Caprice cooker hotplate heat shields

We have noticed on quite a few Auto Sleepers that the Caprice cooker as fitted have folding heat shields on the side of the hotplates.
When we picked ours up new March 14, there were non of these fitted so we thought that is how it should be, doe's any one else with a 2013-14 coach built have these fitted or are they something fitted on later models.

John.

I think they are fitted when the hob is adjacent or near upholstery. If its surrounded by worktop they are not fitted.

Hi Pete I've seen them today fitted on the Broadway EB same as ours and also on other models, but on the X290 chassis where is ours is the X250 chassis 2014.

John.

Peter Brown wrote:I think they are fitted when the hob is adjacent or near upholstery.  If its surrounded by worktop they are not fitted.

Not sure; ours is a 2016 model Winchcombe, which has the hob adjacent to the habitation door on the left side and worktop to the right of it, and that does have the heat shields fitted.

No help to the OP of course as ours isn't a 2013/2014, but I thought I'd point this out.

None on our 2012 Worcester.... now Winchcombe.

Hi John, just seen your post. We picked up our new Broadway EB on the 1st March 2014, and our cooker is fitted with these shields.

Hope you get something sorted out with AS about this.

Pete

Cheers Pete,

None on our 2012 (EK) "Nuevo" but we have never felt the need for any.

You are right Ron the crapice doesn't need any more help it rattles enough on its own...

It's the Caprice - and I reckon that it is a very good cooker!  It must be well nigh impossible to stop rattles from metal against metal when room has to be left for expansion. I know that my OH would not like to have to lever the shelf out.  We have stopped a lot of the rattle by using bubble wrap around the grill pan grid and around the baking tins inside the oven.
We get more rattles from the microwave and, as far as I can see, they are from the internals of that and not from bad fitting by A/S. I am hoping to remove it and to go inside to stop them.  In the meantime if rattles get too much I simply remove my hearing aids which cuts down the treble! 

Or turn the radio up.

John.

I put grill pan in a silicone laptop zipped sleeve, same with the roasting and baking tins another sleeve  travels on the oven shelf , stops it rattling, also have a separate cutlery tray for kitchen knives, scissors serving spoons etc that goes in another one under the flap under the sink, stops rattling, easy and quick to use and take off also easy to store when on site. These are cheap to buy . I have the non slip matting one piece between glass lid and hob top another piece on the glass top, saves scratches and things do not slide off. obviously remove when cooking.

daisy mae wrote:
. I have the non slip matting one piece between glass lid and hob top another piece on the glass top, saves scratches and things do not slide off. obviously remove when cooking.

Why do you need the piece of matting between the hob top and glass cover Margaret? I think mine will be the same as yours, and the two built in rubber support/clips hold the glass lid very securely about 5mm above the burners with no rattles at all.
Al.

Our Crapice (thank you, groundhog) oven had no hob heat shields either. Being right next to the habitation door it is subject to draughts when the door is open. Fearing the gas hob could be blown out by a draught, I made a stainless steel shield to fit on the left hand (by the door) side, if required. Easy!

Rattles? Perhaps the Crapice thinks all babies have them (being a baby oven)?
Ours gets several tea towels wrapped round its attachments, purchased as reminders of our travels.

Many Crapice oven doors fly open in Transit (ours in in a Sprinter), Mark at AS fixed ours with a stronger door catch, but it still opened! I fixed it with a 1/4 turn buckle fitted to the woodwork about 1/2 way down the right hand side of the door!

'Nuff from me. Best wishes, Barry.

bikeralw wrote:

daisy mae wrote:
. I have the non slip matting one piece between glass lid and hob top another piece on the glass top, saves scratches and things do not slide off. obviously remove when cooking.

Why do you need the piece of matting between the hob top and glass cover Margaret? I think mine will be the same as yours, and the two built in rubber support/clips hold the glass lid very securely about 5mm above the burners with no rattles at all.
Al.

Because when I went over the speed humps the large ones, the lid lifted up and then banged down, no matter how slow and gently I went over them, and I go over them nearly every day , it is going into a village, so cannot be avoided.

I don`t  have any support clips, just four small rubber buttons, one in each corner,  that the glass rests on , and it certainly doesn`t stop the glass lifting in certain situations, hence the matting.


I also do not have heat shields the metal kind, do not need them, I think my caprice cooker is the best one I have ever had in any camper / caravans, it is solidly built and substantial, perhaps it is the newer ones that are " new and improved "

daisy mae wrote:I put grill pan in a silicone laptop zipped sleeve, same with the roasting and baking tins another sleeve  travels on the oven shelf , stops it rattling, also have a separate cutlery tray for kitchen knives, scissors serving spoons etc that goes in another one under the flap under the sink, stops rattling, easy and quick to use and take off also easy to store when on site. These are cheap to buy . I have the non slip matting one piece between glass lid and hob top another piece on the glass top, saves scratches and things do not slide off. obviously remove when cooking.

 Hi, what a great idea! Saves wrapping everything up in tea towels! Will definitely copy that DM!

stoneb wrote:Our Crapice (thank you, groundhog) oven had no hob heat shields either. Being right next to the habitation door it is subject to draughts when the door is open. Fearing the gas hob could be blown out by a draught, I made a stainless steel shield to fit on the left hand (by the door) side, if required. Easy!

Rattles? Perhaps the Crapice thinks all babies have them (being a baby oven)?
Ours gets several tea towels wrapped round its attachments, purchased as reminders of our travels.

Many Crapice oven doors fly open in Transit (ours in in a Sprinter), Mark at AS fixed ours with a stronger door catch, but it still opened! I fixed it with a 1/4 turn buckle fitted to the woodwork about 1/2 way down the right hand side of the door!

'Nuff from me. Best wishes, Barry.

Turn buckle good idea Barry as mine opens now and again of it's own accord, but we don't think the caprice cooker is too bad at all.

John.

We have a 2013 Broadway with the Caprice cooker and we have the heat shields, a worktop one side and the sink on the right