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PersonMonnty
29/5/2014 at 12:38am
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Do you need an annual service certificate to get on most sites? Are they compulsory for caravan club approved sites.


PersonBattie
29/5/2014 at 2:24am
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Simple answer is no!

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Personmillermicm
29/5/2014 at 7:31am
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No it's entirely up to you. Most caravans do little real mileage. Unless I had a manufacturer's warranty to protect I would no get a caravan serviced every year.

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29/5/2014 at 7:23pm
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It depends on if a caravan is still under warantee, missing an annual service with some caravans would leave the long term warantee null and void.

We have always had ours done for peace of mind, and gives you something to fall back on as far as maintanance is concerned if you should ever be unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident. At least if you have an annual service sticker displayed from an approved workshop it shows that you take care to keep your caravan mechanisms well maintained and running safely. It also tends to get you waved through any roadside checkpoints, as happened to us with our old Lunar. The policeman spotted our drawbar annual maintainance stickers for the previous couple of years and waved us through.

Julia

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PersonMonnty
29/5/2014 at 9:03pm
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Thanks for the feedback. It Turns out I was given a bit of misinformation. Thank you very much. I am able to do almost all maintenance and repair work myself once I learn my way around the caravan. Happy to pay were needed but glad it's not a condition for access.

First trip on Saturday, wish me luck.

Monnty


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Personphilip 22
29/5/2014 at 9:16pm
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Well my Twin Axle is only one owner from new and it had a Annual Service every year so far and I have already got a dealer who wants the caravan .when we are ready to trade it in..


PersonMonnty
29/5/2014 at 9:23pm
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I would agree with keeping a good service record to keep value in the unit and make it more desirable for a trade. but at about 18 years old and the price I paid, it will owe me nothing in a short space of time.

I was not keen on paying a large percentage of the units value to have a service when I can do most jobs myself at cost price.

If the bug bites and I invest in a much newer and expensive caravan then I suspect I would be happy to pay out for a service each season   


Personphilip 22
29/5/2014 at 9:34pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Monnty on 29/5/2014
I would agree with keeping a good service record to keep value in the unit and make it more desirable for a trade. but at about 18 years old and the price I paid, it will owe me nothing in a short space of time.

I was not keen on paying a large percentage of the units value to have a service when I can do most jobs myself at cost price.

If the bug bites and I invest in a much newer and expensive caravan then I suspect I would be happy to pay
out for a service each season   

that your choice but our van is 5 years old only and it depends where you have it service ,
When we had a single axle we got a Annual Service for £85
That was very reasonable to us...


PersonLobeyDosser
29/5/2014 at 10:22pm
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Hi Monnty, I too have an old van and I am skilled enough and have the tools to do my own servicing, however, we bought it when it was sited on a caravan storage site and knew that it had not moved for many years, so we got a Mobile Service engineer out to give it the once over before I towed it home to my workshop.

It was as well that we did because it did have one major fault that he sourced a new part for and repaired it. That fault would have made the towing rather dangerous.

I would, most respectfully suggest, that you get your caravan checked out by a qualified caravan engineer to start with and then do your own annual service from then on.
At least that way you will get a list of all the points he has checked so that you will know what you have to check each time in the future.
If you do use a mobile engineer, you can be there watching him as he does the work.

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