camcondor
Free Member
This may all be common knowledge but I thought I would warn prospective purchasers of brand new motorhomes that they may not be getting the base vehicle warranty that the dealer claims you get........you may think that when you buy a brand new motorhome, your new pride and joy will carry a standard base vehicle warranty in addition to the warranty on the habitation area. It's not quite as simple as that......when the convertors (companies like Adria / Autosleeper / Burstner etc etc etc) buy the base vehicles from the Renault / Fiat / Peugeot etc factories, the warranty starts running from THEN, not from when you buy it a year or two or more later.......so, in effect, your "brand new" purchase may only have a few months remaining on the base vehicle manufacturers warranty.
In extreme cases, if a new vehicle was delayed in the factory and stood on a forecourt for another season, there may be nomanufacturers base vehicle warranty left on it!!!
Our Adria's cab aircon stopped working en route home from the Bubblecar Meet last weekend, and I managed to book it in to a Renault dealer: he immediately checked the warranty remaining and it runs out this month!! even though we purchased it in March 2007!! Renault EU vehicles have 2 year warranties, UK based ones 3, ours a mere 16 months!!! We were certainly missold on this aspect as the m/h dealer was very vocal about the warranties.
BEWARE!! Insist that the MH dealer check the remaining warranty on your base vehicle, give this to you in writing, and then negotiate a top-up warranty from them before you seal a deal!!!
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In extreme cases, if a new vehicle was delayed in the factory and stood on a forecourt for another season, there may be nomanufacturers base vehicle warranty left on it!!!
Our Adria's cab aircon stopped working en route home from the Bubblecar Meet last weekend, and I managed to book it in to a Renault dealer: he immediately checked the warranty remaining and it runs out this month!! even though we purchased it in March 2007!! Renault EU vehicles have 2 year warranties, UK based ones 3, ours a mere 16 months!!! We were certainly missold on this aspect as the m/h dealer was very vocal about the warranties.
BEWARE!! Insist that the MH dealer check the remaining warranty on your base vehicle, give this to you in writing, and then negotiate a top-up warranty from them before you seal a deal!!!
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