Winter Draining

Hi, I am new to this site having just bought a Auto sleeper Symbol 2003, last week.
The weather has gone rather cold and I need to drain the water including the water heater.
Bought it from a well known dealer, you would think they would have done this or told me how too.
Anyway can anybody provide a link for all details or tell me how too do this.


Thanks.

What make of water heater do you have, Truma?

Yes its a Truma-Ultrastore.

hi, do not not know your van model. but find the dump valve like this. turn top valve 90 degs.


or this valve if fitted



open all the taps and fully drain system with van on level ground.
coming back on here for tips on filling up before using water heater or water.
hope this might help at so short notice.
button B might already be " out" this would mean valve has already dumped its self. 
too close valve in spring , turn A to 90degs... across vale and push in B.
if valve has self dumped due to low temperatures still open all taps to drain.
looks like other model of dump valve just lifts up.

PS top photo shows valve closed, A across and B in.
open would be A 90 degs turned and inline with main body of valve and B out.

Hi, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Thanks for that but I cannot open the pictures. Might be me.
The Model is a Peugeot Boxer Symbol 2004

It's unlikely you have an auto dump valve on a 2003, more likely a manual one like this..

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This drains the hot tank. You also need to drain the fresh tank, the tap maybe accessible from the side by a sill or the tap could be directly attached on the tank. If your toilet flush has its own tank, you also need to drain that.

sorry about photos not working, they did at my end.
sure some one else will come along and post photos of likely dump valves.
you could look under the van near heater for an open tube coming through the floor which would give you an idea of where the valve is inside the van.

The heater dump valve is under the offside bench seat, at the cooker end.  It is a rocker type lever which will be lying horizontal. Lift this lever up to the vertical position.  

The fresh water tap is under the offside of the van.   If you look under the van you will see a blue lever.  Dont forget to check that the waste tank is also drained.  The pipe for this should be clipped to the offside sill.  The toilet flush tank can be drained via a pipe which you will see pushed onto a clear sight tube located in the cassette housing on the rear near side of the van.  When you drain down the fresh water from the taps in the kitchen, washroom and shower with the pump turned on, make sure you leave the taps in a half on/half off  position when finished to avoid any possible frost  damage from any water remaining  in the taps.

Hi, thanks for your help, found the heater valve and water taps under the van and now drained. Should be fine now.
luckily the van was inside the workshop of my mechanics garage for the last two cold nights having the handbrake cable replaced.

Regards,

Kevin

Kevin Sheffield wrote:Hi, I am new to this site having just bought a Auto sleeper Symbol 2003, last week.
The weather has gone rather cold and I need to drain the water including the water heater.
Bought it from a well known dealer, you would think they would have done this or told me how too.

Not only should they have shown you but also given how long many vans/mh's stand on a dealer forecourt they should have drained it off, unless it had only been bought in a couple of weeks ago. There has been a few cold snaps over the past three months