Tongue weight in Europe is around 7%
I know I am going to get some super experienced folks in the U.S. criticizing tongue/hitch weights being less than 10%, but let's discuss this. It seems the approach in the U.K. and Europe is to atte...
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Nomad -1 wrote:
The fact that in Europe the distances travelled by road are far less than here is not mentioned in these opinions. Very rarely would you see travels of over 500 miles.
Really does not have much to do with it. We get people here doing a 1000 miles in one. In Europe you get people doing about 1500 miles going from Northern Europe to Spain or Greece. Rough dirt roads are not the forte of European Caravans, still this family took this Adria Altea 16,700 miles around Australia.They can be unstable on very rough ground not just graded dirt.
A common concern about European-built caravans is their ability to stand up to harsh Aussie conditions, but an Adria caravan that has just completed a gruelling 27,000km(16,700miles) road trip proves they can be as tough and reliable as their locally-built counterparts.
