Truma has launched a condensate spout for its Combi heaters. It’s a 15g black plastic plate that clips onto the wall cowl and steers condensate away from the side of the van.
On paper, it’s a minor accessory. Look closer, and it’s something more useful for dealers.
Truma is stepping into a category that 3D printers and eBay sellers have owned for years. And it’s using approval and warranty as the reason to buy genuine. That changes the conversation at your parts counter and at handover.
What Truma Has Actually Launched
Strip out the marketing and the facts are short:
- It fits the next-generation Combi D (E) diesel heater and the Combi (E) gas heater. CombiNeo is not on the compatibility list.
- It clips onto the wall cowl with built-in retaining clips. No tools, no screws.
- It measures 120 x 110 x 2 mm, sticks out 57 mm from the vehicle wall and weighs 15g.
- It’s made from high-density polyethylene, rated from -50°C to 80°C.
- It must come off before you drive away.
The release is dated 20 August 2026 and the UK product page is live. Truma hasn’t published a UK price or part number. It points buyers to its dealer network, but we couldn’t find the spout listed on the UK dealer and retailer sites we checked.
The Problem It Solves Is Real
Anyone who has heated a motorhome through a cold night knows the result. Warm exhaust gas meets a cold cowl, condensate forms, and it runs down the bodywork.
Below freezing, that water turns to ice on the cowl.
Owners have been fixing this themselves for a long time. UK motorhome forums carry threads about ice on the Truma flue, with owners swapping links to 3D-printed drains and even a clothes-peg trick.
The demand already exists. Truma is arriving late to meet it.
Why the Approval Argument Matters
Alde already sells its own condensate spout, listed by UK retailers at roughly £8 to £17. 3D-printed versions sell on eBay and Etsy for around £9 to £14, and many of them screw in under the cowl cover.
Truma can’t win that fight on price, so it isn’t trying. Its pitch is approval.
Truma says other drip lips have not been approved for use with its heaters. Its support pages go further: it says unregistered spouts and drip lips can cause the heater’s type approval to lapse, and an older service blog warns they can affect the warranty.
Let’s be fair. That is Truma’s position, and we found no UK regulator or industry body that confirms it independently.
But it’s Truma’s warranty, and that alone makes it hard for a dealer to ignore.
What This Means for UK Dealers
The margin per unit is small. The value is in what it signals to the customer. Here’s where it pays:
- Stock it next to your Combi spares. It isn’t on UK shelves yet, so the first dealers to list it will have the search results to themselves. Get the trade price and part number from Truma UK or your distributor before the winter enquiries arrive.
- Add it to the handover. Every Combi-equipped van that leaves your forecourt before spring is a natural fit. Show it when you demonstrate the heating.
- Brief the workshop. If a customer’s van comes in with a printed drip lip on the cowl, your technicians should know what Truma says about approval and warranty, and mention it.
- Answer the search. Owners look up fixes for icicles and streaks under the cowl. A short product page or how-to on your site puts a genuine part in front of them.
- Make “remove before driving” part of the sale. A part that sticks out 57 mm and isn’t meant to stay on the road is a service desk complaint waiting to happen.
If you’ve already built out your accessories business, this slots straight in.
What It Means for Owners
For owners, the trade-off is simple. A printed spout will probably move the water. The genuine part does the same job without the risk of a warranty argument if the heater fails.
The catch is the extra step. Owners who park up for a winter week will barely notice. Owners who move on every day need to build it into their pack-up routine, or leave it in the locker.
That matters most for the buyers choosing vans like the Bailey Endurance E62 because they want to tour all year.
The Bigger Signal
Truma’s recent headlines have been big launches, with CombiNeo the obvious one. A 15g clip-on part looks like a footnote next to that.
It isn’t. It’s a component maker reclaiming an aftersales space that owners filled for themselves, and using compliance to do it. Likely outcome: more genuine accessories aimed at the fixes owners currently print at home.
So here’s the question for your team. When a Combi owner asks how to stop the icicles this winter, do you have a genuine answer on the shelf, or do they leave and buy one on eBay?