Awaiting new caravan

Tarmyn
Tarmyn Forum Participant Posts: 49
edited December 2017 in Caravans #1

Picking up a new  Compass caravan shortly in the new year what’s Elddis /Compass like these days since been taken over? be interesting to know from recent buyers of 2017/18 models .

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  • young thomas
    young thomas Club Member Posts: 11,357 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited December 2017 #2

    there have been a few threads about the possible 'Hymer effect' on the Elddis company, mainly just thoughts from posters and titbits picked up from magazine articles.....so not much concrete stuff...

    for customers, its going to be 'wait and see' to understand which direction Hymer want to exert their influence...

    however, i would have asked my 'what are these vans like' question before ordering one....

    we do seem to get a lot of these where folk tell us theyve ordered a new van from xxxx and ask others to pass on experiences....

    might be a bit late if you get a lot of the 'wrong type' of responses...

    however, i wish you well with your purchase.. 

    interestingly (just had a quick poke around the Elddis website) they have kitted up a young couple with a MH and sent them off to the european mountains to report back on their lengthy skiing tour....id be i terested to see how an 'off the shelf' UK van performs miles away from the market its been designed to work in.....

    theyve equipped it with the 'winter pack' (which they seem to think should make all the differne) so i thought id see what this amounts to......well, its this......

    Winter pack - tank heaters for fresh and waste water plus fridge vent covers - £320

    good luck to them with that.....

    ill look out for their blog....it also might give ypu a few pointers as to its 'cold weather' capability although (i guess) you wont be going up the Alps in your new caravan....

    good luck to you too.

  • lornalou1
    lornalou1 Forum Participant Posts: 2,169
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    edited December 2017 #3

    good luck with the new purchase. I have a friend who works as a service/repair technician at a local dealers and he told me when i was buying my first van 6 months ago to avoid Bailey and Eldiss as worst for damp, but only his opinion.

  • HelenandTrevor
    HelenandTrevor Forum Participant Posts: 3,221
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    edited December 2017 #4

    We  bought a new Elddis affinity this year, so far very pleased with it. It's our second Elddis van and we kept the first one for 9 years and no problems or damp.

    Hope all goes well with your new van. 

  • JVB66
    JVB66 Forum Participant Posts: 22,892
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    edited December 2017 #5

    Which does not pan out as our dealer of both Bailey and Coachman say that both of the makes they sell are now pretty bomb proof as far as damp is concerned but Coachman not good on supplying parts,

    The "hymer effect" on the Eldiss has yet to be seen,but no matter what L/V you buy the majority of problems seem to arise from the dealer who sells them,and whether they do a decent PDI,if at all these days? or rely on the purchaser to find any "problems" so the dealer can rectify them and make a claim for warranty work from the manufacturerundecided

    We were in Surrey yesterday and got speaking to another of the guests who had purchased in October a new motor caravan  from a Marquis dealership in Dorset, and was saying just how poor or non existant  the PDI had been with the "problems" he had found,with it and ,talking to him it seems that although some should not have been there most if a PDI had been thorough should have been rectified before handover

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