Yes. Ours is quite steep - 1 in 5. We had a rhyno motor mover fitted which copes easily and saves the clutch on the car. Before that we had to reverse it on.
My driveway is a very similar slope but then I have to take the van between two houses which are pebbledashed ( i have approx 2ins each side) I then have a 180 degree turn to park in my back garden.
I had Reich movers fitted a few weeks ago and I can manage this with no problems whatsoever.
Whatever mover you have fitted is a good investment
Hi, just a note......... Once your caravan is parked chock it well and then release the handbrake.
Leaving the handbrake on for long periods in storage can cause the brakes to seize on which is not very handy when you`re just about to go away with it !!
Many years ago I left my brake on on my Pennine on a flat surface in my garage one winter and then when I tried to move it to go away the wheel nearest the wall was locked solid ....... a bit (or rather a lot) of groveling round underneith and a few smacks with a hammer on the bakes released it but it was most inconvenient and a lesson was learned.
Cheers
Rick
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Thankfully our drive not quite as sloped. OH reverses it in but difficult as we live on a corner with high kerbs and a street light and neighbours with cars parked everywhere.
We always level the van using the jockey wheel and blocks below the front steadies and jockey wheel. First we put front steadies down, then move jockey wheel pole down, put in a block, then lift up the front more with the jockey wheel, then when level put down the steadies.
A bit of a nuiscance, but at least I can get fridge working when packing up night before we head off.
Would recomend a mover too as our clutch nearly always stinks, ours sits with the jocky on 2 breeze blocks and the steadies at the front on one. The back is practically touching. We havent got enough space to go side to side but luckily its pretty level that way. We only bother when its going to be there a while.
My driveway rises to my house. Couldn't afford to have a mover fitted as I was buying everything from new, so I bolted a winch to the garage floor and pull it up. It is reversable so it holds onto the van when going back down. I hope to manage to get photos onto thread which would explain a lot better.
Even though my droive isn't as steep as yours, it still has an incline. just ordered a powrtouch mover, OK, I have also burnt my clutch out, trying to reverse the van in to the coul-de-sac and up the drive!! slipping now, so decided to invest in a mover - fitting early June, new clutch early june. How am I going to pay that lot off???????
There is a "hitch drive" advertised at halfords at the moment for £229. do you think it is any good - we are on a level drive in the back garden but the wife suffers with very bad tendernitus and cant alwas help me manover in if it involves too much manovering (cant always get it lined up correctly- but am trying !!) so we thought this might help
what do you think ?
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HI paige27 we have just bought a van, measured it and it all would fit. I drove six hours to pick up and return with said van only to find that no possible way would it go up our drive as it bottomed out ,our drive slopes up from the road not massively but just enough. At ten at night I was not a happt camper. Now we have it in storage £300 per year and our drive is free and the van is secure maybee the way to go but just my thought's. Anyway good luck what ever you do. Cheers
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Topic: Sloping Driveway
