If you are trying to get some assistance with a technical issue, it's a huge help if you include as much specific information about the Eriba concerned as you can.

As well as the model, please put the model variant (540, 320, 430 or whatever) and, importantly, the year of manufacture.

If, say, you need some help with the water system, a description of the configuration you have is always good, whether it's an external Aquaroll-type affair with a drop-in pump, a large built-in tank with an external petrol-type filler cap or something in between.

The same kind of thing applies to electrical issues. The more specific information you can give, the easier it is for those keen to help to do so. If there's one aspect of these vans which gets modified more than any other over the years of ownership it's the electrics, for better or for worse.

The thing is that not only does the equipment vary from model to model depending on what it left the factory with, it also changes over the years as successive owners add things they want or remove things they don't like.

I suspect you'd be hard put to find any two vans with exactly the same specification, so the fuller the description the better, from sizes of tyres to types of stabilisers, kitchen taps or reading lights.

Best of all, if you can manage it, attach a photograph or two. They really are worth a thousand words, and if you haven't got any, get off your backside and take some

And don't reduce the sizes of photos too much either - a 6KB picture the size of a postage stamp which looks like a pixel pizza when you enlarge it isn't much use. The forum's software will allow you to attach some pretty hefty images, so it isn't necessary to make them tiny.

Nev wrote an excellent guide describing how to attach photos to a post. It's here.

Where they can, peeps will fall over themselves in their rush to help, but you can make it a lot easier for them and save yourself a lot of to-ing and fro-ing if you can narrow the problem down as much as possible from the outset.

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