Hello to all of our fellow Eribaists,
I am after some information once again, when travelling with our "Forever Young" Eriba Troll 540 the front of our Truma Heater (Model: S3002) flies off and deposits itself on the floor, the spring clips holding it seem to be inadequate to hold it in place. Have any of you had the same experience and if you have, how have you solved the issue?


TIA

Chris & John

I drilled two holes in the back of the plastic top, and put two screws through from the front.
Dave

Hi Dave,
Thank you we'll have a look at it tomorrow.

Regards
Chris & John

That's the way I used to do it and it works well, but on some of the back roads of Europe we travel on nothing but screws will hold it, especially if a wardrobe door comes off and hits it [screws to wardrobe hinges now glued in].
Dave

Quote: Aaron Calder wrote in post #4

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Are you fitting it back correctly?

Ignore the two rectangular holes at the bottom of the edges and sit the edges onto the two hooks before knocking the top spring catches into place with the heel of the hand.

There's a definite knack to it.

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We have the same problem and now travel with the front dinette nearside backrest cushion wedged vertically between the fridge and heater - stops any movement - we also use front dinette offside backrest cushion between loo door and cupboard to stop these opening in transit - just hoping nothing else starts falling about as we are running out of cushions!!

Hi Aaron,
Thank you for the input, yes John's been putting it back on and uses the same technique as you are describing. It would seem he has the knack. Sometimes we travel and it doesn't move only a problem on bad road surfaces and of course a lot of the CS sites are on farm tracks or back roads which don't help.

At the moment we jam John's bedroll and a cushion in and it does seem to work. Would just be nice to solve the issue, have never had as much stuff move whilst travelling before as it does in the Troll. However she is staying with us, we love the Eriba she has done a few hundred miles this summer. Looking forward to a few hundred more next year. I think we may take Dave's (Eribnut) advice and put a couple of screws in to hold it.

A mobile engineer sorted ours by screwing a screw centrally through the grills and securing it to the wooden surround