Could a Campervan be classified as Deprivation of Assets?

w06

As PasturesNew says it can be very expensive, it is doable on a relative budget too though. For example I took out a loan for £7500 over three years. That was to buy my van, and the cost of me converting it, insuring and taxing it for 3 years. My rational was the repayments were roughly what I was paying for a motability car and the van would be more practical and fun (wheelchair plus dogs and desire to tinker with things bit impractical in hire car) and I’d hopefully still have at th nd of the three years, two years in so far so good.

But, I do what I can of the servicing myself (the things that require fiddling but not strength or lying under it) did all but the windows of the conversion myself and it will always be a work in progress. I was incredibly relieved when it sailed through its mot this year as I had visions of a huge bill that I couldn’t afford.

bspm1

I can only speak from experience, we have this year sold our Motor Home, they cost a fortune to run, they are cumbersome to park even on your own driveway and not sure if you have a driveway? If you are in receipt of Enhanced PIP mobility you can tax it free of charge but you still have to insure it and maintain it.

Also if you are spending between 6-9k on one then it will most certainly be an old one, and probably need lots of repair work and maintenance to keep it roadworthy.

They really are not cheap to own and run.

w06

We’re I think talking about two different things though, a motor home (great big thing that’d need to be extremely old to fall in the price range mentoined) and a campervan (Bongo/t4/t5/trafic/transit conversion type thing) which still isn’t a cheap optoin but in a whole different ball park ( mine’s a trafic) to own, maintain and run

bspm1

w06 wrote: »

We’re I think talking about two different things though, a motor home (great big thing that’d need to be extremely old to fall in the price range mentoined) and a campervan (Bongo/t4/t5/trafic/transit conversion type thing) which still isn’t a cheap optoin but in a whole different ball park ( mine’s a trafic) to own, maintain and run

Sorry yes you are right,I got my camper vans and motor homes mixed up! Still expensive either way though was my point but obviously a camper van would be cheaper to run than a motor home.