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Fixing flawed floors

LIKE THE COURSE of true love, caravan renovation doesn’t always run smooth!

I had planned to spend the day repairing and improving Penny’s many 12V power issues, but instead, I ended it covered in paint and sawdust, having had to resolve a problem that just a few hours previously, I didn’t even know we had.

New problems

I discovered the issue while I was investigating the best way to go about the wiring work.

On returning from our music festival trip, it was immediately apparent that something was amiss with the towing electrics.

As mentioned in my previous reports, the towing electrics were a bit messy, but had been converted, crudely, to the 13-pin system. Our van would have originally had the traditional

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