Before and after......

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Also had a new pop up roof and the door realigned.
Feels like we've got a new caravan!
TonyP

That new strip matches well with the silver band on the locker doors....

Didn't you need something done to the roof too Tony?

Yep, new pop top.
I was led to believe that a few of the early 2013 vans had their roofs stored incorrectly before manufacture causing them to become misshapen (bowed?).
The new one is a better looking fit and the inner skin/ceiling is now one piece whereas before it was 3 pieces. It is also a different finish with a pleasant textured effect.

Pete, I don't think the hinges were the problem in this case. The wood trim supplied to Hymer was of insufficient density to take the necessary screw and weight of the locker door. The profiles have all been removed and replaced with the better wood and additional brushed aluminium strip. The hinges are the same. I do agree that the earlier bifold hinges were a much better item though.

I am left with the impression that we ended up with something of a prototype as it was an early production (Feb 2013) with quite a few changes from the 2012 model. The list of faults was quite long!

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Looks like a tidy job
Having said that I bet they wouldn't have had to have done it at all if they'd used the hinges they used to use.
Still, the money they save goes to a good cause.Greece.
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Blueyonder and I have had a similar problem with our Triton in respect of the cupboard hinges and have the same repair as Tony. This was just before we set of on our 4 month trip. The addition of the silver strip looks good, but I am afraid that it has not totally fixed the problem as screws on the hinges are still working lose! I am going to have to explore another solution. We continue to have problems with the hinges on the bathroom (if that is what you call it) door. AL have re aligned and put new hinges on 3 times and they are still bending at the slightest opportunity. AL say that the new vans (2015) have a completely different hinge that allows the door to open through 180 degrees. They (AL) are looking to see if they can be adapted to the older (2014) doors. We will see when we get back!

Simon

I have not been offered new hinges for our bathroom door but I did fit some leather retaining straps to stop the door opening past the 90°.

Tony, how did you know you had a defective roof? I ask because I swear ours is bowing at the back, the back corners appear lower than the middle. I am sure that AL love to find warranty work if they can and have had our van in recently, but you just don't know.

I did not know the roof was defective. AL told me about it when the van was having its water ingress test. If I had chosen not to have the test I don't suppose I would have ever known!

Thanks Tony. We are going to have them fix the bathroom door either before or after the mini meet in Sept, so I am going to get them to check the roof again to be on the safe side.