Campers..

alfatwo

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Her indoors wants to treat me to a birthday pressy that we can both enjoy:eek::rolleyes:

I was looking around at VW California's, lovely bits of kit but at nearly 50k and you don't get any cooking/fridge stuff, just a fold down bed

What do you recon guys and no taking the p*ss please, I don't want anything too big either!

Dave
 

Andyk

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Bloody **** Dave...you lucky man....My wife bought me socks and pants for my birthday. :goodjob:
 

Zep

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Have a look at Venture Caravans. They do VW camper conversions on T5 and T6 vans. You can have all of the things missing from the California.
 

2b1ask1

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I’m working on recommissioning my lad’s VW T2 Devon Bay Window this weekend (at last!), need to wake it up after four years languishing in the north of the country.

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It has a cooker, sink and plumbed water but not a whole lot else at the moment. Don’t think you would want to put up more than two of you in it as it is a little cramped for me.
 

zagatoes30

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Good spec T5 & T6 conversions are strong money but they are quite practical if you can get the bits you need.
 

TimR

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You'd be better off buying a good van and getting to converted to exactly what you want in it
or 40k
http://www.cambee.co.uk/new-4-berth-tourer.html

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Plenty of folk doing this. The forum community is strong with advice and build threads. Buy a California and you are paying for the name, for corporate licence agreements, and a whole lot of weight to drag your petrol consumption up, and your road progress down..!
Secret is knowing what you want a conversion to do for you..
You can do better than "one size fits all" with research and effort IMO....!
 

alfatwo

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Thanks guys as I'm completely new to all this camper stuff, so I'll have a good look around

Dave
 

Zep

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If you do go to Venture on the A5 mention my name. It’s a family thing.
 

midlifecrisis

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A bloke at work has a VW t5 and is emigrating, I'll ask if he's selling it and what he wants if he is.

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Wanderer

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I was considering buying a Leyland Atlantean single decker and converting it, went down to Bolton bus depot and the guys there showed me round the engine etc, put me right off.
 

AndyG

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This is what you need.
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mjheathcote

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You can both enjoy your 3200 and a lot of very nice hotels!!

My Mum and her partner went through the lot over the last 12 years.
Smaller camper, massive camper towing a small car, caravan, larger camper, caravan, larger camper, now a static caravan.
They could never make their mind up!!
 

zagatoes30

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Unless your planning to move daily I don't get big campers, you have to pack everything up and they are too big to get in all the little hideaways. If you stick a small car on a towbar then you are just doing caravanning in reverse. A caravan is a shed load cheaper than a camper so unless you use you camper everyday it cost less and is much more useable.

Small light campers like a T5 I get, everything packaged small and light for travelling
 

Wanderer

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Went I went to USA for my first and only time in 2003 I saw TV ads for huge motorhomes that towed mini-cars behind, $300 a mo on lease.

Pipe-dreamed about it but for the fact I hated it there and all USA stood for! Still, heard the crickets at night, smelt a skunk (twice) and used my cricket skills to totally dominate a baseball game we had with the locals till my arms got tired after my like 40th home run...

Day I landed Johnny Cash died but that was nothing to do with me.
 

philw696

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Don't Do It Dave.
Stay in nice hotels or Boutique B & B and travel in a nice car far better and you don't annoy other road users.
You will be wearing Lycra next and riding a bike ;)
 

dickygrace

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My wife and I and the inlaws have tried all different variations as mentioned above. Buy a nice car and stay in lovey hotels and it’ll be far cheaper. When it’s fesivals etc, get a cab! We are at Carfest all weekend, getting £25 cab home every night, a camping pitch is £200 alone.
 

Wack61

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There are a few places that rent campers out , if you go outside the school holidays it can be quite reasonable, try before you buy , you might hate it

I've been on one caravan holiday, in 1985, towed it all the way to the south coast , set it up then got told by my girlfriend there'd be no sex as people would see it rocking about , never went again, hotels from then on :D