Campervans!

[Chorlton]

My tips for buying a van:

1) Buy in winter - the world and her partner want a campervan at this time of year and the prices reflect this - you will get a much better deal in the cold dark winter when camping is far from peoples minds

2) Check auto-trader - i have only bought one car/van (my VW t25) in my life so i am no authority but this difference in price between autotrader vans and those from a dealer were unreal

3) take your time. I very nearly ended up buying a camper with brass fittings and flock wallpaper... i was so desperate for a van... take as much time as you can, even put it off for a year - you will get one that is perfect for you

errr think thats it... sorry that was a rubbish list of tips, but i have only bought one van.... no, you can't have it.

 

[han]

^^^ v good advice! And do loads of research into different kinds of vans/live in vehicles etc.

Different peeps want different things out of a van - depends on how often you want to use it, what you want to use it for, etc.

 

[boha]

You've been getting about a bit. I've not been motivated enough to so far. Although it might be the combination of there being so many on ebay and them all being a little too far away.

I reckon you could get down to less than 8 seconds easily - think of all the room for an engine in the back of a VW camper. Now where was that Merlin engine I saw on ebay? . . .

it had a 2.5 ltr bmw engine in it

 

[ICB]

it had a 2.5 ltr bmw engine in it

must have been super or turbo charged as well, or had all kinds of stupidly expensive internal work done, you'd need big power for that time in a van -911 engines tend to be the preffered option due to their inherent similarities

My gran had a Dormobile converted dub van when I was a kid, fantastic kit

My other gran had a toyota camper, not so clever, terrible rust, probably the sensible option these days tho (or the bongo)

Have a prejudice against perfect split screen dub vans due to hideously prissy trustafarian Steiner bint