Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
Posts: 9402
My brother has just spent 57k on a VW T5 fully converted
This cost me £13k with of course some conversion costs still come 8)
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Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
5th May 2021 1:30 pm
pjm-84
Member Since: 04 Oct 2016
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2432
Bargain @ the Defender.
Our VW Cali cost us 53.4k in 2015. To replace it now we'll be looking at around > 70k . Crazy....
5th May 2021 2:02 pm
Dexter
Member Since: 21 Sep 2007
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 1391
Seeing this massively on the West Coast of Scotland just now. 20 campers for every caravan on the roads and on the sites.
I know 3 families that have sold caravan and large tow car and gone with large camper and fully electric daily runaround. Maybe the perceived future of large tow cars is having an impact on tin tent ownership?
At least tintents stay on the site and don’t take up 6 parking bays when the owners go shopping, 🤦♂️ 🚀 s
5th May 2021 3:58 pm
KevinD3
Member Since: 05 Aug 2020
Location: Sutton Coldfield
Posts: 1205
Camper crazy. Heading out for the first time in a couple of weeks once the toilet bocks are open. Have started working on the missus to go for a tin tent, but this year looks like I’ll be staying with the nylon one.
Maybe next year once all of these temporary “staycationers” are heading back to Spain they’ll be some bargain used vans and campers on eBay
And Iguana, can you PLEASE keep sharing photos of your new one? I’m sooooooo jealous and the photos are the closest I’ll be allowed to one!2008 HSE Stornoway Grey
My Wife thinks the D3 is a hobby, The D3 thinks the wife is 💕
5th May 2021 4:08 pm
Tony686
Member Since: 23 Oct 2007
Location: Essex
Posts: 636
We brought a motorhome at the end of summer 2019. What a result, been a godsend all last year and this year, when we were looking a residual values of a MH over 10 years I would still get 60% after 10 years, we were offered a buy back of plus 5% last summer and approached on a site last weekend by the owner to buy it from us. We brought before any boom but they were before Covid attracting premiums as I had been debating to buy for about 2 years and new they were going up considerably every year.
CLUB DEFNER
5th May 2021 6:45 pm
kirkyworld
Member Since: 01 Mar 2016
Location: Northampton
Posts: 566
Lots of people (not all I realise) are more welthy than they've been for years. No holidays, no meals out, no cleaners, no pubs, thousands saved on diesel, so there's plenty of people with full banks and embracing the staycation wave.
5th May 2021 6:59 pm
dunton10
Member Since: 23 Dec 2006
Location: SUTTON COLDFIELD, WEST MIDS
Posts: 208
My twopence worth. A lot of people buying these Motorhomes/van conversions / caravans have not done this type of holiday before. All it will take is a wet and windy summer and the opening of travel routes to Spain/Greece etc and there will be loads for sale.
In previous years I’ve seen tents and equipment abandoned on sites when it’s poured down. Must have wasted loads of cash. People don’t seem to think things through. It’s all rose tinted glasses.
Me, I’ve caravanned for over 40 years and still love it. Mind you we’ve endured some serious weather including being in the van when the hurricane hit the south coast. You take the good with the bad and always have a plan B.Currently 2015 D4 SE Tech, Corris Grey
RLD Protector, led interior lights, timed climate, towing equipment
Previously
2006 D3 S
2001 TD5
1996 Shogun LWB
1989 Range Rover TDVM
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with of course some conversion costs still come 8)
