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Hello, my name is paul i shall be 65 this May.the wife is younger [she says !] Bought a 1998 Symphony last August,very pleased with it.Have had a couple of short breaks away in it,found it very comfortable to sleep in.'Alice' has done 43000 miles.Am going to change all the tyres now, 2 are the originals !! I will be posting a question re tyres shortly.looking forward to chatting to fellow campers . regards paul.

Welcome from another Paul and another Symphony owner, in North Wales

HI Paul
Welcome to the forum from Bridlington.
Boaby

Welcome to the forum Paul.

squip

Hello & welcome from S/yorks

Paul,

Welcome to the forum,

Brian & Chris

Thats not a bad life for tyres

Hi Paul, welcome from yet another Symphony owner, (same year too 1998). Chris and I bought ours in Nov. last year, so we have only done day trips in Kent so far, but well pleased with the 'van.
Is yours a diesel or petrol like ours? Thanks to Boris, it would cost us £100 per day to pull out of our drive if we had diesel!

Se la vie!
M & C D

Hi Paul



Waves117

Hi there,

Welcome from a warm and sunny Skegness!

Best regards,

Ah, I'm a proud Rhapsody owner myself - or at least I was until I washed it last weekend and knocked half the lettering off, now I have an Autosleeper "Pha _ odI" apparently.

1b449 wrote:Hi Paul, welcome from yet another Symphony owner, (same year too 1998). Chris and I bought ours in Nov. last year, so we have only done day trips in Kent so far, but well pleased with the 'van.
Is yours a diesel or petrol like ours? Thanks to Boris, it would cost us £100 per day to pull out of our drive if we had diesel!

Se la vie!
M & C D

Hi M & CD
Ours is the Petrol version ,we normally 'cruise' along at 55/60 mph, on a decent length motorway trip have estimated fuel consumption of 25 mpg.Do you think that is reasonable ? Though that was including some stops and starts and crawling on the M25,we had travelled up the M3 and were going to Abbey Wood camping ground east of London,which incidently we shall return to, a great location 5 minute walk to a commuter train station and a 30 minute train ride to Cannon Street station.AND you can order a Chinese takeaway to be delivered to the grounds' gate.!
Paul
Paul

My 97 Symphony is also petrol and I reckon I get 23/24 mpg irrespective of whether on motorway or urban roads, so if you are getting around 25 you are doing all right.

Hi Paulbc.


Welcome to the forum from Nottinghamshire.


Cheers. Whisky.

paulbc wrote:

1b449 wrote:Hi Paul, welcome from yet another Symphony owner, (same year too 1998). Chris and I bought ours in Nov. last year, so we have only done day trips in Kent so far, but well pleased with the 'van.
Is yours a diesel or petrol like ours? Thanks to Boris, it would cost us £100 per day to pull out of our drive if we had diesel!

Se la vie!
M & C D

Hi M & CD
Ours is the Petrol version ,we normally 'cruise' along at 55/60 mph, on a decent length motorway trip have estimated fuel consumption of 25 mpg.Do you think that is reasonable ? Though that was including some stops and starts and crawling on the M25,we had travelled up the M3 and were going to Abbey Wood camping ground east of London,which incidently we shall return to, a great location 5 minute walk to a commuter train station and a 30 minute train ride to Cannon Street station.AND you can order a Chinese takeaway to be delivered to the grounds' gate.!
Paul
Paul

Hi again Paul,
Yes the fuel consumption sounds about right for the speed range you stated.
Abbey Wood sounds a useful ground base, we are about 6/7 miles from there so we wouldn't use it, fancy the Chinese though!

Mike.
PS Crystal Palace campsite is also useful for 'the big town' trains to London Bridge and Victoria, it's closer in than Abbey Wood.