CAMC magazine. Maybe I'm alone in thinking this

To be perfectly honest, even if it was deemed desirable, sorry, it is not possible - it cant be done.

David

I'm pretty certain Fozzie had his/her tongue firmly planted in his/her cheek 

Best improvement that could be made to magazine would be to stop using glossy paper. The stuff like newspaper is far better for lighting the stove.......a lot of newspapers have changed over to this for their weekend mags.......😁

This month’s edition contains a classic article p109 purporting to be about how to level your unit.  

Apart from some glaring factual errors ie the longitudinal axis is side to side and transverse is along the length of the unit really!  It also omits a information that could make a jacking up a caravan dangerous.  It does not mention that if you want to jack up a caravan it needs to be kept hitched to the vehicle.    I assume that this article was aimed at a beginner but actually it was worse than useless   

 

It's a lot easier to read when not on glossy paper. No light reflection! I find I notice this more and more as my cataract worsens, op date 19 June hopefully, but I noticed it long ago wearing varifocal contact lenses. Must be better for the environment?, to omit the paper treatment  😉

Because we don't tow I wouldn't have read the article BUT if I did I'd assume the information contained within it would be accurate and safe. After all its allegedly written by folks in the know, nay an authority on the subject of caravans 😂😂😂😂.

It saddens me if what you say is true, I have no reason to doubt you!, but where would go for guidance? Internet is great but could that be trusted? I'd assume an article in a caravan club magazine about a caravan would be the best source of information from someone with knowledge and experience. 😲

I must say that for me the magazine has been a disappointment for years. Not bothered particularly about the volume of advertisements, generally they can be ignored, but are occasionally useful.

What really depresses me is the generally uninspiring editorials. Technical articles seem to be superficial, tests extremely uncritical and whereas the magazine could be a standard bearer for improving quality and capability of caravans, it is almost soporific in its acceptance of the status quo. I do wonder from time to time who it is really written for.

I have read this stuff for decades, and I'm not sure why! The club seems very good in other respects and whilst the magazine is not exactly core business, it should exist to positively support the members and the club objectives.

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The whole ethos of the club seems to be don’t rock the boat.  Examples abound.

A couple of examples or the last few years:

The article on Leisure batteries which revealed that most Leisure batteries were no more than starter batteries with a label that features a speed boat and a motorhome.  Of course the magazine didn’t name these batteries. 

The reliability survey which when finally published was doctored in such a way to make it meaningless.  

The above examples I think are unfair not only to the potential purchaser ie the members of the club remember them!   But also to manufacturers who make good products and end up being tarred with the same brush as everyone else.

Finally A couple of years ago there was a review of a caravan, a Swift iirc, that as tested wasn’t fit for purpose.  It had a massive leak in the plumbing I think and other faults  to be fair this was mentioned in the article but the it was still given a score of something like 8/10.   Add to this the manufacture was given the right to reply in the next edition of the magazine.  Apparently the leak didn’t matter because the floor was hydrophobic or something.  

It must be difficult to turn out a magazine about white boxes every month but sometimes it seems having an article that is as good as superficial seems to be unrealistically ambitious   

 

Cue an edition all about s pods, yurts and airstreams....