Stop Your Steadies Sinking on Soft Ground
By 7am, one corner has sunk and the whole van rocks.
camperista
Everything felt solid when you wound the steadies down on the grass last night. Soft ground doesn’t care. Here’s the proper fix — €7.50 a corner — from a small workshop that’ll tell you exactly who made it.
If you’ve ever pitched a caravan on grass after a wet night, you already know how this story ends. You arrive, you wind the steadies down, you bounce the corner with your hand — feels solid. You have dinner, you sleep. And by 7am one corner has quietly sunk into the soft ground, the van’s leaning, and the whole thing rocks like a boat every time someone gets up to put the kettle on.
So you go out in your socks, wind it back up, shove something under the foot, and hope it holds till you leave.
The “something” is almost always scrap wood.
We’ve all done it. An offcut from the shed, a flat stone, an old chopping board if it’s desperate. And it sort of works — until it cracks, or soaks up the wet and goes soft, or you drive off and leave it on the pitch for the next person to mow over.
Here’s why it keeps happening: a steady foot is a small metal pad pressing all the van’s corner weight into one little patch of ground. On firm hardstanding, fine. On damp grass, that patch just keeps going down overnight. It’s not that you wound it wrong. It’s physics and soft ground — and a flat bit of wood spreads the load for a night or two at best.
A pad that grips, cradles the foot, and pins on so it can’t walk off.
I stopped bodging it and built a proper one — here’s exactly what it does that a bit of wood can’t.
Fitted under the corner-steady foot: ribbed base on the ground, cradle holding the foot, pin through the leg. No tools.
It’s precision-printed in UV-resistant PETG — and that matters here. PETG doesn’t rot, doesn’t soak up water, doesn’t go soft in the wet or brittle in the cold. So the corner you set tonight is still solid at 7am. It’s the opposite of a damp offcut. And yes — caravans too: it fits standard caravan and motorhome corner steadies, and goes on with no tools. Slide it under the foot, pin it on, wind down. That’s it.
On in seconds — no tools
Slide it under the foot
Drop the locking pin through
Wind down — rock-solid
The material question, answered
Precision-printed in PETG — the plastic that actually lives outside.
“I used PETG so it wouldn’t melt in the sun — still siliconed on, 2 years and 20,000 miles later, through 38°C heat in Germany.”
— motorhome owner, on a PETG part
€7.50 a corner · fits caravans & motorhomes
A small shop — but not a new one
That’s Mihai. He owns a van too, and he makes every Camperista part in his own workshop in Romania — an actual person who pitches on wet grass, not a faceless drop-ship store. I know buying a small part from a name you’ve never heard of takes a bit of trust, so here’s the honest picture: these pads are newer to the range, but the workshop behind them isn’t.
30+ reviews
on the same workshop’s other camper parts — 4.4 to 5.0 stars from campers across the EU & UK. The steady pad is built to the same spec, in the same PETG, by the same person.
Will it fit yours?
Fits standard caravan & motorhome corner steadies — yes, caravans too. Slides under the foot and pins on, no tools.
📷 Not sure? Send a photo of your steady and we’ll confirm the fit before you order — no guessing.
Caravan Corner Steady Pad · Kit of 4
€29.99 €55.96 singly · €7.50 a corner
All four corners, sorted once. Set it against another season of sinking corners and 7am sock-soakings and it’s an easy call.
You didn’t spend what you spent on a caravan to rest it on a splintered offcut.
Put proper feet under it before the next wet pitch.
