We bought a year old R40 in June, husband is very pleased with it, not least because he is 6 ft 4inches and he can stand up in it. We loved our Duo, but it was cramped for him and we found it difficult to do long trips in it
The single bed behind the passenger seat makes a 7ft long bed if you put the front seat right forward and fold the back of the seat forward.
Just returned from two weeks touring Scotland - total of 1900 miles from Bristol and back! would not have chosen to do quite as many miles but weather was not good for walking so we did a sight seeing tour. Had a great time and did lots of wild camping even the night of the BIG STORM where we were parked in the shade of a number of 3000ft plus mountains and though it rained for 36 hours non stop we hardly felt any wind. This was in contrast to some folks we met who had been driving in their motorhome from Glasgow to Oban and said they had been terrified with wind and rain and trees falling. We count ourselves very lucky!
In contrast to hubby I am only 5 ft 4 and want to say that I find the Luton extremely comfortable to sleep in and no problems as long as I remember not to sit up !!!!
Lots of cupboard space and kitchen is great. Can cook all that i would at home having taken enough food in the spacious fridge to do us five days without having to buy anything.
As we bought second hand from a dealer, we did not realise that the instruction manuals for the appliances were missing. this has not proved too problematic apart from the television/DVD which we have not quite sorted out. Dont know if anyone else has this model (Sovos) and could help us out. We didnt use it much as signal was very poor in most remote parts of Scotland we visited. Lots of other people seemed to get signal when we couldnt, so perhaps other members know what we could do to boost our signal.
One thing we really missed that the Duo had was a 12v plug in the main body of the van that worked from the battery when the engine was not running. Wasnt a problem this trip as we drove every day due to the weather; however it would be useful for charging phones, cameras etc when we do not have hook up which turned out to be most of the time this trip.
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]The one little problem we had in driving was to be very careful on small bumpy roads as the van has some parts that are very low with not a lot of clearance from the road. We dd however go many miles on single track roads with passing spaces and found good power on the hills. Imperative to be good at reversing large van as we did have to do plenty of this! but width of van was no problem.
The single bed behind the passenger seat makes a 7ft long bed if you put the front seat right forward and fold the back of the seat forward.
Just returned from two weeks touring Scotland - total of 1900 miles from Bristol and back! would not have chosen to do quite as many miles but weather was not good for walking so we did a sight seeing tour. Had a great time and did lots of wild camping even the night of the BIG STORM where we were parked in the shade of a number of 3000ft plus mountains and though it rained for 36 hours non stop we hardly felt any wind. This was in contrast to some folks we met who had been driving in their motorhome from Glasgow to Oban and said they had been terrified with wind and rain and trees falling. We count ourselves very lucky!
In contrast to hubby I am only 5 ft 4 and want to say that I find the Luton extremely comfortable to sleep in and no problems as long as I remember not to sit up !!!!
Lots of cupboard space and kitchen is great. Can cook all that i would at home having taken enough food in the spacious fridge to do us five days without having to buy anything.
As we bought second hand from a dealer, we did not realise that the instruction manuals for the appliances were missing. this has not proved too problematic apart from the television/DVD which we have not quite sorted out. Dont know if anyone else has this model (Sovos) and could help us out. We didnt use it much as signal was very poor in most remote parts of Scotland we visited. Lots of other people seemed to get signal when we couldnt, so perhaps other members know what we could do to boost our signal.
One thing we really missed that the Duo had was a 12v plug in the main body of the van that worked from the battery when the engine was not running. Wasnt a problem this trip as we drove every day due to the weather; however it would be useful for charging phones, cameras etc when we do not have hook up which turned out to be most of the time this trip.
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]The one little problem we had in driving was to be very careful on small bumpy roads as the van has some parts that are very low with not a lot of clearance from the road. We dd however go many miles on single track roads with passing spaces and found good power on the hills. Imperative to be good at reversing large van as we did have to do plenty of this! but width of van was no problem.
. You'll find this site really excellent for getting answers to your queries. As Graham said there may well be some who can answer your question about your t.v.
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