Help needed with roof bed.

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Hi I'm a new member and we spent the first night away in our vw trident autosleeper last night. We are new to campervans so i wondered if anyone can help. The pull out board on the roof bed has been put in upside down making the mattress on the wrong side. Haven't a clue how this has been done as we couldn't turn it over as it is too wide. OH thinks the only way to turn it over is to remove the upper window. Any ideas!:confused:

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Hello and welcome
I don't have a Trident but did consider getting one and looked at a few. I might be wrong but my recollection of the roof bed is that the base is in short sections, some slide over each other and some are hinged together. The mattress was seperate. Sometimes velcro strips are used to attach the mattress to the base. It might be that your mattress could be detached from the base or indeed if the base is simply sitting loose on the side supports it could be turned back on itself in sections within the roofspace and slid back so the downward facing front end of the mattress then faces upwards but at the back. You don't say how old your trident is but if it's a T4 like the ones I looked at the upper windows are sliding affairs and are pretty small. You have to wonder how the bed got upside down in the first place!
Hope this helps
Cheers
Gairn
 
Thanks for your reply.
The van is a1990 t25. We went to the the campervan specialist garage today where the van was mot'd and asked them to check the bed, and yes it was upside down. He couldn't understand why it was but he picked it up opened the small top side window and managed to manouver the board out the window bit and turned it straight over.
Did we feel like idiots, yes just a bit. Still problem solved
And he very kindly gave us some bits of advice about the van.
 
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