Hello. Newbies from Berkshire here. Our van delivered Friday from AL. Eriba 540 full GT package etc Bought on a whim - didn’t consider another van! Never slept in a caravan before, just 10 days in a Motorhome in Australia and the Eriba seems so small but as soon as it arrived on our drive it looks plenty big enough. Sooo excited. Packing today. All a bit rushe for first outing tomorrow and forecast not great.

Silly question. Do you always pop top down when van is left on a site? For security or for chance of rain while out and about?

Welcome,

and a great choice you will have a good time in your van I am sure.

We leave our top up when left on site, but down when stored.

Cheers Andy & Viv...

and enjoy

Cheers Ian

Welcome to another 540😀
and remember .....front up first and down last.

Well, it depends on the weather. On site, If its nice, top up. When it's cold and wet, top-down. It's your van so you can do what you like lol we also sleep with the top down if it's very windy or noisy,
from a sometimes glorious, sometimes gusty and wet Brittany!

being silly helps with this forum, good luck from a very wet Charente

New pic?
Why is there an ERIBA in that log store? Didn’t the mayor make himself clear?😀

Cos I aint got enough logs to fill it innit

Thanks all. That’s whT I thought but as you say 8 could have been making a big mistake. Mostly loaded and still seems too light at front so messing about with stuff in front lockers.

I'm not new and I have a very very very stupid question! We now have on board water and want to know how one deals with it! To test the system we used the garden hose. It has a 35 litre onboard tank. If one has an aquaroll, one needs a submersible pump, but how does it shut off once the onboard tank is full? There is no special connector thingy on the outside of the van, its just a filler hole. We could just use a watering can but if we are going to have to get a grey water tank we might as well go for the full monty!! I have to say though, by the time I had worked my way through all the instructions, identified all the drain taps and worked out how to set the boiler and heating, I thought all this water and heating thing might be a bit of a faff!!

Thankyou Colin!
How do you refill your tank? We take a watering can with us to wash Boris, so we could just use that. Do you have something automatic like an aquaroll with a pump? We don't really want to carry both an aquaroll and a grey tank. I guess its a matter of always topping the tank up if you put the hot water on?