Habitation Service cost

My habitation service has averaged out at around £250 a year not much different from my caravan before that. We don't know how old the OP's motorhome is and whether it is still in warranty. If it is it may be a condition of the warranty to have a habitation service each year by an approved dealer/approved mobile service agent. If outside the warranty period people are free to decide on the need for the habitation service. I also assume that taking it to the alternative dealer involves the OP in extra inconvenience but there is quite a gap which might make it the preferred choice?

David

People are free to decide on the need for the habitation service at any time, David, irrespective of warranty.

Are you referring to van conversions or motorhomes generally? 

David

My Adria is 2018 and I agree with your comments re warranty etc.. Ive tried penny pinching on such serious matters before and its backfired, so its complying with the warranty rules for me. The dealer I have chosen for cost reasons is the same distance to travel from my home address as the supplying dealer,, after 3 years I will have the Hab service done on my drive. If people wish to cut corners on gas safety its up to them but I have seen the misery it causes at first hand too many times for the sake of a few quid.

If people wish to cut corners on gas safety its up to them but I have seen the misery it causes at first hand too many times for the sake of a few quid.

You place an awful lot of faith in the apprentice at your local stealers.  There's a fighting chance your new Adria came out of the factory in good working order. By the time some young lad in the back yard of the dealers has faffed with it, whilst half high on last nights Cannabis and now busy texting on his phone, it may well come back worse than it went in, something I have seen far to often with my own vehicles for them to ever grace a dealers unless it is something I simply cannot do myself......

But everybody is different. You have clearly identified how you wish to proceed and as long as you are happy, that's perfect......

Ah, TT, you took the words right out of my mouth.

I can’t add to that other than to say we have twice agreed to buy caravans from dealers which we had been told had just been ‘serviced’ only to detect gas leaks that the dealership had missed. My special gas leak detector (nose) was obviously a tool not used by the ‘technician’. 

that's why I left the motor trade , there where too many "experts" out there who knew better 

Some may even have had greater experience of such things than yourself, Husky. 

And not enough punters prepared to pay £250 for an oil & filter change and a "check" over, when the parts can be bought for around £40....

That is where the choice of dealer service depts is a bit hit and miss unless like us we know all the staff and they know we will not shy away from "getting it sorted"if we are not satisfied