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Internet access is a perennial problem for motorhomers travelling abroad, especially if you need to work while away. Mobile broadband roaming is simply too expensive for most laptop use, although schemes such as Vodafone Data Traveller can make Blackberry or other phone-based mobile email … [Read more...]
I recently received two products to review from a new name (to me) in vehicle care products. Spautopia is the retail arm of Safe Products Ltd., which imports, makes and sells a wide range of cleaning and protective products for the automotive and marine industries. The two products I received … [Read more...]
It's not often you find a piece of motorhome equipment that seems both useful and unique, but the Amperor Power Integrator might just fall into that category. The Power Integrator has three functions: Battery to battery charger to charge your motorhome's leisure battery from the … [Read more...]
Amperor is not an especially well known name in the UK, but I have a feeling that might be gradually changing. A Taiwanese multinational company with a 22 year history of producing power supplies for hi-tech companies, it is now moving into directly retailing own-branded products to western … [Read more...]
You can read my main review of the Navigon 70 Premium Caravan & Truck over on the SimpleMotoring.co.uk website - in summary, it's a top of the range unit with a lot of good functionality. In this article I am going to concentrate on the particular features of this unit that might be of … [Read more...]
I recently reviewed Milenco's Quattro levelling ramps. These behemoths of the levelling world certainly provide some altitude and a solid foundation for even the largest of motorhome wheels, but they were a little too large and heavy for my purposes, especially given the amount of storage space they … [Read more...]
Car headlights have advanced considerably in recent years. Xenon HID (High Intensity Discharge) lamps have raised the bar considerably for those people who have them - but the majority of cars and almost all vans still come with good old-fashioned halogen headlights. This has led bulb … [Read more...]
If you buy any of the major motorhome or caravan magazines, you will probably have seen Onedrywash's advert - a dusty 4x4 towing a caravan, pulling up at a car wash sign in the middle of the outback. Today, I found an alternative use for the Onedrywash Motorhome Cleaning Kit I was sent recently - … [Read more...]
Winter is here and drivers all over the country are suffering in the snow and ice. Some of them, (by no means all), are suffering simply because they have not taken even the most basic precautions against winter weather. One such precaution is keeping a folding shovel in your boot in order to be … [Read more...]
Tyre pressures for motorhomes are a lot higher than those for cars, thanks to the greater weight of most motorhomes. One consequence of this is that some portable tyre pumps, designed (cheaply) for car tyres, are not man enough for the job of inflating tyres up to 50-70psi, the range typically … [Read more...]
