Just priced to update our motorhome 👀

[Bustup15]

What's the dealers name for habitation check please

Hartz & Hackman, Goldenstedt near Bremen

 

[Sapper520]

Well our new motorhome has arrived at dealers on schedule and we went to give it the once over today - even though it was raining cats and dogs!! The excitement of going was immense and yes it was a large spend but you Cant take it with you!! If we hadn’t ordered at the show in Feb we would have been looking at an additional £14k now!! Looking forward to delivery hopefully 28 October - subject to DVLA and the registration process. Must say the build quality of the Elddis looks to be excellent with no obvious problems at first inspection. See how the hand over goes and how well we make the switch from caravan to Motorhome. Hopefully we will have some fantastic times and it will be money well spent.

Shrouds don’t have pockets…..my Mom used to say.

 

[Bustup15]

You missed the boat at Caravan Salon most German manufacturers were doing garranted price if you ordered at the show. We found the price increases offset by the higher trade in, S/H prices seem to have gone up more than new which helps a lot.
Still had to pay well over 100k for smallest Carthago.

Carthago UK dealer suggesting it might be offered at the NEC?

 

[SpeedyDux]

We find it very difficult to spend even though we could, sounds daft I know but having had to scrimp and save for many years when we first got married with the high mortgage interest rates, not spending comes as second nature now so splashing the cash for the sake of it is hard.

I said to hubby just yesterday that I want another electric grill, the George Foreman type we have at present is ideal for 2 people but it doesn't have removable plates so cleaning it takes ages as I can't jut stick the plates in a bowl to soak, having had to clean it 3 times this week the 'novelty' has worn off and some of the non-stick coating is starting to wear (we've had it a while!), so I'm now on the hunt for one to splash the cash on ... unless of course I see one at a car boot sale in the meantime!

I'm on my second George Foreman grill. The quality of the non-stick seems to have improved. I waited for a price drop.

I agree about not spending, and the hesitancy of splashing the cash on a MH upgrade. I can't see us getting another new one. An unexpected windfall might change our minds.

 

[gus-lopez]

If it's rubbish that people buy for one upmanship what tell o wise one is the function of a Rolex over an argos watch?

When you break down in syria you've something to trade

A Rolex is a piece of jewelry a marvel of engineering and an investment all rolled into one, oh it tells the time as well,

You left out " but in many areas it is only worn with a bullet proof vest worn over an anti stab vest otherwise you won't be going home ".

On the buying new cars for the sake of it

Yes I did. Every 9 months I used to change the car on average but it didn't cost anything & the ridiculous part was that in some cases due to working 12+ hrs a day ,7 days a week I might only drive it once. whereas the wife drove it all the time.

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[Minxy]

Well our new motorhome has arrived at dealers on schedule and we went to give it the once over today - even though it was raining cats and dogs!! The excitement of going was immense and yes it was a large spend but you Cant take it with you!! If we hadn’t ordered at the show in Feb we would have been looking at an additional £14k now!! Looking forward to delivery hopefully 28 October - subject to DVLA and the registration process. Must say the build quality of the Elddis looks to be excellent with no obvious problems at first inspection. See how the hand over goes and how well we make the switch from caravan to Motorhome. Hopefully we will have some fantastic times and it will be money well spent.

If you get the date changed to November you'll save road tax!

 

[funflair]

When you break down in syria you've something to trade

You left out " but in many areas it is only worn with a bullet proof vest worn over an anti stab vest otherwise you won't be going home ".

Yes I did. Every 9 months I used to change the car on average but it didn't cost anything & the ridiculous part was that in some cases due to working 12+ hrs a day ,7 days a week I might only drive it once. whereas the wife drove it all the time.

That’s why I don’t have one too recognisable.

 

[cyberyacht]

If you have a 'posh watch' do you have to specify short sleeves on your clothing?

 

[Southdowners]

If you have a 'posh watch' do you have to specify short sleeves on your clothing?

The racing driver Jackie Stewart did. He had the sleeve on his tailor-made shirts shorter on his watch-wearing arm for just that purpose .

 

[Brody]

Ooh forget watches..... give me a designer handbag any day of the week.

For me they are an investment, it finishes off an outfit, makes me feel good, classic designs, well made. Yes I could buy one from Primark but it's not the same!

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[Brody]

It's one upmanship. Car sales have relied on it for years a lot like a shiny new car to show off to the neighbours even if the old one is really reliable and low mileage. It's the same with clothes jewellery more or less everything.
Without it our economy would collapse!

Definitely no one upmanship here. If my husband could turn our van invisible he would. He likes to leave and come home in the dark so no one sees us.

We never told a soul when we bought it (apart from my sister who lives next door because it lives on her drive!!) not even our own kids. We're quite private and don't really say anything to anyone about what we're getting or have.

 

[Steve and Denise]

It's one upmanship. Car sales have relied on it for years a lot like a shiny new car to show off to the neighbours even if the old one is really reliable and low mileage. It's the same with clothes jewellery more or less everything.
Without it our economy would collapse!

Well if that’s the case tell me why when we replaced our car at 3 years old for a new car exact same model spec and colour I had our number we have had for years put on the car before it left the dealers, ?
It was to stop narrow minded people judging me for having a new car when our old one was working fine.
just as well some people want to get on and have some of the finer things in life it’s called drive and ambition and if I didn’t have any I would still be delivering newspapers in Sunderland

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Well if that’s the case tell me why when we replaced our car at 3 years old for a new car exact same model spec and colour I had our number we have had for years put on the car before it left the dealers, ?
It was to stop narrow minded people judging me for having a new car when our old one was working fine.
just as well some people want to get on and have some of the finer things in life it’s called drive and ambition and if I didn’t have any I would still be delivering newspapers in Sunderland

It does make me wonder what a sad life some people must live Worrying about what others spend or have got?
Don’t know if it’s just me but I like to see people with nice cars or vans chances are they have worked for them and enjoying life.
At the same time as long as everyone is enjoying life good luck to them whatever they have…

 

[dash300]

It does make me wonder what a sad life some people must live Worrying about what others spend or have got?
Don’t know if it’s just me but I like to see people with nice cars or vans chances are they have worked for them and enjoying life.
At the same time as long as everyone is enjoying life good luck to them whatever they have…

Some people start at the bottom and like it!

 

[bobnick]

If Mrs Bob and i were anything like as keen as some MHers on here we could and would invest in a larger plusher better built MH, but we are not so i could not justify to myself the expenditure.
When the warranty works are complete on our Autograph 79 it will surfice for what we do.

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[bobnick]

I change my car every 18-24 months because I like a change and after working up to 100 hours a week since I left school at 15 and running a firm employing a lot of people, don’t give a flying what people think of me as I buy what I want.
Had a few tell me how lucky I am having a nice car and house, funny that I say the harder I work the luckier I get!!

I was in that club

 

[WESTY66]

Some people start at the bottom and like it!

It’s quite nice down here on the bottom, not too far to fall!

Don’t envisage scraping myself off it anytime soon

 

[bexleyjohn]

We looked at buying a Chausson back in Jan/Feb but didn’t decide until May, by which time it had increased in cost by around £9000. Good job the trade in figure for our old 2016 MH was reasonable.

 

[Coolcats]

When you break down in syria you've something to trade

You left out " but in many areas it is only worn with a bullet proof vest worn over an anti stab vest otherwise you won't be going home ".

Yes I did. Every 9 months I used to change the car on average but it didn't cost anything & the ridiculous part was that in some cases due to working 12+ hrs a day ,7 days a week I might only drive it once. whereas the wife drove it all the time.

There have been plenty of guys I have worked with who spend eye watering amounts of money on watches and are quite proud to show them off, one guy asked me why I ‘only’ had a cheap watch. I asked what function his watch performed…..to tell the time he answered, I spent the next 5 mins explaining all the functions my GPS watch did along with being able to tell the time and pointing out that Rolex is a non for profit and a charity.

So when buying a Rolex you are actually giving money to charity which I guess is a good thing

 

[Garry - June]

There's a lot to be said for treating MH's the same way as a lot of people are now doing with their homes... keep what you have got and know, and improve it ... get it re-upholstered... fit a new gadget or fancy suspension.. get it resprayed or have brand new updated graphics... our van is 2015 but we love it but i do constantly upgrade things.. and i have yet to see a new van with the same build quality or one i would change it for..

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[Garry - June]

We like buying new Motorhomes we could never afford luxuries like this when we were younger so it's nice to have a nice new one but we do use it. We do 8-10 k miles a year and 120 + nights away in it.

The car though was bought new but its over 10 years old, might change it in 5 years time. It only gets used for shopping trips and the amount we have saved on not changing cars helps in a big way to funding the Motorhome.

One thing i certainly won't be doing for the foreseeable future is changing our car.... certainly not until they sort out which way we are going with Electric Vehicles (and infrastructure to support them) or whether some other type comes about like Hydrogen. i can see a lot of folk coming unstuck jumping in too soon.

 

[Tony50]

The equivilant of my Hymer new is a whisker under £100k in basic form and thats at the low end of their range

Just makes you wonder what's the point of trying to save, thinking back 52 years we bought a house for £1250 in East Anglian town !! Savings go down in value Motorhomes go up, funny old world

 

[Sapper520]

One thing i certainly won't be doing for the foreseeable future is changing our car.... certainly not until they sort out which way we are going with Electric Vehicles (and infrastructure to support them) or whether some other type comes about like Hydrogen. i can see a lot of folk coming unstuck jumping in too soon.

I’ve jumped. With having the van we decided to get a smaller car, which we will keep for many years. Our current one is over 7 years old, but too big for our needs now.

Back in June we ordered a 1L petrol Skoda Fabia, Electric is out of our budget, still no sign of it, might be September…..or October……or November. Somewhere between 12 weeks and 20 weeks…….but they’ve go no idea really. It’s not just Motorhome suppliers having issues.

In the meantime, the value of our current car is going up.

 

[BikerJon]

I ordered my van conversion last year and with brexit delays on both the van and parts it was completed 11months later. When I picked it up the converter told me they had gone up by 8k. Obviously they honoured the original price but parts price increases had definitely reduced their profit margin.
It means my MH won't have lost the value it would have done from new. He is also saying he can't get hold of the vans to convert now and wishing he wasn't going to the NEC as he can't fulfill the orders.

 

[drmartinwhite]

Just priced ours up from this year’s brochure…..having ordered ours in January 2020, couple of months before lockdown, taking delivery in September 2020.

Including all the extras we had at 2020 prices, as I have no idea how much it would cost now, the same van would be £15k to £18k more, but that was from the 2022 brochure. Looking at Sunlight dealers, none are showing prices for 2023 / 2024 it’s all POA.

We would definitely have been priced out of the new market, and having looked at numerous Used ones (allegedly immaculate) we’d have given up the idea of owning one.

Same here, we bought ours from the showroom at Southdowns Hymer BMCT 600 Whiteline, last October, 1 year old now. I think it was £87K, we added extras we wanted that were retrofitted and the final cost was £93K, last I checked a month or so ago a new one same spec but factory fitted would be around £103K. We had intended in buying this year, but the sale person persuaded us prices were going up and as they had the model we wanted with a few retrofits it would be better to buy them. Glad we did, going back now and ordering would have been a bitter pill to swallow and waiting time are high I hear. So, I guess we are lucky, had a great years first use out of it too.

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[DrDeath]

Eh; €156000 IS £137000 give or take depending on exchange

 

[Towat101]

We were in Stafford and went to the Hymer place....WOW a 6 mtr PVC £106k ..nothing below £68k What kind of people are buying these at those prices ?Made me feel like a peasant!!

Well if rich people stopped buying new Motor Homes there wouldn't be any "cheap" second hand ones for the rest of us mere mortals.

 

[jess12]

Don't know or care whet other folks have as long as I can enjoy myself oh by the way bought a rolux watch on a beach in Spain its right twice a day I guess the point is live and let live be happy with what you have

 

[Essgeebee]

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with choices but that people don't often buy the cheapest thing that does the job.

I don’t want the cheapest thing that does the job. I want the thing that gives me the facilities I need and enjoy along with the comfort and convenience I want. I will admit to a little satisfaction at having some nicer (and/or more expensive) things than I actually need but posing and grandstanding are not in my rationale at all.

 

[corconx]

Pffft! I would be there like a shot were it not for having to find the money to pay for the extortionate £230 annual cost for the hab checks.

Can be done abroad

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