Swift Motorhome floor rotting

minnie_cooper

We have just been told at our motorhome service that the floor on our 10 year old motorhome has rotted out and will cost £4000 to repair. This is apparently a common problem with Swift motorhomes of this age caused by missing sealant on manufacture. swift admit it was a manufacturing problem, they were aware of it in 2011/2012 and did not recall the motorhomes because 'not all were affected'. Has anyone had success in getting them to pay for this fault which they knew about and ignored?

C_Mababejive

http://www.practicalmotorhome.com/forum/chit-chat/510-another-victim-of-swift-rotting-floor

unholyangel

Latent defect time limits is either 6 years from purchase or 3 years from when you became aware (or should have reasonably been aware) of the issue - whichever is the latter of the two (subject to an overall 15 year limitation period)

So whether you are able to claim will hinge on whether you should have been reasonably aware of it before now or not.

Should be easy enough to show with records/receipts for regularly damp checks that the issue has only presented itself now so you could not have been reasonably aware before now that it was an issue.

neilmcl

minnie_cooper wrote: »

We have just been told at our motorhome service that the floor on our 10 year old motorhome has rotted out and will cost £4000 to repair. This is apparently a common problem with Swift motorhomes of this age caused by missing sealant on manufacture. swift admit it was a manufacturing problem, they were aware of it in 2011/2012 and did not recall the motorhomes because 'not all were affected'. Has anyone had success in getting them to pay for this fault which they knew about and ignored?

Have you contacted Swift yourself?