duetto owner Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 anyone after a AS Duetto had a email from marquis the last 12 of the production have been delivered to marquis then no more duetto's. they have ramped the price to £41 grand otr. we have a 9month old duetto despite a lot of faults on delivery are very pleased with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayjsj Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 What a Pity, an iconic Autosleeper, AND not on a 'Sevel' chassis. Presumably the Ascot,Eton,Windsor and Wilton (all on Ford Chassis) will be next ? Ray :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duetto owner Posted February 20, 2010 Author Share Posted February 20, 2010 had a good look at the sevel it is not a match on the ford transit [the habitation was done out better though] on the AS range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike 202 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I think that A/S have stopped using the Ford chassis totally. The factory said that there were some differences in the latest chassis supplied and so they were dropping Ford. Only hope that it gets sorted out, even if we have to wait until the next generation Ford Transit due 2011. Maybee A/S would like to comment on the forum ???. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel wood Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 duetto owner - 2010-02-19 5: we have a 9month old duetto despite a lot of faults on delivery are very pleased with it. Duetto owner: What were the faults? How did you get them sorted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 This is an earlier thread on the subject. http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=17889&posts=3 Assuming that the 12 Marquis Duettos are built on the 12 Ford chassis referred to in the Auto-Sleepers/ASOC statement, it would appear that the Transit specification changes mentioned in the statement haven't actually stopped the A-S factory from producing Duetto models. It would be interesting to know exactly what has altered specification-wise that makes it suddenly so difficult for A-S to construct Transit-based motorhomes. If I were a prospective buyer of one of the Marquis "Duetto Dozen" and was aware of the A-S /ASOC statement, I'd also be asking myself what the A-S factory had done when marrying a revised-specification Transit panel-van to an original-specification Duetto conversion. duetto owner's motorhome was certainly no paragon of A-S build-quality virtue and that was when A-S was working with a known-quantity chassis. Modifying the Duetto conversion specification at short notice (which, presumably, is what A-S has been forced to do) just adds to the potential risk of build-quality faults. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duetto owner Posted February 21, 2010 Author Share Posted February 21, 2010 mel our duetto faults on ford side cracked paintwork in rail gullies and sliding side door leaked in heavy rain.......both corrected under ford warranty [took ages to get approval] on habitation minor leaking water tank intermittent ignition failure on cooker [took two attempts to fix] under seat catch breaks, toilet holder broken frayed blind, caused blind to keep catching and crease roof vent the plastic fittings kept falling apart on the inside seals around roof vent peeled away these all fixed by marquis, found them very helpful. heating when run on mains had a clicking noise preventing sleep at night eberspacher fixed this in ten minutes again very helpful most of the above could have been sorted by factory check, or performing a PDI check like cars have. Now thats its running well we are very impressed with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel wood Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Thanks duetto owner. Glad that everything is OK now. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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