motor & transport

InterCaravaning safe holiday drive Koblenz with the most important tips for a, 3 July 2013 holiday season’s travel time. Many Germans start with caravan or motorhome in the best time of the year. InterCaravaning, Europe’s largest caravanning – retail chain, gives tips on what travellers before the great journey must pay attention. Some controls in the mobile home can carry travelers on their own, the skilled person should assume others. Checklist for control in-house depends the security of all travellers outdoor lighting functioning vehicle lighting. Holidaymakers should therefore check whether all lighting units work.

Here also the brake lights and turn signals must not be forgotten. The easiest way it goes for two. Team driver must ensure that the connector of the Caravan is firmly seated into the socket of the towing vehicle. InterCaravaning experts recommend to take the manufacturer’s manual for the coupling of the caravan. Explains in detail how it works. Tyres due to high loads and fluctuating temperatures are carefully to check the tires of motorhome and caravan. However the legal tread depth is 1.6 mm.

InterCaravaning recommends a tread depth of at least 3 mm. For the control of the profile, there are cheap meters at the retailer. But also a one euro coin works. When the Golden edge completely disappears between the blocks, the profile is still sufficient. In addition to the profile depth, Caravaners and motorhome should consider also the age and the condition of the wheels. The date of manufacture reveals the DOT number on the tire sidewall. The last four digits are for the calendar week and year. No matter how well the tire look like, they should not be older than six years. Damage, cracks, buckles or an irregular wear are externally visible, the wheel should be changed as a precaution. The correct tyre pressure values find the driver in the operating instructions of the vehicle.

The first film then becomes even a historical documentary history Bonn subway when people with passion for a topic and attention to detail to venture on a film, the exciting journey of discovery. Gunther Ittenbach Thorben Muller have dug deep into the archives in Bonn, promoted with fascinating images and incredible anecdotes to light and put together for a 45minutigen of time travel. Starting with the horse, the first public transport at the end of the 19th century, it goes with many photographs, drawings, animated plans and historical film footage by the constantly changing cityscape of Bonn on a wide variety of wheels and Rails. Colorful and lively the traffic engineering improvisations of the post-war period are also subject like the adventurous introduction of the world’s newest light rail technology. But not lifeless history instruction expected viewers, rather historical is seasoned by the personal narratives of the former tram driver Fritz Scharf with delicious local flavor. Also Bonn Mayor and Club member Horst Naass remembers childhood experiences in the old vehicles of line 3 and provides rail transport in a political context. A piece of home, not only for viewers interested in public transport. After the release of the film, the first edition of 1000 pieces for 2 weeks was sold out.

Interested can go but again”and to take leave from the cars. The 2nd Edition of the film the Bonn subway. Contemporary history in pictures”are there on DVD for 16.90 euro Verlag breath Word (www.atemwort.de) or in the Bonn bookstores. P. Katharina tailor