Hi all me and my boyfriend have just got our first campervan we need to know if Its better t fill the water bottle up wen we get to camp or bfor we set off,,,,,,I sed wen we get to camp,,,,help,xx
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when you get to your camp.why carry water in your van taking up space and more weight to carry,unless like my o.h.gets upset stomache from different water so we have to buy bottled water.
We have one of these 5 litre water bottles that you buy in the supermarket with a brand of still water.
We fill this before we set off from home and use it in the dogs water bowls during the journey, keeping back enough to fill the kettle when we arrive on site.
That way the kettle gets boiled for a cuppa while we are setting up the rest of the gear.
Take enough for a cupper on the road should you decide to pull over somewhere and fill up when you get there as suggested get a bottle of still water from a supermarket and leave it in the van all season or until you use. Be carful about filling up any old bottle and leaving for a long time as water can go off.
Total depends on how you intend to use your camper . If you want to stop off and take full advantage of your camper I'd carry some water all the time at least 5ltr then add extra or top up on site !
The water will add weight, so will reduce the fuel efficiency, but if you want to pull over to the side of the road and make a cuppa then it's worth having.
I would advise on travelling with it either full or empty though. Half a tank of water sloshing about when you corner won't do anything for the stability.
Is that the Talbot or the Transit cab? I have never driven the Talbot version, but the Transit based Autosleeper is not the most stable vehicle on the road.
Many's the time we've arrived on sites during bust periods,only to be met by a string of vans all queuing at the "service point"...with folk faffin' about untangling their hoses...tattin' about with different connectors...and then wiping everything all down again,before re-wrapping 'em...(..all usually while their OH takes their dog off for a damned good "exercise"!..)
Not for me I'm afraid...payload permitting, I'd rather take the bulk of our water with us nowadays, than be met with that, especially at the start of my "relaxing" weekend ..
Don't forget, you're not always sure what the set-up at the site will be.We've been on some small/rural sites where "the tap" has just been cable tied to a fence post, in a boggy corner of a field
Also a good many sites are still really set up for caravans, so they may not have a tap you can drive anywhere near to anyway....
We "top up" by means of containers, when we have to...but I don't really want to be filling the bulk of my tank like that,especially when we first arrive(and I'm not lugging a full length hose pipe around with me.."just in case")and in the overall scheme of things, carrying a few extra kgs of water in the tank, is neither here nor there
...I assume folk don't just quarter fill their fuel tanks "to save weight"? ..
Having water on board whilst travelling wont make that much difference to fuel consumption for very long, the fuel level goes down losing vehicle weight as you travel, so its not worth worrying about.
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We used to fill up the tank on site. The longer we had our campervan the less we bothered. We eventually never filled it at all - just kept a bottle and a filled kettle handy. But we are stupid!
Quote: Originally posted by rabb_uk on 11/7/2013Having water on board whilst travelling wont make that much difference to fuel consumption for very long, the fuel level goes down losing vehicle weight as you travel, so its not worth worrying about.
With the added advantage that the extra weight of water will make your fuel level drop even faster, thus reducing your weight further. a win win situation
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