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Thanks Keith

Sounds scary stuff - bet you were glad to keep your new canvas intact!

Our first ever trip out at start of last season we had stiff breezes off teh kent coast but unit remained solid if not a little disconcerting, and that was priobably only 20/30 mph winds I would guess

Hi Nicky certainly wasn't suggesting you were novices, just wondered if anything we could all learn from it really. We are heading towards south coast in April and actually I changed a site from West Fleet to one more inland as I did worry about winds at that time of year being a bit more exposed!

Quote: Originally posted by sunshinetours on 23/1/2012

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Hi Nicky certainly wasn't suggesting you were novices, just wondered if anything we could all learn from it really. We are heading towards south coast in April and actually I changed a site from West Fleet to one more inland as I did worry about winds at that time of year being a bit more exposed!

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Quote: Originally posted by kpnuts81 on 23/1/2012

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Hi Nicky321 when I changed my canvas, awning,seating,curtains and mattresses

Keith

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Hi Nicky we did purchase from pennine and we did pay delivery we could have picked them up but we had them delivered, the canvas curtains, roof linings and awning came quite quickly but the mattresses and seating took 6 weeks and a few calls to pennine because they had changed suppliers and they had to be made I think.

The pullman cabin,awning,inner linings and curtains were £1500 inc vat

matresses and seating were £300 inc vat

delivery was £150 inc vat

please be aware we used a credit card for security of purchase and pennine charged us £37 surchage which given the amount we spent I thought was extortion, totalpaid £1987 seems a lot but bought the camper at a good price and we are planning on keeping it for a few years,however you have to look at what your camper is worth to you or to sell on as to whether it is worth the cost or whether to replace the camper

if you pay buy debit I dont think you pay the surcharge but we wanted a comeback in the event of loss, damage or wrong fitting hope this helps as said have not used the furnishings as yet as nothing wrong with originals we just thought when buying canvas and awning in brown it would look odd but to be honest only we see them and they look fine. Sorry for the length of the post just giving you cause for thought

I do reiterate that I still have the green awning canvas if anyone is interested 

Personally I would try and argue them up to £3750 and sell (oe even p/ex?) the FC for spares and find another one in coming months. The awning itself will be worth a fair bit

Obviously if you are happy doing the work yourselves you could have a newly kitted out camper for not much money BUT you really would need to ensure the structure is sound (kitchen etc) otherwise you would be papering over the cracks so to speak