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Tag Archives: Servicing

Checks and Balances… or not as the case may be!

06 Friday Jul 2012

Posted by Simon Barlow in Caravan Servicing, General, Maintenance

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Glossop Caravans, Maintenance, Servicing, Swift Group, Swift Talk, Wheel Balancing

Sue and I have just returned from dropping off our caravan at Glossop Caravans for its first service. I’m in shock…. for two reasons.

I originally booked the van in for its service just over a week ago and having never booked a van in for service before, I didn’t know what to expect, but guessed it would be like booking the Freelander in with the Land Rover main dealer…. which it was. Up to the point we dropped the van off this morning when I was asked when would I like to collect the van… I said I was local so any time……  and was expecting to be told “around three o’clock”….. I was not expecting “……next Wednesday” If I’d have known that we could have gone away for the weekend instead. 6 days does seem a bit excessive for servicing a caravan. The next shock was something I hadn’t expected at all.  Continue reading →

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