How to: Guide to Reversing a Caravan RV

Here are some simple tips that will make reversing your caravan much easier. Whether your a beginner or a pro there's something here for you. Straight line reversing. Reversing off the road into a driveway.

[channelhismojo]

Mate, that tip of steering towards the side mirror that you can see the side of the caravan in is genius. That's all I needed. Thanks.

[MimisQuest]

I know I commented a couple of years ago when I bought my caravan but just wanted to say how helpful this video is. I keep coming back to watch it before I take the van out for a refresher. Thanks.

[esky]

I was in the states and was taught ..Hold both of your hands at the bottom of the steering wheel and while looking at the mirrors look for the trailer and if you want to turn the rear of the trailer to the left turn your steering wheel to the left and the trailing will move to there, if you want the rear of the trailer to go to the right move the steering wheel to the right with your hands on the bottom of the steering wheel ..

[holyparikrama]

Thank you, thank you and thank you 🙏 This really helped me for someone who is just getting into reversing a trailer. I went from noob to a confident driver.

[joanchamberlain]

your video was a great help and showed how to dealing with the width (or lack of) of a real neighborhood street - a parking lot demo is not the same thing. thank you, Joan

[brentonl]

Fantastic tip on reversing really helped me back my van.

[marcusroth]

Very comprehensive explanation. Thank you

[trt]

Great advice, thank you so much.Keep up the awesome work.This is going to help me greatly learning to reverse my new van on my own.👍🙌🏻

[wendee]

Thank you so much for this video, it is the best I have come accross. Before watching this I was so anxious about reversing my wee van as I am a newby. Your clear instruction has helped me enormously and I have come ahead leaps and bounds and no longer nervous. The tip re the mirror and too much van being the way one turns the wheel was gold 😊 you have a new subscriber

[barrytreleaven]

Very good Video I Towed for 40 years as a Carpenter the best advise is do not turn your head around, which you state in your presentation. In my case it was not until i had x-rays of my spine and found out that my 1&2 where fused from birth, I just had to use my mirrors.
What a luxury to have electric mirrors, I don, t know whether it is the TI-L mirrors but the vision is brilliant.
I like your work.

[bernicekeys]

Big thank you - simple clear and concise - to the point explanation

[towe]

Haha only have a little 6x4 box trailer and you almost had me out there reversing the thing just for the heck of it, need the practice. Knew about using mirrors only but I've walked away with a couple of other tricks I can do.

[MimisQuest]

Thanks for making this video. Got a solo trip with the teens coming up, never towed and this made a lot of sense.

[waxhead]

Good instruction Dash ... short and to the point

[veryaware]

I love your work, lots educational and just fun stuff. You have a good balance with a little (interesting and useful) bits about your business and lots of community support - perfect.
In this case I started watching this one because the teaser image seemed to imply it would be tips for the navigator. So I wanted my wife to watch it: stand where you can been seen (getting better), sensible hand signals/useful directional words, tips for the navigator on how a van and car can move especially off road in tight places. Hmm - maybe time for more structured teaching on my part, then video it and post myself. Anyhow, I agree with everything you said so all good. PS. I recently ordered the Y62 underbody protection from you (was supposed to arrive yesterday, so I should get it soon), looks to be a good design with access holes for servicing. No way would I risk having to remove protection plates for each service, plus what a hassle and expense (while I do dealer servicing on the new car) that would be.

[blank-drkx]

If you’re looking over your should turn with the top of the steering wheel, if using your mirrors use the bottom of your wheel. It’s easy.

[gavinsv]

My tip for reversing: If your hand is at the bottom of the steering wheel, the trailer will turn in the direction of your hand. - Cheers

[DieselandDusty-jg]

Good vid, had a couple of reversing disasters this week.
My question is how to identify the ’apex’ of the reverse to know when to start the counter steering to prevent the Jack knifing.

[katz]

Thank you for the great visual lesson also explaining the positioning of the mirrors during the reversing process along with which way to steer when backing the van and keeping it in a straight line.

When looking for the apex while backing into a driveway which way should the tow vehicle’s wheels be turning into the apex?

[gteea]

Practice, practice, practice.. I tow a tri axle trailer behind my ute and can put it just about anywhere.

Practice around safety cones or something that won't damage your set up and make a few hours of practice will stop the frustration.