Same ish here, I ran fir about four plus years with no spare at all because I’d had Kevlar put in the wheels at a show. Worked well (I think) as no punctures, but supposedly you can swap it from your tyres into your new tyres and that was a big seller for me. Come the day of swapping tyres and getting new ones fitted, well you’d have thought I was asking them to eat their own children by putting that ‘stuff’ in their brand new tyres, it’ll invalidate the warranty, it’ll explode, we’ll be cooked by trading standards etc etc etc, someone had put a right scary old bull shirt story up their ass for sure. :lol:
So now I’m back to carrying a spare, but I only do that if I’m away from home, on the local stuff I leave it in the garage and keep my fingers crossed, but it wouldn’t be a biggy to get home and bring my spare out. I’ve gone to now keeping a new hydraulic bottle jack in the van instead of the trolley dolly jack, for a three ton from China it was less than a tenner delivered and it fits nicely in the back of the wheel with a pair of dirty gloves and some tools.
When I’m off on adventure / safari etc I put the spare just inside the slider behind the passenger seat bulkhead and I have a ‘floating unit’ with two drawers in that had a former life next to my bed at home :lol: this unit stays in the van with all my knives and forks and plates and cups etc, and a frying pan and spare gas cartridges etc etc etc. This unit also sits on top of the spare when we’re off on adventure :mrgreen: On site, sometimes the unit stays in and sometimes I take it out and plonk it in the gazebo where most of the cooking happens, this unit is also mainly the stand for my portable gas cooker/s as I have two and the plasticky type boxes they store in are frequently rearranged as windshields to lessen the heat dissipation. Most nights I’ll plonk my unit back in the van with cooker and kettle ready to rock in the morning :mrgreen: Coffee is nectar in the morning
Rusty Lee full width goes without saying but I don’t think I’m on my own here in saying to stay away from vinyls for coverings as they’re great for keeping clean but not very forgiving for sleeping or even travelling on. Instead of an overhead head banger for storage in the back over the bed, I’ve utilised an elasticised cargo net with snap hooks in the corners and I leave that up most of the time, when I’m off anywhere it’s usually full of Wotsits and crisps and mini cheddars and I call that my crisp safe. It’s much nicer to bang your head in the middle of the night on some Wotsits :lol: Behind the drivers seat is an old sea chest that has been converted into a huge coolbox that’ll hold approximately six dozen Stellas and two one pints of milk and a little food. Above this is a cupboard in the making above the window line :mrgreen: But this is about to be scrapped, it seemed a great idea at first, two nine inch triaxials fixed in made to measure stands holding up a shelf soon to became a cupboard when the doors are fitted :roll: Well it’s destined for mk11 version sooner than later, mainly because every time I go to get a bottle of Stella, I bang my head HARD :shock: :shock: :shock: And the more Stella I drink, the harder I bang my head :lol: The two other things that might be a useful thing is an underbed type plastic box with a clipped on secure lid that I can store most of my camping oddthings in, like bbq tools, roll of kitchen towel etc etc. This lives in the back of the van when travelling, but goes under the van or on the roof rack when on site and straight out into the garage when I get home and this is where the extra cooker lives, and next to this is a four seater fold up table with four integrated stools, very much like the blue plastic ones from Tesco for about twenty quid, had one of those for over five years, smashed it up a bit when I fell against it after toooooo many Stellas :shock: Now I have an ally one
No leisure battery yet, no heating yet, they’re still on the go do list even though I have the Propex brand new in the garage where it’s been resting since it arrived brand new possibly ten ? years ago ?
Lives right by the fire extinguisher system, arrived around the same time too, :mrgreen: nice boxes as I recall :mrgreen:
Ozziedog,,,,,,hope there’s a pearl in there that you could use :mrgreen:
