Caravan Club Matching Service.

Is the above service accurate and reliable?

I always though it was, but not now; the club is always telling caravanners to use this service for matching a car and caravan, yet it may be inaccurate to get a good match.

Last year when purchasing a new car, I put in the information for a match with my present caravan, it was a good match. However, when I got the car seven months later, checked the handbook technical details and V5C and found the clubs figures were 10kg more. Not a major problem.

Was checking the other night for a match on another caravan, same car, same year and to my surprise, the weights are now 65kg less than the handbook / V5C  and 75kg less than the original figures provided . In my opinion, CC have not included the 75kg EU fuel and driver element, very confusing now, how are newcomers going to interpret this, for an accurate match.

Come on CC please let’s have some accurate figures for this very important service.

For your information: 2011/12 Škoda Octavia Estate 2.0TDi 4x4, kerbweight (inc 75kg) is 1,495kg (handbook / V5C), not 1,505kg or 1,430kg what it says now. The gross weight is 2,095kg, train weight 3,695kg.

Would be interesting to hear other members’ views, have a check on your car weights against the service.