Habitation Service

I have a caravan not a motorhome but my service engineer has our van for a week.  We drop it off on Sunday morning and collect the following Saturday morning.

Usually you can have a MH hab service while you wait. To me, a week seems ridiculous for something that will only take an hour or two, especially when it could be your only means of transport.

In your place I’d look elsewhere and also consider a mobile technician who would service it at your home.

A week for a Habitation service ? ?, are sure they are not holidaying in it. That seems a long time.

I think that is for the convivence of company so the engineers can drop onto your motorhome as and when, our mobile engineer  only takes a matter of hours to service our caravan and that includes a chassis service ie wheels off brakes cleaned and checked etc. 

We used to leave our caravan for a week, it was easier for us. The first MH service was just a day. The second because of covid they wanted it on the Friday, left it over the weekend, did the engine on the Monday and Habitation on the Tuesday. Next year it is just a hab service and is currently booked in for 3 days. They say the actual time will depend on their covid precautions at the time of the service.

Too many people/companies hiding under the guise of COVID these days .... nothing changed in our house hold re COVID workwise.

I'd be looking elsewhere ... somewhere that suits me and not the garage.

If it suits you why bother about the timescale as there may be more than one qualified person working on different parts of your vehicle, it may be for their system to work it may be "looked at "on different days to be a coved safe work place

As others have said, a week seems ridiculous.

I have my van done by a mobile caravan and motorhome service engineer. I have used two different businesses both of whom had two people sharing the checks from very well equipped vans. They have taken between one and two hours.

Of course this is just habitation. A few responders have referred to servicing the base vehicle as well. This work is surely entirely separate and requires a motor mechanic. For this, I take my van to a local truck and van dealer. They do MOTs, servicing and repairs. Even then, apart from when they had to do some body shop repairs on a previous van I owned, they have never had my van for more than a day. Usually it is only half a day.  

Do you know the cost of the habitation check? The most I have paid is £150 - that's for the habitation check alone with any additional work being extra of course. My last habitation check was £120. 

Makes no difference to us, we are not away much in February. It’s two journeys whatever. If it makes their staff feel safer, I don’t have a problem with it as long as they do the work. At least they have allowed for it, as things are now much more normal, it may well be just the one day.