What has happened to the dates on here. Looks like the computer is adding random ones to the posts.
Hi Thingy i hope it all goes to plan and you are enjoying the caravan with the familyWell an update of sorts. It is now going in on the day planned but its completion date is set for 7th June rather than 25th May. We may make the holiday if they are true to their word, but tbh, if they told me it was raining I would have to go outside and look. In all, we have bought three caravans from this lot, and in every case we have had issues with them, from downright incompetence to dishonesty. In this case it took me to get medieval on the MD , with a proper Aldershot style rollocking before we got any joy.
We still havent decided, the jury is very much out, but at the moment we are still leaning towards getting out altogether.
I'm sure that the Aldershot full screw conversation without tea will have focused their minds
Loads of ex forces guys gravitate to lorry driving when their military careers are over Thingy.I think what has got to us isnt so much their attitude, but their blatant lies. That and its been a whole string of disasters. We should have been away in autumn 2019, but you may recall us coming back from Cornwall to find the upstairs bathroom downstairs, or a large part of it. Our last trip of any sorts being summer 2019. The plumbers finally got into gear autumn 2019. In autumn 2020 after, like everyone else the misery of lockdown, brainless billy over the road decided, with his equally brainless mate to play rugby in the cul-de-sac. Every appointment we have had to get the van fixed has been cancelled by lockdown, and when we finally see light at the end of the tunnel, we get this cobblers from the dealer. This by the way, the same dealer that sold us a caravan witha see through roof, and claimed they werent aware. The previous owner ( i rang him to ask) had returned the brand new van for that reason, so the dealer WAS aware. The same dealer that checked my road lights ( i should have checked myself) then got me stopped by the police on the M1 on the way home because my road lights were flashing like a Bangkok bawdy house. That was the LED issue that they were also aware of.
Im surprised you know the "full screw" term, you had some yourself Parksy?
The version of a rollocking this guy had was the full blown bright red face, and veins standing out in the neck, with all four walls swelling outwards, more like the CSM version. Had I not been so angry, I might have admired it myself.
Are the 'stills' squaddie code for inhabitants of an overseas territory which is about 7800 miles from Brum where a certain soap opera character was supposed to be the gardener/ handyman Thingy? 😂I have no doubt those tales, or some very like them, will be passed around over a bottle at some point in the near future. Remind me to tell you about the "stills". Poetic really considering your home area
I painted the outside of our house with Dulux Weathershield emulsion, undercoat and gloss in exchange for a bundle of Spear & Jackson shovels, negotiated at the old Swansea lorry park in the late 80s G&A 😁I only passed my HGV 2 in 1984 but like you Parksy,loved the occasional night out.(usually Torquay lorry park in my full sleeper Volvo F6).
TV...CB...night heater etc,Used to sleep better in the lorry than I did at home.
As you say,plenty of stories to listen to(some true and possibly,some not so).
I used to carry chilled and frozen goods and regularly in the lorry park,back doors open on the lorries doing "swapsies"....ha ha
So what would be the alternative to a caravan holiday?I think somebody already did "All our yesterdays" Hutch.
Hi Kev i hope you get it sorted look forward to the pictures and the update how it doing good luckThingy I might join you!!!!!!
Does any thing ever go right????/
Preparing Mr Fleety today and get to the front locker, the gas bottles stand on a plastic preformed ridge.
But what do I find ..........The bottles are stood in about 5mm of water.
The only way in is through one of the window seals, maybe the middle one which was taken out and replaced when I had the crack repair done.
Thing is its only happened in last couple of days as I replaced the gas bottles last Sunday and it was bone dry.
Another repair on its way.
A occurred to me regarding the insurance claim. On Monday contact the insurance company and tell them that due to all the issues you have been having with the repair, you now want to contact the Insurance Ombudsman and you would appreciate it if the insurance company cna send you a deadlock letter. You need this to progress to the Ombudsman.Not so Trever. Its a combo of a halfwit with a rugby ball and a service dept that tells more lies than a politician.
But of course whilst you may now get your van Thingy how do you measure the stress. the worry, maybe sleepless nights and the rest?I think we are just about sorted, although it has caused upset to say the least. When dealing with so called reputable companies, you should not have to feel the need to lose your temper with them, which I surely did. I have been promised it will be ready by June 7th, if it isnt, they know which hymm sheet I am singing from.
Got hold of the chap who repaired it today, yes I know its a Sunday but needs must, he is coming back to take a look and see what needs doing, but as we are away next week he asked if I could temp siicone the area, and he will clean it off when we return from our break, so I did with sikaflex, he's got a right job on his hands with the amount I put on!!Sorry to hear that Kev. Tbh, if these things werent thrown together we wouldnt have these problems. However in my case on this occasion I cant blame them.