Message Forums

After the recent heavy rain it is evident that the awning rail is leaking into the van. I have bought some mastic roll and some sikaflex 512. I intended to remove both side awning rails clean both surfaces and seal with the mastic roll and sikaflex.

I asked my local caravan repair guy for advice. He told me not to remove the rails but to run sealant along the sides of the rails. He also said that the sikaflex wasnt a suitable mastic??

What do you think. I would rather do a permanent quality repair than a fix for a few months or so. I also assume that the leak could be from the screws so running sealer down each side would not help??

I have already resealed the horizontal rails with the mastic roll and apart from the odd rusted screw was fine

Cheers Mark

just sealing the edges is just a quick fix that might last you a season, i would take the rails off like you said,

when i did mine i put new mastic on then ran a bead of sealent either side just to be sure, its a good idea to replace the screws at the same time.

mike

look at wizards site for all the info required

Front Body to Roof , Rail reseal. Plus lower front awning rails , reseal

http://www.1carpc.co.uk/wcdr/

Quote: Originally posted by mark bodsworth on 06/12/2009

---

Cheers guys will get stuck in to it soon

---