Keith Gooden
Welcome back to the Motorhome Matt podcast. I, as usual, am Keith Gooden and he, as usual, is Motorhome Matt Sims.
Matt Sims
Here I am! Nothing unusual here.
Keith Gooden
Okay, let’s dive straight in, shall we, with this podcast, Matt, and talk about the big news.
The February Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show
Keith Gooden
You’re going to be back at the show in February. Tell us about it.
Matt Sims
We are. Yes, we’re all booked and signed up. The Motorhome and Caravan Show is back. It’s called the Caravan, Camping and Motorhome Show just to be different. And you can buy tickets already. They’re on sale at www.ccmshow.co.uk. I think they’re £12 and kids under 15 are free. There’s going to be loads to see and lots of new products. It’s a smaller show than the October one, if you went to the October show.
There are only five halls at the NEC and there tends to be fewer European manufacturers. Some of them are there, but not so many. More accessories, perhaps, and a bit marine as well, which is always good fun, and lots of canvas and lots of tents. It’s a sold out show in terms of exhibitors. There’s hardly any floor space left. I don’t think there’s any left.
So it’s going to be a busy show. And last time, of course, in February it completely sold out with visitors as well, well before the show. So whether this one will sell out we’ll see, but I expect it to be very busy.
Keith Gooden
And how do people get tickets?
Matt Sims
You go to www.ccmshow.co.uk.
Keith Gooden
It’s as easy as that – www.ccmshow.co.uk. It is a smaller show than the big one we’ve just had at the NEC, but this is for February. Alright, so get your tickets. And the Motorhome Matt podcast is going to be there with all the filming and uniforms.
Matt Sims
We’ll have you in your orange shirt, your special shirt. Yes, we’ve got a stand there. As you go up the stairs there is the expert theatre, the campervan expert advice centre. We’re just above there on the left hand side. You can’t miss us. We will be bright orange!
Don’t miss out on the big Black Friday event at That Leisure Shop
Keith Gooden
It’s the Motorhome Matt podcast brought to you with www.thatleisureshop.com. You have got a big Black Friday event coming up, haven’t you?
Matt Sims
We have. We have indeed. It kicks off today as this podcast is released. We’ve got some massive deals on audiovisual equipment, particularly Avtex TVs and their Wi-Fi unit. We’ll talk about that in a bit more detail in a moment.
But e-bikes and e-scooters are all in the Black Friday sale as well as outdoor living, so some of our canvas outdoor shelters, event shelters, gazebos – they’re all in the sale. So yes, go and check that out. It’s only valid for the week of Black Friday.
Keith Gooden
So get online or you can drop in.
Matt Sims
Drop in! Yes, come and see us in North Somerset. That’d be lovely.
Keith Gooden
That’d be great.
Matt Sims
Come and get a free cup of coffee. Or online – www.thatleisureshop.com.
Keith Gooden
Do it right now.
Steve: ‘What’s the best Wi-Fi for a motorhome?’
Keith Gooden
The main body of the podcast this week today-,
Matt Sims
It’s not your body is it?
Keith Gooden
It would be a big podcast, wouldn’t it, if that was the case? It’s all about Wi-Fi today.
Matt Sims
We’re all about the wireless.
Keith Gooden
Steve’s been on Ask Matt.
Steve
Hi, Matt. I’ve got a question. I’ve just ordered a brand new motorhome and I want to know how I get Wi-Fi. What’s the best way of doing it? Because the dealers that we’re going to buy from want us to spend about £600 and I’m not sure if that’s the best thing to do. If you can answer that, that would be great. Thanks.
Keith Gooden
So that was Steve who pressed the button on Ask Matt and Mike Ploughs – he’s not in a rut – also asked by sending the question to us. ‘What’s the best Wi-Fi for a motorhome?’
Matt Sims
I reckon this was the number one question at the NEC show from meeting with people.
Keith Gooden
Can’t you just use your phone and a hotspot?
Matt Sims
Yes, you can. Of course, you could. Yes, that’s a way to do it. Certainly. But how reliable is that going to be? The aerial in your iPhone is tiny. You know, it is in the palm of your hand. And there are better products out there that you can put on the roof of your van or caravan and they have the capability of picking up a much stronger signal because they’re a much bigger antenna and that enables you to pick up a signal from much further away that might be weaker that your iPhone may not be able to pick up.
Also remember, an iPhone is constantly updating apps. It’s backing up your WhatsApp in the background. I noticed mine backing up my WhatsApp chat. It’s massive, it was using a huge amount of data just to do that. And if you’re trying to stream something on Netflix at the same time, it’s probably going to crash out. So a dedicated motorhome Wi-Fi unit, I think, is definitely the way forward.
Keith Gooden
And we should say Matt does refer to iPhones. He means mobile phones and of course, the Android operating system as well which, incidentally, is bigger in the whole rest of the world apart from the United States and Great Britain, did you know that?
Matt Sims
Is it?
Keith Gooden
Yes, it is. Very much so. Much bigger.
Matt Sims
I’m more of a fruit man.
Keith Gooden
So it’s not just Apple, it’s your Android stuff as well. So don’t think that you’re out of the discussion.
Matt Sims
Have you actually got a mobile phone?
Keith Gooden
I do. I have an iPhone.
Matt Sims
Anyway, modern phones, yes, you could tether your phone or you could use one of these, look. Here’s one I’ve prepared earlier, if you’re watching on YouTube-,
Keith Gooden
Wow, did you have that down…?
Matt Sims
No, it wasn’t down my trousers! It was under the desk. So this is a white disk. It says Avtex on it. And this is a Wi-Fi aerial. It’s what it looks like. So our good friend Steve is asking about a Wi-Fi aerial for the roof of his motorhome and they’re wanting – was it £600 or £700 to fit it? These typically retail at £350. This is the Avtex Unit. It’s an AMR985. So this is the kit. It comes with a whole lot of cables as well, of course.
So this goes on the roof of the van and this little box goes inside. They are actually pretty straightforward to install and it does involve drilling a hole in the roof of your pride and joy. That’s the catch. It’s a 25mm hole. You could do it yourself. I don’t know many people that would go and buy a £80,000 motorhome or a £30,000 caravan and the first thing they do when they get home is get the Makita out to drill a hole in the roof.
It does self seal on the roof here. I’d recommend putting some sealant in the hole as well if you were doing it. But a mobile engineer or a caravan motorhome workshop would be able to fit one of these really easily. And they’d be very used to doing it.
Keith Gooden
And we must say, actually, the hole that you’ve got to put in your motorhome isn’t big. It’s just a little bit for the wireless.
Matt Sims
25mm. Yes, dead easy. And then that just wires down into this black box that goes inside. And there’s a mounting bracket for this. And that gives you Wi-Fi on a SIM card. Now, this particular unit comes with a SIM pre-loaded with data. It’s £24.99 a month. The great thing with Avtex is you can downscale that. So say for six months of the year you’re not going to use it, you can just reduce the SIM down to £3.50. And it will put it on hold so you don’t turn it off. It just puts it on hold.
Keith Gooden
And I remember we’ve got a podcast with the Avtex guys on it. So the way it works is it’s £24.99 a month, isn’t it, but as soon as you use it, you pay your £24.99. But when you downscale it to £3.50, that assumes you’re not going to use it at all.
Matt Sims
Correct.
Keith Gooden
So you’re sticking the motorhome away, say, for four months in the depths of winter and you won’t use it. It’s going to cost you £3.50. As soon as you use it you’ve got to pay £24.99 whether you use it for a day or a month,
Matt Sims
Correct. And down tune it, as it were, you just call them and say, ‘Can I turn it down to £3.50?’ Now, this is what’s called a cat four unit. So this is an entry level product. It’s the most accessible and one of the cheapest ones on the market and probably one of the most popular, I have to say. Cat 4 means it will try and grab hold of one cell at a time. A cat 22 unit is able to grab hold of seven cells. So if you’re in the Cairngorms or somewhere remote, there’s only going to be one cell to grab hold of and this is going to be perfect.
But if you’re in the middle of Birmingham or Bristol or Manchester where there are lots and lots of people trying to use the internet, you want to be able to get hold of more than one cell because that cell could get very, very busy. And that’s actually the world wide web’s challenge – the number of people demanding it. So having the ability to grab hold of more cells would be useful.
And there are units out there that are cat 22. There are some stages in the middle, but cat 22 is the highest. The phones we talked about earlier – my iPhone is an iPhone 13. That’s cat 22. And that can grab hold of seven cells at any one time.
Keith Gooden
Okay, then. So that’s Avtex. And by the way, we do have a podcast where Avtex talk in depth about their product. We’ve got a bit of a competition as well for an Avtex product, but do you want to mention that now or shall we wait until a bit later?
Matt Sims
Let’s keep it for a minute. We should mention that the Avtex unit’s for sale in the shop and is in the Black Friday offer.
Keith Gooden
Is it?!
Matt Sims
It is!
Keith Gooden
The Black Friday offer?!
Matt Sims
We have a big Black Friday offer on the Avtex aerial.
Keith Gooden
What’s the deal? We don’t want to give the secret of the deal away, really, because it could be so fantastic that people won’t believe you!
Matt Sims
It will be a deal that will be worth going for, I tell you. If you’re in the market for a motorhome or caravan Wi-Fi unit, you definitely need to go and check it out.
Keith Gooden
So where can I buy one of these cat 22 Wi-Fi capturer things?
Matt Sims
Said like a true dad. So Motorhome Wi Fi is a company that supplies them. They’re specialists, and I actually caught up with Adam at the recent NEC show and unpacked a bit more about how it all works.
What you need to know about motorhome WiFi
Adam Blacklin
There are a lot of important factors that people need to consider when they get an internet connection. The first thing, the obvious thing, is to get a strong signal. So you do that by having an aerial fitted, ideally to the roof of your van. So the aerial goes on the roof of your van, and that can be up to five times more efficient than what your mobile phone is able to do. So if you’ve got a weak signal on your mobile phone that’s actually a good thing because it can be amplified with an aerial. So that’s the first factor.
The second factor is having a router inside of your vehicle to be able to connect that aerial into. So unfortunately, mobile phones don’t tend to have aerial sockets. They don’t tend to have headphone jacks anymore. So the only way to actually improve that connection is through a router. And there are various different routers, and it’s quite confusing for customers to try and work out which is the best one for them.
The rule of thumb for me is to say to the customer, ‘Have a look at your mobile phone. Have a look at the specification of it and have a look at the category of your mobile phone.’ If you want your router in your vehicle to perform equally well as your mobile phone does, then you will need to have a router of an equivalent category to your mobile phone.
The reason why the category is important is that now in 2022, it’s not all about signal strength anymore. It’s also about the congestion on the mobile networks, especially in busy places like busy campsites. So the higher the category of the router, the more aggregation the router can do. And what aggregation basically means is being able to combine the signal from multiple masts to give you the sum total of what’s available.
WiFi categories
Matt Sims
So hang on a minute. How do I find out the category of my mobile phone?
Adam Blacklin
You can probably just Google it and look at the specification. So if you type in, ‘What category is an iPhone 14?’ for example, it will come up with category 22, which is the highest category. And that means, in theory, it can aggregate up to seven different connections.
In practice, it probably won’t be quite as many as that. But it means that the possibility is there in really busy areas to combine the sum total of all of the signals that are available and give you the best possible connection in a given location.
Matt Sims
So when you say seven connections, you mean seven cells. Is that right?
Adam Blacklin
Seven cells, yes. It depends on the technology. Obviously in a remote area, the chance of you aggregating more than two connections is probably quite remote, but certainly as technology improves, carrier aggregation is one of the tools the operators are using in conjunction with 5G to try and get better capacity to meet people’s expectations, which are obviously getting higher every year with the amount of data they consume.
Matt Sims
Now, your product is a category 22, isn’t it? Is that right?
Adam Blacklin
Yes, we have a category 22 product alongside a category 6 and 7 product as well.
Matt Sims
And you did have a category 4 product. What’s a category 4?
Adam Blacklin
So category 4, which we only have in our 4G only range, only connects to a single cell on a mast. And that will generally be the cell that gets the strongest signal or the cell that the operator will push you towards when it’s trying to load balance and manage its network. That won’t necessarily be the cell that’s giving you the fastest speed because your mobile phone or your router isn’t allowed to use your data.
So the only way it would know how fast the connection is is if it ran a speed test. And that means it would be using up your data without your consent. So that’s why carrier aggregation is important because the router or the phone still doesn’t know how fast the connection is it’s connecting to, but it’s just combining everything that’s available and providing you with the sum total. So you’re just going to get the best possible connection in that location.
Matt Sims
There’s a lot to think about, isn’t there?
Adam Blacklin
There is a lot to think about. And that’s the difficulty. As I say, we’ve been doing this for 10 years. At the very start, it was like, ‘Take an aerial.’ There wasn’t a lot of choice of routers. ‘Off you go.’ And that was fine. And everyone got on well with that. As technology has improved and as consumers’ choice has improved as well, when people are trying to weigh up the different options available, then we have to unfortunately educate them a bit more to be able to make that informed decision.
That’s the great thing for us about the NEC. We’re not really here to sell things. We haven’t got anything for anybody to take away. We’re just here to try and raise people’s awareness of the products and allow them to make an informed decision. Of course, if they would like to buy something we will point them in the right direction. But certainly we’re very pleased with the show and lots of people have been asking the right questions, as you’ve found on your talks as well.
Motorhome WiFi costs
Matt Sims
That’s true. So what does it cost, then, to fit Wi-Fi on to a motorhome roof and into the living area?
Adam Blacklin
The fitting cost generally starts at about £100. So if you’ve got a standard coachbuilt motorhome or a standard caravan, the fitting’s very, very straightforward. It’s a 25mm hole in the roof. The antenna self seals to the roof. It’s got an IP69K seal, so that’s a hot pressure washer, 30 centimetres, 30 minutes, so it’s a really good high quality seal.
And the manufacturers that we supply to such as Swift and Auto-Trail fit it as standard. They can obviously offer a water ingress warranty alongside the aerial. If you’ve got a panel van conversion, then the fitting cost can be a little bit higher because you’ve got to take into account the corrugation in the roof. So we do some special adaption kits for that.
It’s generally about £150 for the installation costs. Hardware costs – if you want to go for the top product, so the category 22 product that we’ve been talking about, the cost of that product is £650. So that makes an install price about £750. Or if you want one of the lower products, then we do some of the basic products starting at about £300.
Matt Sims
Brilliant. And where can people find out more?
Find out more from Motorhome WiFi
Adam Blacklin
If you check our website, www.motorhomewifi.com, you can see all of our products there. We’ve got a product configurator so you can go through some of the options on the various antennas or routers that we sell. And we’ve got an option there to request an installation quote if customers want to find out who their nearest dealer is.
Keith Gooden
So that was Adam from Motorhome Wi-Fi.
Win a FREE Avtex Sound Bar
Keith Gooden
You’re giving away courtesy of Avtex a soundbar.
Matt Sims
We are.
Keith Gooden
What on God’s green earth is a soundbar?
Matt Sims
It is a bar that makes a sound!
Keith Gooden
You put it under the telly, don’t you?
Matt Sims
You put it under the telly, yes. You know what a soundbar is, surely!
Keith Gooden
I know. Our wonderful listener might not.
Matt Sims
Avtex TVs are one of the market leaders without doubt. And they are very thin. They have a very tiny frame and that makes them very light. They are very strong, but it makes the sound quality that comes from them, frankly, a little lacklustre. So to fix that, they created this awesome little soundbar. And it’s a rectangular box that fits onto the bottom of the television and makes the sound fantastic.
Keith Gooden
And what’s good about this one is that you can use it in a motorhome. It operates off 12 volts. It’s got bigger speakers in it, but it’s not big.
Matt Sims
It goes below the television. It’s also worth noting that it’s Bluetooth. You can wire into it as well, HDMI into it, and you don’t have to use it with an Avtex telly. I’ve got one at home in my lounge. It’s brilliant.
Keith Gooden
How do people enter the competition?
Matt Sims
Go on, then. It’s www.thatleisureshop.com/win. Easy.
Keith Gooden
Just go on there and see what you’ve got to do. It’s not much.
Matt Sims
All we want is your name and your email address and tick a box and away you go. And we’re going to pull the winner at random on the 17th of January. Why the 17th of January? Do you know what’s special about the 17th of January?
Keith Gooden
17th of January – it’s not Black Friday. It’s not Valentine’s Day. Christmas has been.
Matt Sims
Blue Monday. It’s called Blue Monday. It’s the most depressing day of the year, apparently, so we’re going to make someone’s day!
Keith Gooden
Just the one person!
Matt Sims
It could be you! Someone is going to be ecstatic. Maybe their family will be as well! They’ll get home and hear the noise. ‘What’s that?’ ‘It’s my soundbar.’ So we’ll draw the winner on the 17th of January at random, so make sure you enter before then at www.thatleisureshop.com/win for a chance of winning your own Avtex soundbar.
Keith Gooden
There you go.
Margaret: ‘What is a ladder chassis?’
Keith Gooden
Okay, it’s the Motorhome Matt podcast. I’m Keith Gooden. This is…
Matt Sims
Motorhome Matt!
Keith Gooden
Matt Sims himself. Let’s get some questions and give some answers to some of our listeners and viewers, shall we? Margaret has been on to Ask Matt.
Margaret
I’m Margaret, and I’ve got a question. You mentioned a ladder chassis in one of your last podcasts. Can you tell me what a ladder chassis is, please?
Keith Gooden
So that is the wonderful Margaret.
Matt Sims
She was. We met her at the show. Margaret has a great product and a great business called Dogrobes. We’re going to get her on and have her talk to us a bit more about Dogrobes and taking a dog or pet away in your motorhome and caravan and off to Europe.
Keith Gooden
She wants to know now about the ladder shots I know sounds like something Strictly Come Dancing. ‘It’s the ladder chassis!’
Matt Sims
I met Margaret at the show. She asked me that at the show. And I said, ‘Would you record it? Because you wouldn’t be the only person that noted I just said in passing, “A ladder chassis,” and didn’t explain what it was.’ So she did very kindly record it for us.
A ladder chassis is the van that the motorhome is built on. It is the cab. So the steering wheel, the front wheels and the back wheels, the cab, and then there’s this flat thing with horizontal bars in the motorhome goes on. And it looks like a ladder. That’s it.
Keith Gooden
That’s a ladder chassis. It’s basically what gives the vehicle its strength and stability.
Matt Sims
It is, yes. Some of them are reinforced by a company called Alko. They reinforce it and we talked before about how they’re delivered to the motorhome factories. Sometimes they’re bolted together front and back so you get a push me pull you. They are funny to see.
And then they’re extended and new axles are put on and so on. But the ladder chassis basically is the chassis that the motorhome’s built on. It’s how they’re delivered to the converter.
Keith Gooden
There you go, Margaret, that’s what the ladder chassis is.
Trish: ‘Why do water pumps make so much noise?’
Keith Gooden
Trish has contacted us. And she says, ‘Why do water pumps make so much noise in caravans?’ That’s the thing on a rainy dark afternoon, isn’t it. Somebody switches on the water pump, yes.
Matt Sims
That’s the noise. I’m guessing – I don’t know what pump Trisha has got in her caravan. It could be a Shurflo. It could be a Reich. It could be a Whale pump. But in my experience, the submersible pumps that go down into the water and look like a little bullet, they tend to go, ‘Whir,’ that kind of noise. They tend to be quite quiet. I’d say if you’ve got one of those and it’s noisy, it’s got a fault. The impeller inside is probably catching in something.
The Shurflo ones tend to be in more expensive motorhomes. They’re much more substantial. They’re much bigger, almost the size of a shoebox, and they can be noisy. And sometimes they’re held on the ground, on the floor of the vehicle, with four screws on rubber feet. If they come loose, they can start to rattle around and you get this noise.
Other pumps – sometimes there’s an external pump. And there might be a flow detector, that when you turn the tap off, you get a noise that sounds similar to that. And in the middle of the night, if you leave the pump on, you get a noise. And it sounds like someone’s knocking on the door to come in. You’re on one of those special campsites. It’s not! It’s your pump. That’s just the pressure detector and it just needs setting up again to stop that noise. They are annoying, I have to say.
Keith Gooden
What is that noise again?
Matt Sims
You just want someone to come knocking on your door.
Keith Gooden
There you go, Trish. I hope that’s helped.
Colin: ‘Can you discuss road courtesy and websites to find Autogas?’
Keith Gooden
Colin Coulthard: ‘You covered courtesy on campsites. What about the road?’, he says. And, ‘Is there a website to find Autogas in the UK?’ As somebody who uses motorways a lot, whether you’re a motorhomer or a driver or anything, drive on the left. We drive on the left in this country. Don’t sit in the middle lane. And if you’re on, say, the A38 down in Devon or Cornwall and it’s two lanes, keep to the left.
Matt Sims
Always keep left. You can get points in your licence from middle lane hogging.
Keith Gooden
You can these days. The police will pull it over up here around Bristol if they catch you doing it. It’s very easy – on the continent, you keep to the right. Here, you keep to the left. If you’re going slower, you just take the left hand lane. And people always say, ‘The fast lane.’ It’s not, is it? It’s the overtaking lane.
Matt Sims
Lanes one, two and three.
Keith Gooden
Let people overtake.
Matt Sims
It’s a bad habit that, middle lane hogging. That’s true. So Colin cheekily got two questions in there. Did you notice that?
Keith Gooden
Is there a website to find Autogas in the UK?
Matt Sims
There is. There are several. www.mylpg.eu is a great website.
Keith Gooden
What is it again?
Matt Sims
www.mylpg.eu, and that gives you locations and prices of gas. Autogas, I presume, is what Colin’s looking for. It shows locations all across Europe. And in fact, I checked it this morning and it was pretty much up to date. It asked me where I was. I allowed it to know my location. And it gave me all the places I know sell gas and their prices that seemed to be correct as well. So that’s a website it’s worth looking at.
But it’s interesting to note that on Autogas, this is the gas that you fill a tank with, the days of people converting a petrol car to gas are kind of gone, aren’t they?
Keith Gooden
Yes, it’s unfashionable now. It didn’t really get going, but a lot of LPG places have shut down.
Matt Sims
But a lot of motorhomes and caravans have gas tanks on and they need them. We need them to refuel our gas tanks, and Motor Fuels Group, MFG, announced that they’re phasing out all of their LPG Autogas stations by 2024. They’re all going. That’s quite a lot of fuel points. Flogas bought Countrywide, but they are starting to remove sites from fuel stations. And the facilities are being converted for electric recharging points.
‘Do I need winter tyres on a caravan I’m towing?’
Keith Gooden
From Anne or Dan Onymous at the show: ‘If I have winter tyres on my car, do I also need them on a caravan I’m towing?’
Matt Sims
No, you don’t. That’s a good question. I’ve never been asked that before. That’s a very logical question. The official line says unlike your car, there is no legal requirement for your caravan to have winter tyres with the snowflake symbol on, so 3PMS, as it is classed by most countries as a trailer. And because it has no driven wheels, it’s legal to be used with summer tyres.
Keith Gooden
So you can use it but is it advisable?
Matt Sims
Well, there’s no reason – they’re not driven tyres. But what’s interesting is that I saw a caravan that was electrically powered to work with an electric car. So some of the power is coming in from the caravan to drive you along. Would that caravan have to have winter tyres on it?
Keith Gooden
We’d better do some digging and find out.
Matt Sims
I bet it’s not been regulated for.
Keith Gooden
A friend of mine used to do a lot of towing on trailers and he always used to say a lot of blow outs on motorways, high speed roads, just generally, are because people haven’t checked the speed rating on their trailers and have exceeded, say, 60 miles an hour and the thing is only rated up to 60 miles an hour. It’s a bit worn and they went to 70 miles an hour, which they shouldn’t anyway, but we know people do. And the thing blew out.
Matt Sims
Bang! Yes, checking tyre safety and tyre condition is so important even on your car. As an advanced motorcyclist, it’s something we do. If you have a blow out on a motorbike, that’s going to go wrong, isn’t it? We just don’t do it in a car. You just get in and go, don’t you? But no, we should. It is always sensible. Every so often, once a month or more often than that, just check the tyre tread, check the tyre walls and check the tyre pressures.
Keith Gooden
Yes, and those ratings on the side of the little numbers and stuff, if you’re unsure of what they are, look them up on the internet. It’s very easy to do and it’ll tell you your maximum speed and all the rest of it.
Matt Sims
Yes, and the age of the tyre. The tyre wall tells you that as well. We’ve talked about this before, haven’t we? There are those little-pill shaped 4 numbers. 0818 would be August 2018 – that’s when the tyre was made.
Keith Gooden
And as we found out and you told me on this podcast, tyres do go stale.
Matt Sims
They do? Yeah, they’re like a digestive biscuit. I reckon between that five to seven years, you should change the tire age wise. That’s how you tell the age. Look for that number.
Keith Gooden
Yes. And tyres are expensive, but you should do it because it’s for your safety.
Matt Sims
Yes. Well, if you have a blowout at the wrong speed it’s game over, isn’t it?
Keith Gooden
It could well be. Just as we’re talking about towing as well, that overtaking lane we were talking about – you’re not allowed to tow a caravan in the overtaking lane on a motorway in the UK. And you’re supposed to be restricted to 60mph. Are you listening to me?
Get in touch with Matt and Keith – and don’t forget to enter the giveaway!
Keith Gooden
Okay then, Matt, we’ve covered a lot of ground on this one, haven’t we, today what with your soundbar and the competition.
Matt Sims
Don’t forget!
Keith Gooden
www.thatleisure shop.com/win to win an Avtex soundbar. And thanks very much to Avtex for donating that to us. Black Friday!
Matt Sims
Indeed.
Keith Gooden
So how do people find out more about the podcast then, Matt?
Matt Sims
Dead easily. Just head to our website, www.motorhomematt.co.uk, and whilst you’re there, if you click on the Ask Matt button, you can record a question and send it to us to play on the podcast. Or if you’d rather not hear your voice, unlike Keith, who loves the sound of his, then you can enter the question and submit it via the form.
Just go to www.motorhomematt.co.uk/askmatt. And there you can also find out where to listen to the podcast and where to watch it, which is on YouTube, where you can search Motorhome Matt, and you can enjoy watching the podcast and a whole load of other material too. If you’re listening to us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please leave us a five star review. It really helps the algorithm and keeps Keith happy.
