Often when customers visit Blenheim to have their annual habitation service or to just peruse the stock we have on hand, we get asked where they should eat out that night.
 
Our first recommendation is always Gramado's Restaurant, which is actually just down the road from us. Highly praised as an exceptional South American style restaurant known for its outstanding service and unique, high quality food and attentive service. The owner Saulo and his team create delicious food and warm welcoming atmosphere. The Deluxe team had had a good handful of team dinners there over the years and always had a great time. The restaurant is well known locally and is rated highly through reviews so often can be booked out for nights on end. We suggest booking early to secure your table. 
 
https://www.gramadosrestaurant.com/
 
https://www.facebook.com/p/Gramados-Restaurant-And-Bar-100049615848472/

Some amazing news we have been waiting quite frankly for years now. The Transport Minister has announced private use motorhome Certificate of Fitness (CoF) inspection intervals are changing to 12 months from 1st September 2025. The six monthly burden of a CoF was often a frustration for many motorhome owners who would typically undertake quite low kilometers between inspections.
The new rule was introduced to reduce the compliance burden on motorhome owners, who tend to drive significantly less than those with modern cars. Evidence also indicates that motorhomes and vintage vehicles are less likely to have a vehicle fault contribute to a serious crash. Public support during the consultation period was overwhelmingly in favour of making the change to 12 month intervals, with 89% supporting the change, which affects 39,000 motorhomes. You can read more on the announcement by clicking the link below.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/victory-vintage-vehicles-and-private-motorhomes
​
A massive thank you from all within the industry to the team at NZMCA who has worked hard behind the scenes for years now to lobby for this sensible change.

​For new RV Owners or people that have purchased a late model RV, hand over day can be a little overwhelming in learning how to operate the new systems.
 
One common thing we tend to see is people having issues with the hot water heater or fridge faulting on gas. When your Truma Combi hot water heater faults on gas you will most likely see a code “E517H” on the control panel. When the later model Dometic fridges fault the fridge will display a blue LED light under the ! mark on the front panel.
 
Most of the time we see this happen due to the gas bottle being turned off before the appliances have been turned off. If you wish to turn your gas bottle off, it is important to make sure you have turned your hot water and heating off, then make sure your fridge has switched to the desired mode 12V, 230V or completely off. This will prevent the above faults from occurring.
 
If you have a Dometic 10 series fridge, to reset the fault you simply need to hold down the power button for 3 seconds until you hear a beep, this will reset the fault code. If the fridge turns off, you have held the button too long, turn the fridge back on and try the same process again.

Here is a simple video below to help.

​
For the Truma heater system, if you look at the Truma control panel and scroll down to the flashing ! icon on the bottom of the screen and select it you will see a message, 15-minute timeout, this time out will count down to 0 and you will then be able to restart your Truma system once again. If this error persists you will need to undertake a hard reset on the heater unit itself. 

​Congratulations 🎉 to Andrew and Ali on the delivery of their new LeVoyageur 8.7CF Heritage. These very patient customers have waited two years to get this custom built van that was ordered specifically for them and their requirements.
 
The Boss and Dodgie are great repeat customers and really part of the family here at Deluxe. Often just dropping by to say hello with a few packs of biscuits for the team. This new LeVoyageur is their seventh Deluxe RV supplied motorhome. They have even had a magazine article written about them by NZMCD. Click the link below to have a read.
 
https://nzmcd.co.nz/stories/the-boss-and-dodgie/
 
All the best and we hope you guys have a blast!