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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Black Diamond on June 23, 2012, 08:06:20 PM
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As the title says and make sure you double check everything properly before driving off or this can happen :(
(http://emob455.photobucket.com/albums/qq272/jsouvas/photo-19.jpg?t=1340445142)
It happened to a bloke I know today and i feel really sorry for him as obviously he had a bit on his mind before he took off.
Not putting this up to pull the piss but more of an awakening of what can happen. I'm pretty anal so I always double and triple check everything before departing but it can happen to anyone.
I wouldn't wish this upon anyone and you can imagine if this happened out in the middle of knowhere.
BD
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That would spoil your trip. Hope it gets fixed for him OK.
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He has got insurance thank god for that, don't think it would be a write off??
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He has got insurance thank god for that, don't think it would be a write off??
i'de say to repair the canvas alone would be X 'cy?
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This has always been a fear of mine when i have a few people helping me lockup i always double check what other people have been helping me with.
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This has always been a fear of mine when i have a few people helping me lockup i always double check what other people have been helping me with.
Spot on mate. One person assuming the other has done their job.
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That must have been a bit hard to belive when the roof took off . & the bloke following must have taken a 2nd look as well . I have followed a bloke with his rear gate open in town . Caught him at the lights , no damage , only his pride . BD theres nothing wrong with the 2nd or 3rd lap around the rig & CT just checking :cheers:
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Luckily he wasn't on a trip and he was just relocating the van to storage.
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Luckily he wasn't on a trip and he was just relocating the van to storage.
Yep to the panel beaters >:D
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Yep to the panel beaters >:D
Or maybe the wreckers.
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It’s now a convertible…
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Aw crap, that would really really suck :( poor fella I would be gutted. Hope he gets it fixed and quickly so he can get back out there!
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Gee, my wife and I are extremely anal when it comes to double checking things before we leave.... i check, she checks and then one more check by both together before we take off.... yes very anal but at the end of the day better to be safe than sorry..
Jenko
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I can see how this could happen, at about 50 Kph my front bag awning flips up and stays up
It caught my eye in the revision mirror so next time I stopped I put a couple of occy straps on it, But it still had enough
air pressure to lift it. I was wondering what would happen If the roof wasn't locked down. so thanks for posting that picture
Cheers Cris
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I can see how this could happen, at about 50 Kph my front bag awning flips up and stays up
It caught my eye in the revision mirror so next time I stopped I put a couple of occy straps on it, But it still had enough
air pressure to lift it. I was wondering what would happen If the roof wasn't locked down. so thanks for posting that picture
Cheers Cris
No worries Cris that what I put it up for awareness. It can be quiet easy to forget these things during the anxiety of packing up and heading home :cheers:
BD
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Same thing happened to my wifes cousin except they were going away for the weekend. They stopped because one of the kids was sick in the car. Got towels and stuff out of the Jayco to clean up, both thought the other had latched back up till they went past the first semi-trailer. Thats when they realised neither had latched the roof. To late! Beware the distractions
Cheers Shaun
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i'de say to repair the canvas alone would be X 'cy?
Got that right. Have heard stories of up to $3000 for the canvas alone. Looking at em there is a fair bit of work involved.
Seen new roofs as a complete replacement sitting in a local van repair joint.
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As the ex owner of a Jayco it pays to unlatch before winding it up too. We managed to break our wires on a trip when the kids got over excited. Lucky MOTH is pretty handy and could do a great patch job until we got home. We never did that again...
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Hope everything works out for them.
We have a policy of both walking around the BT & CT before we leave camp, friends actually have a printed checklist...but it's whatever works for you.
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We passed a poptop caravan north of Coober Pedy heading in the other direction last year with one front clip not latched. The roof was lifting on one corner I tried to call them up on the UHF but could,'t get hold of them and nowhere to urn around little loan catch them with the Expanda on the back.
The roof didn't looked damaged so hopefully they got away with it
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You learn early on it's the DRIVERS job only to do the walkaround before driving off just like the truckies. Early days and 'we' had left one back catch undone luckily to be honked shortly by a passing car as the canvas had begun billowing out the corner. When I'd also sawn a trailer plug off on the road after unplugging it at a rest stop to isolate the fridge I decided I'd do what the old boys do and NEVER take the wheel without the walk, even for a fuel or cuppa stop.
It wasn't just the sawn off plug but the mini drama it caused on the Barkly. First thing you notice the marker lights in the mirror don't go on when you flick the lights on at dusk and then the penny drops. You left the plug out at 3 Ways stop you dummy! Pull over, yep plug gone but you've got another on the extender lead you made so you can unhitch the wagon and lift the hatch without the bed in the bloody way. No worries missus and kids, super-dad will have this err.. small oversight sorted in a jiffy. It's getting dark and torchlight isn't good for colours but plug it back in and yep all the lights are working as they should and how's that for memory young fella eh.....adjusting halo! Just one small problem. The car wouldn't pull the Jayco off the solid gravel verge and back onto the bitumen. Check the handbrake, nope not that, but just bloody wheelspin with the car and we're going nowhere. What the...?
Well after several futile attempts, I unhitched the car and no worries with its brakes so its gotta be the van brakes. Jack out and lift her up and no the wheels won't budge with tackers starting to whimper and mum trying to keep them cheerful. It was right there a young owner worked out his Jayco's override brakes were really just converted electric brakes and if you wire the live feed to the blue wire you're going nowhere chum. That's right.. now it's coming back to me... the previous owner mentioned something about converting it to cable override because the family used different tugs. It was showroom when I bought it and couldn't wait to drive it home without all the lessons he wanted to give me and naturally the books, etc that came with it were lost to posterity somewhere at home or in the bin. So that's how electric brakes work eh?
Plug in, hitch catch down, chains on, handbrake off, bottle off, front hatch lock, handle cover, front stabilisers up, front roof catch, side hatch, door locked, latchback arm secure, step in, kick LH tyre, awning locked, power outlet cover in, LH back roof catch, roof hatch down, rear stabilisers up, spare tyre and cover shake, RH back roof catch, fridge vents OK, power inlet cover closed, kick RH tyre, water inlet cover locked, front RH roof catch and then up and down with the drawbar and ball. I even feel those wheel rims for heat periodically. Yep one Jayco ready to go driver, even if someone has messed with it while I had my back turned.
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And the older we get the better we were :angel:
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Now the lad wants to use the latest Jayco purchase and fortunately for me he's already experienced a mate leaving the towball lock undone on his jetski and it popped off onto the chains, so I was preparing that mental list (on mum's strict instructions) and he knows she'll be supervising the lecture :police: When you actually do the walk around you don't miss anything but from recall I did miss something important in that list and you don't have to be a Jayco owner to spot it. Can you find absent 'Wally' in the list?
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Now the lad wants to use the latest Jayco purchase and fortunately for me he's already experienced a mate leaving the towball lock undone on his jetski and it popped off onto the chains, so I was preparing that mental list (on mum's strict instructions) and he knows she'll be supervising the lecture :police: When you actually do the walk around you don't miss anything but from recall I did miss something important in that list and you don't have to be a Jayco owner to spot it. Can you find absent 'Wally' in the list?
Move the Jockey wheel - dont ask how I know this
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Give the man a new jockey wheel and bracket prize! ;D