camper vans and caravans *pics*

If your daily has enough beef to tow a caravan, a caravan works out a lot cheaper. Lower maintainance costs than a camper, and no MOT and tax to sort out.

If you are going to use it a lot, and your daily isn't much good for towing, a camper van can make sense though!



Commer PB.. That would be my choice personally.

Tanya (SWMBO) likes these folder-upper caravans, we're only going to consider 2 berth though as I only have a 1600cc polo and don't fancy hauling anythign too big and turning into the thing i hate most (a caravaner doing not very mph on long open highways)

but then I see something like that citroen and just melt.

good to know, we've seen a particularly ropey one in a field recently that looks well enough to be fixed up.

the vans really that bad? cant find much info on them, they rwd or fwd? petrol or diesel?
they have a very securicor look to them
I'm keeping my peepers peeled on ebay at foldable caravans, they seem such a bloody good idea

CF everytime. At work and can't get pics but you know the score. Pop-tops are ace, just make sure floor below bunks has something soft to land on. Not a nine year old sister like my lad fell on one holiday

same here, way back from lincolnshire saw some enormous motorhome monster tuggin an mg midget racer behind it on a trailer!

Buy my Commer... Job Done

£3.5k though, did i mention she's never once been welded ;D

PORTAFOLD!

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don't use it enough to keep it, might have to go soon. Plus no towbar on the morgan, back to a tent for me.

Those H vans are terrible to drive. It's like driving a water tank with a dumper truck engine bolted to it. :-)

As said, its a pain in the chuff to pack up a camper just to nip to the shops for bread and milk. Also, watch the heights, anything much over 2 meters and you start having trouble getting into carparks etc. even supermarkets now often have height limits on the parking.
Caravans...personally, I hate them, but thats due to spending several years repairing them. Possibly the better option for practicality, but they can be hard on your towcar, and no-one likes the stereotypical caravanner image, 40mph on the country road with dozens of cars stuck behind it.
It all depends on your outlook, both have good and bad points so you need to carefully consider what you are going to do with it.
Long touring holiday spending a day here, a day there and always on the move? Id want a motorhome. Has to be comfy to drive though.
Heading to a set destination and spending the holiday in that area, id want a caravan, set it up and leave it as a base and use the car for touring around each day.

Other things to consider...
whats your cars kerb weight and max train weight? the caravan club recomend for beginners that your van weighs 85% or less of the cars kerbweight, obviously without exceeding the train weight. If your towing with a polo, thats not going to leave you much capacity.
look up kerbweights and tow capacities here...
www.cuddles.abelgratis.net/kerbweights.htm
What about your licence? did you have the category that allows you to tow stuff? If you passed your test more recently, you wont automatically have this so may need to sit a trailer test.
can you afford to tax, mot and insure and run a camper van? and is it worth it for something that might only get used a couple of weeks a year?


EDIT - reading this back, it sounds kind of negative, thats not how I mean it to be, I'm just trying to point out that it requires a fair bit of consideration.