Fetch Camper Vans
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Sep 2020
4:29pm, 18 Sep 2020
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Angus Clydesdale
Very nice.
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Sep 2020
4:54pm, 18 Sep 2020
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mrs shanksi
Great pic Synge, we've climbed the Roaches too. Keep the photos and campervan stories coming, the thought of our van coming is making me happy.
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Sep 2020
10:44pm, 18 Sep 2020
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Northern Exile
Excellent stuff
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Sep 2020
5:59pm, 19 Sep 2020
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bigleggy
Can I ask about cost and affordability? How do you all afford a van and keep costs down ? Do you SORN them for 6 months of the year, for example I just struggle to understand how people afford a vehicle they use on weekends and holidays. Help me understand please 
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Sep 2020
6:13pm, 19 Sep 2020
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Northern Exile
Initial outlay is the biggest expense, insurance and road tax isn't too bad. I sort out most elements of maintenance myself, so have never felt the need to SORN it. Plus I do use it throughout the year, not in very snowy conditions though. Admittedly having it sitting on the driveway is an expense when I'm running two other vehicles, but I'd only spend the money on beer and fags otherwise.
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Sep 2020
6:15pm, 19 Sep 2020
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Northern Exile
I know someone is going to say something, so alright, you can probably add gambling and chasing women onto that list 🙂
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Sep 2020
6:31pm, 19 Sep 2020
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Mandymoo
We only have the van so use it as our daily too
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Sep 2020
7:00pm, 19 Sep 2020
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Angus Clydesdale
We ended up buying a caravan, mostly because it was a gift horse whose mouth I couldn’t look into but partly because I didn’t want to give up my Landrover and I didn’t want a 3rd vehicle* sitting on the drive not getting used enough. We still have plans for a camping van in due course, but this is good for us right now. * actually 4 if you count the SIIa which is awaiting some tlc. |
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Sep 2020
7:02pm, 19 Sep 2020
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Angus Clydesdale
The upside is that having owned and run a succession of Landrovers the costs of camping vans are relatively reasonable!!
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Sep 2020
9:56pm, 19 Sep 2020
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Bigleggy, it depends almost totally on what you spend on holidays and travel and the like. There's no universal answer to your question. For example, if you currently camp under canvas and are thinking of switching to a van, your costs will go up because it costs more to run a van than a Vango. 😉 We've only had ours six months and, yes, the capital outlay is the big one. I really don't think running costs will be high, but of course it depends what sort of expenditure pattern you are replacing by using the van. For us, in case you're interested in the detail ... site fees are about a third to a quarter of B&B costs. Diesel replaces the petrol we would have used if we'd gone by car, so it's not really an extra. Food costs are a lot less because we cook simple (but nourishing and hearty!) meals instead of going to pubs or eating out, which you're pretty much forced to do if you go to B&Bs. And in our case, we're likely to spend more time in the UK than overseas, and that's through choice rather than for COVID-19 reasons. I've been looking at our budgeting pretty closely and I really do expect our monthly/annual "holiday/travel" costs to come down. (Road tax and servicing are obviously extra if you're not replacing a car, but I think we're paying something like £50 a month extra for those two, so yes, that offsets some of the savings above.) And I must say that, regardless of all the above, we didn't buy it to reduce holiday costs, we bought it because we thought it would be fantastically good fun and enable us to go to lots of different places very easily. So, it's all about initial outlay and obviously everyone's personal financial circumstances are different. Again, in our case, we decided at delaying retirement by a couple of years was a price worth paying to finance the cost. 😀 |
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