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  • Rented a T5 for the weekend for a birthday camping trip, family fallen in love with the idea of getting one.

    Sadly don't have £40k spare! is there anything sensible to buy in the £10 to 15k range currently? Would need to be able to sleep 4 (2 x adults, 2 x young kids). Was looking at early nineties high top autosleepers, but seems crazy to spend £15k on something 30 years old, with 100k miles on the clock, but maybe that is the only option.

    I don't have time to do a conversion myself, and also seem to be a real shortage of suitable vans to do so anyway.

  • Not to put anyone off buying nice things, I’m regularly checking in on this thread and dreaming of my own camper, but when you boil it down, how often would you use one? And when you factor in maintenance, tax, insurance etc, would it be cheaper to rent as needed?

  • Well living in Devon, I reckon I could use it plenty! but it would probably have to have an aspect of dual purpose, I work from home, so rarely use a car, so it would end up being my main car as well.

    What I would really like is a demountable to go on the back of a double cab pickup, but they are really rare over here.

  • Same for me; I'd love one, but (like my comment above), the incoming ULEZ in London is just the icing on the cake of what seems like a number of cost hurdles to make it even a fairly efficient purchase

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