Caravan Servicing Costs

Where are they locate, AJB, We will need to get the Alde service done soon.

East Mids caravan service are based in Nottingham...but I think he has a 'partner' who covers 'South Midlands' too. Hope that helps.

Thanks, AJB. Will look them up.

Caravaning & servicing & site fee,s are scandalouse caravan parts  are ludicrose. A mixer tap at Lidl £9.99, one for a caravan about £50 to £60. My caravan is an Elddis & I would never deal with them ever again, £27.000 I paid for a new schooner in 2012 serviced every year lots of issues at each service Alde fluid changed at 2nd( problems) then at 5 years pink fluid changed still problems, Then damp in 4 places, here is the bombshell. The 4th service I got done by a mobile service agent half the price, he done a good job as I watched him for a while, then I had to go out, he said he would put service sheet in porch got home its not there rung him, I,m passing your house next  Saturday. Never heard of him since, his liverey showed N.C.C. approved, I have all my other service sheets, My last service showed the damp I E.mailed Eldiss with all the other issues &  the reply was sorry no 2016 service record hard luck pay yourself. I rung customer services & got the same answer, There parting words were take us to court you hav,nt got a leg to stand on. I have been vanning for 27 years I am getting Van sorted & selling up lock stock & Generator, Its disgusting 

if its anything like some of there pdi's.they should be paying us

I have just had my van serviced. A 2011 Bailey Unicorn Valencia. £230 all in. No damp issues and no other major issues. These 1 shot wheel nuts are a nice little number aren’t they?? Can’t ever remember having a car that replaces wheel bolts every time they are taken off. Why can’t they have a castleated nut and a split pin that locks them on? Worst case scenario- new split pin. There may be a very good reason for it and I am always hungry for knowledge so please, if you know why I and everyone else has to pay every year for new wheel nuts, please feel free to explain. The one part that I absolutely refuse to buy for my Bailey is the Blind Clip. That’s the small clip that stops the blind from travelling south once closed. Bailey owners will know the part I speak about. I have 3 broken on my van . £5.99 + VAT Each! That is an absolute rip off. We manage. Other parts are, as has already been covered, ridiculously expensive for what they are. Thank goodness I can do most of my own repairs- Those labour charges add up significantly. I agree with Valda- they charge what they can get away with. 

If you look at the list of things to check you will see it is far higher than on a car. Our dealer says it takes four to five hours and charges £50 an hour so the £250 they charge would be about right if the time is right. We did have a mobile engineer service it before but he missed some serious damp in a known trouble spot so we have gone back to the dealer even though it means having to get the caravan there.

Similar to other replies on here, we have started taking our caravan to a specialist caravan centre for servicing.  We were on the wrong side of a caravan that hadn’t been serviced properly when buying our first tourer. Needless to say its an expense we pay for to make sure the caravan is checked throroughly, providing us with 12 months of peace of mind.

Considering the volume of things to check from damp to the electrics etc, 200 plus isn’t cheap but is a valuable investment I think.

Mobile service engineer services my carvan every year and is fully approved. This year would have been my 6th year but awaiting delivery mid March of new caravan. Servicing is a full 4/5 hour task. Total cost £190. Always new one-shot wheel nuts fitted, no extras as some dealers do such as charge for grease used. With an engineer at your house you get a chance to discusssome of the niggly things that arise. Build up a good relationship with the engineer as mine evens lubricates the spare wheel carrier and makes sure it is not seized. Also every service, checks the security of all the moving parts on my Truma mover.  Wouldn’t trust anybody else now. First class service and worth every penny.

We had ours done by our local mobile engineer this Tuesday past. I'm mostly relieved he got it done just before the snows started the next day, though the temperature was dropping like a stone! 

Total cost was £180 inc a new gas regulator, though to be fair it's a tiny van and there's not much technology on board, so maybe less to do.
My only worry is that while the water heater worked, and so it was warm water he was draining, it may have even so frozen on the way out, so I'm hoping nothing's getting cracked in there. Since he's booked until May there wasn't much chance of re-scheduling.