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rowley

Adria have gone to the trouble of fitting an excellent waste drain valve, but, instead of positioning it at the sill, they have placed it at the tank and used a useless remote operating handle. I have removed the remote handle and extended the pipe so that the valve is next to the sill. I am sure that it would have been cheaper/easier for Adria to have done it like that.

Steamdrivenandy

My dearly beloved and I visited Barrons at Burtree this afternoon and had a good poke around someones new silver Twin. It looked like it had just been delivered.
It's the first time the lady had seen a Twin 'in the flesh' and she agreed that it ticked almost all the boxes.
She was concerned at the lack of kitchen worktop (although the good size dining table is nearby) and at the thought of trying to use the hob with the side door open. It seems the midway door stop has been dropped from the new model.
What are the thoughts on these matters by the lucky owners of the new model?

rowley

The lack of worktop was my main concern too. This weekend will be our first time away in the Twin so it will be interesting to see how we manage.

Terrier

Hi we have now had our new twin for over a month now, and have been away in it every weekend, so we have now had time to get used to everything! our main worry when looking at the twin was the two burner hob, and general cooking arrangements, but we have managed to cook our meals quite comfortably, there is some juggling involved! the grill/oven is quite successful so to cook local welsh lamb (in Anglesey) boiled potatoes and fresh pod peas was quite easy.

By the way we are trying to buy local produce werever we go which has been a great success! we have had as mentioned welsh lamb in Anglesey, oak smoked kippers in Whitby, cumberland sausage in keswick, and so on,
we also bought a Remoska which have also used when on a hookup, it makes a great toad in the hole!

I think all motorhomes are a compromise in one or more areas so as you say if a van ticks most of the boxes it must be the right van! for instance the fixed bed in the twin is fantastic! it is as comfortable as our bed at home so much so that I have great difficulty getting out of it in the morning! but my wife is an early riser, so she can get up and sit in the lounge area, make her breakfast, and watch breakfast TV, try doing that in a Trigano! not to mention trying to work out the puzzle of the cushions to make the bed! (sorry Trigano owners I couldn't resist) but obviously different people have different boxes to tick!

By the way the side door can be closed half way if you are pitched level enough.

anyone else out there with twin feedback?

thanks Terrier

Steamdrivenandy

That's v reassuring Terrier.
Thanks for the excellent feedback.
By, you do get about a bit in a month.
Anglesey where our two bearded collies come from, Whitby a favourite place and the Lakes, another favourite.
Chris was also pondering whether you could fit a microwave instead of the grill as she didn't fancy having the grill door 'down' obstructing the aisle while cooking. That'd be OK for ready meals and jacket potatoes but would put paid to grilled sausages, bacon etc, although they can be fried instead of course.
Any idea whether a Khyam Motordome would fit i.e. is there a gutter to clip the tent to above the side door, I forgot to look yesterday.

rowley

Terrier, I was interested in your comment about the grill/oven. It appears to be only a grill, so I would be interested to know if you might have used it as an oven.

Steamdrivenandy

I'd spotted that '/oven' as well rowley and if it can be used as a mini oven Chris just might forego the microwave idea.

Terrier

Hi regarding the grill/oven it is not strictly speaking an oven but when you say having to have the grill door down, this is not quite so, when using the grill in the roof of the grill is a slide out heat deflector which slides out about 50 or 60mm and the grill door has a magnetic catch so that the door is partially open on an angle, so does not impinge very much into the aisle,
it did take while to discover this! I hope I have managed to describe this action, as mentioned previously we have cooked a variety of meals including breaded haddock fillets which we would cook in the oven at home, lamb leg steaks, sausages, bacon, and of course very good toast! one tip is to put a sheet of tin foil on the grill trivet and cook your meat etc. on that and throw it away afterwards to keep your grill pan clean.

Regarding gutter no but I believe with some of those awnings I think you have straps that you throw over the roof and fasten on the other side of the van.

Terrier

Steamdrivenandy

Thanks for the grill/oven info. Terrier we'll have to see what Chris thinks of it.
If there's no gutter for the Motordome I'll have to try and work out the technique for fixing it to the front face of an awning (and then make sure our Twin has an awning)! At present the plastic clip strip works fine on the Tranny gutter but when I try to fix it to the awning it just slides out of the groove. There must be a secret to it, but I'm blowed if I can work it out.
Otherwise like I'll have to include the Motordome tent with the van when we sell it and then buy another that'll work with the Twin.
Chri has had a good look at the Remoska on the Lakeland website (includes a video).

Steamdrivenandy

When I was first considering buying a Twin I recall that somewhere there was a thread denouncing Adria's option prices.
Well, at the time I was only comparing their option prices with those we paid in our Ford.
More recently I've been looking at a Murvi on Fiat and nearly choked on my Kellogs.
Here we're talking about options that are fitted by Fiat to the same type of van before delivery to the converter.

Metallic paint - Adria £600 / Murvi £325
Cab aircon - Adria £1,100 / Murvi £795
2nd airbag - Adria £400 / Murvi £180
Front foglights - Adria £400 / Murvi £110
So if you were buying a Twin with those extras you'd be paying £2,500 whereas the Murvi buyer would pay only £1,410. That is one helluva difference and completely unjustifiable as they're all fitted during production at Sevel.
It continues with other items which may be standard Fiat or maybe Adria fit 'special' alloys.
Alloys - Adria £750 / Murvi £410
If you count all the above together the Adria buyer would pay £1,430 more than the Murvi purchaser, that's a stonking 78% more, which looks to me like a rip off.