What would need to be done to turn a transporter or a Vito in to a camper?

Is it easy? Would it be expensive?

Thoughts?

Its fairly simple. Lots can be done yourself to keep costs down.

My uncle has converted a LWB hitop Sprinter so it has a sizable living area and then ply'd off the back 1/3 so he can get his motorcross bikes in. Its really pretty decent.

One thing worth bearing in mind is the mgw of the vehicle...

You can buy them - saw some converted VW Caravelle's at the Cornwall show... yours for £30k :eek:

Window coversions are a DIY job, plentiful kits available for not much money for popular vans.

When I saw the price of second hand vans and, worse yet, new ones I wondered about getting a second hand transporter or Vito and converting it - it's got to be less....

Creating headroom in the van is the difficult part though. Transit hi-cube is the way to go

Creating headroom in the van is the difficult part though. Transit hi-cube is the way to go

Or Sprinter.

I think the 'difficulty' factor would depend largely on two things ... your skill with diy, and just how much like a bought motorhome you want it to end up.

Jane and I spent 9 months living n ours - a Hobby 750 - and the standard to which it was both designed and put together were very high indeed. There are all sorts of things that if you're new to 'motorhoming' (if indeed that is a word ... !) you might not think about.

As far as I know, you can buy just about all the required parts off the shelf - toilets, shower units, water fittings & pumps, windows, rooflights etc - depending on what you'd like, but I wouldn't mind betting that it would soon start to add up to a tidy sum. And it would be a fair task getting it all to fit together.

You could take a look on here ... http://www.motorhomefacts.com ... You should find the subject discussed a fair bit.

We saw and chatted to a few people who had done self-builds while we were abroad in ours. Some were very nice, others looked decidedly 'homemade'.

We've got one for sale (not the 750, she sold a while back) if you've got 20K burning a hole in your pocket

If you wanted any advice, I'd be happy to offer what I could, but there might well be other, more experienced motorhomers on Briskoda.

One thing to consider for the interior is salvaging the inards from a wrecked caravan (of whcih there are lots ) - bathroom and all.

I thought abotu doing this over the summer but never got very far.

I think theres a club called "Self build motor-caravan club" or something similar... There's a website somewhere!

Hmmmm ... MotorhomeFacts.com seems to have died at the mo' ... lets hope they didn't suffer a SeatCupra.net type problem.

You could save yourself the skinned knuckles and bruised wallet and buy this instead ...Sexy Motorhome For Sale.

She's diesel too, you're fav

If you do build your own, make sure you get a good mattress. Some of the camping one's are, to be frank, pants. Uncomfy and don't last very well.