Please Can People Explain To Me... (1 Viewer)

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Laziness and lack of computing power.

They buy into newer more and more complex fashionable designs that are engineered to be unsustainable sooner and sooner. Once they fall for the manufacturers Grand Plan they are locked in to the cycle of keep feeding cash to the dealers and manufacturers.

The older ones, without computers and solidly built need some tender care and will last just about indefinitely.

Break down in Morocco in your Hymer and you could have the engine or gearbox rebuilt overnight for about 5s 6d.

Break down in a Euro 5 vehicle and if they don't fly in a specialist the only way out is on a trailer.

SO VERY VERY TRUE. Bought a new shape JUDDERER in 2008.Glad to see the back of it. Run a 17 year old Transit non turbo non worry.:roflmto::roflmto:
 

oldun

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Because of my Princess's desire to buy a motorhome coupled with the fantastic help being given by several Funsters I have seen a mass of brilliant looking motorhomes for sale well under £10, 000.

Add to this actually sitting in one or two superb vans in truly excellent condition and packed with well built equipment and I find it more and more difficult to understand why so many people seem to pay so very much more money for lesser motorhomers.

Is it simply because they are newer?

Is this so called "upgrading" anything to do with perceived status?

I am sure Funsters will be able to enlighten me.

JJ :Cool:

I get a new or reasonably new one because I don't want one that has been "improved" and "maintained" by by some mechanically ignorant DIYer who is trying to sell a vehicle that it a time bomb waiting to blow up.

I do not believe in the myth that we are all experts and more knowledgeable that the specialists.

I accept that there are many very knowledgeable motorhomers out there, many on this forum, but they are in the minority.
 

hilldweller

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Thought.....

It just crossed my mind how similar this is to houses. I've done a lot of work in timber frame housing factories. Walls and floors are the most horrible compressed wood shavings on minimum sized new ( made to twist ) timber, meets the regs but long term or get a burst and they are history. All made to look as good as possible in the quickest possible time, assembled by low skilled labour.

Old houses ( or really top of the range new ones ) proper brick, proper wood, proper plaster. Assembled by craftsmen. Built to last. Need tender loving care to last indefinitely.

They call it progress.

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JJ

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I get a new or reasonably new one because I don't want one that has been "improved" and "maintained" by by some mechanically ignorant DIYer who is trying to sell a vehicle that it a time bomb waiting to blow up.

I do not believe in the myth that we are all experts and more knowledgeable that the specialists.

I accept that there are many very knowledgeable motorhomers out there, many on this forum, but they are in the minority.

Each to his own.

If you are happy with the modern van and have faith in the skill and training of the modern motor mechanics and the shiny glass fronted garages they hang around in and you have the "where with all" to pay their hourly rates then so be it and good for you.

I have only found a handful of places I trust to do the job as well as (or slightly) better than me (but then I was trained by Jeff Carney and John Dillon at Cockshoots of Belle Vue, Manchester.)

JJ :Cool:
 
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If you buy new you wont have to get into this malarkey for 3 years will you ? Broken Link Removed


tax & insurance purchaseable over the internet....MOT no!

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thehutchies

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A fulltiming German family that we are friends with have to drive a classic vehicle.
In Germany, that means at least 30 years old.

JJ will be glad to hear that they own a Hymer; it is structurally solid, mechanically sound and a fine home in which to raise their children. :Smile:

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