How to stop your van rolling off the ramps

[IanE]

You know how it goes - you're tired, you need to level the van, you drive up on to the ramps, put it into gear, take off the hand brake to swivel the driver's seat - and the van rolls backwards!

We've just got these little chocks on a freind's recommendation and they work a treat! You just place them immediately behind both wheels on the ramp

Draper 54500 Rubber Wheel Chocks (Pair) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0002BUWVO/?tag=eliteelect-21

 

[Sandyvan]

We use these, have done for years, only disadvantage is once the weight is transferred onto them, you have to start the engine pull forward very slowly while someone pulls them out.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Caravan-...262300&hash=item28474a9a5d:g:ITIAAOSwnO5cpjKz

 

[IanE]

Very similar!

 

[Sandyvan]

Very similar!

Indeed.

 

[Hotel California]

One of the advantages of DSG
And i don't turn my drivers seat arround that much (LHD)
Also that handbreak is not pulled up unless on a steep pitch....

Get levelblocks with extra shocks to put on the opposite side.

 

[Sandyvan]

The van still relaxes back when disengaging the handbrake with DSG in park, just the same as a manual it will override the gearbox in reverse if steep enough even in a forward gear.