The French yoghurt pot

peasant

At some point in its previous life, my camper was equipped with a TV and a roof arial. So there is a hole in the roof with a rubber grommet where the antenna went through. This has been capped off with a white cap with some writing on it.

While washing the van yesterday, I hit that cap with the extendable washing brush and it splintered. Damn!

Where to get this part now, possibly before it rains again and water runs into the van?

Well, closer inspection of the broken pieces revealed that this was no specialist part at all, but indeed a yoghurt pot of french origin! Some roadside emergency repair that has lasted about 15 years, going by the sell-by date

It has now been replaced by the perfectly fitting cap of some roll-on cosmetic product from the misses' plentiful stores. Also French by the way ...at least I think that Garnier is French.

Anyone else got any unusual bits and pieces integrated into their van?

Malta1

To be honest, if we had, do you think that we would be bragging about it here???

salamander27

The coolant reservoir in my van is a pink bottle from a kids lunch box. It works quite well really and brightens up the engine bay!

Malta1

well ok then........mice munched their way through the windscreen washer pipe (split it in half) in the engine bay.......pipe now reconnected by inserting a 1ml syringe into both ends :eek:

zagmund

There's some sort of 'exotic' German coffee tin suspended somewhere under the bonnet in mine. I've never been able to work out what it does, I've never had to fill it, empty it or otherwise do anything to it. It was definitely put there for a reason, a long, long time ago. It definitely doesn't make coffee, but I have that part in hand myself and make a mean espresso with the stove top yoke.

Also, when we went to buy our campervan, the first time we lifted the bonnet there was a dead bird wedged up into a crevice somewhere and lots of feathers about the place. Word was that something like a ferret or a pine martin had stored it away for later consumption.

Other than that I think the van is more or less normal.

z

peasant

Every motorhome should also have at least one cheap wire coat hanger banging around in the wardrobe. Not because wire hangers make great coat hangers, but they come in very handy when the valve tip of your garden hose decides to disappear half way down the filler tube for the fresh water tank ...as I've just learned