FabSwingers.com forum: VW campers

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Where the fuck do I start and who has got one or advice !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What kind are you after? Splitty? Bay?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

volksworld

Do they even still sell that

It's a good start if they do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Empty your piggy bank.... count all your loose change .... check down the back of the sofa,, buy the best one you can...... feel smug and embrace the peaks and troughs of ownership..

Worth every penny though... love'em...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends what you're after.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Start by shot blasting the shell and then rebuilding it with all new panels, and check the end float as this is a good indication that the engine is goosed...

Ah stuff it start by fluttering your eye lashes at the bank manager, they are a true labour of love but so rewarding

Ess

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have had a campers for many years,built all sorts of them in my time.

My current T5 is a T32 LWB twin sliding door model, love it. give me a shout if you need any advice, id love to help out.

Templar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have a look at alternatives too...I used to have a Mazda Bongo which suited my needs better than a VW and was cheaper for the age of the van. They're great fun, I miss it!

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By *rank n BettyCouple
over a year ago

Not meeting

My ex is selling our T2 1976 Bay

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh, how I would love to be able to afford and own one

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

T5 or T6 for converting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are plenty of scrapyards around. You might have to pay them to take it away though

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Really want a new ish one that can be my labour of love and just get kits and build inside out. Spend the two boys inheritance if you will ??

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

"Where the fuck do I start and who has got one or advice ! "

Your local bank for a mortgage xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"T5 or T6 for converting "

Think of a price but then add the "scene tax".

I've got a T5 but bought it well under market value. 3 years on and still get offered more for it than I paid!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Well I think I've missed all this year gatherings but winter time can some times be a good time to search as people sell more Thai time year

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By *iplzMan
over a year ago

felixstowe

Got a t4 myself. Started as a builder's van and converted it all myself.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We'd love an old camper but can't fit all the kids and shit in one at the moment so saving up for a T5.....anyone want to buy a kidney? Left leg perhaps?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My friend currently has a time bay for sale, if only I could afford it

Ess

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My friend currently has a time bay for sale, if only I could afford it

Ess"

T2 stupid fingers

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By *oy man 2Man
over a year ago

i built camper out of tranny.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

A stander standard T4 T 5 what do they start at

Really want it for my bike and camping

It's a hard one to start searching as always away with work

Thanks for advice gang. And there's me thinking this site was only for sex

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By *he girl with dreadlocksWoman
over a year ago

need to know basis in Wolverhampton

It's my dream to have a camper van.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Autotrader?

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By *allyandJonCouple
over a year ago

manchester

We have a T4 Auto Trooper. It's in good nick. It's great we love it had lots of trips with a roll out bed plenty of cupboards, pop up roof for extra space take the plunge buddy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A stander standard T4 T 5 what do they start at

Really want it for my bike and camping

It's a hard one to start searching as always away with work

Thanks for advice gang. And there's me thinking this site was only for sex

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T4s there pretty hard to find a decent one, if you do expect to pay more for a late t4 than an early t5 (the very first lot didn't have a very good start shall we say) .

Price is difficult late t4 say 2001 in fairly good nick with around 150-200,000 miles probably around 5k upwards to 7k for the caravelle , 3.5k to 5k for a van.

Early t5s will be a bit cheaper but they come with the modern problems of alot of electrics/electronics!.

I've always preferred the 2.5 TDI 5 cyl the 1.9ltr 4cyl gets more mpg but it doesn't quite have the grunt of the 2.5 when loaded. And the 2.5 non turbo are definitely a required taste.

Fitting one out as a camper is not easy, it's time consuming and needs some electrical and joinery skill if you want to keep costs down, rock and roll beds are very expensive and very few of the after market ones meet standards for passenger carry, the ones that do are about 800 quid, high top roofs aren't as hard to do as you think fibreglass tops are cheap but you'll never get in a car park?... The pop up ones are trickier but you get to park pretty much anywhere as the VW's just go under the 6'6" barriers.

Hope that helps, the VW's are terrific utility vehicles, but they the usual places to check like every vehicle.

Try the t4/t5 forums there very useful for tips

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh and by the way the t4s are very easy to convert on to .... Alternative fuels!!!!

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I would advise getting a fake hand fitted to some sort of device, as every other vw owner will wave to you.

Welcome to the club.

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By *ombikerbullMan
over a year ago

Bromsgrove

I have a fully kitted out

jump on facebook and search for

VW T5 Forum

There are loads of people who are super helpful and there are always cheap vans up for sale.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pal of mine sold a Cosworth (worth like £35k) and bought a Cali left hooker unrestored and rust free..lodsabucks dents and needed a fullmakeover,ended up fitting a westfalia kit to it from a rotten UK pile of shit.. it's worth Megga moolaa but not as much as the Cosworth is now...where's the cry smiley

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What you'll need:

1x camper van

1x box of matches

1x laptop

1x credit/debit card

Take camper van

Open door

Strike match

Insert flaming match

Pause to make sure fire takes proper hold

Power up laptop

Open hotel booking website

Use credit/debit card to book hotel

Enjoy decent holiday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

https://youtu.be/a05hYEqF_Dw

I had one in my clutches 15 years ago for 5k off a customer... Oh I don't let my wife forget that

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

"What you'll need:

1x camper van

1x box of matches

1x laptop

1x credit/debit card

Take camper van

Open door

Strike match

Insert flaming match

Pause to make sure fire takes proper hold

Power up laptop

Open hotel booking website

Use credit/debit card to book hotel

Enjoy decent holiday"

Silly boy,

A VW is a way of life not just a car, a BMW, Mercedes or skyline is just a car. You buy a VW you are in a very helpful and friendly club.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We're doing a self conversion. Nearly went for a VW but read too many stories of endless breakdowns & repairs plus we wanted more space so just got a big old van

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"What you'll need:

1x camper van

1x box of matches

1x laptop

1x credit/debit card

Take camper van

Open door

Strike match

Insert flaming match

Pause to make sure fire takes proper hold

Power up laptop

Open hotel booking website

Use credit/debit card to book hotel

Enjoy decent holiday"

Advice I'll not be taking As I've done all the best hotels and resorts you can possibly name and worked all over the world staying in them...

It's about the desire to taku up where I left off in 86 on that wet cold Dover docks .. last I heard it she had £800 quid parking tickets on it before it was dragged off to compound

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You lot are so serious it was a bloody joke...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What you'll need:

1x camper van

1x box of matches

1x laptop

1x credit/debit card

Take camper van

Open door

Strike match

Insert flaming match

Pause to make sure fire takes proper hold

Power up laptop

Open hotel booking website

Use credit/debit card to book hotel

Enjoy decent holiday

Silly boy,

A VW is a way of life not just a car, a BMW, Mercedes or skyline is just a car. You buy a VW you are in a very helpful and friendly club."

It isn't.. there's guys with skylines put as much oomph & attention into Jap or German gear..I've had VW's and got a rare classic car now ,they are even more sought after and rarer than a vw camper but it's horses for courses

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What you'll need:

1x camper van

1x box of matches

1x laptop

1x credit/debit card

Take camper van

Open door

Strike match

Insert flaming match

Pause to make sure fire takes proper hold

Power up laptop

Open hotel booking website

Use credit/debit card to book hotel

Enjoy decent holiday

Silly boy,

A VW is a way of life not just a car, a BMW, Mercedes or skyline is just a car. You buy a VW you are in a very helpful and friendly club.

That's not what they said, it's got nothing to do with rarity.

It's an owner's club, most vw camper owners don't have a rare one or spend second mortgages on them, most of them spend they're spare time on them, it's a hobby where you get to give fellow hobbyists your secret wave and occasionally meet up with them for jibber jabber.

It's a clique and your not in it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shite- stands by for incoming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've just bought a t5 lwb silver surfer can't wait to pimp it up. Their is s company next to my bodyshop who restore old vdubs and are amazing

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By *eavenscentitCouple
over a year ago

barnstaple

Lots of them round my way....mainly owned by surfers who spend an hour getting ready and then spend 10 mins in the surf before bearing all getting out of the wet suit !

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By *rank n BettyCouple
over a year ago

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"Lots of them round my way....mainly owned by surfers who spend an hour getting ready and then spend 10 mins in the surf before bearing all getting out of the wet suit !

we travelled all over in hours - highlight was being unable to start her to get off ferry from France

JG x

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

i like the anarchy of not waving back..

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

"What you'll need:

1x camper van

1x box of matches

1x laptop

1x credit/debit card

Take camper van

Open door

Strike match

Insert flaming match

Pause to make sure fire takes proper hold

Power up laptop

Open hotel booking website

Use credit/debit card to book hotel

Enjoy decent holiday

Silly boy,

A VW is a way of life not just a car, a BMW, Mercedes or skyline is just a car. You buy a VW you are in a very helpful and friendly club.

That's not what they said, it's got nothing to do with rarity.

It's a clique and your not in it

Good point, well made.

Had a 73 beetle, everyone stopped to talk about it. People offered me silly money for it, it was a said day when I got rid of it.

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

I absolutely love Volkswagen campers and transporters. One day I would love to have one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Find a local owners club, they will know people who can do the work you can't do; taking body back to bare metal, respraying, engine work, re-upholstering, electrics etc.

They will also have a list of parts suppliers who are reputable and cheap.

Check out VW shows as auto-jumbles are a great way to find original bits.

Most importantly set a budget, then in 12 months rip it up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What you'll need:

1x camper van

1x box of matches

1x laptop

1x credit/debit card

Take camper van

Open door

Strike match

Insert flaming match

Pause to make sure fire takes proper hold

Power up laptop

Open hotel booking website

Use credit/debit card to book hotel

Enjoy decent holiday

Silly boy,

A VW is a way of life not just a car, a BMW, Mercedes or skyline is just a car. You buy a VW you are in a very helpful and friendly club.

That's not what they said, it's got nothing to do with rarity.

It's a clique and your not in it

Yeah and so it's the same with other marques but you just don't get it do yer !!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i like the anarchy of not waving back..

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Stone him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What you'll need:

1x camper van

1x box of matches

1x laptop

1x credit/debit card

Take camper van

Open door

Strike match

Insert flaming match

Pause to make sure fire takes proper hold

Power up laptop

Open hotel booking website

Use credit/debit card to book hotel

Enjoy decent holiday

Silly boy,

A VW is a way of life not just a car, a BMW, Mercedes or skyline is just a car. You buy a VW you are in a very helpful and friendly club.

That's not what they said, it's got nothing to do with rarity.

It's a clique and your not in it

Yeah and so it's the same with other marques but you just don't get it do yer !!!!!!

"
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Yeah I've had three of them, don't get offended it's just jibber jabber

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By *idingout41Man
over a year ago

Southampton

I started of with thinking about a T1 or T2. Then worked out they have no crash protection, airbags, anti lock brakes heating, Air con etc.

Ended up getting a brand new one with 3 years warranty and renting it out for a few weeks during the summer.

The demand for rental is so great I am buying a second. You won't get rich but with a little work you can get £10,000.00 a year in rental from one.

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