!

Both of the above can be done with the FC static after unhitching, and by a solo user.

I may question how much need there is to level a FC in many cases. Caravans and MHs it's often needed to get showers to drain properly, and the size of hard floored area is much larger anyway, FCs are relatively small floor area and no shower. Even a caravan/MH doesn't really need levelling on all but the hilliest of pitches, I've not actually used a levelling device for some years on my caravan, I used to use ramps, then a wedge shaped screw wheel lift, then currently a Lock n Level, which TBH was tried but has never yet been used in anger in past 4 years!

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