I’ve noticed that many of the parts I have bought, sometimes from real dealers (not dodgy online operations) are utter garbage.
A thread for everyone to add the stuff they have found it just ain’t worth buying.
I don’t know if the stuff in my 20yr old Hymer was original, but I know that the stuff I am now replacing with it being under continuous use has not previously failed in our 5yrs of ownership, so what was fitted, whether OE or not, was at least reasonable.
This year alone, I bought a replacement for the OE turbo vent, something from Amazon, with a smoked single skin vent and remote control. It was utter rubbish and failed within 2 weeks of winter operation.
3 months ago I bought a replacement shower room mixer tap with white hose from a dealer in France when the original finally started to drip, it cost over €100 euro, the switch has already failed!
I bought a kitchenette tap, just the spout from a respected caravan dealer in Harrietsham UK just after Christmas when the OE started to leak at a seam. It cost just £10 (just the spout), it has failed, started to leak in the same way after just 8 weeks.
Last year I bought a Truma Aventa Compact AC unit, it failed after 6months with a dodgy sensor, though the replacement part was sent under warranty thankfully.
Last year I bought (ebay) what was advertised as a 1500W continuous, 3kW peak invertor. It failed when a 1.2kW microwave load was on it, pulling 100A. I took it apart and it had a hard soldered internal 80A fuse - it could never have supplied more than 900W at 12V continuously.
It seems that many of the habitation stuff being sold is utter garbage.
A thread for everyone to add the stuff they have found it just ain’t worth buying.
I don’t know if the stuff in my 20yr old Hymer was original, but I know that the stuff I am now replacing with it being under continuous use has not previously failed in our 5yrs of ownership, so what was fitted, whether OE or not, was at least reasonable.
This year alone, I bought a replacement for the OE turbo vent, something from Amazon, with a smoked single skin vent and remote control. It was utter rubbish and failed within 2 weeks of winter operation.
3 months ago I bought a replacement shower room mixer tap with white hose from a dealer in France when the original finally started to drip, it cost over €100 euro, the switch has already failed!
I bought a kitchenette tap, just the spout from a respected caravan dealer in Harrietsham UK just after Christmas when the OE started to leak at a seam. It cost just £10 (just the spout), it has failed, started to leak in the same way after just 8 weeks.
Last year I bought a Truma Aventa Compact AC unit, it failed after 6months with a dodgy sensor, though the replacement part was sent under warranty thankfully.
Last year I bought (ebay) what was advertised as a 1500W continuous, 3kW peak invertor. It failed when a 1.2kW microwave load was on it, pulling 100A. I took it apart and it had a hard soldered internal 80A fuse - it could never have supplied more than 900W at 12V continuously.
It seems that many of the habitation stuff being sold is utter garbage.