Keith Gooden: In today’s episode of the Motorhome Matt podcast…
Matt Sims: We’ve got a full episode of your questions and answers such as…
Keith Gooden: PCP schemes for motorhomes, expensive clean air zones, towing weights, licences and more.
Matt Sims: And the 12 Daves of Christmas return this weekend at www.thatleisureshop.com.
Keith Gooden: It’s the Motorhome Matt podcast with me, Keith Gooden.
Matt Sims: And me, Motorhome Matt.
Keith Gooden: Industry insights and expert advice for the world of motorhomes, caravans and campervans. And it’s all brought to you by www.thatleisureshop.com and sponsored by Ripe.
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Keith Gooden: Now, as you may have seen in an episode a few weeks ago, Matt is due his heart surgery, so we’re recording episodes ahead of time. We’re recording this in September, even though for the rest of the universe it’s December, so apologies if there’s been any big news or big developments that we haven’t managed to share here yet. We are on it and if necessary, if it’s really big, we will record… what’s it? An addendum.
Matt Sims: You’ll have to do it on your own.
Keith Gooden: Will I?
Matt Sims: Well, I won’t be here.
Keith Gooden: No, no you won’t!
Matt Sims: I’m taking this well-earned break that I’m apparently being forced to have.
Keith Gooden: So we’re all wishing you a very happy future and recovery.
Matt Sims: Thank you very much. I’ll be delirious. I promise to be happy!
Keith Gooden: No, he’ll literally be delirious.
Matt Sims: I will for a few days, I’m sure. I’ll be out of it. How do you have a poo in ICU?
Keith Gooden: Bedpan!
Matt Sims: These are the things I lie there at 4:00 in the morning thinking about.
Keith Gooden: But it’s like being an astronaut, isn’t it?
Matt Sims: Just like being an astronaut. Exactly the same.
Keith Gooden: They don’t feed you carbs. So, you know, they always say, like for astronauts when they went to the moon, they had the traditional breakfast of steak and eggs. It was steak and eggs because you didn’t have to…
Matt Sims: Okay! Is that what I’m going to get in hospital, steak and eggs? I can deal with that.
Keith Gooden: It is the NHS, isn’t it?
Matt Sims: Dry ham sandwich with curly edges…
Keith Gooden: Mince, onions.
Matt Sims: Spam. Anyway, I’m sure at this point, hopefully I’ll be on the road to recovery. Up and about.
Keith Gooden: Ho ho ho ho! Christmas is just around the corner, and it’s time for the annual 12 Daves of Christmas. Why is it called that, then, Matt?
Matt Sims: Because Dave runs the shop.
Keith Gooden: Keep an eye on www.thatleisureshop.com, because this coming weekend, the 12 Daves start. Just for anybody who’s never partaken before, what are they?
Matt Sims: Okay, so every day there’s a different offer. And it starts this weekend.
Keith Gooden: From Dave.
Matt Sims: Now, Dave is the great smiley face behind That Leisure Shop in Hewish, our North Somerset shop. And we regularly have Dave’s deals and they’ve become a big project for us with a huge following and some fantastic deals. Every week there’s a different offer. In the lead up to Christmas, there’s a different offer every day, a Dave’s deal every day. So we call it the 12 Daves of Christmas.
Keith Gooden: And the offers are pretty good. So you’ve got to be quick! It’s a different one every day. So for a cool Yule, then, you need to get yourself something from the 12 Daves of Christmas. Where do people go? What do they do?
Matt Sims: Just go to www.thatleisureshop.com. Sign up to the newsletter because we’ll be sharing the offer every day. And follow us on socials – That Leisure Shop. But remember, they do run out! So some of them are limited offers because we’ve only got so much of the product, so they do sell out. So yeah, 12 Daves of Christmas, some great Christmas savings in the lead up to the big event.
Keith Gooden: It’s the Motorhome Matt podcast. I’m Keith Gooden.
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Keith Gooden: Now, in today’s episode – well, it’s a peculiar one. It’s an odd one. It’s a funny one. It’s a different one. Different is good!
Matt Sims: We had this idea, didn’t we, as a way of creating episodes. I think they’re a great idea.
Keith Gooden: They are, because we get so many questions given to Motorhome Matt to answer. We thought, let’s do one…
Matt Sims: Let’s do one. I wish you would!
Keith Gooden: Let’s do one!
Matt Sims: Come on, let’s just get on with it.
Keith Gooden: Let’s do one. Or even more! Just your questions.
Matt Sims: No more! One’s enough.
Keith Gooden: First of all, I’d like to get to know you well – Howard Jones.
Howard Jones: Oh, hi, Matt. Yeah, it’s Howard again from Braintree. Just getting back to you on the emissions charge at Portsmouth. So I did ring them up, and it’s actually £50 per day. So £50 in and £50 out. So it’s a total of £100 extra on your ferry crossing, which to me is still far too high. And once again, I won’t be using the ferry anymore!
Keith Gooden: So, Howard, if you might recall, asked a question because he got done, as he says, by Ulez – ultra low emission zone. Where was it? Was it Southamptonne?
Matt Sims: Yeah, on the way to the Isle of Wight. So he didn’t pay the daily rate and got the fine. And I said, are you sure that that isn’t a fine that you’ve been charged, Howard? And so bless him, he’s come back and confirmed. Yes, it was the fine he got paid, which was £200 or something.
Keith Gooden: But it was still going to be £50.
Matt Sims: Yeah, it’s £50 a day.
Keith Gooden: That’s a lot of money.
Matt Sims: Government policies impact on tourism! Yeah. Let’s support British tourism. Let’s tax us even more. Honestly, it’s a ridiculous thing. I hate the Ulez zones. I think there needs to be some kind of policy where we’re, you know, perhaps charging for going into the inner cities, but the way the local councils are managing them and just catching us… it’s the same here in Bristol. You want to skirt around the edge. You know, a friend of mine has a transport company, the Quarry Lorries. And it’s cheaper for him to pay the daily rate to send the lorries through the centre of Bristol than it is to pay the hourly rate for his drivers to circumvent the city. It’s cheaper to send them through the middle of Bristol, which is ridiculous.
Keith Gooden: It’s the same in London as well. My sister lives in deepest, darkest south-east London. You can get to it from the M25 and then the A2, and there’s about a mile of road which is subject now to the ultra, ultra low emission zone, where you have to either have a vehicle which doesn’t pay the charge or you have to pay the charge, but it’s a very short amount of road in a journey from here to London of 2.5 hours. And you do feel, to be honest with you, like they are just trying to raise the money and it’s got nothing to do with emissions, but maybe it has. Maybe I’m just being cynical.
Matt Sims: No. I think you are being cynical. But I think you’re right. It’s not fair. Anyway, there we are.
Keith Gooden: So sorry about that, Howard Jones.
Matt Sims: Yeah, well, Howard has made a conscious buying decision as a result. So there we are.
Keith Gooden: David Stockford is in Westonne-super-Mare.
David Stockford: I’ve been watching your podcast recently. I’ve just recently upgraded to a 7.2m motorhome. My first trip away was a bit touch-and-go because we ended up going down some pretty narrow lanes, and that proved to be quite an issue. Is there an app or a navigation program or device that takes into account the size of the vehicle, and then routes you accordingly? Love to hear from you. Thanks. Bye.
Keith Gooden: Okay then. So is there a way of avoiding those narrow roads? I got caught on the way here for the recording of this with a bin lorry on a country road. There’s passing points, you know, single lane. I understand the bin lorry has to use it. What I don’t understand is the three white vans and then the seven tonneners behind him that were also using it as a cut through. Two others and I had to reverse up to let the bin lorry through and then sit there for five minutes while the rest of them came down. So yeah, something they might think about using in the future or going down to the next junction! But what is available?
Matt Sims: So there’s a great app for your mobile phone, smartphone. It’s called CoPilot. It does drain your battery quite fast. That’s the only thing. I’ve been using the Avtex Tourer sat nav. It contains the Garmin database, and you can put the dimensions of your motorhome into these things. The Avtex Garmin Tourer Two – I’ve been using it for years. The Tourer Three is now out, and you never know. It might be one of Dave’s deals over the next 12 days, so make sure you tune in to that. There might be a special offer on it, but we sell it up the road from you in Hewish, so our shop is literally up the road from you across the motorway. So go and pop into That Leisure Shop and you’ll be able to get one there. There’s also other brands like Snooper, but there are lots out there where you can put the dimensions of the vehicle in. They were originally aimed at lorry drivers and the motorhome industry has kind of adopted them all. The navigation industry’s targeted the motorhome industry with them. So there’s lots of choice.
Keith Gooden: You know, thinking about that when you’re planning your route, I’ll tell you what else is a good handy thing – Google Earth. You know, if you’re unsure, if you’re on a B road and you think, well, that looks a bit narrow, take a look at Google Earth and you can actually see a picture of it.
Matt Sims: Yeah, I just use Mrs Motorhome Matt. Then when it goes wrong, I can blame her!
Keith Gooden: “It’s all your fault!” Ian’s in Swansea. He says, “I’ve been having new cars on PCP schemes.” What’s that stand for?
Matt Sims: Personal contract plan. It’s a finance product.
Keith Gooden: “… PCP schemes of late, which affords me a new car every 3 or 4 years, which is hassle free driving due to the newness and warranty period cover, etc. My observation is this also affords the UK to have generally newer, cleaner and safer vehicles on the road.”
Matt Sims: Ian goes on to say, “I assumed I’d be able to find a PCP on a large campervan, yet I can only find Auto Trail offering a PCP option. Whilst Auto Trail have a good looking product set with a PCP option, why aren’t other manufacturers following in their footsteps? Are there other suppliers offering PCP options?”
Keith Gooden: Ian says, “I feel the motorhome and campervan industry could and would blossom further to younger drivers and families who are not yet sitting on their nest eggs. Only been listening since December but great for catching up on all things motorhome. Keep up the good work being done.” Hear, hear. “Thank you,” says Ian in Swansea.
Matt Sims: Thanks, Ian. It’s a good question, and I asked Steven Blake this of motorhome.finance at a recent live Warners show where we did a whole episode on motorhome finance. So go and check that out. It was released on the 22nd of September 2025. The challenge with PCP is compared to traditional finance, where you can have a 10- or 15-year term, PCPs generally are only shorter term. They’re 3 or 5 years long with a big balloon at the end. Now, balloon calculation is tricky. That’s a big payment – so that final payment at the end of the term. So say you take a 36-month plan, a PCP plan, and then at the end of it, there’s a big payment. Manufacturers are going to want that balloon probably to be about half the value of the motorhome. So if it’s £60,000 new, they want the balloon to be £30,000. They want to spread £30,000 over 36 months, so three years.
Keith Gooden: Don’t you usually pay a deposit as well?
Matt Sims: Sometimes you pay three months as a deposit. Yeah. And then you pay 36 months of payments. Well, if you spread that £30,000 over those 39 months, you’re into what, £800? I can’t do the maths quickly enough.
Keith Gooden: It’s a lot of money.
Matt Sims: £750 a month. That’s a lot of money. Yeah. The alternative is a spread term of 15 years. You could be paying a few hundred pounds a month, which for the people you cite as the younger generation looking to get into a motorhome, that’s far more affordable. And of course, you don’t have to keep the motorhome for the full term. You sell it after 4 or 5 years or even less, and you only pay a couple of months of interest to finish off the financing. You pay off whatever’s left. So PCP is quite expensive for motorhomes. They also come with loads of terms and conditions, so you have to have it serviced every year. There’s usually a mileage cap. There are damage limitations as well. So any damage on it, you know, a little dent or dink in the side of it…
Keith Gooden: Well, it’ll be the stuff inside.
Matt Sims: Absolutely. Yeah. In and out. So it’s not been a very popular product. And it’s Black Horse that actually underpins this PCP product that Auto-Trail offer and other manufacturers have tried it. It just didn’t hit the spot. It was just too expensive per month. That’s the reason why. But go and check out the whole episode on motorhome.finance because with Steve we also look at remortgaging, we look at credit cards. So we look at all the ways that you could fund a motorhome. And Maddie, who produces the podcast, said it was actually really interesting for her as someone who’s in sort of a younger generation, so late 20s, early 30s – I’m not going to reveal how old Maddie is. I can’t remember, but she’s looking to buy a campervan and considering finance, and she said it was really useful for her as someone of that generation looking to buy. So Maddie actually found something I did interesting, which I thought was good.
Keith Gooden: Yeah, very good indeed. Well, thanks very much for that, Ian. I hope you understand now why PCP isn’t necessarily the number one product if you want to own a motorhome. Douglas is in Hamiltonne – or is it Hamiltonne in Douglas?
Matt Sims: That’s very true. It could be either, couldn’t it? Could be, but I think it’s Douglas.
Keith Gooden: Sorry. Douglas in Hamiltonne.
Douglas: It’s Douglas here in Hamiltonne. And the question is about the use of aires. When you arrive at an aire and park your vehicle, if you then decide to go away and do some shopping or touring in the immediate area, how do you reserve your space? What’s the etiquette if you don’t reserve your space? Can somebody move out of their space and move into yours, say, to get a better view? Or does the barrier record that you’ve left and allow somebody else to come in? You know, if it’s really busy, how do you ensure your space on an aire? What is the etiquette? Thanks.
Keith Gooden: Isn’t Douglas confusing an aire with a campsite?
Matt Sims: Absolutely. Yeah. So aires are not campsites. They are transient spaces where you arrive and you park up and you move on. So if you leave, that’s it. You’ve left. So yeah, you’re right. That is the confusion here. And my understanding and my own firsthand experience is there is no way to reserve a space. I mean, you could try putting a sign up. I mean, you’re not allowed to get your furniture out when you’re on an aire. You’re not allowed to put your awning out. In fact, you’re not even meant to level.
Keith Gooden: Just for newbies, explain exactly what an aire is.
Matt Sims: Very good point. So an aire is usually a municipally owned or council owned space where you can park. Sometimes there’s a small charge. Literally might be €5 or €10. Often they’re free. Often they have a beautiful view and it’s somewhere you can park in a motorhome or campervan. You have to be self-sufficient, and you’re not allowed to get any furniture out and treat it as a campsite. So you’re not allowed to get your barbecue out and your chairs and table and so on. And it’s somewhere you can park overnight and then you can move on. I know people who have spent months on very few aires travelling around and not paid for a single night’s accommodation. They’ve all been free. And why not? If you can, then you should. But reserving a space is not normal and it’s not etiquette to do that. Also, it’s really hard to book ahead, so I always try and turn up at two in the afternoon because they get busy and park up and then walk into town or cycle into town. So you can leave the motorhome unattended. But if you move it, you’ve left, and someone else can take your spot. However, there are some new apps like Camping-Car Park or Campercontact, and they have a database of aires where you can actually forward book. So you can pre-book your presence on the aire, but they tend to be managed by these apps and there’s usually a charge for staying there. But the best aires, in my experience, are where you can just turn up and camp up or park up and enjoy a night’s camping. And often many towns and villages have loads of them on the continent. We’ve a growing number of them here in the UK. We’ve talked at length in the past, haven’t we, about trying to corral and encourage councils to dedicate space to aires.
Keith Gooden: And farmers, to be honest with you.
Matt Sims: Yeah. Farm shops – why are park and rides always closed on a Sunday? All that space that we would love to use. So there’s lots of reasons why. Perhaps this would be another topic we revisit in the new year. I’m sure it will be. There’s a great group on Facebook called CAMpRA – The Campaign for Real Aires. You can join that for free. And they offer loads of resources and advice on how you could approach your local council to see if they can introduce some too.
Keith Gooden: A French invention, which is why it’s called aire.
Matt Sims: It is a French invention. Yes. I wonder what you’re going to say there.
Keith Gooden: On y va. Matt, is that NordVPN deal still running?
Matt Sims: It is. And if you grab their two-year plan right now, you’ll get four extra months for free. And of course, there’s the 30-day money-back guarantee. So you can try it risk free. But the value isn’t just in the saving, it’s what you get. I use it every time I’m in the van now, whether it’s campsite Wi-Fi here in the UK or tethering abroad. It keeps my data private, blocks dodgy sites and pop-ups, and it means I can stream TV as if I’m sat at home. Honestly, it’s one of those things you don’t think about until it’s too late, so better to get it sorted now.
Keith Gooden: The link is in the episode description. Nice and simple. So Steve got in touch with us. Please try and put where you’re from when you do send the questions. It helps us and it humanises us all, doesn’t it? So he’s asking about his C1 licence. What exactly does he want to know then?
Matt Sims: So he wants to know if he needs a C1 to drive his new motorhome, which is three and a half tonne. And the answer is you don’t. So the risk is at 70 – well, not risk. The fact is, at 70 you lose your grandfather rights, so your C1 entitlement, if you were given one when you passed your test.
Keith Gooden: So you had to pass your test before a certain date.
Matt Sims: 1st of January 1997. As we did, because we’re old. So we were given grandfather rights.
Keith Gooden: Motorhome Maddie isn’t.
Matt Sims: No. So Maddie can’t drive anything over three and a half tonnes, whereas we can drive seven and a half tonnes. So a big green parcel machine, a big lorry. You can get out of the little Mini with L-plates on and get into a great big lorry. Seems mad. And I think we saw sense and realised that was a bit daft. So on the 1st of January 1997, everyone who had passed their test after that date could only drive up to three and a half tonnes. So a panel van or a motorhome at three and a half tonnes. So for Steve, you don’t need a C1 to drive a three and a half tonnes motorhome and you lose that C1 entitlement. So we revert to a Maddie licence when we turn 70.
Keith Gooden: 70 is a big age, isn’t it, for driving licences.
Matt Sims: Unless we take a medical and we go and reapply for it, which we can do, and you have to do that every three years. Now, currently, those are the rules. This might change. It’s changing in Europe, which means it might change here in the UK. But if it does, we’ll revisit that on the podcast.
Keith Gooden: Yeah. And it might change here in the UK because obviously a lot of people from the UK drive in Europe and you can’t have a situation where 70 pluses can drive it and you can’t. It just complicates everything.
Matt Sims: Yeah. And the other big factor is if the van is electric, and of course delivery vans are becoming more and more electric, they can be driven on a B licence, which is the Maddie licence at four and a quarter tonnes without a test. So people say, “Well, electric delivery vans are useless. They’re too heavy.” Yeah. Because you can now drive them on at four and a quarter tonnes without a test. And so the licence is likely to change to allow us to drive a diesel van at four and a quarter tonnes in the future. But there’s a whole episode on that recorded in 2024 at the Malvern Show – “Are driving licences changing?” So you can go and check out the proposed change which has been implemented in Europe. We’re not part of the EU here, so it hasn’t been implemented here, but it might be.
Keith Gooden: William Bird’s in Melksham. “I have a motorhome with a gross weight of seven tonnes, but it never exceeds six and a half tonnes loaded with everything including fuel, water, my wife and the dog. I have a trailer with a gross weight of one and a half tonnes. My licence is a C1 plus restricted to eight and a quarter tonnes gross train weight. Can I tow the trailer? Many thanks.” And can you explain all that to me, please?
Matt Sims: So we’ve got a theme here, haven’t we? So William’s motorhome has a gross weight of seven tonnes. He has a C1 so he can drive seven and a half tonnes. He has a trailer which is one and a half tonnes, but he’s only allowed to drive under his C1 plus E, which is what we have as old men. We can only drive eight and a quarter tonnes. But if he took his motorhome at seven tonnes and his trailer at one and a half tonnes, fully loaded, that would be eight and a half tonnes. He’s exceeding what he can drive. Now, William’s saying, “I never load it that much. Therefore I’m only driving it at, say, eight tonnes. Am I okay?” And the answer is no, you’re not, because this is about your entitlement to drive and what your licence allows you to drive and what your vehicles could weigh. So you could load them to be seven tonnes and one and a half tonnes. You would then be overweight. But I thought, well, hang on a minute. If he stopped and weighed, he’d be under his maximum licence capability. Does that mean it would be okay? So I thought, right, I’m going to go and check this with an expert and a dear friend of mine, Fliss, known as the Trailer Lady. She came back for a comment.
Fliss: Hi Matt. It’s a great question and one that I can answer quite simply. Plated weight will always trump actual weight. So what this means is when it comes to licensing, the plated weight is the one that is governing. So a seven-tonne motorhome with a one-and-a-half-tonne trailer is going to be eight and a half tonnes. That is going to exceed the licensing for this gentleman, because he has a 107 restriction code, meaning he cannot exceed a train weight of 8.25 tonnes. So I’m very sorry to say he will not be able to tow the combination that he has got. Actual weight comes into loading offences, so it’s still important and he mustn’t exceed the train weight of the motorhome. But in this instance it’s going to be his licence. Now, off the cuff here, I’m thinking if he’s confident that he’s only ever got the motorhome loaded to six and a half tonnes, that actually he might consider downplating that motorhome to six and a half tonnes, then add on his one and a half tonne trailer and he will be absolutely fine. He’ll be within his grandfather rights of 8.25 tonnes, and hopefully his train weight will be good too. But I recommend he speaks to SvTech about that. Great guys who’ll be able to advise him accordingly.
Keith Gooden: Cheers, Fliss. I wish I could say that I really understand this perfectly, but I must admit I don’t.
Matt Sims: And that’s why experts like Fliss exist. So Fliss is all about towing and understanding the licensing side of things. She does driver training for a living. It is a bit of a can of worms. SvTech are Motorhome Matt Approved, and they are the experts when it comes to upplating and downplating. But basically, William can only drive eight and a quarter tonnes based on the vehicle plate, not how much it actually weighs.
Keith Gooden: Yeah, that’s what that plate says.
Matt Sims: Yes.
Keith Gooden: So you can downplate it even though it doesn’t change anything about what he’s actually putting in the motorhome. Nothing changes apart from the plate. And he’s legal.
Matt Sims: Yeah, that’s right. And he’d have a new plate on the front. So that’s the only way to do this.
Keith Gooden: How do people get Motorhome Matt Approved?
Matt Sims: Yeah. Head to mhmp.info/approved. And there are all the companies, brands and experts, including Fliss, that I can commend to you, either because I’ve used them, I’ve known them for years or worked with them, and they are products and services that I trust to be genuine. Go and check out the whole directory. We’re adding to it all the time.
Keith Gooden: Andy Frith got in touch.
Andy Frith: You talk about approved workshop schemes all the time. What’s your opinion on independent mobile habitation specialists?
Keith Gooden: Short and sweet. What do you think then, Matt?
Matt Sims: I wonder if Andy’s an independent habitation engineer who doesn’t have membership of the approved workshop scheme. Call me a cynic!
Keith Gooden: You’re a cynic.
Matt Sims: I am, yeah. So are you, Andy? And if you are, fair play. I mean, I know loads who are really good that are not part of the MCEA, the Motorhome Caravan Engineers Association, or the Approved Workshop Scheme run by the National Caravan Council. It doesn’t mean they’re not any good, not having membership of that. It just means they’re not accredited. And that stamp of approval means a lot. And when you’re Googling, oh, they’re part of the AWS. So they’re inspected regularly.
Keith Gooden: It’s a way of giving the consumer some confidence.
Speaker3: Some assurity.
Keith Gooden: This is the business we’re in.
Matt Sims: So I often ask the question, if you’re so good, why are you not approved? Why are you not part of that scheme? Now, some independent engineers say, “Well, it’s a lot of money and I’m so busy I don’t need to be.” I get that, and there’s nothing wrong with that. So then if you’re thinking of using an engineer mobile or a fixed workshop that is not approved, it’s about then reading their Google reviews, Facebook reviews and so on, and really doing your own approval of them. And trust your gut. Go and see them. Have a chat with them. Look at the workshop. How well equipped is it? How are they conducting themselves? And if you can, speak to some of their customers, and I’m sure they wouldn’t have a problem getting some of their customers to give you a review of them. The approval scheme does cost money to be in. I know a guy locally who’s just starting up and he’s starting to do these kind of blue ticks, you know, and these approval endorsements. But they take time and they do cost money. And so for Paul who’s just starting out – I mean, he’s a very qualified gas engineer. He’s doing domestic and now he’s doing motorhomes and caravans as he’s building his business. He’s brilliant but yet to get approval and I’m sure he will in due course. So what’s my view on them? It’s impossible to give a broad brushstroke answer. I would say check out their reviews. I use one that is not part of a national scheme and they’re fantastic. It does mean, though, I can’t give a manufacturer warrantied motorhome to them to be looked after. So that’s the thing I would check – if your motorhome is under warranty, does the warranty provider require the repairer to be part of some approval scheme?
Keith Gooden: Yeah, it’s all about setting a standard. It might not be better. What it does is it’s trying to give the consumer that peace of mind.
Matt Sims: And it also gives the warranty provider peace of mind too. So if you’ve had a service done and they’re not approved, then they may not consider the service to have been carried out. So don’t catch that cold.
Keith Gooden: And you mentioned the gas engineer who’s turning to motorhomes. Would you have your gas boiler looked at by somebody who wasn’t, you know, approved by the big tick?
Matt Sims: Absolutely. Yeah. No, you wouldn’t of course you wouldn’t. Well, you might do. You might choose to if your neighbour says, “Oh, I’ll have a little tinker,” and they might fix it and it might be fine. But what guarantee have you got?
Keith Gooden: We wouldn’t recommend that with the gas boiler, by the way! No, we really wouldn’t!
Matt Sims: Just give Keith a ring. He’ll pop round with his spanners…
Keith Gooden: Right.
Matt Sims: The University of YouTube is your friend.
Keith Gooden: Give me five minutes. I’ll just watch a video outside in the car. So that is our Q&A episode. Hope you’ve enjoyed it. How do people get in touch, then?
Matt Sims: We’d love it if you did. If you’ve got a question, I always say this – please ask it because I know there will be hundreds of other people with the same question. Just head to mhmp.info/askmatt. You can fill in the form and we’ll read it for you. Or hit the orange button and record it. But please remember, tell us where in the world you are.
Keith Gooden: And if you’re looking for trusted brands and services – we mentioned it before – then make sure you visit the Motorhome Matt Approved directory. It’s at mhmp.info/approved.
Matt Sims: And if you found this useful or maybe even entertaining, would you leave us a five-star review? We’d love it if you did. Just head to mhmp.info/review.
Keith Gooden: And how do people follow us, then, Matt?
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