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[Baldeagle7470]

Looks lovely,enjoy!
Life really is black and white after all!!

 

[Baycott]

Looks great, we have the Black Edition Lifestyle. How did you get on with Marquis?

They were ok. I think I knew more about the van than the handover guy but he was nice enough
Just had our first proper journey in it and was held up for 2 hours on the M25 .

 

[houdini]

Wow, that looks so smart! Enjoy yourselves.

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[Jaws]

Bed...
Throw duvet on top and forget it !! You are only gonna mess it up again anyway !!

 

[Techno]

Looks very nice. Is there anything in your vehicle manual about wheel specs? I have a question from someone who has been led to believe that the 2015 Ducato with 16" wheels has a smaller bolt circle diameter than the original X250 chassis 130 PCD.

 

[sedge]

I would like to see a pic of the neater bed, LOL

You WILL find a way that you are happy with, whether it's the same as ours or not. Oh incidentally because we use a double quilt in there instead of the king-size we use at home, it is easier and there's plenty of it for both of us - most of it lands up on the floor my side anyway and I waken fighting for air LOL

And both our double quilt covers, and the matching pillow cases, are reversible so the backs aren't just a plain colour. So everything co-ordinates - and they were FAR from expensive covers either of them!

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[Baycott]

Looks very nice. Is there anything in your vehicle manual about wheel specs? I have a question from someone who has been led to believe that the 2015 Ducato with 16" wheels has a smaller bolt circle diameter than the original X250 chassis 130 PCD.

I've not looked at the spec book yet. I will have a look and let you know

 

[Baycott]

Looks very nice. Is there anything in your vehicle manual about wheel specs? I have a question from someone who has been led to believe that the 2015 Ducato with 16" wheels has a smaller bolt circle diameter than the original X250 chassis 130 PCD.

Nothing in the book Andy. Would you like me to measure the bolt circle?

 

[Techno]

Nothing in the book Andy. Would you like me to measure the bolt circle?

If you have 16" wheels yes please. Personally I doubt they changed from 130

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[Baycott]

Just had a rough measure @Techno100 and it looks like 110 not 130

 

[Techno]

What are you measuring? it has to be an imaginary circle through the bolt centres, not bolt to bolt. As there are five bolts none are opposite each other

 

[Baycott]

Yes Andy I measured the imaginary circle and they are definitely R16s

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[Techno]

OK thanks but that is even smaller than 15" wheels that were 118

 

[Baycott]

OK thanks but that is even smaller than 15" wheels that were 118

Just had another look Andy and they could be 118 but definitely not 130. It's a difficult thing to measure for a numpty

 

[Techno]

It is indeed difficult to measure but I suspect 118 is most likely if not definitive Thanks

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[Baycott]

I would like to see a pic of the neater bed, LOL

You WILL find a way that you are happy with, whether it's the same as ours or not. Oh incidentally because we use a double quilt in there instead of the king-size we use at home, it is easier and there's plenty of it for both of us - most of it lands up on the floor my side anyway and I waken fighting for air LOL

And both our double quilt covers, and the matching pillow cases, are reversible so the backs aren't just a plain colour. So everything co-ordinates - and they were FAR from expensive covers either of them!

Think we are happy with this. Folded it at an angle but tucked it underneath.
This is the front end

 

[Ja63]

Congratulations John, hope you cover many happy miles.......

We should've been picking up our Swift Bolero 712sb Black Edition tomorrow but it's been put back a week

Not very happy but I suppose this time next week it will all be forgotten.

They do make a nice mh don't they?.......the finish is very stylish which tempted us into spending a little more than we intended to as it's our first mh and we wanted to start a bit lower and build up to something like this! But once we saw it, nothing else seemed to compare so we thought oh well, you only live once, might as well do it in style! Better than saving it to spend on care homes haha.

We had seen a huge Kontiki Black Edition (tag axle) which my husband just fell in love with and I had to restrain him from buying one.....only because someone had warned me, rightly or wrongly, that it can be harder to get pitches for anything over 8 metres (plus it was too big for our driveway). There are only two of us and two little fur babies so it was a bit over the top!

So the Bolero is ideal because he still gets his Black Edition but it's not so huge that I will worry constantly about it being too big for us.

Roll on this time next week.....

 

[Baycott]

Congratulations John, hope you cover many happy miles.......

We should've been picking up our Swift Bolero 712sb Black Edition tomorrow but it's been put back a week

Not very happy but I suppose this time next week it will all be forgotten.

They do make a nice mh don't they?.......the finish is very stylish which tempted us into spending a little more than we intended to as it's our first mh and we wanted to start a bit lower and build up to something like this! But once we saw it, nothing else seemed to compare so we thought oh well, you only live once, might as well do it in style! Better than saving it to spend on care homes haha.

We had seen a huge Kontiki Black Edition (tag axle) which my husband just fell in love with and I had to restrain him from buying one.....only because someone had warned me, rightly or wrongly, that it can be harder to get pitches for anything over 8 metres (plus it was too big for our driveway). There are only two of us and two little fur babies so it was a bit over the top!

So the Bolero is ideal because he still gets his Black Edition but it's not so huge that I will worry constantly about it being too big for us.

Roll on this time next week.....

We saw the Black edition in the middle of last year and fell for it even though we were going to spend no more than 35k
We had been looking for 6 months and after seeing it, as you said, nothing compared.
Yes we are restricted by the size of our drive as well. This is a little bit too big really but we couldn't resist. It does go on but overhangs a little on a communal area. We have good neighbours though and they don't mind.

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[Ja63]

You had the same budget as us then.....we thought £35k was about right for our first mh.

Absolutely no self control whatsoever.....

 

[sedge]

Our budget was £20 -25k absolute max - and No Way were we buying new! - we might not like Motorhoming! - when we spent £32k on our first van - a Brand New Bessie !

Bed looks smashing now!

 

[Easyliving]

Very smart looking van, Swift have done a good job with the 'Black Edition' models.

For those of us that don't have such deep pockets here's a video by Swift so you can see what you're missing.

Paul

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[Ja63]

Looks like many of us end up going over Budget! Just have to make absolutely sure we get our money's worth.....a good excuse to squeeze in a few extra weekenders to justify the cost haha

 

[JJ]

£35,000

My first motorhome/camper van (VW split screen) was £60.

JJ