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06/7/2016 at 11:11pm
Location: Nottingham
Outfit: Lunar Solaris 524
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About this time last year, I started a post to the effect that Toyota should make caravans. In 2010, I paid about 22 grand for a new Toyota Rav4 and have had over 80,000 trouble free miles. A year ago, I paid roughly the same amount for a new Bailey Unicorn Valencia. I have used it for three holidays and without boring you with detail, it's a sack of ****. It's my one and only new caravan in 25 years of caravanning and I wish I'd stuck to buying second hand caravans. If I were about half my age and had a load of money, I would develop a caravan factory in Poland, as I know that it's a country that produces well educated workers with the right attitude (ask Amazon).
I would produce quality caravans at a competitive price, bypassing the sharks who sell caravans in the UK and I would put Bailey, swift and all the others out of business within 10 years, or at least get them to get their act together and stop treating us as gullible punters.
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07/7/2016 at 8:25am
Location: Cheshire
Outfit: Bailey Senator
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Since submitting my response to the Allutech appeal, although that member has not responded, I have been thru a lot of media and have received considerable response.
It's apparent that Bailey as others have a major problem and that can be addressed in one sentence. Caravans do not meet one basic requirement generally"being a product that is manufactured to function in the outdoors its number one prerequisite is to be waterproof"; sadly, most are not. I am not talking about cosmetic aspects such as sealing a window or door joint, that has been damaged or bumped. The caravan public are being sold short and it is time that this aspect of ownership was addressed or dealt with under one basic rule "fit for purpose". Mr. manufacturer is in denial. My Bailey should have been recalled along with most others, in that the structural integrity of the roof is unfit if it lets in water. Resealing from the outside of the molded contours front and rear is unacceptable. The joint is an integral part of the construction and should be one for life and if it fails as they do, all to frequently, then that is an inherently faulty design and subsequent manufacture. Regardless of age and amount of use.At the end of the day we aren't talking about a knock down priced piece of camping fabric or waterproof sheet, it is a manufactured item costing £30,000 that should observe its basic functional requirement of being waterproof..............warranty terms are not an excuse or a get out, of a responsibility by a manufacture to assemble a product that is fit for purpose. Which is what is happening in that industry.
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11/9/2016 at 8:14pm
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Very Very interested to read all this - we bought a Bailey Olympus 525 2010 in 2011 from an independent dealer, successfully transferred the warranty and took it for it's 2nd service (1st having been done with previous owner) with the only registered Bailey dealer were we live. They told us we had water ingress caused by caravan not being sealed right at factory. They removed and resealed the bumpers and skirts in 1/2013. On next 2 services, damp still showing but going down. Instructed to bring it back for a summer check as checks were usually done in winter in line with service. Took it back last summer after winter service - still damp showing. Advised by engineer to go home pull back vinyl and put blow heater in to help drying out process. Alarm bells started to ring!! Had to cut and pull vinyl back - floor at back of caravan black at both corners and spongy. Done what we were told to do, but floor too damaged, so caravan had to go back to have new section put in at back. Out in van this summer - ball rolled in under front of van - looked up, floor appeared to be spongy at corner. Took front locker trays out to discover more black spongy floor at front corners. Also new floor starting to show signs of black damp again. We seem to be a football, being bounced from the independent dealer who we bought the caravan from, to the Bailey registered dealer who is the only one in our area, and Bailey. We have a caravan that we cannot sell on because of the reoccurring damp problem. We are at present being advised by Trading Standards on a course of action with regards to this. Seems like it is the dealer who needs to sort it - not Bailey, or the Registered Bailey Dealer, who has already done repairs. We are reluctant to have anymore repairs done, as the first repairs have not worked (and we did not get any type of guarantee for the repair work carried out) - we just want rid of it now. We are not prepared to play the waiting game on this anymore - 4 years of hell has been quite long enough!! Our lovely dream of retirement and a little caravan to boob around in has turned into a nightmare...lots of sleepless nights and stress:(
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