Lockdown and the price of vans.

[CamperJack]

I bought my 2013 L3H2 Boxer a couple of days before lockdown No.1 for £4,000. It had a few unknown issues, which have cost about £1,000 to repair. (I've had two front break discs fitted, along with pads on all four wheels. Also a new DPF atomizer.) So that's about £5,000. It's done 100,000 miles.

I've just seen a 2014 L3H2 with 75,000 miles for almost £9,000. Private sale. Yes this one is one year newer and done less miles but it seems a lot more expensive.

Has lockdown pushed the prices up? I remember reading posts about prices tumbling as business went bump in the pandemic. (I'm talking vans here not campers or MHs.)

 

[Spriddler]

Yes the lockdown has pushed prices up. Several long threads over the past few months on this price rise.

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Ah, I didn't realise yours was a bare van.

 

[CamperJack]

Yes the lockdown has pushed prices up. Several long threads over the past few months on this price rise.

I expected MH and Campers to go up, but not unconverted builders vans and certainly not that much.

 

[Figaro]

The boom in home delivery has meant people are snapping up white vans apparently

 

[Eggs]

I bought my 2013 L3H2 Boxer a couple of days before lockdown No.1 for £4,000. It had a few unknown issues, which have cost about £1,000 to repair. (I've had two front break discs fitted, along with pads on all four wheels. Also a new DPF atomizer.) So that's about £5,000. It's done 100,000 miles.

I've just seen a 2014 L3H2 with 75,000 miles for almost £9,000. Private sale. Yes this one is one year newer and done less miles but it seems a lot more expensive.

Has lockdown pushed the prices up? I remember reading posts about prices tumbling as business went bump in the pandemic. (I'm talking vans here not campers or MHs.)
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I was reading that new base vans are in short supply due to couriers buying them up to do home delivers which in turn has pushed the price of secondhand vans up. Don't know if that's correct mind.

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[stevewagner]

Doesn't mean they will get that though and I think your was a good deal.

 

[Otter Spotter]

It’s new vans that prices have not so much gone up but there are no deals, that’s because there are so many delivery drivers looking for new or very nearly new vans, give it another 12 months and a lot if their vans will be coming on the market so self builders may be in luck, but by then will there be lots of ex staycation van owners selling up to go back abroad for their Jollies. It’s a difficult shout which way it’s going to go.

 

[CamperJack]

Doesn't mean they will get that though and I think your was a good deal.

Yes, I thought so when I bought it. I wanted an L2 really, but found the price too hard to pass up.