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Quote: Originally posted by devil99qa on 18/8/2015

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For information for those who need to replace a KAMPA intake valve. Or need to take bladder out for checking or want actual advice on electric pumps, read on. I am sorry if this already a post, but I could not find it!

Had a problem with our 2013 bought Kampa rally air 390, would not retain any air!

could not find a leak or puncture, striped air bladder out to test and found no leaks. Scratched head a few times and eventually found leaking of intake valve, so I put a little water in the intake valve to find a lot of bubbles, which indicated a leak. It was inflated at this time.   searched high and low to find kampa spares, but nothing, took a chance on ebay and bought two valves that appeared to be correct size but they are a fraction too large, they are red and sold in pairs. so waste of 8 pounds.

They did not even fit our inflatable which the seller claims.

So could not source a specific kampa valve on line and kampa wanted 10 quid delivery for parts, when I called them direct to enquire about possible bladder replacement, they wanted £58, so I Purchased two valves for a sunncamp airvolution, taking another chance,and they worked perfectly. No more leaks. Kampa have no aftersales spares service to speak of, whilst other brands appear to do! Hence i will not be buying kampa again for this reason! I need to be able to source parts for gear bought especially expensive gear.

Also I researched electric pumps, because the task of blowing up during my fault finding was starting me to think of going to cheap pole awning. very little information on electric pumps found for air awnings. The kampa version at 99 quid appears to be discontinued or always out of stock, but very expensive, so I looked at the alternative, bravo, but it appeared to have functional issues based on an posted do not buy article. So that was out. The other versions were silly money.

I found one forum that mentioned the sevylor pump for £38 but expected it not to fit the valve based on the author, who stated he had to make some adjustment, also a Kampa rep (online) claimed the pumps were not up to the task!

well for those with kampa air awnings, it is up to the task, and It did it in less than a few minutes to 8psi. I know the awning is tested to 22psi so I could have inflated higher or up to 15psi with this pump. The pump is quiet, good lead length and comes with two hoses, one with a boat valve socket, comes in blue.

so hopefully this information will save you time, effort when you have leak issues, or if you are thinking of getting a pump.   happy to advise anyone if they want to take their air bladder out for testing, its very simple. with little online instructions, well I found none anyway.

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Quote: Originally posted by blueexpo97 on 02/11/2016

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And breathe.

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