Our first two campers were VW type 2’s, couldn’t fault them even though the conversions we’re British.
Being patriotic, we bought a new Autosleeper in 2013. We loved the van, it was the perfect layout for us, but it did have some stupid build quality problems.
First trip out, all the bathroom fittings fell off the wall and over the 3 years we had it, various bits had to be repaired or replaced by the dealer and me, but mostly me.
We accepted it as part of owning a motorhome.
We sold it at 3 years old with 21000 miles on the clock. The new owner had loads of problems with it apparently, even though it appears he hardly used it ( it’s just been sold again with 3000 miles extra on the clock in 2 years.
Our last van was a 21 year old Swift. 2 years of ownership and 20000 miles later, nothing went wrong or fell off and it was a brilliant van.
Now, we have a Burstner and I can now see how cheaply the AS was made. Ours really is top quality and 6 months in, we have covered 8500 miles and nothing has gone wrong.
I’m afraid I wouldn’t buy another British van, even the new AS vans we looked at last year appeared poorly built, but still very expensive.
But, that’s just my experience.