My van has been in for a service 2008 swift. The charger has gone capput. The dealer is quoting over 500 quid for a new one. Is this right. I've heard of these Nords going before. Said cant be a warranty claim as over 3 year old.
If you look here you will see the units can be quite pricey, £260 or more for Swifts. Some workshops charge £70ph labour & then you have vat on the whole bill. If the workshop is honest it will be happy to give you a breakdown of costs.
My van is a 2008 sterling which I bought second hand at 6 months old. On our first trip the charger packed up, it happened when we had a lot of lights on and the final blow was when we turned the bathroom lights on (which is 3 lights). A mobile engineer replaced it with an original unit which also blew on the next trip - he came out to us on site and wired in an older nordelectronica unit to work on our van. It had one wire less so the power light on the digital control doesn't come on. He did it as a temporary fix but as it worked I asked him to leave it in and it has worked for the last four years without a problem.
Sargent the swift suppliers do a replacement unit for the crap italian one you would be better to get onto them direct or go though swift,s website SwiftTalk...
Quote: Originally posted by arc systems on 15/9/2012One word... Apuljack?!
I recently used Apuljack. £124 was cheaper than other options and so far so good.....
.....and so it should remain.
Paul is not just a 'repairer', firsts he works out where the weakness is and only then upgrades what is required so it does not happen again.
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