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12/3/2025 at 9:10am
Location: North Somerset
Outfit: Freedom Microlite
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sprite1275, look at your service stickers carefully! I fell foul of that apparent assurance. There was actually only one on the drawbar of my Freedom, which the dealer had stuck on following their pre-sales 'check' - I'm not going to call it a service because so many items needing repair had been missed. The dealer's sticker looked very similar to the ones issued by AWS fitters, but when I had a proper service done by a local company, their sticker reads 'Serviced by an approved workshop' and has the red flag with the tick on it.
Glad to hear your wife is pleased with the Coachman - wishing you both lots of happy outings in it!
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12/3/2025 at 12:21pm
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Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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Quote: Originally posted by bofs on 11/3/2025
Don't worry about the tape over the seams curling up - it is a common complaint on more recent Coachmans and seems to be just a cosmetic thing rather than anything more sinister.
Hopefully the service history also includes damp reports, to set your mind at rest.
Same happens on my Lunar, I've reattached/flattened them with a moderately hot clothes iron (a small travel iron - it fits into awkward places better!) with some cotton cloth to stop any sticking to iron sole plate, it softens and 'reactivates' the adhesive. Start cool, increasing heat until effective, DONT go too hot, you risk melting the decorative plastic surface!
Probably do mine every couple of years!
Be cautious if tempted to stick back with fresh adhesive, many clear adhesives yellow with age (to mid brown in time!), so if strips are normally visible, they may become unsightly. All mine are either behind cushions or in cupboards.
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