To Buy or Not to Buy - Camper Shite

[The Moog]

I bought a T25 caravelle with the intention of turning it into a camper and spending about £3k getting a top fitted along with an interior . Browsing on a forum I came across another T25 up the road. This is petrol with LPG but is already a camper. I reckon it would be about £4K (and if I got £2k back on current one) I would be a better off.

 

The current one is in good nick. Has bubbling around the windscreen and also in some of the seams. It has been coated underneath which looks ok. THe engine is a 1.9 D but no turbo. Cant get 1st Gear and has a couple of other niggles.

 

The other one has 1.9 Petrol fittted with LPG. Full service history. The body work is a bit more crusty around the edges with windscreen rust, some bubbling on the side and near engine bay.

 

Both same year etc and MOT about the same.

 

Is it worth buying a fully kitted out van which needs a bit of TLC (and is a petrol) or stick with what I have got and get the inside done? I did think about DIY interior but thought that it might look really really shit !

 

 

 

Opinions??

 

Some Pics

 

[catsinthewelder]

Might be easier to find a really rusty one for pennies and swap the interior (and gearbox) onto yours. They're never going to be rare and apparently are a pig to weld back together once they start to go.

 

If you're determined you can strip an interior out in a day and its probably the only way you'll get it properly clean anyway. It'll take a bit longer to put into the other one as you'll need to drill a few holes but its satisfiying and relatively unskilled work. The roof could be a pain but tintops are cool right

[Des]

I suppose it's a question of whether it's easier to address the issues the camper has, or the issues of your own + camper convertion. Mechanical work is always going to be easier than fixing rot, although if it were me, I'd be swayed by the petrol engine / LPG, but I'm a derv-hater. Do have a look at the coolant of the petrol one though, if it's brown turn it down.

[The Moog]

Went to see it and it looks miles better than the photos so have put a deposit on it. Full service history and the fact it has only done about 66k miles is good.

 

Petrol much more willing than the dizzler and the fact that the PO got from London to Isle of Skye on £60 of LPG means will be cheaper to run.