Welcome to Felicity Strava Training. I'm Felicity aka the trailer lady and today I'm going to show you how you couple a caravan to a car. So we're going to start off with the breakaway cable. So the breakaway cable is a legal requirement if you have a break trailer okay or caravan. So the breakaway cable is attached to the bottom of the handbrake and it needs to clip directly onto the car. So I have a clip underneath there and I'm just checking that is on. So I'm happy with that. The next thing we've got to do is we've now got to lower the hitch of the caravan onto the tow-bomb. So we use the jockey wheel and we wind the caravan down, the hitch head down so that it goes onto the tow-bomb. And this is going to drop and it makes a really nice satisfying clunk. Now what we need to do though is check that that is on just because we've heard that clunk and we've got there is a red button that pops up as well. We don't trust it. So what we do is we rewind so that you can see the rear of the car being lifted by the caravan. Okay I've probably gone a bit too far there but what I'm trying to do is demonstrate to you the importance of this. That's confirming that this is coupled 100% and it is not coming off. So you will never get campsite shame where you go over the last speed bump on the way out and your caravan falls off. So do this every time you couple up. I'm happy with that now so what we can do is get rid of the jockey wheel. So you wind the jockey wheel up and there's a little cutout of metal here in the jockey wheel shaft and you wind the jockey wheel into that until it will wind no more. That's going to stop the wheel from moving when you're in transit. Then we raise the whole thing up out the way to again stop it snagging on any speed bumps. Now the handle for the jockey wheel must always be pointing down or if possible slightly back for me that's going to be too loose. So downwards like that you never want it pointing forwards because if you were to do a tight turn that could easily hit the back of the car. So jockey wheel handle straight down. We can now push the stabilizer into position. Now this is going to feel really difficult and that's because in the stabilizer there's some pads and this will work some friction. So if this is not an effort to put that on or pull it off like that pull it upwards. The pads are wearing out in your stabilizer and you need to change them. Next we've got the electrics. So this caravan and my car work on 13 pin. So we're only on one plug one socket. Now if I was just to connect the electric straight in you can see that that cable is really long and it's going to catch on the road or on speed bumps. So all you do never hold the plug just hold the lead and put a little pig tail in and then couple. So with the plug it goes from I always refer to a clock face 9pm and a clock face twist up to 12 90 degree turn. Then the cap sits in the top there and stops that moving. And then this pig tail you can see is now raised off the ground so it's not going to drag on the floor at any point. And then the last thing we do is we take off the handbrake. So if you have a bad back and you've got to take the handbrake off what you do is very gently brace yourself against the caravan one leg forward two hands on. You're now in line with the handbrake so you're not going to pull your back button in and just push down. Those of you that have got a gas strut handbrake so you won't have the button just push down. But what you want to do is be facing the way of the handbrake. If you've got a bad back you don't want to be doing this because you're all twisting awkwardly and that's all coupled. Now before we go we would do a light check we would need to set our mirrors and we would do a last walk round to make sure all our windows, our vents, the doors are all closed and secure the steadies are up we've unplugged the electrics etc okay but this video was just showing you how you couple up the caravan. So if you like what you saw today please give us a like please click subscribe and stay tuned for more videos thanks.