Whilst on holiday the front bed in our Troll collapsed, the aluminium strip that supports the lowered table on the bulk head came off completely. It transpired that the bulk head between the front of the van and the gas locker is a sandwich of polystyrene between two sheets of thin plywood. There is no way that it will support the aluminium strip for the bed. Has anyone else experienced this weakness?
After thinking, my solution is tending towards drilling right through the bulk head and putting an aluminium strip in the gas locker and attaching the bed support with nuts and bolts. Hopefully this will prevent further collapse. Any thoughts on this would be gratefully received.
Many thanks.

Nug von Troll and Audi Boy

I had the same problem, ref this topic

Triton front bed repair

I don't use the front bed any more but the fix did work.

Note the gap between the floor and the rail may not be parallel

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After thinking, my solution is tending towards drilling right through the bulk head and putting an aluminium strip in the gas locker and attaching the bed support with nuts and bolts. Hopefully this will prevent further collapse. Any thoughts on this would be gratefully received.

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Thanks for the help and advice. Nice to see my drill on the final pic, good old Hitachi !!!
Thanks again:)

Nug

Just experienced the exact same problem on our new Troll 540, first time we used the front bed it collapsed and the aluminium strip ripped out of the plywood, was held in place by just 4 small self tapping screws ! Lowdhams tec coming to site to fix it later this week, definately not fit for purpose as it is, hopefully they have a good solution 😬

Never had a problem with either the '01 or '05 540's and I used the front bed quite often. At 17 stone I must be a fair test for the fixings. Maybe later vans used lighter materials?

Picture of the self tappers that were holding the bed rail in position...not surprised they did not hold 😩
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It would be interesting to see a pic of the rail in place on a Cernay built van compared to a Bad Waldsee. One could say, 'so much for German engineering'.

Espesh as our German neighbours are not known for being particularly......ahem......petite.

Credit to Lowdhams, they sent out a technician to site to sort out the issue, he's reinstalled the rail with more fixings and added a good helping of glue, hopefully this will solve the problem. Thanks for the idea about the extra pieces of wood to support the rail and transfer the load to the floor.