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Quote: Originally posted by BRYANMITCH on 23/6/2013

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Feeling a lot of negative vibes out there!

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Quote: Originally posted by gilb29 on 23/6/2013

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What a load of old tripe I read. it seems people don't like it when others but new caravans ! ! . what ever you buy new that his made by human hands you may get problems. like a new house for example guarantee there will be minor issues. I say stop scaring people with pointless posts like this.
Rant over :)

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Quote: Originally posted by gilb29 on 23/6/2013

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What a load of old tripe I read. it seems people don't like it when others but new caravans ! ! . what ever you buy new that his made by human hands you may get problems. like a new house for example guarantee there will be minor issues. I say stop scaring people with pointless posts like this.
Rant over :)

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Quote: Originally posted by p at ul on 25/6/2013

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Quote: Originally posted by gilb29 on 23/6/2013What a load of old tripe I read. it seems people don't like it when others but new caravans ! ! . what ever you buy new that his made by human hands you may get problems. like a new house for example guarantee there will be minor issues. I say stop scaring people with pointless posts like this.

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Rant over :)

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+1....... I so agree. I have a 10 year water ingress warranty with my new Swift van providing i have it serviced and checked once a year by a recognised service engineer. Fair enough by me then

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As has already been said caravan manufacture is very much a manual process and mistakes will sometimes be made. These mistakes will cause a small percentage of caravans to leak or fail in some way. All manufacturers will suffer from these types of fault. Most of these types of problem are probably fixable by the dealer.

The more worrying scenario is when a manufacturer changes something in their build process which then causes problems later in the van's life. For example, the manufacturer may change the formula for the sealant (either due to a cost saving or they feel it is a better product). In this scenario it doesn't matter how diligent the workforce are as they are working with a faulty product, and the resultant van will be faulty. Its these problems that I feel are the most worrying and will tend to affect just one manufacturer.