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26/7/2016 at 11:52am
Location: Royal Forest of Dean
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If you could post a picture here or on your profile somebody might recognise it and suggest a supplier.
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26/7/2016 at 11:59am
Location: West Scotland
Outfit: Fleetwood Garland and Almera
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dismantle your lights and take the innards to either a caravan breaker or a dealer, it should be possible to get replacements, okay a wee bit of engineering might be required. plan B is to get a trailer board and just run the cable along the chassis, you wont have running lights on the front and sides (perfectly legal, but handy if you are towing in the dark
plan C is to go for a full rewire of the lights, run the cable along the chassis with the splits for the running lights going inside, means drilling the floor and having wiring visible inside the van
Hopefully plan A will work as the innards are pretty straight forward and pretty boshable (been theere etc) even if it means a bit of fabrication
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26/7/2016 at 3:58pm
Location: North West
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As Rob says, a pic might help.
We are having a similar issue with our Abi Marauder, been looking since we've had it (2 years) and although they work, they are cracked and tired and we wanted to replace them but haven't found any yet.
We've just discovered though that some of the other Abi models (450CT etc....) of the same era (1990) have some shared parts so in the process of finding what other models parts might fit to give us more options when looking.
IIRC you can convert them with generic Jokon units but come with No. Plate lights and ours already have separate ones and we prefer to keep it original.
http://www.caravanbreakers.net/
Link to the website Greg mentions in your other post and off to check myself....let us know if you have any luck finding any.
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Maintaining an old caravan is not an exact science. Any similar trailer lights will do the job. Unscrew the old lights making a note of wire connections. Fill screw holes with sealant. Connect up & screw new light holders in place.
Run a bead of non setting caravan sealant around back of light holder before screwing down to seal to bodywork & put some sealant around screws before screwing in to ensure water cannot get in.
It's hardly a 'mistake' buying an ABI. They are one of the better makes of older caravan. Notice how many are still around. It's unlikely current caravan makers would offer spares for their 20odd yr old product.
A pair of these should do the job.
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12/2/2017 at 10:00am
Location: Plymouth Devon
Outfit: Swift Escape Motorhome
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Caravan-components.co.uk. Look at caravan combination lights .
There are some which are the same or near to
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13/2/2017 at 2:12pm
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Where are you based,?google caravan breakers,there are lots on there and,they will give the address of your local ones
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