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I’m Nigel and live with my partner Rene and our 2 dogs in West Somerset. We are both retired (for a while now!) and enjoying the 7 day weekends, especially in this lovely part of the country. We bought our first camper van a year ago, just to ‘have a go’. It was such a nasty old unreliable Timberland rust bucket we never went anywhere in it and took it back to the dealer for an ‘upgrade’ to an Elnagh slim Merlin 2. That was ok inside, but didn’t like the door being on the driver’s side and it was a real pain out on the road as it was slow and noisy. After a couple of ok trips we had ‘got the bug’ and traded it in for a year old van conversion by RJ Howard in Cwmbran. That was a lovely Boxer Pro van that took us around Scotland in the summer, but the conversion used 18mm chipboard which made it heavy and the insulation was not really up to all year use so we raided what was left of the contingency fund (can’t take it with you!) and bought a new Swift Escape Compact C205 a couple of months ago (avoiding the new tax). So far so good, a lovely winterised motorhome and we will be spending the Christmas week in it.

Well, that’s us and where we are at and looking forward to enjoying MotorhomeFun membership.
 
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Still trucking and learning
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and to the doggies

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Jun 8, 2019
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Greetings peeps hope it snows over Christmas so you can check out your new van. I would check the heating afore ye go otherwise you have to drink lots of whiskey to keep warm. Good luck in all your travels.
 
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Really encouraging to hear from you all! Looking forward to being part of this great community. Nigel.
 
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Welcome, but it's supposed to be the third van which meets your needs according to this site. You've had one too many already!! Four in a year!!

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it's supposed to be the third van which meets your needs according to this site
The first one didn’t count! We only drove it home, drove it to a garage the next day then drove it straight back to the dealer (carefully!). It had just about everything you would want... heating, solar, loo, shower, hob, microwave and was in ok condition inside for its 21 years on the road, but it was a wreck.
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We had it looked at by our local garage who reported a gear selection fault, a diesel leak (they fixed that for safety) a steering rack leak, headlight mis-alignment, wheel bearing play, a duff radio, a duff battery and what hadn’t been welded already was rusty including a hole you could put your hand through by the front suspension. It should never have passed its new mot but the testing station declared none of the faults we reported were mot failures and the dealer was not prepared to do anything about them. He did however allow us the full purchase price against another of his vans and we took that option as a lucky escape (hence the Elnagh was our first van).

It’s a red Timberland Ducato van conversion R626CHT that shows as taxed and motd until March on the .gov website so somebody is happier to own it than we were and has hopefully put right some of the issues. Let us know if it’s yours!
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