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22/6/2010 at 10:06pm
 Location: stoke-on-trent
 Outfit: bailey senator oklaholma series 5 kia
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towed my caravan down to poole in dorset the towbar was creaking and moaning all the way stopped on services and polished the towball up but it was just the same any one had this problem

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22/6/2010 at 10:09pm
 Location: West Lothian
 Outfit: Gesit Touring 75 Motorhome
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Yes we've had that too. It's dirt on the pads inside the alko stabiliser. You can clean them with spray brake cleaner. We had to remove ours and then clean them. Instructions on removal are on the Alko website. Hope that helps. Mags


22/6/2010 at 10:43pm
 Location: North Lincolnshire
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Mine was embarrassingly creaky last year so gave the towball a rub down with fine emery cloth and gave the hitch pads a quick ru and hasn't creaked since.


23/6/2010 at 7:17am
 Location: Stafford
 Outfit: ABI Manhatten
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I also had exactly the same problem which was really annoying and embarrasing when pulling onto campsites, I rubbed down the towball and cleaned  out the hitch with meths, Result...No more noisy creaking

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23/6/2010 at 8:55pm
 Location: stoke-on-trent
 Outfit: bailey senator oklaholma series 5 kia
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do you have to strip the hitch to clean the pads

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