Having used John England to service my Eriba and that John has now decided to cut back his work load, I was wondering if any member around the Gtr Manchester area could recommend a local service engineer with experience on our type of caravans.

For those of you that know John, we spoke recently and he is fine and well and still doing work but not as much travelling

I used to have our 555 and 540 serviced by John, so I was also struggling to find a good service engineer. I asked someone who has an Eriba and lives in Warrington where he goes, and he recommended Northern Caravans in Longford St, Warrington. If you’re in Swinton, it’s 30 mins away.
You can get all their details from their website.
Had the 540 serviced last month, and was very impressed with them. They’re only a small outfit, but know their stuff. As they’re so close to you, I would definitely recommend visiting them first to book your van in, and have a look at how you drop off on the day. It looks like a very busy little street, but everything was fine on the day. You basically park outside the unit, and at 9.00am, they come out, check over the van, and then push it into the workshop.

Hope this helps.
Cheers Mark

Thanks Mark, will check them out

Hi to you both

This is an interesting one for me too.

Since buying from Cameron in Poole in 2016 we have used AL at Tebay for servicing but it is quite a drive from Clitheroe. We are not unhappy with them at all and always make a few days of it staying at the C & c C site in Kendal or the C & MC site at Meathop Fell near Grange.

However Kath & i are not remotely light campers and our Troll & Karoq are always well-loaded. it is always a pain to unload the van ready for it's service and then reload it at night on site to continue our break. As our bodies start to cooperate less with our gentle requests to live and move things we are finding this to be less fun............

We are seriously considering taking our 540 to a generic servicer locally or getting a mobile engineer to perform the task on our drive. Our dental hygenist is passing on a number of someone they use & are happy with. A task in progress at the moment...

MikeT

Hi Alf
How are you liking your Karoq?

MikeT

Hi Mike sent you a message

Mike,
There used to be a chap in Barrowford who bought and sold Eribas as a small business/hobby. Not sure if he’s still trading, but if you could contact him, he might give you some info on good local caravan maintenance outfits?

Cheers

Hi Mark

Thanks for this.

I do remember him being in business in 2015 when we were looking for a Troll but he had nothing suitable in stock and we ended up ordering one from Cameron in Poole.

Just checked online and he still appears to be in business with a couple of elderly Pucks for sale but he (Tony Lloyd, ) mentions getting one of the Pucks serviced by a competent engineer so it doesn't look like he does servicing himself.

Thanks for the heads up though.

MikeT

I live North Manchester and I use JMB Leisure services, Jeff is a mobile engineer and he will come to your house, he is also a member of the Approved workshop scheme

https://caravannersrus.com/businesses/li...eisure-services

Cheers for that, spitting distance from me, might even know him.
will give him a call this week.

This is interesting as bought my 540 new from Poole in 2022, just had 2nd service but is a slog from sunny Slough. Do you experts recommend sticking with an Eriba specialist or can others do a service?

We have ours serviced by a local Approved guy who does it on our drive. Most stuff seems fairly generic. We made the long trip (for us) to John England when we had a specific Eriba problem.

Thank you for posting those,Colin. I am getting my Triton out of storage today for first trip away next weekend (yay!), so will use your guidelines for that. I do almost all my own servicing, just getting gas and brake checks done by a local, recommended, generic caravan service agent.

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This is interesting as bought my 540 new from Poole in 2022, just had 2nd service but is a slog from sunny Slough. Do you experts recommend sticking with an Eriba specialist or can others do a service?

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