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Hi all and wecome to the newbee's.......Hope everyone is well and enjoyed there breaks away in their vans.

Hi there Steve, i rebuilt all of the walls in our casita, it is a fairly easy job to do. If you need any advice just give me a shout, if i can help you i will..

Hi there Dave, what materials do i need to build the wall back up? i think our van is the same as urs except the back end had a seat all the way round,

regards steve

Hi,

I am due to pick up my folder on Saturday.  Is a sterckerman, but have also seen it advertised as a Casita, so not sure if they are one and the same.  Any way am impressed with some of the pics of the "done up" vans.  I had a gobur several years ago which met with an untimely and scary end.  So has taken me a few years to get back to the "folder". 

I didn't realise that you could paint the inside!  Not sure why I didn't but just assumed you couldn't so might have to give it a lick of paint when it arrives, although it doesn't seem in bad condition, just a little dated.  I feel quite inspired to give it a make over when I get it back.

I won't be using it until next year which means I have a good long time to do bits before I use it.

Looking forward to getting back to camping in somthing other than a tent.

Here is a link to the one I have bought

http://www.caravanfinder.co.uk/caravan/Trade/9F516F764D0B6CD580257650004D571B/

I will enjoy reading other owners posts.

Mand

Hi Mand and welcome to campsite! there are a few of us on here with folding and pop top caravans and we have a little Google group just for our vans, here it is, please join :-)

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/folding-caravans

I look forward to chatting with you

Yvonne.

Hello All,

Just joined the forum as we have acquired a 4 berth Casita, and looking for a bit of advice.

One of the torsion bars has snapped and I need to remove this torsion bar to have it repaired, I'm flummoxed as how you removed the brushed aluminium covering which runs horizontally in front of where the bar sits on the wall. I don't want to start pulling and hauling at the aluminium covering as I'm concerned that if I attempt to pull it off, it will pull half the wall off along with it.

So over to the restoration experts.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Rokati

Hi Rokati, I've a suggestion for you, look on here

http://thefoldingcaravanclub.aimoo.com/

And someone may be able to help, campsite is a fab place for help and advice but you might get an answer on the folding caravan club as well as on here :-)

Hi Rokati, glad to hear you bought a Casita, we had a 4 berth 3900 which i literally rebuilt from the ground up....pictures are posted on here in the first couple of pages in this group.

Stripping out the end panels to replace the torsion bars is not at easy task but it can be done.I ended up using 2 sets of scaffolding and a scaffolding plank to support the roof while i stripped the end panel down.....You need 3 days of dry weather as well.

Papadore, and Davenann,

Many thanks for your responses to my query, much appreciated, I've taken up your suggestion (papadore), and posted my question on the other forum, so hopefully someone will have the answer.

Again many thanks for your input.

Regards

rokati

Hi Billy-Dee,

How did you repair the tear in the awning next to the zip?

John.

hi just got a 3100v 1980 have to go get it have no idea how to put it down  any advice welcome.

    thanks dumper