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Hi we are looking at buying a Retreat Brampton 2011. We have looked at online reviews, some are really good but there's a lot of bad reviews. Does anyone own/ed one. Can you please tell us what you think about your van Thanks in advance

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Hi Robruno,

We had a 2010 Retreat Brampton for 5 years, very comfortable van, did at least 60,000 k's with it. I think it was was about 2850 kg ATM, a nice easy tow.

The only thing to watch out for is the front boot leaks at times. We were so happy with Retreat, we went back and brought the 2017 Retreat Fraser 210C, after a very long search of all makes.

My experience only, others may beg to differ.

Cheers Bob



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Bob, we had some leaky pop rivets in our boot, could that have been the problem?

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Craig1 wrote:

Bob, we had some leaky pop rivets in our boot, could that have been the problem?


 Yeah Craig, there was some kind of black mastic seal under the frame of the boot that had dried and cracked, which let a bit of water in. A poor design as the frame was raised against the body, so water could pool in the corners.

I managed to seal it up pretty well and told the person we sold it to about it and to keep an eye on it. Apart from that, we had a really good run with it and was good to tow. Thought Robruno might answer as well.

All good now, no front window and no front boot, full tunnel boot instead.

Cheers Bob



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