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Personsusiejane
01/9/2013 at 1:16pm
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We have a Lunar Quasar 462, 2 berth caravan and sometimes when making up the bed, the slats come off the runners as I pull them out. It also happens when putting the bed away. Any idea how I can avoid this happening as it it such a pain to have to remove the central drawer unit to get all the slats back on track!


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You might have to add an additional wooden rail so that they don't fall out.

Our abi daystar was the same, I just took my time making sure I was pushing or pulling from the centre.


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PersonGrampian91
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Do they push in and pull out smoothly? If not maybe a bit of furniture wax or even candle wax rubbed into the runners to help lubricate them.


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They do push in and out easily enough but seem to go askew sometimes, I think lunarvenus is right I will have to make sure they are pushed dead centre.
Thanks for your replies


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I think this happens on most vans. Certainly has on the vans we have had. The trick is to just take your time and keep them straight. Only takes a few seconds longer, but saves the hassle of trying to get them back on.


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We have given up on ours and OH has made a hardwood panel that sits where the slats go instead. We were fed up with the bed collapsing!

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Quote: Originally posted by clever on 02/9/2013
I think this happens on most vans. Certainly has on the vans we have had. The trick is to just take your time and keep them straight. Only takes a few seconds longer, but saves the hassle of trying to get them back on.


Thats the way to do it.


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https://youtu.be/JR5HTrLi78E
Bed slat problem resolved easily

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https://youtu.be/JR5HTrLi78E.

That’s the link from above. Handy to know thanks.

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 30/5/2023
I wonder if the O/P still has the same van, as the post is 10 years old. I don't recognise most of the names of posters on it.


Well spotted Colin, but it’s handy all the same.

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 30/5/2023
I wonder if the O/P still has the same van, as the post is 10 years old. I don't recognise most of the names of posters on it.

Probably not but just wanted to get this out there as we have had our van 4 years and only now able to use the double bed


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Just sold on the 'offending' model van very recently. I found if you pull the slats out uniformly, and push them back the same way, they stayed on the rails. But, some of the bench seats seem to be over-wide apart, which meant the rails could still drop out as the gaps either side of the slats were too generous. The only way of curing this, apart from fitting longer slats, is to glue a fillet of timber - maybe 15 x 5mm, inside each runner to reduce the span.



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