Stopping production of the 5.7m Nuevo !!!
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Re: Stopping production of the 5.7m Nuevo !!!
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I read a few years ago that the AA has determined that a vehicle travels an average of 99,000 miles between punctures. So I, like others, have this dilemma of whether to carry a spare wheel or use the load capacity for something more useful like water. What does a spare wheel weigh? 26.2kg which would equate to 26 litres more water. I would use the water a lot more often than the spare wheel.
https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/weight-of-spare-wheel-and-tyre.79860/
All the above of course only applies if you are near to the weight limit of the wagon, I am assuming 3500kg.
One of these days I must go and have my newold jalopy weighed, with the spare wheel and 100 litres of water. I know a friendly weighbridge where the operator is a motorhomer and knows why we want it below 3500kg.
Having a motorhome is one great virtue when it comes to breakdowns - so if you have a spare wheel and a puncure you can at least make a cup of tea and use the toilet while you are waiting for the rescue personage to come and change it. You can't very well do either of those in a car.
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Maybe I have been unlucky but the frequency of puncture on all my cars has been much more than once every 99k miles. So far I haven't had a puncture on the motorhome but I did once on our caravan which had a spare that I fitted myself on the side of the road.
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It must run in the family. My son has had 3 punctures over 28k miles on his new iD3. His attempt to seal one puncture with his gunk repair kit failed so he called the AA who plugged the hole so he could drive to a repairer. He doesn't have a spare. On the other two occasions the tyre couldn't be repaired which was a palaver that put his car out of action for at least a couple days. My experience hasn't been as bad as that but our 2021 Honda has only done 21k miles and has already had one puncture that couldn't be repaired. I used to have a Freelander and a month after I bought it it had an unrepairable puncture - I doubt it had even done 1,000 miles.gassygassy wrote:You've been unlucky caraman. I recall the last time I had a puncture, it was in 1986. ....
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Since 1990 I have been driving almost exclusively on BFGoodrich or General Grabber All Terrain tyres, with well over a million miles driven over that time. I only recall one puncture!
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I think another factor is how much tread a tyre has. Logically a new tyre will have a lot more tread for the screw / flint / nail to get through than a worn one. Somewhere I have a photo of a screw in a motorbike tyre I owned. I can't find it now. Washing / polishing it one day I noticed a screw which was in the tread at an angle. With trembling hands I got a pair of pliers and removed it. The tyre stayed inflated.
Thought for the day:
And why IS a PAIR of pliers called a pair? There is only one plier. Same with pants, there is only one pant.
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This puzzled me further so I asked Michelin when they introduced their Crossclimate Camper and they said 1 March 2022. They couldn't say that was when they stopped manufacturing their Agilis Camper but I wouldn't have thought they would have manufactured both tyres at the same time for very long if at all. This begs the question how old the obsolete Agilis Camper tyres are that A-S are fitting to their 2024 motorhomes?Caraman wrote:....
Marquis has said that all three vans now come with asymmetric tread summer M&S Michelin Agilis Camper 225/75 CP tyres fitted on R16 rims. Their higher load index of 116 removes any risk of the rear tyres being overloaded and allows lower pressures to be used. Michelin has told me these tyres are no longer being made and have been replaced by their similarly priced all-season M&S Crossclimate Camper, which has a directional tread that might provide better traction.
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I am pretty sure the month and year of tyre manufacture are moulded on to the side wall, though I can't give you a photo. Someone will be along soon with all the details . . . .Caraman wrote:Caraman wrote:......... This begs the question how old the obsolete Agilis Camper tyres are that A-S are fitting to their 2024 motorhomes?
Another thing to look for if you are interested in when the van itself was manufactured, is the bar coded labels that you can see attached to wiring cables and other things. I think each separate item now in a vehicle has its own bar code or whatsitcalled, that thing you are supposed to scan with a phone. I was pleased to see that under the dash of my 1999 registered Transit is a fat wiring loom with 9/99 printed on it. It is obviously the date of manufacture of the wiring loom and the vehicle won't be far after that.
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The date of manufacture is moulded onto one side of the tyre. The first two digits are the week of manufacture (up to 52) and the second two digits are the year of manufacture. So a tyre manufactured in the first week of March 2022 will have 0922 on the side of the tyre.gassygassy wrote:I am pretty sure the month and year of tyre manufacture are moulded on to the side wall, though I can't give you a photo. Someone will be along soon with all the details . . . .Caraman wrote:Caraman wrote:......... This begs the question how old the obsolete Agilis Camper tyres are that A-S are fitting to their 2024 motorhomes?
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5.75m Nuevo
The whole reason we bought our Nuevo Motor home was the short wheel base and the tight turning circle. It turns on a penny in tight spaces. I have a very tight 90 degree driveway too and most other Motor homes would just get wedged. Our Nuevo is a Joy to drive and maneuvers around just like our car. Had a few other home before. This one is just great :-)yammy wrote:Hi Guys
I have had my 5.7m Nuevo EK for a couple of years now, purchased new. I learnt a while back that a slightly longer Nuevo (5.99m) was being introduced but didnt realise that Peugeot and Fiat were discontinuing production of the 5.7 version. Will this make the shorter Nuevo more desirable and increase the second hand market or will people prefer the longer Nuevo and put sleeping length over parking issues?
be really interested to hear peoples views. Cheers
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https://www.autosleeper-ownersforum.com/t33124-kingham-spare-wheel-bolts#282944
The alloy fits in the cradle using the adaptor plate which is provided in a felt bag. Thee metal plate inside the felt bag is to enable you to hang a punctured alloy wheel after it's been replaced by the steel spare wheel. The plate attaches to the alloy wheel by means of a screw-in bolt (which should be in the bag). The plate is necessary because the size of the central hole on the steel spare is smaller than that of an alloy, and so without the plate it's not possible to re-hang the punctured alloy under the van.
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