Financing a motor home

fred246

If you have a small motorhome that fits in a normal parking spot that's fine. Most motorhomes like that are built for 2 people. Great. When you get a family sized motorhome then you can't park in normal car parks. Imagining driving round Paris or Berlin looking for a car park to fit a large motorhome in. I find it stressful enough driving a car round those places anyway. If you want to try it fine. Go ahead.

AdrianC

fred246 wrote: »

Basically manoevring and levelling is easy with a caravan with a £500 motor mover. A motorhome needs a hydraulic levelling system to do it properly which costs over £4000.

Balls it does. It needs a £30 set of ramps and two-way spirit level.

BeenThroughItAll

fred246 wrote: »

Basically manoevring and levelling is easy with a caravan with a £500 motor mover. A motorhome needs a hydraulic levelling system to do it properly which costs over £4000.

I've never had a problem levelling my caravan without a mover, and I've never encountered a problem levelling any of the motorhomes my parents have owned or hired, or those I've borrowed in the past; NONE of which have ever had a fancy hydraulic levelling system.


Cobblers. You use a pair of levelling ramps like this:





Front low? Put them under the front wheels. Rear low? Under the back. Left low? Under the left. Right low? Under the right.


Or, by carrying interlocking type levelling blocks, you can also raise a single wheel on one side more than the other to accommodate levelling in two directions. Takes two minutes, as I said.

AdrianC

fred246 wrote: »

If you have a small motorhome that fits in a normal parking spot that's fine. Most motorhomes like that are built for 2 people. Great. When you get a family sized motorhome then you can't park in normal car parks. Imagining driving round Paris or Berlin looking for a car park to fit a large motorhome in. I find it stressful enough driving a car round those places anyway. If you want to try it fine. Go ahead.

http://www.all-the-aires.com/
Very few aires accept car-and-caravan combinations.

fred246

You can't level 4 wheels with 2 blocks. Simple.

BeenThroughItAll

fred246 wrote: »

If you have a small motorhome that fits in a normal parking spot that's fine. Most motorhomes like that are built for 2 people. Great. When you get a family sized motorhome then you can't park in normal car parks. Imagining driving round Paris or Berlin looking for a car park to fit a large motorhome in. I find it stressful enough driving a car round those places anyway. If you want to try it fine. Go ahead.

Yes you can, you simply park a little further away from the shop and walk. Yeah, multi-storeys are out of the question, but as I said, we've NEVER yet had a problem finding parking anywhere in the UK or across Europe.


Paris and Berlin both have excellent motorhome parking sites, with direct Metro and U/S-Bahn links to the city centre.


(BTW, I am referring to motorhomes here, not campervans - both A-class and coachbuilt to over 8m long)

AdrianC

fred246 wrote: »

You can't level 4 wheels with 2 blocks. Simple.

Here's a clue: I've done it, many times. You have clearly never tried.

Shall we take a vote as to which of us is more likely to be correct on this?

BeenThroughItAll

fred246 wrote: »

You can't level 4 wheels with 2 blocks. Simple.

Yes you can by simply adjusting the orientation of your vehicle on the land, or, as I say:

"...by carrying interlocking type levelling blocks, you can also raise a single wheel on one side more than the other to accommodate levelling in two directions..."

You can carry more than two blocks, you know. Motorhomes can carry a lot more stuff than caravans.


(my 4-berth caravan payload (with uprate to MTPLM) = 182KG. My parents' 4-berth motorhome = 440KG)

wildincrawley

ericbanner wrote: »

Thank you all for your valued comments, I'm going to go away, crunch some figures.

I agree with Nasqueron. In the next 12 months you will take home £57,600, and you have no rent/mortgage.

You could pay off the credit cards in a year, and still have £47,000 to live off.

Then reward yourself with a caravan/car or motorhome! You will probably get a better finance rate with the cards cleared.

fred246

Well there you go ericbanner. Beenthroughitall reckons you don't need campsites. Obviously you could save a bit by wild camping. You have to decide - would your kids prefer to be on a site with loads of other children playing in play areas, going in the pool, water slides, football, etc or sitting with mum & dad in a layby by a lake?
I found this guide to motorhome levelling by an expert
http://forums.motorhomefacts.com/394762-post.html
I liked this bit: There are of course, some less usual, but more complicated situations, like where once you're half way up the left hand chock and the front is nearly level but the side to side adjustment isn't quite right and half the campsite is watching you, in this situation, just pretend that you're level and your street cred should remain intact.
Adults compensate well without being perfectly level. Children don't. If the table slopes towards them they can end up with their laps covered in food.