Hi! Hope to soon be a motorhome owning mostly wild camper (ABSOLUTE noob).

[Pudsey Bear]

Exactly Merlin, Cheers Rob.

 

[JQB]

Hi all, I figured I'd lurked here long enough and even worse learnt a LOT from the forums and I mean proper *Lived Experience* from clearly very decent, kind people with ZERO agendas or products to try and flog. To try and be short which is not at all a skill I possess - I absolutely LOVE these kind of communities that are just full of people who want to help, it's awesome so thank you up front!!

I've always had a fascination with smaller or 'Tiny Homes' is I believe the latest buzz word BS. A perk of my dad working for an American owned car dealership meant we as a family got to borrow a US motorhome owned by the American franchise owner whom dad worked for, thus began my obsession with Motorhomes!! (Rather oddly..maybe, but camper and caravans and tents do nothing at all for me, but put an engine on the front of that caravan.....ohhh my).

Again without rivalling War and Peace I am now post divorce, selling my now too big house with zero commitments or (thankfully) dependents here in my home town just outside Birmingham, and am utterly burnt out of the career in IT that I sort of 'chose' due to having no clue what I wanted to do.

So with still no clue I intend to buy a used motorhome and tour at least the UK and maybe some of Europe to firstly meet people and see the amazing spaces in this lovely country and maybe I'll get lucky and find a clue to what I want to do to earn money, where and if I'm incredibly lucky maybe even someone looking to share my adventures! (SO not going to happen!!).

A bit TMI but I've spent too long NOT talking about mental health, a recent bereavement has shown me just how wrong this is. In as short as I can this 'Change EVERYTHING!!' approach of mine does have an additional hope attached. I've had some very rough experience with anxiety and depression, and after who knows how many hours and days and TEN different SSRI/SNRI and even an old Tricyclic Anti-Depressant over years and years that at best did nothing and at worst made me very ill, it seems our dear NHS has very few options for my situation, all of which sound even more miserable than my current circumstances honestly.

I could give up and gods knows I can totally understand from a purely intellectual point why people do, but as I've always tried to encourage when speaking with folks who are really struggling - real severe depression can actually 'free you' I personally believe. I figure if you are having to seriously consider the most permanent of endings then you also can lay everything on the table as something that CAN be changed if you see? We often have many things or places or situations that, by default almost we think we cannot change. Without suggesting that being suicidal is anything but the most utter misery, I have no intention of belittling people who are in this situation, my suggestion of 'freedom' means that in desperate times you must consider changing ANYTHING, hence my change everything 'plan'.

I do really hope that makes some sense to somebody at least as I'm very aware my description is very poor at best, the concept is very hard to put into words online without sounding glib or dismissive and I hope that my caveats have clearly stayed that glib is the opposite of my views on mental health and suicide.

Ah, enough on that. Too much info I suspect but I'll leave it, it is honest at least.

I hope this is not a complete Mickey Take to ask in an introduction thread but if anyone knows any good Used Motorhome dealers in the Midlands that have stock below 25K I would absolutely LOVE to know please!

I think that without any real experience I have too much choice weirdly regarding what MH to buy. I now have time and I think being able to view first hand possible purchases would be incredibly helpful to decide my own important criteria in a MH.

Wow I have waffled on wayyy too much sorry lovely to meet you all

"Good" motorhome dealer?
Now that is a tall order.
Below £25k will be ancient and the dealer will be making £5-£8k anyway. A home converted panel van is likely to be newer and cheaper, but watch out for high mileage ex delivery vans You could d.i.y?
And be carefull about checking the gas instalation. And be careful what lyou wish for they say. Just a thought.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Here's three under £25k

camper vans motorhomes | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for camper vans motorhomes at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

Fiat SYNERGY FIAT 2 BERTH 2 TRAVEL SEAT MOTORHOME | eBay

4 Front Car Sales- 4 Front Motorhomes - Visit us for a test drive - Call us on +441444225542 or click here to find out more.

www.ebay.co.uk

Swift Lifestyle Motorhome 56 plate | eBay

CLW Holdings Ltd T/A Roadhouse Leisure - Call us on +441164646440 or click here to find out more.

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[trevskoda]

I wish the english would stop advertising as 56 plate etc, folk here want to know the year and mth of first reg, daft beggers.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Just ask no body give that information in a ad.

 

[Nabsim]

My spelling, punctuation and grammar is often atrocious. In the early 70s some schools experimented with a scheme called RTA (Think thats what it was called) where infant school kids were taught to spell how words sounded. (sounds barmy right). I was one of them. I put it down to that. Its bizarre as even now ill forget how to spell really easy stuff. I did pass English O Level though and came runner up in a speech writing competition, (which really was as sh*t as it sounds).

One thing I discovered quite recently is that I have literally forgotten how to write. (with a pen). I had to fill out an actual manual form with an actual pen the other day. I always was a bit of a messy writer but it just looked like a five year old had done it and of course no spull Chucker!!

My eldest daughter had that Barry, phonetic alphabet. I thought it sounded a crap idea when they told us but you didn’t get a choice. By the time my youngest got there 3 years later they had dropped the idea, (in Buxton anyway) so must have been a bad choice