Eldis STAY CLEAR PEOPLE- PLEASE!!!

[Taggart2667]

ELDIS ACORDO 135Just had my habitation check completed on my 2019 Eldis Accordo 135. 7200 miles on the clock.

Disaster!!! The service centre says it is riddled with damp and moisture ingress. Just don’t get it… no bumps, not a mark on the body thing is a couple of years old and yet it’s riddled. Asked the guy to walk me thru the whys. ( his estimate is around 5-6k to repair and replace the faulty seals / panels etc. He basically said they are crap. The build quality and workmanship is appalling. He has had a 2022 caravan in a week ago.. last year it passed no issue, just came in for its 2023 and it’s showing damp fails all over. He just kept repeating that the build quality and workmanship is ‘crap’ out off all the makes he does. Eldis are by far (and by a huge margin) the worst. Their warranty program is also poor…. They reduce the warranties by owner… unlike when you buy a 40000 pound car, their warranty doesn’t transfer to the next owner without them cutting off years. He basically said don’t buy and this is from a guy that carries out there services. I am therefore not surprised when I read all the reviews on the forums about there poor product and services. So much for a great British company….!! Also a he gave me a great bit of advice…. If you buy a second hand motorhome you want to check

a/ it has a recent habitation report and check- and visually look at it. yea it cost 200 quid but when you are talking about parting with your hard earned cash… get it checked

b/ check the warranty- if you don’t stick to Eldis (or other manufacturers) annual check list you will not be covered by their warranty.. it’s there get out of jail card. Never mind it cost you 40k and it’s a couple of years old. THEY will do anything to get out of warranties on their sub standard products ( if it was a great product then things like dampness and ingress should be covered without question!!! - not hind behind you were two months outside your annual check - in other words the fact that their warranty is so so stringent tells you the product is poor.

My advice- STAY CLEAR OF ELDIS UNTIL THEY UP THEIR HAMEA

 

[maingate]

Elddis are no longer a British company. They were first bought out by an American company and shortly after it was sold to the Hymer group of companies. Vorsprung Durch Technik does not seem to have been applied to the construction.

 

[wildebus]

Elddis are no longer a British company. They were first bought out by an American company and shortly after it was sold to the Hymer group of companies. Vorsprung Durch Technik does not seem to have been applied to the construction.

I think you will find it is the other way round ... The Hymer group is owned by an American Company (Thor) who is renowned for their quality (or rather their expertise in cutting costs by cutting corners).

 

[Millie Master]

I think you will find it is the other way round ... The Hymer group is owned by an American Company (Thor) who is renowned for their quality (or rather their expertise in cutting costs by cutting corners).

I am truly amazed to read that as Hymer used to be the absolute bees knees of vans when it came to build quality!

 

[trevskoda]

Swift are not much better, still dont understand in this day and age why wood is used, a composite would be miles better.

 

[wildebus]

I am truly amazed to read that as Hymer used to be the absolute bees knees of vans when it came to build quality!

People in the USA used to say that about Winnebagos.
Neither Winnebago or Hymer were ever the best, they were just the most established in their respective markets.

 

[QFour]

Don't know about checking Habitation reports. If you are spending 40k perhaps its better to get a proper report about the state of the vehicle from an independent engineer. Most European vehicles don't have habitation checks just a damp check yearly. The habitation check is just a money spinner for the UK built MHs and Caravans. It is amazing though that the UK manufacturers seem incapable of building a square box that doesn't leak. Most Uk manufacturers used to make caravans and they didn't get as much use as a MH does. Dragged out a couple of times a year for the family holiday was about it and of course the yearly trip to get the Habitation Check done. Plastic taps that were fine in a caravan now break or leak. Seams between panels are stuck together with the cheapest silicon sealer they can find. Amazing that some are still in business but then they do supply the customer with the UK spec vehicle rather than the crappy European one that is lacking in the essentials like a microwave and oven.

 

[Taggart2667]

I agree. I think that is what the engineer was saying. Check it’s complete and for 200 quid (on a 40k spend) get your own completed

 

[QFour]

There have been a few where the selling Dealer has done the habitation checks and of course all is well until it gets taken somewhere else. They don't do much on a Hab Check. I watched a mobile guy do our Swift took him less than an hour and that included the paperwork. £100. People are paying Dealers considerably more.

 

[maingate]

My first van was an Elddis and I had very little trouble with it but I had to fix everything myself. This was 2006 and it was impossible to speak to someone at Elddis about a problem. They had no email address to contact re problems. Every time I phoned they were unable to connect me to someone (he's not in today, he's on holiday, nobody is answering the phone, they must be on the shop floor).

That is why I have never bought another Elddis motorhome.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

A caravan is a very different thing to MoHo, most are two wheeled so you do not get the twisting that a Moho is subjected to, quite how they don't really fall apart is beyond me, but no wonder they develop leaks at the major seals.

 

[trevskoda]

A caravan is a very different thing to MoHo, most are two wheeled so you do not get the twisting that a Moho is subjected to, quite how they don't really fall apart is beyond me, but no wonder they develop leaks at the major seals.

Caravans do flex and big time too, fact is many only go out once a year during summer for a few weeks and then home to be stored away in a shed for the mice to eat LOL.

 

[Millie Master]

A caravan is a very different thing to MoHo, most are two wheeled so you do not get the twisting that a Moho is subjected to, quite how they don't really fall apart is beyond me, but no wonder they develop leaks at the major seals.

You are quite right that a MoHo is far different to a caravan, but you are totally wrong when you say caravans don't flex as they all have a very inadequate weak chassis onto which their bodies are built.