Decisions Decisions RV Or Mercedes Sprinter Selfbuild:

[Minxy]

What have you bought?

A Carthago C-Compactline i-138 A-class ...

Oh heck ... yet another very, VERY expensive show ...

I knew we shouldn't have come to Lincoln show ... the plan was to come for the day originally as we'd not been able to book well in advance to be able to park with funsters, but then we got some camping tickets from another member who couldn't attend (donation to MH Fun charity to be made...

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[stevewagner]

A Carthago C-Compactline i-138 A-class ...

Oh heck ... yet another very, VERY expensive show ...

I knew we shouldn't have come to Lincoln show ... the plan was to come for the day originally as we'd not been able to book well in advance to be able to park with funsters, but then we got some camping tickets from another member who couldn't attend (donation to MH Fun charity to be made...

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

Congratulations! I think we had a chat about it at Lincoln. We were camped on the end of the row.

 

[Loveshack]

I think maybe you should see if you can come up with a layout that would allow you to get to the stuff you want more easily, and accommodate 3 of you?
If you can, then either sell the RV and redo the PVC, or sell both.
I don’t know enough about the way you plan to use your van in the future, but it sounds like a PVC might be pushing it anyway.

 

[thebriars]

We think thats part of the problem in the Merc. We wanted the bed made permanently so of course thats nearly 2 meters of space taken straight away. Been looking at ways we can re model it to make things better but we can't be doing with making a bed up each day.

Why is that 2 metres of space taken straight away for the fixed bed. We have a 7metre motorhome with nearly 1 metre taken up with garage and wardrobes at the back and it has a fixed bed, it drops down our of the roof electrically. The best of both worlds.

Not sure why you like the big US RVs. We've hired them over there several times and frankly they are horrible to drive. The steering wanders all over the road, though you're probably used to that now.

 

[Minxy]

Congratulations! I think we had a chat about it at Lincoln. We were camped on the end of the row.

Ah, you've got the single bed one then! Yes, it was very useful chatting to you about your experience of the auto and ownership of your Carthago (albeit a short length of time) ... seeing as you helped convince us to get ours do you think you ought to be liable for part of the cost?

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[shawn&emma]

The space you need is being used up by the engine and bonnet in both , so you need to go bigger (longer)
if you wont countenance the looks of a A class . Real life Tardis doesn't exist .

We've no problem with the space in the RV, with the single slide we've basically 4 different zones that we can work/relax in with out getting in the way of the other. With any vehicle I have to have something I enjoy to drive but also like the look of. A class I don't like so wouldn't enjoy the experience.

It's about getting the best solution for us. It's probably going to be that we have 4 months a year touring and the rest of the year working. So could we live those 8 months in the Merc, were not sure.

Shawn

 

[shawn&emma]

Why is that 2 metres of space taken straight away for the fixed bed. We have a 7metre motorhome with nearly 1 metre taken up with garage and wardrobes at the back and it has a fixed bed, it drops down our of the roof electrically. The best of both worlds.

Not sure why you like the big US RVs. We've hired them over there several times and frankly they are horrible to drive. The steering wanders all over the road, though you're probably used to that now.

Our bed is longways from the rear, floor to the top of the mattress is 110cm which gives us loads of space for water tanks and storage under it. The bed height was designed around the fact that we wanted to be able to sit up in bad and not have our heads touching the ceiling, which we can do. That just left 2300cm for the rest of the van gubbings, kitchen, cleaning, seating etc.

With your drop down bed can one of you stay in it and the other still use/get to the space under neath?

You either like the RVs or don't, we do and so do a lot of others. Also value for money for us outweighed anything else we looked at when we brought the RV 10 years ago. Think we paid around £44000 for a then 2 year old RV with everything you could want on it to be self sufficient. We looked at loads of euro vans at that time and nothing came close for the same money, in our opinion anyway.

Can't say I've noticed any wandering, can be a pain sometimes with the wider wheelbase on the motorway in the lorry tram lines.

Shawn

 

[tacr2man]

My RV didn't wander either , in fact it was about the easiest traveling vehicle on a motorway I've ever driven .
At 12mtrs and width wise more interesting in built up areas
I also see VFM they are pretty much a slam dunk . Long term living RVs are generally better set up than the vast majority of others . If it was me the RV would be choice over the merc. Future wise the RV is more emissions proof as well .

 

[thebriars]

With your drop down bed can one of you stay in it and the other still use/get to the space under neath?

Of course, the bed can be at any height down to seat base height. Its designed so that 2 more can sleep underneath.

 

[stevewagner]

Ah, you've got the single bed one then! Yes, it was very useful chatting to you about your experience of the auto and ownership of your Carthago (albeit a short length of time) ... seeing as you helped convince us to get ours do you think you ought to be liable for part of the cost?

Guilty as charged!

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