Hi just bought my first caravan need a little advice bought a old caravan to try it, it is now ready for its first trip had everything checked to make sure it is safe just a little unsure about the tyre pressure in the caravan tyres and the rear tyres in the car been told they have to be a little higher than norm any advice would be appreciated
Thank you for your reply my tyre size is 155R 13C Caravan weight 875 kg
There was no handbook with the caravan I have tried to get one online but cannot find one I think it is because it is a older caravan
Thank you for the licence advice I have started towing later in life so have held a licence for many years
I looked into this for my tyres. The tyre will have a max pressure and max load and the max pressure was that which was quoted in our caravan handbook. For my van, this was 65 psi, but that would be for 900kg on each tyre. There are tables you can find on line that show inflation pressure dependent upon the load placed on them. My van is 1300kg, so this max pressure resulted it being very bouncy when towing, so I reduced it to 55 psi and this was much better. The car handbook gives the pressures to use for max load/towing and I use these for the car tyres.
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