Whats the shortest time you kept a van?

[haganap]

Title says it all...
You bought a van... you sold it to get another..

How long did it take? How long did you own the van for

 

[Caggsie1]

Started in 2008, first one 5 years, still on 2nd one, traded first one in in 2013 for our current Hobby. Can’t find anything in our price range to replace it. Would love a N and B

 

[haganap]

wow, thought we were bad, our normal is normally 3 years, but we are changing, hence why I asked the question, if all goes to plan, on Tuesday morning just 4 months after buying... please don't ask about the losses incurred, but what's gotta be done has gotta be done.
Van 1) Carioca 5 4 years
Van 2) Adria 3.5 years
Van 3) besacarr 4.5 years
Vab 4) Rapido 2,5 years
Van 5) N&B Arto 3.5 years
Van6 ) N&B Flair 4 months.

I'm getting my next one and when I do, it's the last one. so fed up with Motorhomes right now.

 

[gus-lopez]

Picked up a brand new PVC, drove off the forecourt and got onto the motorway. 50 miles into the drive the engine failed and we crawled off the motorway. Van put onto a trailer about 6 hours later and taken to a Fiat garage. That was the last time we saw it. Asked the dealer for a refund and they oblige. We’re currently into a long long wait for another van.

I think bobnick beats that with 16 miles before the engine failed

 

[Barryh]

Bought our first new Pilote in 2002, took it in for its first hab check and came away with our second new Pilote. So 12 months.

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[Armytwowheels]

wow, thought we were bad, our normal is normally 3 years, but we are changing, hence why I asked the question, if all goes to plan, on Tuesday morning just 4 months after buying... please don't ask about the losses incurred, but what's gotta be done has gotta be done.
Van 1) Carioca 5 4 years
Van 2) Adria 3.5 years
Van 3) besacarr 4.5 years
Vab 4) Rapido 2,5 years
Van 5) N&B Arto 3.5 years
Van6 ) N&B Flair 4 months.

I'm getting my next one and when I do, it's the last one. so fed up with Motorhomes right now.

Oh no. I am sorry this van has not worked out for you. The NB Flair is a van I have always wanted, but we have to wait until we can afford one without the Agile gearbox.

 

[bobnick]

I think bobnick beats that with 16 miles before the engine failed

Correct. And being gluttons for punishment we ordered another. Never learn will i.

 

[138go]

11 months. It was a Pilote and not a bad motorhome but it had an electric bed that got stuck. We traded it in, still stuck and bought a Laika.

 

[peterc10]

In the 'summer of love' 1967 bought an old split-screen VW from an Aussie along the Southbank in London, bummed around France for a few weeks, and sold it again, on the Sunday I returned, along the Southbank again!

Bet you regret selling it. The prices for splitties are astronomical now.

 

[L' Hobo]

Bet you regret selling it. The prices for splitties are astronomical now.

No, they are death traps as I found out in another one some years later when I was involved in a head on collision with another car on my side of the the road.
I was thrown through the windscreen (before seatbelts) breaking my left leg on the centre strut and when I left hospital some weeks later, I saw the front of my VW was completely flattened right back to the front axle and had I not been thrown out, BOTH of my legs would have been crushed!

After that, all my VW's were/are T25 diesels.

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[PDrill]

Two or three years in a row we rented one for a week at a time, and all the time there was a small idea to get one for us. We - well, I - had quite clear idea about what kind it should be but we couldn't really afford anything so we decided to be without. Then one day I realized one of my customers had a moho for months in his backyard and asked about it. Engine blown and they didn't have much interest to repair it even if the owner wanted to get it done. The biggest problem was that it had the 1.9 engine which isn't easy to find here.

There was nothing in that moho that interested us, but decided to make a completely hilarious offer (roughly 25% of what he had paid 13 months earlier) and then it was ours. Repaired it, had it for maybe 10 months and sold it naturally for a good profit. That profit allowed us to get something we really wanted. Had it for 3½ years and currently we are waiting for a new one to arrive maybe this year.

Normally I don't change my toys all the time, for example my daily driver is a '06 Ford Focus which I bought new.

 

[Conal]

Mikeco Off topic but when I sold my Talbot Autosleeper the buyer was overjoyed to get the crockery set included. Apparently it was (and probably still is) quite famous and collectible. I didn’t keep it as it is unsuitable for microwaving.

 

[WillH]

Coming on 14 years, in for MOT and service at the moment but no thoughts on changing yet.

 

[mitzimad]

wow, thought we were bad, our normal is normally 3 years, but we are changing, hence why I asked the question, if all goes to plan, on Tuesday morning just 4 months after buying... please don't ask about the losses incurred, but what's gotta be done has gotta be done.
Van 1) Carioca 5 4 years
Van 2) Adria 3.5 years
Van 3) besacarr 4.5 years
Vab 4) Rapido 2,5 years
Van 5) N&B Arto 3.5 years
Van6 ) N&B Flair 4 months.

I'm getting my next one and when I do, it's the last one. so fed up with Motorhomes right now.

well you got that wrong paul

 

[L' Hobo]

wow, thought we were bad, our normal is normally 3 years, but we are changing, hence why I asked the question, if all goes to plan, on Tuesday morning just 4 months after buying... please don't ask about the losses incurred, but what's gotta be done has gotta be done.
Van 1) Carioca 5 4 years
Van 2) Adria 3.5 years
Van 3) besacarr 4.5 years
Vab 4) Rapido 2,5 years
Van 5) N&B Arto 3.5 years
Van6 ) N&B Flair 4 months.

I'm getting my next one and when I do, it's the last one. so fed up with Motorhomes right now.

The Government coffers are going to hate that, your VAT has been paying one of the minions wages for the past 20+years

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[haganap]

Think you can all stop now. Pretty sure I won?

 

[AndyB57]

6 months. We downsized from an Adria Coral (which we’d been full timing in for 2 years) to a VW California but quickly realised it was a step down too far so managed to sell the VW for £2,000 more than we paid and straightaway put a deposit down on a Consort Kite, which we collected 4 weeks ago and absolutely love!