Oh what a feeling.Jayco

JC.

never had any of those probs with our jayco conquest mh..

Had the same problem on Navara mirrors when i put clip-on van mirrors. Flicked the cover off the bottom, bought a long socket and tightened the bolt holding the mirrors. left the cover off as they still needed doing occasionally.

UPDATE:

Went to a Fiat Dealer in Port Augusta today, cannot fix, and no adjustent, would have to replac mirrors but no gaurentee that the new ones wouldn't do the sae thing. They suggested tying a rope to the mirror off the front nudge bar or to the door hinge. Phoned Jayco but that was three hours ago and they said they'd get back to me but have not as yet. Not getting my hopes up, heading north now so out of phone range for about a week or so, will have to wait till Brisbane and try again......Really thjought there'd just be an adjustment. Anyway, gettng used to Jaycos non care attitude so not getting as angry anymore. Still, it's a bit dangerous trying to get these mirrors back into position every few Kms.

Thanks everyone, (except Jayco) will check this page again in a week, really regret getting a Fiat or a Jayco.

Len.

sorry your having trouble with your unit..

If it is a Fiat mirror , It cann't be a Jayco fault or am I missing something

Yep - definitely Fiat dealer is the go.

Cheer up Lenmore, you are bound to meet a good repairman soon, they arent all the same. Best wishes!

You're all probably right, but I started by taking it slow, gave them 4 months to sort out the problems and just went around and around in circles, going in smaller circles now, soon I'll probably be going up my own you know what. But planning to just take it easy, put up with what's happening and try to get things fixed before the warranty runs out next June. I've already fixed a number of things myself and the minor things I can still fix myself, just not sure how far I should go at my own expense considering this thing was bought as new. Just that where I am now (Coober Pedy) is not he best place to slow down and get things sorted....no one here to sort them under warranty, plan to slow down when I get to Brisbane or the Gold Coast.

Out of email and phone range tomorrow for a few days, thanks all for the suggestions and support.

The Jayco dealer in Brisbane - Brisbane Camperland - are great at service, nothing too much trouble for them. I would recommend them - haven't dealt with the Gold Coast dealers.

Don't you just hate it when a thread dies without an outcome ????

FINAL UPDATE.......

I have had some success. Just returned from my 4 month holiday so haven't had much of a chance to post earlier.

The Fiat dealer in Dandenong tightened the mirrors. After being told by nearly every Fiat dealer around Australia that it could not be done, this guy said no problem and took the vehicle into the workshop and tightened them. He would not show me how to get the covers off to do it or how he did it and said I would void the warranty if I tried. I was just happy to have them tight again. The held up fine for the rest of the trip. Wish this guy would tell all the other dealers how it's done....but seems he didn't want to share.

With the other problems I took the vehicle to Dandenong Jayco after a bit of trouble booking it in before their Xmas holiday break, got it in there for a day and they did some of the minor repairs, like replacing the kitchen mixer that fell apart, re gluing an edging strip, replacing a grey water valve that was hanging off and faulty, replacing a storage door where paint was peeling off and a few other minor things. They also unfixed a cupboard that kept coming off the runners because they originally made the rear of the draw space 1cm wider than the front, I had padded ot the rear runner to compensate as a running repair and asked them to fix it properly, their fix was to undo the repairs and now the draw comes off the runners again....what the? I've given up and will fix it myself properly now that I'm home.

I still have some major repairs to be done, like shower wall panels bowing in on hot days, paint peeling on yet another storage door (all the storage doors are a different shade of white, looks odd), rusting exhaust end, luton windows whistle in the wind (annoying when trying to sleep and louder when driving). I've given up on the WA branch of Jayco actually helping, but will put it in for the major repairs when I find a good repairer. Now that I'm home again and have my tools and equipment I'll do most of the other stuff myself.

Still would never buy a Jayco again, I accept there will always be some problems with anything you buy, but with Jayco the problems are due mainly to poor quality control and the use of poor quality or cheaper quality parts. While Dandenong helped and were prepared to fix the problems, I cannot always take it back to Dandenong (from WA) and the WA repairers have so far done more damage that they have fixed. The Gold Coast repairers wouldn't even book it in unless they had at least two weeks for even the most minor of repairs and dealing with Jayco trying to get somewhere for repairs while travelling was an absolute pain, thus I took a deviation on my holiday and took it to Dandenong who also, with 5 weeks notice, could only book it in for one day and only do some minor repairs. Jayco WA branch just don't want to know after they sell you the vehicle, they leave it up the the reparers to deal with customers and refuse repairs behind the scenes (as I was told by one repairer).

Fiat was overall good and I've changed my opinion as it was reliable and got me around without any real problems, although most Fiat dealers let me down on the mirror repairs till I found the only dealer on the other side of Australia that would take a few minutes to fix it properly.