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Hi all, I work for a local caravan dealers, And am currently training as a service technichan, recently we have been getting a lot of caravans coming in for their annual service with split and cracked rubber gas hoses,  newish and older vans, The point of this post is that alot of caravaners dont bother taking ther vans for a service and might not realise they may have a leaking pipe,So i thought i would bring it up before its too late.

Happy &safe camping/caravaning...........

Wayne.............

yes great advice :O) we were smelling gas on last trip we are investigating it this weekend :O)

Naomi :O)

The trouble is Wayne, the dealers don't always check the hoses as they should when carrying out the services..

Had my van serviced a few weeks ago; I bought it a year ago and it was supposedly serviced for me then. What did we find? What must have been the original rubber pipe connecting the gas bottle - date stamped 1988 - it is a 1990 van - so 17 years old! and a (now illegal) flexible hose connecting the oven to the supply. These should both have been replaced before I took delivery last year, even if previous owners had all (which I don't believe) failed to have it serviced.

No wonder we had smelt gas a couple of times recently.