Habitation Service
We have booked our Bailey motorhome in for it's first habitation service. We have just been informed that they will need the van for a week. Is this other people's experiences?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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I also have a Bailey Motorhome, in fact I am on my second one, I generally drop it off on a Monday and pick it up on the Thursday or Friday. They loan me a car so there is no hardship as far as I am concerned. Even when we had caravans they were left with the dealer for a few days. I appreciate its different from having a car serviced but often caravan/motorhome dealers don't always have the same number of technicians as say a major brand car dealer.
David
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I used to have a 250 mile return trip of 6 hrs to have the caravan serviced on an in and out in one day set-up. I now have a 16 mile return run and they request having the van for up to a week.
I can see the logic in requesting a week as if parts were needed they would have a chance of getting them in time to make the repair by your collection date.
It's down to the individual. What might be convenient for one owner is a pain for another.
Colin
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I paid £180 for a mobile service engineer to do the habitation check on our motorhome which took 1-2 hour. I checked with Autosleepers and this does not invalidate the warranty, in fact, he discovered damp so we had to take it to the dealers anyway. One issue may be that a mobile engineer may not be able to do warranty work unless he is specifically authorised by the manufacturer to do so.
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I don't have 'habitation checks', just the annual water ingress check to maintain warranty...either way, I have an appointment with the dealer, leave the van, go for breakfast and a stroll, pick up the van two hours later...
the main difference is that, with a caravan, it can be left and one can return home in the tow car....bit tricky with the MH unless another means of transport is available.
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Co2 alarms are checked every day at breakfast, aren't they?
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Err Surely you mean 'SMOKE ' alarms C Y 
,after you burnt the toast !! 0
