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 via mobile 20/10/2023 at 8:59am
Location: Lancashire
Outfit: Coachman 460 VIP; VW Tiguan
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I'm not sure exactly what information you're looking for. Is it cost? A dealer will charge a lot more than an independent mobile engineer. Once our caravan was out of warranty, we had it serviced by a local mobile engineer, he charged half of what the dealer charged for a service, and the installation of the solar panel was also half of what the dealer quoted. In our case, we have a Coachman and found a Coachman approved mobile engineer, as the warranty for water ingress is for 6 years, so still needs checking each year, and stamping in the service book.
As for size: ours is a 100w panel, it's more than sufficient to keep the battery topped up in between trips, and we've also had some nights away without EHU, just using gas and solar panel, and that worked fine too.
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via mobile 20/10/2023 at 7:45pm
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We have a Coachman too. We bought it in 2019, when it was 1 year old. The roof certainly is strong enough, the solar panel isn't heavy at all, and there is only 1 wire going from the roof into the inside, which has been sealed afterwards. As I said in an earlier post, our mobile engineer is Coachman approved, so we had no worries about it affecting the warranty. He did a really good job, and we have been very pleased with it, it's enabled us to leave the van on the drive for a few weeks at a time, keeping the battery topped up, and without worrying about the motor mover getting up a fairly steep drive when we go away. It is a very neat job he's done, 4 years ago now, and we've been very pleased with every aspect of it. The only thing I'll say is that it depends on how much light the caravan gets during winter; it doesn't have to be sunny perse though, we don't get sun all day during winter, but it's still been enough to power the motormover off the steep drive.
We're away now, in Lincolnshire, we've had torrential rain for nearly 24 hours now, the hole in the roof feeding the wire into the caravan hasn't let a drop through, and believe me, the rain has been relentless since about 3 o'clock this morning; I know, because it kept waking me up and has been constant all day, and still is now 
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