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Personubuntu1
19/2/2010 at 8:42pm
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Consider getting a mobile engineer to do a pre-purchase report for you. Its not expansive and worth every penny.


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gosh, swifts arnt getting a good reveiw, am also looking at a fleetwood cavalier the guy says its early 90s but am thinking 80,s, it has Dglazing and all  but no cassette loo! it seems fine for age , outsisde a few awning tents and a crack side window! gosh its hard work buying a caravan folks..

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Quote: Originally posted by Rune Caster on 19/2/2010
Quote: Originally posted by jeepster on 19/2/2010I used to have a 1997 Swift, and it became as wet as a sponge!They don't call them "soggy swifts" for nothing!


Ahhh....


Soggy Swifts and leaky Lunars and I suppose boggy Baileys - I doubt you can find a caravan manufacturer that has not had a van suffer from damp and have had a wet name appended to them.

Mind you that's not to mean that the same manufacturer hasn't made vans that didn't leak - they just rarely get mentioned of course...

I think you are right, but if you have a damp problem like I did with my Swift a few years ago, and then start to dig, you can find out quite a few facts regarding problems with vans that the manufacturer would rather people didn't know too much about! Mine was a 97 Challenger and it would seem that there were sealant problems around that time. I spoke to several caravan engineers and they confirmed it!
I also asked the same engineers which vans were in and out of the workshops for damp repairs the most, and which the least?
I think you can work out the answer!



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