MOT Failure - Advice please - Fiat Ducato

[f6c]

Welcome aboard

 

[Allanm]

£5k for 3 years use isn’t bad when you consider the depreciation on a new vehicle!
I would sell it as it is and look for a new one.

 

[mfw]

£5k for 3 years use isn’t bad when you consider the depreciation on a new vehicle!
I would sell it as it is and look for a new one.

Cant see it being worth much complete with that amount of rust - i'd transfer parts to a lot newer van - sell the mechanical parts and put my 9in angle grinder to good use cut up whats left of shell stick it in trailer and take to a metal recycler

 

[mitzimad]

either sell as is on ebay or break it for parts if engine and gearbox are good sell them first so buyers can see them inj action

 

[Northernraider]

It's worth a grand tops with that amount of welding required.

I'd be tempted to pick up another panel van and switch the interior over

I certainly wouldn't waste the time and money welding it up as it's pretty grim

You could try selling it as a project and someone willing to do the work themselves may be tempted

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[Markoxc123]

@Feltwell Agreed, but not with transferring to another vehicle. Spending summer months grovelling about stripping and selling the parts or transferring the habitation stuff to another base vehicle is fine in theory but a PITA in reality. You'll need somewhere to work on it and have to clean all the stuff up too and the phone will be going with dimwits asking if a certain bit fits a 1964 Datsun, Citroen Berlingo, offering silly money, making arrangements to collect for cash and not turning up............. Then they'll be back saying it doesn't work or doesn't fit or is making a funny noise, or the wife doesn't like it........ been there, suffered all that. I sold a vintage dynamo to a chap who gave me hell and bad feedback on eBay, saying that after he'd had it fitted the brakes started binding
I've rebuilt several rotten MGB GT's with new 'Heritage' shells and other MOT failed classic cars but fitting stuff on/in a camper body won't be so simple. Apart from rusted solid or crumbling nuts and bolts, dealing with frail and adding new habitation wiring, gas/water piping there'll be the converter's specific fittings to transfer, perhaps rusting away and mods to make to the donor vehicle.
I gave it all up years ago.
It *only* cost you 5 grand and you've had 3 or 4 years from it. I'd put it on eBay, draw a line under the affair and get something I could use.

A good point and well made. I think this has made my mind up to sell as one whole campervan. Thanks for the time to type out your thoughts. p.s. It's actually owned 50/50 by my wife and her father, so it lessens the financial loss by half! We are happy to sell. eBay Beckons.

 

[Feltwell]

I think you'll sell that easily - campervan projects are always popular, someone will want the interior and fittings to transfer to another van I reckon. My old workplace had an 06 reg Ducato panel van, same as yours basically, that was a bit scruffy but only had 50k on the clock and wasn't rusty - got sold for £800. Cut the roof off yours and transfer it and you'd be away.

A lot of hassle and time but someone out there will be up for it.

 

[Markoxc123]

Thanks all for the advice... I appreciate your differing thoughts and views. We were always going to 'get rid' as we have a growing family, Noah 1 yrs, and Maggie our Cocker Spaniel and our SWB Ducato, who we call Luigi, is now just too small. However Luigi made us love camper-vanning so much that we actually had our Honeymoon in March/April this year in a larger rented campervan... 3 weeks touring west Scotland and the outer Hebrides! It was amazing to be so free in the wilderness and yet so comfortable in the Motorhome we hired. Luigi will be going on EBay on Sunday, I hope to get £1000 for him.
Some pics attached of our rented 7 Berth in Scotland.
Thanks, Mark.

 

[mfw]

Thanks all for the advice... I appreciate your differing thoughts and views. We were always going to 'get rid' as we have a growing family, Noah 1 yrs, and Maggie our Cocker Spaniel and our SWB Ducato, who we call Luigi, is now just too small. However Luigi made us love camper-vanning so much that we actually had our Honeymoon in March/April this year in a larger rented campervan... 3 weeks touring west Scotland and the outer Hebrides! It was amazing to be so free in the wilderness and yet so comfortable in the Motorhome we hired. Luigi will be going on EBay on Sunday, I hope to get £1000 for him.
Some pics attached of our rented 7 Berth in Scotland.
Thanks, Mark.

I'd list on gumtree as well with a few pics good and bad of vehicle it is free

 

[Janine]

Looks like you've had your 5 free posts on here - and got lots of useful advice! - so you can see the benefits of stumping up £15 for you Funster membership. Happy travels

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[Spriddler]

A good point and well made. I think this has made my mind up to sell as one whole campervan. Thanks for the time to type out your thoughts. p.s. It's actually owned 50/50 by my wife and her father, so it lessens the financial loss by half! We are happy to sell. eBay Beckons.

Many years ago my rose tinted elder son decided to convert his VW Beetle into a beach buggy on the basis of a glossy magazine article. It showed how easy it was; pictures of a smiling and manicured matinée idol unbolting the old body and bolting the new one on. Even the spanners were smiling.
In spite of my many years in the wilderness restoring old vehicles it still took us a whole summer of spare evenings and weekends.
What's your spare time worth ? The van owes you £2500 less 4 years of pleasure value. If you sell it for £500 it'll owe you £2250. Frankly, unless you're a masochist you'd be better off getting a part time job in a pub to earn that in fewer hours and with less filth, cuts and hassle mechanically, domestically and from the neighbours.
No doubt you get my drift.....?

 

[Boringfrog]

It must be a major fail to make it uneconomic, which makes you wonder how long it’s been bad. Would it all happen in one year ?

Check the MOT history, looks like it's been corroded a long time.