75,000miles

[Innkeeper]

Me again
Thoughts on this van. Is 75k high mileage for a motorhome.
Rather than beating myself up about payloads, what are the thoughts on getting a nic nice trailer seeing as this one has a tow bar.
Would rather still have the payload beefed up if needs be or possible. And yes I do have the right license .
Apologies for keep bothering you just want to get this right.

https://www.motorhomedepot.com/vehicle/le-voyageur-lvx8

 

[Lenny HB]

Probably better value buying new and banging a lot of miles on it will still fetch a good return compared to an old vehicles value

A bit of a difference, £110,000 new compared to £30,000 for this one.

 

[shunter]

It looks a very nice van im still very happy with mine, If you like it and feel happy in it buy it , £30.000 is not bad for a LaVoyageur of that year, Mine is on the 416 chassis

 

[mfw]

A bit of a difference, £110,000 new compared to £30,000 for this one.

Missing my point Lenny it is an old used vehicle - ok motorhomes fetch stupid residual values i'd of put it at 20% - 25% of the value of a new one so 22 to 27k - And as you are a hymer man look at residual prices of used A class hymers around 2005/2006 vintage - prices range from 22k - 34k - any old vehicle you expect to spend money on it and if you compromise on the make/model you will get a lot better value for the money.
And personally i would not pay anymore than 25k for a vehicle of that sort of age - but the mileage is higher than i'd want for a motorhome with an asking price over 30k .
We are all different and some people are happy paying inflated prices for used specific make of model vehicles - i'm just saying that there are better value vehicles out there

 

[peterc10]

Voyageurs are very well made. If it was my money I would much rather spend it on an older better made van like this than a newer thrown together one by some other makers.

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[Allanm]

How do you work that out, 2003 ones go for more than that in France, for a quality Le Voyageur it looks cheap to me.

I was basing it on one we looked at last year in the UK. Same year with lower mileage for £24000
And I thought that was expensive!

Of course, in France it would be dearer, all used vehicles depreciate less here.

 

[jongood]

Missing my point Lenny it is an old used vehicle - ok motorhomes fetch stupid residual values i'd of put it at 20% - 25% of the value of a new one so 22 to 27k - And as you are a hymer man look at residual prices of used A class hymers around 2005/2006 vintage - prices range from 22k - 34k - any old vehicle you expect to spend money on it and if you compromise on the make/model you will get a lot better value for the money.
And personally i would not pay anymore than 25k for a vehicle of that sort of age - but the mileage is higher than i'd want for a motorhome with an asking price over 30k .
We are all different and some people are happy paying inflated prices for used specific make of model vehicles - i'm just saying that there are better value vehicles out there

I don't think it naturally follows that newer is better. The current aim seems to be to go progressively lighter and I'm certainly seeing lower quality in some of the more modern mh's (even the cheaper models). In fact my previous N&B (2004)was slightly better quality fittings than the current one but not as nice to drive. btw we are at 70k 2010

Jon

 

[haganap]

LVs are top quality vans.
The price is probably about right imo being on a merc too.

What would worry me is your comment about towing a trailer. If you think you are going to need to tow a trailer then thiis van isn't right for YOU.

The payload can be upped to at least 3850 and i took my merc up to 4200 so would need to check it out.

These vans are only any good if you keep them. You do not want to be trying to sell in 5 montha because you hate a trailer can't get in to busy aires campsites tell you no and toll roads cost you a fortune.

 

[mfw]

Think i look at vehicles slightly differently chassis rot is always a vehicle killer there are good vehicles out there and there are bad ones - people get caught all the time - so irrespective what make habitation fitted a vehicle fit for scrap is just that scrap value - so i'm just saying 30k + is a lot of money for an old vehicle but this is just how i view an old vehicle - Think someone on here posted some pics of some chassis rot and that was a post 2000 vehicle

 

[funflair]

Quality van will be a heavy build though, I always liked the older LV, as long as it's been looked after I would not worry about the age or miles as it will last for years and years to come looks a cracking van.

Martin

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[Lenny HB]

Missing my point Lenny it is an old used vehicle - ok motorhomes fetch stupid residual values i'd of put it at 20% - 25% of the value of a new one so 22 to 27k - And as you are a hymer man look at residual prices of used A class hymers around 2005/2006 vintage - prices range from 22k - 34k - any old vehicle you expect to spend money on it and if you compromise on the make/model you will get a lot better value for the money.
And personally i would not pay anymore than 25k for a vehicle of that sort of age - but the mileage is higher than i'd want for a motorhome with an asking price over 30k .
We are all different and some people are happy paying inflated prices for used specific make of model vehicles - i'm just saying that there are better value vehicles out there

I don't think I'm missing the point, you are comparing it with a Hymer, Hymer's are only a mid range van these are a bit better. If anythingI class the milage as low it's done less than 6 k a year. Any lower I would walk away as it would mean it's spent most of its life sitting around. I would expect an A Class of that age to have done around 130,000.

 

[mfw]

I don't think I'm missing the point, you are comparing it with a Hymer, Hymer's are only a mid range van these are a bit better. If anythingI class the milage as low it's done less than 6 k a year. Any lower I would walk away as it would mean it's spent most of its life sitting around. I would expect an A Class of that age to have done around 130,000.

Thats where we differ then i always go for low mileage vehicles upto 5K a year and i haven't had any problems with them - but it still depends on an asking price and condition - but pootling around on short journeys if using as sole vehicle putting mileage on them does them no favours either

 

[jongood]

Thats where we differ then i always go for low mileage vehicles upto 5K a year and i haven't had any problems with them - but it still depends on an asking price and condition - but pootling around on short journeys if using as sole vehicle putting mileage on them does them no favours either

5000 miles can be one holiday for some of us.

Whereas some of those mh's you see on spanish campsites for months at a time or that do a couple of skiing trips per year can have very low mileages

 

[Lenny HB]

5000 miles can be one holiday for some of us.

We are lightweights only do about 3,500 miles on a trip but the boss limits me to 6 weeks at a time. Since the limt (due to grandchild), I've squeezed in a third short trip of about 2000 miles.

 

[Armytwowheels]

We researched Le Voyageur extensively last year and came to the conclusion that the newer ones were not a patch on the ones of this age. If we had found one on a Merc, maybe a couple of years younger than this one, I am pretty sure we would have gone for it.

I think that you will not be sorry with the build quality of this van, but has Haggers says, satisfy yourself with the payload issue first. It is not a difficult job to upgrade, lots have done it on here.