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Hi,

newbie i'm afraid. First post and already asking for a favour!

Recently entered into the caravan fraternity with a 1991 Adria Optima 485. Really pleased with the van, but sadly no manuals.

Being typically male i'm fairly confident that i can work most things out (even though my wife may have other opinions) - but i just have this nagging worry that i'm missing some important info.

I've tried a couple of the long standing Adria dealers with no luck. So i'm hoping that a fellow owner out there may take pity and let me have a copy of theirs. Happy to cover costs etc.

Be seriously grateful for any replies.

The thing is Adria in those days used to send us near empty boxes leaving the importers to fit all the goodies, the importers then left all the various manuals for fire, water heater, oven/hob, etc etc in the van to supplement the original manual.  The manual in itself covered all models, even then it was still only a few pages of A5!!

You might note there are two lots of wiring in the van, one is neatly in conduits and the other akin to Spaghetti, no prizes for guessing who's is who's?

Hi, thanks all of you for the replies. So, it seems that i'm probably not missing much.

As the fridge, oven & battery charger are obviously supplier specific i'll do some googling to find those.

But if anyone knows these it would give me some confidence:

Tyre pressure - they're 175/13 and i've guessed at 50psi

Max load & Nose weight - i suspect something is stamped on a plate at the front but its almost illegible.

Brakes, wheel bearings etc - are these just standard Alko?

Once again, thanks if you can help.

hello

i have an optima 485B , and all the manuals that comes with it - admit its a bit sketchy , i could send what you need if you like.

also my caravan is sited , but we are trying to buy an awning , could you confoirm what size awning yours takes ?, just for my piece of mind as i can;t measure it -- i think its a 896cm A Measurement (isabella 900 ) or dorema size 10

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