Julie and Charles
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- Sep 6, 2017
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- MH
- Don't own a MH yet
- Exp
- 15 years under canvas, 13 years in a caravan
As you all know, we're looking for a van conversion.
We thought we might go the pre loved way and then we discovered something that saved us miles of travelling to visit a wreck.
Type in the registration number of the vehicle you are going to see and, prepare to read a horror story.
The words excessively corroded, excessively worn, advisories ignored, it's saved us so much time and effort.
You get to know mileage done each year, a couple of vans we looked at hadn't done more than 300 miles in a year. And one had a list of advisories like a novel, 50 miles later an MOT pass then a fail the following year after 1000 miles, the fail was a carbon copy of the first fail!
I wanted to let you all know about this, it's helped us find out if we'd put hard earned cash into a van that's not been looked after.
The answer was no.
This research has directed us to the new route.
Julie
We thought we might go the pre loved way and then we discovered something that saved us miles of travelling to visit a wreck.
Type in the registration number of the vehicle you are going to see and, prepare to read a horror story.
The words excessively corroded, excessively worn, advisories ignored, it's saved us so much time and effort.
You get to know mileage done each year, a couple of vans we looked at hadn't done more than 300 miles in a year. And one had a list of advisories like a novel, 50 miles later an MOT pass then a fail the following year after 1000 miles, the fail was a carbon copy of the first fail!
I wanted to let you all know about this, it's helped us find out if we'd put hard earned cash into a van that's not been looked after.
The answer was no.
This research has directed us to the new route.
Julie