abbey vs swift

[major_5039954]

i wnat to buy a new caravan...and cant make my mind up between a abbey 416 GTS Vogue 2001 or a swift challenger 530 2000!...can anyone help?

 

[Sonya1]

I would go and look at both vans making a list of the pros and cons of both then decide which one you like best. When we brought ours last year we looked round loads and i mean loads then a avondale literly spoke to us saying buy me buy me we fell in love with it. Have a look at several if you can as some are not as well looked after than they appear. one will jump out and speak to you

 

[James_5040650]

Abbey has sides that are unrepairable and delaminate 2002 Abbey replaced with 2004 Swift, don't belive what they say I am one of many. Plus check it well before you hand over balance off payment, got suckered twice by that scam check it over first.

 

[James_5040650]

Abbey and Swift sides are the same sandwitch construction. Swift's outer layer is aluminium , Abbey's is GPR. If you damage an aluminium panel a new sheet of aluminium can be bonded over by you're local workshop, if you damage GPR your caravan has to go back to the factory for a new side, expect a 9 month wait. Patched repairs of GPR sides are unsatisfactory. 2001/02 seems to have been a bad year of manufacture for Abbey sides. Like all things, once you find yourself in trouble with a product suddenly your not alone. To be fair after a lot of hassle and loss of use of caravans Swift group has sorted people out under warranty, what happens after this runs out? Now after a few teathing troubles I am the happy owner of a Swift and I wish the best of luck and that nothing happens to Abbey owners.