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Sprite Major 4 SB 2015
Pitching & Setting-up
All four corner steady winding bolts are relatively easy to locate, but those at the front are the most impressive, thanks to the lined guide tubes that are cut into the skirting.
All exterior services are laid out entirely logically, with everything - even the fridge vents - kept out of the awning and banished to the offside wall. The water inlet and battery box/hook-up point are adjacent to one another, while the grey water outlets are positioned just behind the wheels for optimum drainage. The toilet has a separate flush header tank.
Sprite Major 4 SB 2015
This may be one of Swift’s smaller, cheaper caravans, but it’s no shrimp, tipping the scales at 1196kg unladen and mustering an MTPLM just shy of 1400kg. That’s quite an impressive payload provision, so if you’re a stickler for 85% matches, you’ll need to ensure your tow car weighs no less than 1644kg. That’s certainly what we did, pressing our long-term Volkswagen Tiguan 2.0 TDI
into service. It weighs 1678kg and packs a 177bhp punch.
Sprite Major 4 SB 2015
We’re not going to pretend that we barely noticed the Sprite on the Tiguan’s hitch, but it took particularly unsubtle steering input or excessive speed to instigate any tail sway, and the Al-Ko hitch stabiliser made a good fist of keeping the outfit straight and true. We suspect that, with a greater load on board (ours contained the bare minimum of kit), it would have been more impressive still.