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Subject Topic: Bailey Alu-Tech Caravans, Leaking Water.
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15/5/2019 at 1:03pm
 Location: County Durham
 Outfit: Explore 304
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The caravan industry as it is, is similar to the UK car industry back in the 60's and early 70's.

The UK car were pretty shoddy at best and downright terrible at worst. The we got a sudden influx of Japanese cars that just worked and the UK car industry was forced to change or go bust.

If anyone has been onto a modern caravan manufacturing line its like going back in time.

Now I'm not saying that everything should be automated (as much as possible) like the car industry, but something definitely needs to change.

Luckily I have a dry van and have no intention of getting rid of it as I have read far too many scare stories on here.


07/3/2020 at 12:24pm
 Location: warrington
 Outfit: bailey unicorn 111cordoba
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Recently bought bailey unicorn cordoba 2016 had a service guy found damp patch about 14"round near where the water comes in from outside thought it to be a leaking pipework then a bit later outside on ladder cleaning outside noticed a 2"gap inthe rubber seal on the awning rail to roof so my thinking was it was goiing in at the top running through down the inside of the sidewall alutech and weeping on to the floor


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via mobile 07/3/2020 at 1:27pm
 Location: South Wales
 Outfit: None Entered
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The rubber infill in the awning strip doesn’t actually act as a seal it’s just there for decorative purposes. If there’s a joint in the rails where the front and middle section meet it could be coming in there.


08/3/2020 at 9:32am
 Location: warrington
 Outfit: bailey unicorn 111cordoba
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thank you as it happens the 2"bit that has shrunk back is rright on the the front joint vertually obove where the damp is


08/3/2020 at 1:43pm
 Location: East Midlands
 Outfit: Coachman VIP 575.Santa Fe
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About 100 contributions and over 32000 views on here.
Perhaps the Club should take note .It has the power to force up standards through the magazine but for some reason which is not in its members interests chooses to remain silent.
Will someone volunteer to stand for election and tell them about supporting its members.

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Mister G


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via mobile 03/9/2020 at 11:43am
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We have an issue with our 2016 verona floor starting to degrade in the front nearside and rear offside due to water ingres. Anyone out there with similar issues?


03/9/2020 at 12:06pm
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Good luck to you.....we did take legal action and the law , in my opionion, did not support us fully....we did get the seller to take the caravan back after almost 7 years of problems, but long story short, dealer had it on their site that afternoon for sale (still damp, as we had got another independent survey done before going to court) for £5,000 more than we got for it....and they insisted that the mover....which we had bought and put on ourselves (£1,000.00) was included in settlement. We were told by our legal team - it was the best deal they could get us!! We had taken it through our home insurance - Legal Assistance Cover and had to pay some of the costs ourselves. Only way I could protect someone else from that caravan, was to make sure I put on the Crisis transfer reason for transfer "Recurrent Damp from Manufacture" Of course, they will only see that if they pay to register. The whole industry stinks. We looked at 3 other private caravans after that to buy - had independent damp tests done on them - all 3 had been serviced within last 6 months of us looking at them - all damp. In fact, 1 owner sold theirs on to a dealer because we had informed them of the damp, and when we rang up about it, we very quickly realized it was the same caravan we had looked at a few weeks ago privately - dealer confirmed owner name with us - we asked was their any damp in caravan - of course answer was no - we then informed him that we had looked at that caravan a few weeks ago and had a independent damp report done on it and that damp was found in it......a lot of tooting went on....dealer then told us he would check it again and ring us back.....2 years later we are still waiting for the call!!!! We did eventually, on our 4th independent damp check....find a dry caravan.

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06/9/2020 at 10:02pm
 Location: Teesside
 Outfit: Challenger Sport 524 + Volvo V90 D5
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I have a 2014 Swift, bought new, which is used all year and has been all round Europe and the UK. It has had no problems with damp or anything else.

I sometimes have a hankering to change, but feel that I wouldn't want to take the risk of ending up with a £25K leaky lemon.

But I do wonder if the fact of us using the 'van regularly and throughout the year has something to do with its reliability, in the same way a seldom-used car is likely to be unreliable.

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