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Getting fed up waiting for parts

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Goodness only knows when Auto-Trail will send the parts and the devil only knows when they will get here so I´m back to thinking it may be wise for me to get another van, howsomever which make.
There is no other van this side of the water like my Navajo, all have fixed beds for a start cutting down on my daytime space, I can´t find one with flat flooring, the ones I have seen all have steps inside and steps up to the beds at the back. It must be single beds not a double. Does anyone have any ideas for me? My licence covers C1, but I don´t want a bus, just a 2 berth motorhome. Any tips please.

This is the Navajo layout.
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Yep, getting the right parts would have been my concern too Bill, and that they are a good fit. I imagine that as moulds age the fit becomes a bit approximate.
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Please don´t talk up any more problems.:cry:
About an hour ago I popped in to see my Navajo, Matthias has done as much to the body work as he can, now he is just waiting for the parts to arrive. At the moment he is waiting for a number to arrive from the German tax office to pass on the customs, then TNT can finish the job and bring the parts to him.
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The wait is almost over
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The excitement is building!
Not too much Jean, I just hope they will be the right ones, although Matthias is pretty confident because they were ordered by the part numbers.
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It should be here today as at 5.36 this morning it was in the TNT Berlin depot and thats no more than 70km away. :D
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I wonder what's going on here, what does partially delivered mean for gods sake.
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My guess is that it is still at the Berlin depot.
My guess is that it is still at the Berlin depot.
You guess wrong 😁 Matthias has just called to say he has 3 packages, he is not able to unpack them today, but will call me in the morning when he has.
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I´ll just bore you a bit more.
Went to look at the Navajo, I´m not confident I will have it for Easter, the parts are correct except a different shade of white, but he still has so much to do. I told him to work days, nights and weekends and he said he will try his very best.
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Unfortunately evrey batch will be slightly different also your remaining trim will change colour over the years the only way to get them all same is to paint all the trim
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Unfortunately evrey batch will be slightly different also your remaining trim will change colour over the years the only way to get them all same is to paint all the trim
That is what he will do now Bill, he also has to renew the ( I think they are called damals) the black stripe on the side.
That is what he will do now Bill, he also has to renew the ( I think they are called damals) the black stripe on the side.
9 out of 10 demals is decals:):)
9 out of 10 demals is decals:):)
I thought I had typed decals 😕 you knew what I meant so I get 9 out of 10 :LOL: Thank you.
I had a replacement lower rear offside panel (bumper) on my A-T a couple of years ago Jan and now you wouldn't be able to tell it was newer than the other side so as B says above, they soon fade.
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I`m pretty sure he will spray the whole side to satisfy himself it`s a good job, thats the man.
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You could always use it for your trip without the decals n spraying? It wouldn't look as pretty but it would be perfectly functional.
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Progress is being made, but not as quickly as he would like because he is unable to remove the surrounds of the lockers or the door to fit the new ones so has repaired the old ones. It is a lot more complicated than first thought. here is a part he has repaired or renewed not sure which, there was a lot to understand.

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A lot of time is waiting, now he is waiting for some compound to dry hard before he can carry on, my bed had to be dismantled to remove an inside panel to get the new lining in and loads of other stuff he had to do that I didn´t even think about He showed me the difference between the when new colour and now because when the decal was removed underneath is the original bright white. he wants to get the new as near to the old as possible so I told him to change the colour and make it all red.
It was all very well packed, this is the door which he won't unpack until he is ready to put it in because of all the spray & dust about so I hope to goodness it will fit.

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Getting out the old fly screen and putting the new one in is also not simple.
He still can´t promise to have it ready in 2 weeks but said he will try his best.
He is also going to move the electric connection from under the side flap to a place I can reach without standing on my head, a rather silly arrangement Auto-Trail had.
He managed to find me a new second hand fridge that fits, the new fridges here he said are a few centimetres bigger. The old one has bits missing that either the fire brigade removed or the criminal police removed, they did a lot of work to make sure nobody was trying to get rid of me.


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If it'd not ready by Easter then it´s not. When it is finished I will then go directly to France instead of North first.

I case you have forgotten what it looked like on the 1st of June last year.
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Progress is being made, but not as quickly as he would like because he is unable to remove the surrounds of the lockers or the door to fit the new ones so has repaired the old ones. It is a lot more complicated than first thought. here is a part he has repaired or renewed not sure which, there was a lot to understand.

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A lot of time is waiting, now he is waiting for some compound to dry hard before he can carry on, my bed had to be dismantled to remove an inside panel to get the new lining in and loads of other stuff he had to do that I didn´t even think about He showed me the difference between the when new colour and now because when the decal was removed underneath is the original bright white. he wants to get the new as near to the old as possible so I told him to change the colour and make it all red.
It was all very well packed, this is the door which he won't unpack until he is ready to put it in because of all the spray & dust about so I hope to goodness it will fit.

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Getting out the old fly screen and putting the new one in is also not simple.
He still can´t promise to have it ready in 2 weeks but said he will try his best.
He is also going to move the electric connection from under the side flap to a place I can reach without standing on my head, a rather silly arrangement Auto-Trail had.
He managed to find me a new second hand fridge that fits, the new fridges here he said are a few centimetres bigger. The old one has bits missing that either the fire brigade removed or the criminal police removed, they did a lot of work to make sure nobody was trying to get rid of me.


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If it'd not ready by Easter then it´s not. When it is finished I will then go directly to France instead of North first.

I case you have forgotten what it looked like on the 1st of June last year.
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At least it sounds like they are getting stuck into it Jan. Worra Job! I guess he will want paying so may well get a shift on.

Just started the annual routine for getting Hank sorted for the summer, MOT coming up, few jobs and issues to sort out. Hate this time of year.
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