Seems a bit overpriced?

This isn't bad, but too much with no proper loo, shower or kitchen, it's basically a day van.
 
That looks like a horrendous amount of work Kev, well done you! (y)
There are two reasons why I won't start a self build:
1) I couldn't do cabinetry to the standard I would be happy with. I could do the rest but not the furniture.
2) I would expire before I finished it, as happened to a friend of mine. He was such a perfectionist when he started to build himself a small yacht that thirty years later, or it may have been forty years, he died without ever launching it.
In my case I buy a ready made mh, get rid of its faults, and use it.
 
gasgas said:
That looks like a horrendous amount of work Kev, well done you! (y)
There are two reasons why I won't start a self build:
1) I couldn't do cabinetry to the standard I would be happy with. I could do the rest but not the furniture.
2) I would expire before I finished it, as happened to a friend of mine. He was such a perfectionist when he started to build himself a small yacht that thirty years later, or it may have been forty years, he died without ever launching it.
In my case I buy a ready made mh, get rid of its faults, and use it.
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Thank you. Not a minutes work involved, wish I'd started doing it years earlier, good fun most of it and no I had never made anything worth acknowledging not even at skool, I took advice and bought a track/plunge saw, you can buy corners and edging from places like Magnum Motorhomes in Beverly, I had no design in mind (despite the drawing in the link) it evolved over about 18 months, things can only go in certain places, I started with the LBs behind the drivers seat, you can just see the marker pen outline on the ply floor in the pic below, but I thought, they took up to much space, securing them would be a nightmare too and then I'd need to hide them, as I was down on my knees I saw all this space under the drivers seat so whipped it out and did some measuring, luckily there was a good bit of headroom once I'd wrangled the mess of wiring out of the way with spreaders, A ratchet strap made them secure, only issue was I had to keep the seat put of the way until I had almost finished as it was a cow to take out due to the weight, and I just knew if I refitted it I'd have to access it again. the rest of the van sort of evolved following designs we had seen in other PVCs more or less, all the doors came from Magnums, I dropped lucky there £15 each for the lockers, wardrobe and bathroom doors were £40, I just bought what they had left as I had no idea what I'd need, I had six left over and got £50 each on ebay. I'd love to be fit enough to do another.




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Not very impressed with this one either, converted just down the road from me, we have three converters in Keighley.

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I've seen a lot worse than that Citroen one. However at least it should have cupboards under the beds accessible from the rear doors.
 
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Not very impressed with this one either, converted just down the road from me, we have three converters in Keighley.

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not going to comment on the price as no idea how it compares, but it looks pretty neat in the build. Joinery is far better than I could manage :D
 
Same here, widebus.
 
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This isn't too bad though, mileage a bit high, shame no proper bog/shower get a bit back flogging the trailer.

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Mileage is nothing (mine is more!).

Actually, mileage is quite high, especially on a new conversion (only done a year ago), but the selling price is pretty good and I would think reflects the miles.
So many people seem to never use the on-board shower in a Motorhome, I am not sure how much that matters? A Portapotti is perfectly sound as well if a solo traveller. For a couple or family, it would be a different matter I would think :unsure: (I did the no shower + Portapotti in my conversions, but I did tend to use them on my own and when away at a show with the OH erected a 'toilet tent' outside, plus there were toilets on site)
 
Actually, last two trips didn't use either much so it'd work for us, my self build miles were a bit higher when we bought it and much higher when we bought it back, but service history is very important when you get that high I think.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Actually, last two trips didn't use either much so it'd work for us, my self build miles were a bit higher when we bought it and much higher when we bought it back, but service history is very important when you get that high I think.
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I used to think that about Service History. But changed my mind when I bought a VW T5 with 167,000 miles on the clock. Had an immaculate history from a Main VW Dealer, including over £10,000 worth of work in the previous 2 years. Still cost me around 5k in repairs in the fairly short time I had it.
OTOH I bought a very low milage Toyota RAV4 with a superb Toyota Main Dealer History. That one cost me maybe £2/mile in repairs in the 6 months I had it.
 
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I used to think that about Service History. But changed my mind when I bought a VW T5 with 167,000 miles on the clock. Had an immaculate history from a Main VW Dealer, including over £10,000 worth of work in the previous 2 years. Still cost me around 5k in repairs in the fairly short time I had it.
OTOH I bought a very low milage Toyota RAV4 with a superb Toyota Main Dealer History. That one cost me maybe £2/mile in repairs in the 6 months I had it.
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It can be like that, the garage I use now has all kinds of tails about the main dealers he's worked for who didn't do much more than put a new oil filter on but left the old oil in and just topped it up.
 
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