I'm on once again for your advice for a newbie 😁We've a 2 berth Eldiss caravan and we're wondering what should the tyre pressure be for this. I know we could Google it but caravan users advice is much appreciated 👍
It should be in the caravan handbook? Alternatively you could contact Elddis customer services with year and model number and they should be able to tell you.
There is a multitude of different pressures depending on the make, model, and year. I have a 4 berth Elddis 450CT of 1992 vintage and my tyre pressures are 36 psi. However, I have heard of other caravans having as high as 60 psi. Later models often have different wheels and different size tyres, so they have different tyre pressures.
It would depend on the tyres that are fitted. Are they car tyres or commercial van tyres ? Car tyres would be about 36psi van tyres might be 60psi. Post up tyre size & also load index which is the numbers just past the tyre size.
Example. Tyre size might be 185R14C 102/100R. That or a similar number format will be on side of tyre. Post up yours.
As " pigheaded Dutch selfdeclared tyrepressure-specialist " I am able to calculate it, but need ( as already indicated here) the exact data.
That is from your Eldiss the max permissable totalweight or better weighed axleload , even better axle-end load fully loaded as you go on trip. Can be read from VIN plate ( must be on vehicles in Europe since 1980 )
Then from tyres next, and can be read on sidewall.
1. Maximum load or loadindex
2. Kind of tyre to determine the reference-pressure( on C-tyres written behind AT).
3 speedcode and sises would be handy .
Collect that and givecit here, and I will trowvit in my made extra safe caravan- tyrepressure calculator.
For good understanding, in different countries different names are used.
You write Van in your last post.
We are takling about a caravan, travel-trailer, little house to tow behind a car???
And not a Motorhome, we call Camper mostly in the Netherlands, saw campervan in English , so was confused by Van you wrote.
Quote: Originally posted by jadatis on 21/11/2021
For good understanding, in different countries different names are used.
You write Van in your last post.
We are takling about a caravan, travel-trailer, little house to tow behind a car???
And not a Motorhome, we call Camper mostly in the Netherlands, saw campervan in English , so was confused by Van you wrote.
Yes definitely a trailer caravan to tow behind a car. In Britain we often shorten caravan to 'van when we are talking among others who are campers or caravanners.
Our caravan has a small sticker low down beside the entry door which specifies the tyre pressures and weights of the caravan. For a 1999 model there is a chance that the sticker is long gone but it would be worth checking.
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