Arghhhhh! Broken the bed again!!

barryd said:
On my new van on Christmas Day!! Grrrrr! The old old one (rear lounge bed runners) broke a few times and I always carried a few spares lengths and cut offs but of course I don't have any for this one. 2015 Swift Esprit 496. Its just one end where its started to come away and may be usable with care but my immediate thoughts were to just get some wooden supports to prop up the broken end and hopefully stop it splitting further along and rendering the bed unusable. We are in the lake district so I have emailed Bardsea leisure in Ulverston. They wont have them. So my task for now is to jury rig a temporary repair. I guess ill be taking the hacksaw out with me today then! :love:
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The bed supports on our rapido group PVC started to fall apart, amongst other things, within days or weeks of brand new. Too far to take it back and then wait weeks for repairs so a diy job straight away. What a load of rubbish!
 
JQB said:
The bed supports on our rapido group PVC started to fall apart, amongst other things, within days or weeks of brand new. Too far to take it back and then wait weeks for repairs so a diy job straight away. What a load of rubbish!
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How did you do the permanent fix with pictures if possible.
 
JQB said:
The bed supports on our rapido group PVC started to fall apart, amongst other things, within days or weeks of brand new. Too far to take it back and then wait weeks for repairs so a diy job straight away. What a load of rubbish!
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As above from Pudsey. Would be interested to see what you did. I need a solution I can bounce around on as much as I like. 🤠
 
Well I have a load of nice timber supports now to play with. Local hotel owner in Windermere had a shed full of nice (dry) offcuts. Time to get the hacksaw out and do some proper man stuff! 😎
 
Get in!! Proper job!!! I'm a well ard joiner type me you know!!! Almost matching wood as well.
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It get worse. Last night I had to dismantle half the van. It seems one of the bits that is broken is like a narrow rail the knobbly bits on each bed slat slots into and despite me managing to pull it out each night so far they had come out of the rails and wouldnt pull out last night and were just locked underneath. This involved removing all the stuff off the back of the van, all the cushions and unscrewing the wooden cover into the garage to carefully feed them in but the rails just keep pulling apart. I got it sorted eventually but it took me a good half hour around midnight. Thankfully sober. I might leave it half out tonight or just sleep in one side as a single which is a bit naff. Bloody thing.
 
barryd said:
It get worse. Last night I had to dismantle half the van. It seems one of the bits that is broken is like a narrow rail the knobbly bits on each bed slat slots into and despite me managing to pull it out each night so far they had come out of the rails and wouldnt pull out last night and were just locked underneath. This involved removing all the stuff off the back of the van, all the cushions and unscrewing the wooden cover into the garage to carefully feed them in but the rails just keep pulling apart. I got it sorted eventually but it took me a good half hour around midnight. Thankfully sober. I might leave it half out tonight or just sleep in one side as a single which is a bit naff. Bloody thing.
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It is a shite system Barry but easy to make.

It is much better structurally to have half the bed support slide out from each side.

This is basically the style up have and glance show the rails as a very weak point so why not have extruded aluminium made instead.
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actually when you get home it's not be a huge job for somewhere to fabricate the exact shape out of steel strips and angle and have it powder coated in a colour to suite the van.


Some PVC vans have this style one on each side (longer than this) some have legs to support the middle bit.

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Pudsey Bear said:
It is a shite system Barry but easy to make.

It is much better structurally to have half the bed support slide out from each side.

This is basically the style up have and glance show the rails as a very weak point so why not have extruded aluminium made instead.
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actually when you get home it's not be a huge job for somewhere to fabricate the exact shape out of steel strips and angle and have it powder coated in a colour to suite the van.


Some PVC vans have this style one on each side (longer than this) some have legs to support the middle bit.

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Cheers Kev. The rails on this seem way more complicated than the old van. Over the years a section would break but I had spare bits and I would just whack them in. I bet these will be a bugger to replace but it seems like an even crapper design than the old one. Its a project for when I get home but its going to have to be sorted.
 
barryd said:
Cheers Kev. The rails on this seem way more complicated than the old van. Over the years a section would break but I had spare bits and I would just whack them in. I bet these will be a bugger to replace but it seems like an even crapper design than the old one. Its a project for when I get home but its going to have to be sorted.
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Send some detailed pics or better video to Tim, he'll be able to design a better method of support for it, Feck I already have but he's an engineer not a guesser, stupid stuff like that just spoils a van
 
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