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Hi all,  Very excited that we have bought our new to us caravan. We bought an Abbey GTS Vogue 415, its in immaculate condition and we just love it. we thought we would buy a used van as a first because we are bound to dink it at some point. Next one will be a sparkly new one, but for the next couple of years we are more than happy with our Abbey. We are taking it for its first outing this weekend and again next weekend... tres excite!

Are there any other Abbey owners out there and are you happy with yours? have you had any issues that are known to abbey? we couldnt really find alot as they are no longer in trading. If we need parts are they easy to come by?

Any advice welcomed! :)

Hi Guys!!

Well where do i start... WHAT A WEEKEND.

So we head down to the storage siter to pick up the 'van, to our horror it had rained so much it had sunk in the grass and we couldnt pull her out with the car because the car kept spinning out... Awesome... not. so we had to get a couple of the guys from the farm help us pull her out. so we eventually got her all hooked up and off we went.... That was until we got about 5 miles down the road and had to pull over for a puncture on the offside caravan tyre... clearly picked up at the storage site. By this time we were very peeved... So we spent 3 hours on the side of the M5 waiting for recovery to come and change the wheel. £150 later we are on the move again. Now we got to Mendip heights and hubby even manage to reverse her into the pitch first time... He is very proud of this :) Bless him. We managed to get her all set up and everything working and started out holiday... Until the early hours of Monday Morning... Oh My Lord!! 75mph winds on top of the mendips in a caravan... What an experience! got a little scared at one point, but we lived! Haha! Then there was the chore of finding a garage to get the tyre replaced and a new storage site before we headed home today (Tuesday) Which we managed to do and found a site with hard standing and very helpful owners too, a hell of a lot better than the previous site. I'm just wondering how long it will take the old site owner to realise that our van has gone and they call to ask if we have it! (I'll let you know)

So... was it a great first time out? Hell No!

Will we be doing it again... Hell yes! Bring on this weekend, Dawlish here we come.

Haha, i mean what else can go wrong? It's safe to say he have the caravanning bug. Love Love Love our Abbey and she did really well in the high winds too. It really was an experience to watch the storm go through.