The Campervan Thread

[fossyant]

Not done anything much to mine - did get a rear bumper scuff guard, which breaks up all the 'white' at the rear and protects the bumper - although the scuff guard won't come off in a million years ! Just planning trips.

April - need to go see my cousin in Laide (top left of Scotland), mini-road trip down to Brighton for a conference for MrsF (I'll take the CX bike), but also Sandbanks Hotel and somewhere on Jurassic coast for a few days (in the van).

 

[Drago]

I missed out on last summer due to recovering from a TIA. Hoping to go away at Easter with Bruce fkr a few days, possibly,the Lincolnshire wolds.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Nope. I prefer to stick my arriss out the window and crap al fresco. My dislike for crapping in a cupboard and taking the Poo Suitcase on the morning Fudge Trudge is a small part of the reason the old Eddis went.

Two more guesses!

wrong model - but something like this

 

[Drago]

I like to get where I'm going without fail, climb hills without holding up milk floats, and do North of 40 to the gallon. It's a practical proposition for me, first and foremost.

 

[fossyant]

Finally... Citroen have hinted about this model for ages, even before I bought my Vauxhall version.

https://www.citroen.co.uk/models/new-citroen-holidays.html

Not bad at £56k.. it's a lot of money, but the top spec passenger vans with seats are £43k new. Cost me near £31k for a 3 year old top spec passenger van. Pretty good value camper.

Comes with the best diesel too... it was hinted to be leccy only...

Down side, bed is a bit tight - I get full width in mine, but not much headroom with the add on bed in the boot.

Swivel seats are interesting, but in my model we have 10 speakers, which includes a sub under the driver's seat, and the seats are heated. Maybe there will be a kit for the passenger seat ?

 

[fossyant]

I like to get where I'm going without fail, climb hills without holding up milk floats, and do North of 40 to the gallon. It's a practical proposition for me, first and foremost.

Yeh, those cool vans look great, but they aren't getting over Ffestiniog without a struggle - I burnt off a new fast Crafter up that hill, and another van. Just pressed the go pedal.

 

[Jameshow]

Finally... Citroen have hinted about this model for ages, even before I bought my Vauxhall version.

https://www.citroen.co.uk/models/new-citroen-holidays.html

Not bad at £56k.. it's a lot of money, but the top spec passenger vans with seats are £43k new. Cost me near £31k for a 3 year old top spec passenger van. Pretty good value camper.

Comes with the best diesel too... it was hinted to be leccy only...

Down side, bed is a bit tight - I get full width in mine, but not much headroom with the add on bed in the boot.

Swivel seats are interesting, but in my model we have 10 speakers, which includes a sub under the driver's seat, and the seats are heated. Maybe there will be a kit for the passenger seat ?

I guess they can reap economies of scale. Knock them out ikea style.
Vans of that size are always a compromise, but if you want it as a daily driver it's as big as us reasonably practical.

 

[Drago]

The Crafter is a bit of a slug. T6.1 driver trains in something that weighty and unaerodynamic was a decision borne of having to save $33 billion to pay their worldwide fines.

 

[fossyant]

Showed MrsF - as our passenger van with "in the boot bed" is height restricted for sleeping (no sitting up). She looked at the floor plan and saw the bed width restriction of the real camper.. no.

I'm a bad sleeper with injuries, so wouldn't work for us. We have a lovely bell tent , so our van is a bit more multi purpose.

Any camper is a compromise one way or another.

This is what you need to think about...

 

[Drago]

Wise words. Mine is the compromise that gives me the least grief for the uses to which I regularly put it.

My old Eddis was a better camper (apart from sheeting in a cupboard, which I hated), but couldn't reasonably be used for anything else which meant I ideally also needed a car. Im now down to one vehicle that does 90% of a car and a small motor homes tasks, a much more versatile vehicle with only one lot of tax, insrance, maintenance, etc.

 

[Jameshow]

The Crafter is a bit of a slug. T6.1 driver trains in something that weighty and unaerodynamic was a decision borne of having to save $33 billion to pay their worldwide fines.

It's a van after all. Ford used a 2.2 then a rubbish 2.0..
Pug etc use 2.1/2.2
Sprinter 2.1

It's a smooth engine as is the sprinter. Ford was a bit rough.....

 

[Drago]

And the virtual dash upgrade is going in Monday next week. Tres excitement!

 

[fossyant]

And the virtual dash upgrade is going in Monday next week. Tres excitement!

Assume it's being fitted. It's one of those jobs where you go, "here is the car/van", then you run away so you don't see it being pulled to bits. Only to return when finished. I had to replace the radio module on my wife's Yaris once - that was dash out ! Scary.

 

[Drago]

Yeah, I paying him to fit it!

Also having some android thing with an unlimited 5G sim fitted that allows somewthing or other to take place.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Yeah, I paying him to fit it!

Also having some android thing with an unlimited 5G sim fitted that allows somewthing or other to take place.

So you can have access to the internet when you are all alone in a van at night, miles away from your wife???