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01/1/2014 at 7:09pm
Location: lincolnshire
Outfit: Mustang
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HI all, I am Rob (37) and based near Grimsby in Lincolnshire.
Recently my wife and i decided to invest in a caravan to help bring down the costs of family holidays for us, our two kids and two dogs.
We had limited funds and thought we would buy something that we could do some minor cosmetic work and restyle the interior to my wife's design.
We eventually found on a well known auction site a early 80's classic Mustang International.
My wife's Grandad was a founding partner in both Abbey & Autotrail brands and after a little research we found out that he was the sales manager at Mustang at the time that our van was built, with my wife being very sentimental we knew this van was the 'one'.
The advert stated the van was very solid with NO damp issues, i decide to call the seller and ask him numerous questions about the van, based on his answers and the wording in the ad we decided to not go and view the van and made him an offer there and then over the phone.
As we currently do not have a towbar on our car the seller offered to deliver the van for a small reasonable cost, when it turned up we had a quick look around and could see nothing to concern us......
How wrong we where.
The next day we had some rain and i decide to have a mooch around in the van to get an idea of what was needed. at this point i noticed drops of water on the roof lining near the skylight, the lining felt solid enough but was very wet. I set about removing the skylight and found the mastic had dried out and in some places was almost non-existent, but more alarmingly the wood around the skylight was sodden and rotten. We had a bit of a crisis/management meeting and decided to remove the roof lining and set about a repair. I made a new frame section for the roof and resealed the skylight, also replaced the roof lining section with some new 3.6mm ply as we are planning to paper. All the old wood that was not needing to be replaced was treated with wood preserver along with the new wood.
Unfortunately this was just the start of our damp ordeal.
After finding the issue with the roof i decided to have a good poke around in seat bases & cupboards to make sure there was no more problems........oh my was there.
In the rear corner in the seat base wall the wall look uneven, i gave it a tap with a screwdriver end and the driver disappeared, all that was holding the wall up was the vinyl covering, the play had completely disintegrated. I removed what was left of the wall covering and revealed a big can of worms.
This has been repaired with new curved frame sections being made and support batons also.
I would like to say that the van is now solid but unfortunately during my poke around i noticed a panel in the front corner that had been repaired, now being very suspicious of this van i set about removing this panel and there it was again...more rot & damp.
As things currently stand i have the full lower aluminium outer skin off on the side so i can gain proper access to the rotten timbers and renew/repair where necessary, i am too far in now to give up and the feeling of hopefully satisfaction & pride we will have when we go for our first trip away in the van is keeping us going.
Post last edited on 01/01/2014 20:34:34
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