LFGSS Camper Van owners?

Correct, three individual seats so one can be removed/never installed and the kitchen pod fitted.

No point having more seats than it can store bikes in the back.

T32 will fall foul of a few uk weight limits...

What weight limits are these Ed?

that is just superb. dream camper. please tell me it has sold already

@Dammit bit of a left field suggestion, but would you consider a LPG conversion on your VW camper?
If you are planning long trips it could pay work out on fuel savings. Plus its a cleaner fuel so extends the engine life.

I would hazard a guess Ed is talking about .. an unladen weight below 3,050kg are allowed to drive as fast as an ordinary car above 3,050kg the speed limits are restricted as vans / light goods vehicles ?

Yep, sold to the first person to come and see it.
He works in my town so I’ve seen it around which is nice.

LPG needs spark ignition. There are various bodges to run a mix of diesel and LPG, but you're still burning diesel.

If you're going to throw money at the problem, Mercedes and Citroen both have LWB electric vans with decent range batteries.

It’ll be registered as an MPV, the conversion company is registered as a manufacturer so would register it as such instead of the panel van that it arrives as. Actual weight of these is around 2,000kg - the plated max is 3,200 but they’re nowhere near that unless you fill them with bags of cement.

Can’t go in the Chunnel with LPG, so even if it were a spark ignition engine and could run on LPG it would be a deal breaker in terms of travel options.

When a bifuel vehicle is running on LPG is it also using some of the other fuel (petrol or diesel) then?

LPG runs fine on its own in a petrol engine. It's only diesel engines that are problem because they don't have spark plugs and LPG doesn't self-ignite like diesel does.

Assuming I like the “huge estate you can sleep in” idea I’d exchange this one for a hybrid/electric version in 2024/5.

Ah that's interesting. Didn't know that thanks.

Ferry takes 1hr 30 mins and is cheaper and you barely need to book in advance

Yes, but one would have to get out of one's leather seat and mix in the stairwells with those kinds of people, and no financial saving is worth that.

You may as well suggest taking the Megabus.

Actually very valid points.

Ferry takes 1hr 30 mins and is cheaper and you barely need to book in advance

My girlfriend won't take ferries due to sea sickness issues, or that would be an option.

my understanding is that the different numbers refer to the Mgw rating of the van, obviously that corresponds to the spec of the vehicle and brakes etc though.

It might be specialist and local to me, but attached poster relations to Marlow bridge.. I presume that other locations have similar restrictions too…

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Interesting - and, in some ways, bonkers. A T32 is lighter than a lot of luxury cars (Bentley Continental GT for e.g.) by around 300kg. But, I'm going to assume you can get fewer bags of cement in a Bentley, and the coppers are going this route because they don't want to have to weigh vehicles, just fuck them off on what they could weigh, fully laden, because that's a lot easier.

See also Silvertown tunnel fines ref. @spotter

I got a fine for driving our Berlingo van through the rotherithe tunnel. TFL rules say that commercial vehicles which COULD be loaded to over 2tn in weight can't drive though the tunnel, I didn't understand this and thought it was vehicle in excess of 2tn couldn't come though, and as ours was empty at the time I thought I was fine, buy apparently not.

You can appeal the fine by email, but then the reply by letter and have 14 days to reply from when theu send the letter, of course the letter took 4 days to arrive at my home. Then I needed to send the log book off via mail to prove the weight, except by then I was in Scotland.

I just gave up and paid the £65...

Mine wouldn’t be a commercial vehicle.

Also for ferries defo handy to be properly registered as a domestic vehicle instead of commercial. I.E going to Orkney this week, regular 6.0m long motorhome/domestic van = £200 return, commercial? £360 + drivers

In the UK its not a massive issue, the odd extra ferry price hike here and there, but if you go to Norway, jesus, brace yourself. We're taking the Volvo next time mostly due to this (and other tolls). Can't get into towns/cities with a ULEZ but then I think in some of them unless you are electric/hybrid nothing can go in, even Euro6+ new petrols so just gonna take some hybrids and ride around a bit.

Well, I've made an offer for the van I want. Lets see what they respond with (I asked for a 4.6% discount off list).

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I'm definitely jealous of that spec but I would have gone full swamper look for a 4motion MTB conversion; lifted on small wheels with big AT tyres and wheel arch protectors. I swapped out the 18" alloys my T5 came with for original 16" steels