i want to say hello because after months and months of reading magazines and trailing dealerships we bought what we thought was going to be our pride and joy, only right now are hearts are broken, i have pasted a copy of my post from general forum here if anyone can help im here and listening as their is very little help out there for caravan owners it would seem. And if anything else can i help prevent people making our mistake!!!!!!!!! because no mater how good it looks it probably isnt worth it unless you've a caravan engineer with you when buying second hand.
"we purchased an "immaculate" caravan vis gumtree from a nice local couple 8wks ago,they had never serviced it so it was last serviced in 2003,it is a bailey ranger 510 2001, we kept in contact and having waited to have towball fitted and such like have only had one weekend away in the van. we had the van booked in for a full service with a reg caravan engineer, to our absolute horror the right hand side of the van is showing up patches of excessive damp to a point that within the bathroom wardrobe the reading is 90%, now obviously this didnt happen over night, but we have now been told that it is unenconomical viable to repair it, we cant use it,sell it on,or trade it in. what the hell do we do, it cost us £4400 of money that we just dont have to throw about, we have contacted the couple to see if they will help out basical purchase the van back.
will someone PLEASE help"
Lollie
"we purchased an "immaculate" caravan vis gumtree from a nice local couple 8wks ago,they had never serviced it so it was last serviced in 2003,it is a bailey ranger 510 2001, we kept in contact and having waited to have towball fitted and such like have only had one weekend away in the van. we had the van booked in for a full service with a reg caravan engineer, to our absolute horror the right hand side of the van is showing up patches of excessive damp to a point that within the bathroom wardrobe the reading is 90%, now obviously this didnt happen over night, but we have now been told that it is unenconomical viable to repair it, we cant use it,sell it on,or trade it in. what the hell do we do, it cost us £4400 of money that we just dont have to throw about, we have contacted the couple to see if they will help out basical purchase the van back.
will someone PLEASE help"
Lollie