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02/7/2017 at 10:48pm
Location: Leicestershire
Outfit: Swift Bascamp plus
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Hi all, New caravanning family.
We did exactly the same as Wenbow, looking at new tents at the NEC, back in February, only difference me & a friend bought a base camp each, got a cracking deal buying two at 6pm on the Sunday evening of the show. Been so excited, we were both supposed to be picking them up from Lincoln this weekend, but a slight delay on ours meant ours will be collected next Saturday 8th July. My friend picked his up yesterday as planned & stayed overnight on a site near the dealer, just in case there was anything else required as we are both new to caravans, transitioning from camping. Unfortunately he noticed when they were sat having a drink that there was daylight round the door seal? Opened the large panoramic window & one of the struts ripped it's mounting out of the frame. The power panel was also loose, which when they went back to the dealer & they checked the power panel it fell out?? As you can imagine this has taken the shine off the whole experience for both of us. Is mine going to suffer the same fate, I am now very nervous. Surely the Swift build quality is better than this, fingers crossed 🤔🤔 My two young boys are also so excited, they will be sleeping in the awning. Or one or two nights we will have some cosy family sleeps in the nice big bed😃👍 Hope the collection goes well next week as the following weekend we are off to Cornwall with it for a weeks holiday🤗
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04/7/2017 at 9:23am
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Hi Norfolk Sheep,
Your towing experience sounds similar to ours except we have neither ATC nor a stabiliser hitch. We started to panic a bit on the towing course when everyone else had at least a stabiliser hitch. However, the instructor (who is a full time towing instructor who runs courses for the C&MHC amongst others) took us on one side. He said that there is a perception that a small, light van will get blown about more but that a small van will react less as there is less surface to react to the wind. That's what we're hoping, anyway!
We were expecting to have a strong response to being overtaken by lorries on the motorway (M6 in our case, so quite busy) but, in fact, we didn't really notice anything. We are scrupulous about weight ratios, noseweight, load balancing, towing speed, tyre pressures (car and van) and wheelnut torque so I hope that will minimise the chances of anything untoward happening.
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Topic: Swift Base camp
Agree that Swift underestimated demand quite significantly. Didn't know there were supposed to be wire baskets! Only issue we've had was the external shower attachment which our dealer was in the process of chasing up on handover day, which duly arrived at ours a couple of days later. Other than that everything has been tested and checked (windows opened fully etc) with no probs. I reckon caravan builds are similar to cars- Friday builds are supposed to be the most error strewn!
