Hilfe bei der Identifizierung dieser das Modell des Anhängers und Dokumentation

Hello Rico,

its a nice trailer You`ve got.

Your trailer is made by IFA (written on the label) in earlier DDR. If you are looking for maintenance or repair, search for parts for HP400 / HP500. You also can look on sites for spareparts of Trabant (Trabi) and the camping- car "Qek".

http://www.trabantwelt.de/?refID=10

http://www.ldm-tuning.de/

Here all maintenance- info: http://trabitechnik.com/index.php?page=61&lang=de

If You have any problems, ask me and I can order the parts for You and send them to UK.

Sorry, I didn´t use Google- Translator. I had an english rock- star living in my house for about 6 months..... and he didn´t want to learn german.

Regards Ruddi

Hi Rico,

Congratulations to your nice little trailer which is definitely worth to be kept in a road-worthy condition. Born in East Germany myself I grew up with these trailers (and other IFA vehicles) and I'm always surprised to see how widely they were spread over the western world.

From your photos, I suspect it's most likely a HP 400, maybe a HP 350. The three-digit figure gives the max. gross weight in kilograms. The labels you took photos of won't help here as they belong to the towing clutch. There should be another one, either at the front wall or at one of the drawbar rods, indicating the model name and more details.

By the way, there is quite an active club for East German vehicles in the UK: http://www.ifaclub.co.uk/ They will be excited to get to know another owner of an IFA vehicle, and maybe to welcome a new member. And I'm quite sure they can help you identifying the exact model. And when you have to get it back on the road or to pass M.O.T., they may have some good advice for you. Perhaps they can even tell you more about the importer and how these trailers came to the UK. But be aware, depending on how much petrol circulates through your venes, it might be like a virus....

I'm not an expert in these little ones as I'm owning an entirely different HP 500. What I can tell you is that wearing or vulnerable parts such as wheel bearings and rear lamps are still available from today's production. It might be a good idea to put some aside for just to have them in case of......

Wishing you lots of joy and useful mileage with your HP. Don't hesitate to contact me for translations (as long as it isn't for full manuals), I'll gladly be at help.

Best regards
Dirk

Hoi,

You have to use a hydraulic press to remove the hub.

Regards Ruddi

It may be advisable to take advantage of a temperature difference between hub and bearing. You may freeze the whole thing and then carefully warm up the bearing. This definitely helps when mounting the new ones. Freeze the hub and heat up the bearing to ~ 80°C, it should slide on with almost no force applied.

Good luck and please keep us informed.
Best regards
Dirk

Bin ja Begeistert das IHR Englisch könnt,

ICH KANN ES NICHT *schmoll*

Zitat von ricoghardforth

Also nicht sicher, was Hubs benötige ich, damit ich können immer noch die gleichen Felgen und Reifen werden sie passen auf den Standard I 4 "PCD oder PKD-100mm haben.

4" PCD and 4/100 are different. You can not put wheels from one to the other.

Lochkreis 4" und Lk 4/100 sind unterschiedlich. Die Felgen passen nicht untereinander.

@Alex: sorry, war keine böse Absicht. Man denkt einfach nicht dran. Wenns mit der Internet -Übersetzung nicht klar wird, dann sag was. Ich oder jemand anders übersetzt das dann gerne für dich.

Gruss Ruddi

Richard,

Without seeing pictures of both the situation as it is now and what you're considering to do, I'm a bit concerned that the damage may get bigger than it is now. Did you contact the club as I suggested before: http://www.ifaclub.co.uk/ ?
I would be more than surprised if you won't get qualified assistance and support there.

Good luck,
Dirk

Zitat von Patchworker

Bin ja Begeistert das IHR Englisch könnt,

ICH KANN ES NICHT *schmoll*

ich hatte "English for run aways" (Fortgeschrittene)

Gruß Jürgen

Also mal ehrlich, wer ein wenig Sprachgefühl hat, der kann auch Englisch. Ich hab das schon öfters bewiesen und meinen Tagesablauf in „Auswärts“ geschildert:

When I come from my morningcatswash, I sit me down at our stripteasetable and eat my earlypiece. I become from my wife shoemakerboys and mirroreggs. During my eating I read my cheeseleaf. I drink my flowercoffee until I can see the reason. Than I go away from my reasonpiece with the funny song „The May is come, the trees knock out“ on my lips.

You may ask my, what I have to work. Short and good, I bework the onecometax and the aboutsentencetax. When I write with my fillfeatherholder, I must give eight, that I become no blue fingers. That makes me so fast nobody after.

Now it is time for midday eating. I look on the mealcard. It gives battle plate or wrong rabbit. Me runs the water in the mouth together. And for the aftertable
I take apple in pyjama.

Then I go back in my workroom. I break together, because I have work over work. I think, I have to make overhours.

Outside I can see the trainbirds fly. When the partyevening comes, I have the nose painted full. I go on my toothmeat. I go to the flowershop and buy some forgetmenots for my wife and think on my eveningbread. It gives handcheese with orchestra.
Then I will look on the pictureumbrella. If I have luck, I can see the
Doc. H. Cabbage and his taxhunter Theo Whygel.

Y e a h !!! T e a - T i m e i s o n e s a i d !!!!

Hast du das net vor 2 Jahren schonmal im Offroadforum geschrieben?

und vor 12 Jahren stands schon auf meiner Homepage

My hair stand me to mountain.....

Gruss Ruddi