Any good camper/motor home forums about?

[Yorick]

I bet the Essex tart is now looking at Winnebagos for retirement

[Taipan]

I bet the Essex tart is now looking at Winnebagos for retirement

Lol, I know what you're saying but please don't call her a tart, it makes my hackles stand up! Probably something like the SwiFt below actually. What she is saying at present we don't need that and it would be unused but a T 5 thing we could use as a car and could certInly use something like that for ferrying the old giffers we have to at the moment.


https://www.swiftgroup.co.uk/motorhomes/swift-escape

[KungFooBob]

Swift!

You might as well buy an Autotrail.

What you want is a nice German made coachbuilt.

[Mussels]

When your are looking at the bigger ones for retirement there's a bit of a Hobson's choice. If you get one under 3.5t then it is near the weight limit empty, if you get one over 3.5t then it's an HGV and you need a medical every year when you get to 70.

[Taipan]

Swift!

You might as well buy an Autotrail.

What you want is a nice German made coachbuilt.

Dunno mate, more looking at layouts than manufacturers.

[Taipan]

When your are looking at the bigger ones for retirement there's a bit of a Hobson's choice. If you get one under 3.5t then it is near the weight limit empty, if you get one over 3.5t then it's an HGV and you need a medical every year when you get to 70.

Good point but hopefully we'll retire a fair bit earlier than that....

[KungFooBob]

Swift!

You might as well buy an Autotrail.

What you want is a nice German made coachbuilt.

Dunno mate, more looking at layouts than manufacturers.

Fixed bed.

If you're a piss artist like me, you need a fixed bed, cos building a bed when you're pissed is rubbish.

[Yorick]

Swift!

You might as well buy an Autotrail.

What you want is a nice German made coachbuilt.

Dunno mate, more looking at layouts than manufacturers.

Fixed bed.

If you're a piss artist like me, you need a fixed bed, cos building a bed when you're pissed is rubbish.

Mine folded up and easy to make in 2 or 3 mins. Gives much more space.

[Taipan]

'Kin hell! T28, 30,4,5,6! Petrol,diesel, turbo diesel! There's certainly a few variants isn't there! Incredible price range too, mainly Down to whether it's low or very very high miles and by Christ there are some high miles Ines about!

Wife deffo wants one though, mainly because she likes the idea of a drive away awning,mwhich again gives you the use of the smaller camper as a car and says we'd be likely to travel about locally in one where as we wouldn't with a bigger van and I have to admit, she's starting to convince me. Not sure a now uppped to £10k budget is going to get me something decent though, at least VW wise anyway?

[KungFooBob]

Get a bit coachbuilt with a garage and chuck the scooter in the back, you don't need a drive away awning.

[Taipan]

Get a bit coachbuilt with a garage and chuck the scooter in the back, you don't need a drive away awning.

Wife doesn't really go on the back of bikes and there's rain to be considered in the U.K. Which is where we'd mainly use it.

[Druid]

There are other options besides Transporters. Merc Vito's, Traffic/vivaro, Transit. All these are the same sort of size but are still significantly cheaper than VWs of the same spec. Of course they will fetch less when you come to sell, but you rarely lose much on a campervan.

[Taipan]

Saw a T? In Tesco tonight and well, yes I could make it work and I get my wife's points, but it is camping In a people carrier and I,m not sure it's for me, even with an awning. I think it's going to have to big enough to stand up in easily and need a bathroom.
. Project parked for now...

[KungFooBob]

You're looking at £25-30k for a half decent coach built, less than a decade old with sensible miles.

£10k will get you a converted van, that might have been done well, or might not, Or an ancient coach built that's been round the clock twice with loads of damp.

It's worth doing right, get the right van with the right layout that works for you.

Stay away from a Mk6 Transit if you want a chance of getting it insured (guess what mines based on?).

[Taipan]

You're looking at £25-30k for a half decent coach built, less than a decade old with sensible miles.

£10k will get you a converted van, that might have been done well, or might not, Or an ancient coach built that's been round the clock twice with loads of damp.

It's worth doing right, get the right van with the right layout that works for you.

Stay away from a Mk6 Transit if you want a chance of getting it insured (guess what mines based on?).

I,m okay with that budget when I,m retired, but mo way am i putting that much cash into a seldom used vehicle now. Can't see a compromise at this stage, so as I say, it's parked for now, but if truth be told, I'm kinda gutted and do wonder if I'm just being an arse about it?

[KungFooBob]

It's an asset, it only costs you what it depreciates.

Thats what I keep telling myself.

If it costs £30k to buy and after five years you sell it for £25k, you've lost £5k.

It's only money.

you can't take it with you.

Etc...

[cheb]

You're looking at £25-30k for a half decent coach built, less than a decade old with sensible miles.

£10k will get you a converted van, that might have been done well, or might not, Or an ancient coach built that's been round the clock twice with loads of damp.

It's worth doing right, get the right van with the right layout that works for you.

Stay away from a Mk6 Transit if you want a chance of getting it insured (guess what mines based on?).

Why are they hard to insure?

[KungFooBob]

You're looking at £25-30k for a half decent coach built, less than a decade old with sensible miles.

£10k will get you a converted van, that might have been done well, or might not, Or an ancient coach built that's been round the clock twice with loads of damp.

It's worth doing right, get the right van with the right layout that works for you.

Stay away from a Mk6 Transit if you want a chance of getting it insured (guess what mines based on?).

Why are they hard to insure?

I actually meant mk7, but I think the 6 is the same, they're stupidly easy to nick.

You can get master keys for less than a tenner and a cheap obd box defeats the factory immobilizer, a couple of the main companies refuse to insure them. I can only insure mine because it's got a high end tracker with driver cards fitted.

[cheb]

Ouch. I never had any problems nor comments when insuring my mk7 panel van.

[rodbargee]

Go big or go home, sleeping in a small van is for kids and older people with rose tinted glasses. A caravan would probably fit your bill better, more comfortable, cheaper and your don't have to pack everything up to go to a restaurant
I have a folding camper, fits in the garage, takes ten minutes to put up and has the the space of a 3.5t camper van. This one is pretty old so doesn't have a toilet and that is the only thing that my wife doesn't like about it, the rest of the basic stuff she's fine with. It still has it's downsides but I'd rather put up with canvas repairs than damp problems.
Day vans are ace for the beach, we had a twin cab Transit that could be used as a changing room, seating area and kitchen but that happened so rarely it wasn't a consideration. All I really miss about the van is having loads of space to carry stuff.

caravan allows the purcase of a ML63 to tow it, lots of grins