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SHOGUN30

12/10/2013 at 5:57pm
Location: west mids
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Weve taken our 6 month old Bailey Pegasus to the dealer for a problem to the heating and whilst there asked what they thought the black markes and bumps was on the bathroom floor,and was shocked when they said its DAMP .I know we have a warranty and all that but the idea of buying a brand new van was problem free caravaning!!!!!!

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veema

12/10/2013 at 6:03pm
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I'm not surprised...I'd be gutted too. Even though it's covered by the warranty, what a faff getting it sorted.

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john#mel#3kids!

12/10/2013 at 7:18pm
Location: west yorks
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It's heart breaking to hear of all that money going on a damp van.
Reading the forum threads on here and looking at you tube vids, you're not on your own!
I have just had a habitation check done on my 2007 amara and I have damp in rear corner! Very upset.
Full marks for my suppling dealer, they came up and checked it and said no worries we will sort it at my convenience.
Really can't ask for more.
Hope you get yours done asap.

Fee Fi Fo

12/10/2013 at 7:40pm
Location: Somerset
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Gutted for you. Hope it's soon sorted.

assured

12/10/2013 at 7:44pm
Location: Kent
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Hope you get it sorted

Graeme_Cooke

12/10/2013 at 7:54pm
Location: County Durham
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I'm truly gutted for you but hopefully it will made good under warranty. Is it just me or are damp vans become far too common these days?

Bailey's Alutech system is supposed to stop this but a dealer told me this week that the water now runs down the sides and pools at the bottom and hence the floor takes the hit. Clearly a design floor.

You would think in this day and age with modern manufacturing techniques they could make a van that was waterproof. After all we wouldn't buy cars if they leaked.

john#mel#3kids!

12/10/2013 at 8:26pm
Location: west yorks
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Been over to lowdhams in Huddersfield for a walk round this aft. He was saying how great the bailey and swift group caravans (they sell) are.
When I mentioned the damp recalls he was ultra quick in saying "yeah but elddis (they don't sell) are terrible at the moment, they just don't admit it"
So is it a fact that we can't make a dry caravan or are the manufacturers,that's All of the big ones selling us short with shoddy workmanship when we are parting with 20,000 plus of our hard earned perhaps better put elsewhere money?

em1982

12/10/2013 at 8:31pm
Location: Eastleigh Hampshire
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I would be gutted to on a brand new van. Hope it is sorted as problem free as possible x

john#mel#3kids!

12/10/2013 at 8:32pm
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The official line from lowdhams salesman is that bailey don't have an ultra useful and totally needed front locker box is because the can't get the nose weight down!
No locker box so nowhere to put anything and water seems to be still getting in. Now in my eyes that's more than shoddy, the draughtsman needs a good talking to!

Graeme_Cooke

12/10/2013 at 8:40pm
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I appreciate that vans have to be light but really manufacturers should be doing more. It seems that vans have got worse if anything. Hand built 20 years ago probably was better than today.

john#mel#3kids!

12/10/2013 at 8:55pm
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To find out that mine has some damp was bad but if it was a new Van I would be very upset.
My van is a luxury to my family and me, and to own and maintain it is not free of charge.
It stays on a seasonal so it's not even being battered up and down the roads like most vans, awning been up on damp side for 7 month yet water getting in somewhere.
OK it's a 2007 and not new but still disappointing.
I am just glad that I told my supplying dealer that I had ms and can't tow otherwise I would have been expected to drag up hill and down dale to get it repaired.
Rant over, with this in mind,
Shogun 30 perhaps you could push for the dealer or bailey to do the leg work for you instead of you carting the faulty van all over.

Vectratot

12/10/2013 at 9:05pm
Location: DURHAM
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Is it not that there is so much body flex in vans over the last 10 to 20 years as the chassis is mostley two long members running the full length of the van floor where as older vans they had more of a sustantial chassis with more suspension movement and shock absorbers [Peak and B&B]. Just a thought?

SHOGUN30

12/10/2013 at 9:53pm
Location: west mids
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Thanks for the kind words,it's not just a bailey thing either in the workshop was swift & lunar both with damp,the front was out the swift the side out the lunar neither of these vans were very old!! The dealer took photos and is gonna speak to bailey Monday morning , we go away next week for a week and now I suppose that will be the end of our season now,

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June Evans

12/10/2013 at 10:21pm
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Hope you get it sorted quickly not really the sort of problem you expect with a new caravan

G7ACU

12/10/2013 at 11:25pm
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I'd be really p****d off myself. I count myself lucky I think, as none of the services on our van have detected damp issues (yet), whereby newer vans seems almost prone to the problem.

Given the fabulous claims over the Alu-tech construction, I'd be more than disappointed, but as Shogun has pointed out, this clearly isn't just a Bailey exclusive problem and there seem to be more and more threads of users with newer vans complaining of damp.

Hope you get a speedy resolution on this Shogun, keep us posted.

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Rob2011

13/10/2013 at 7:07am
Location: Dewsbury West Yorks
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Really sorry to hear your disappointing news, our neighbours on our seasonal pitch have had their alu tech bailey back to the dealer twice now with a damp bathroom floor. We have been looking at a new van but have decided to stick with our 1999 abbey vogue as just serviced an dry! I too would be gutted if i part ex'd for a new van then ended up with such problems. Friends of ours spent £15k on a new lunar which has also spent more time back at the dealers than they have used it! They have caravan envy on us which is unusual as we use our old faithful most weekends!

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