T6 Resale Market?

[Pete C]

I dont believe my Euro 5 has done a regen yet in 24k miles. Or I've never noticed it, and it should be pretty obvious when it is. I'm not saying they don't I'm saying they may be very infrequent and cause a lot less trouble than the Euro6.

The regen process on my Euro5 T6 is pretty invisible when driving it. The occasional higher revs at tick over, and sometimes the hot exhaust smell if I have stopped whilst it was doing it's thing. To be fair, every diesel I have owned since 2007 has been the same - all makes.

Pete

 

[Scruffy]

I dont believe my Euro 5 has done a regen yet in 24k miles. Or I've never noticed it, and it should be pretty obvious when it is. I'm not saying they don't I'm saying they may be very infrequent and cause a lot less trouble than the Euro6.

Edit: I've never looked but can vcds check when/if the van does a regen?

It should be doing a regen every 300-400miles, but if you're on the motorway, you wouldn't even notice. I've done 110k and even with the Carista app telling me it was regening ( if thats a word) I still couldn't tell.

 

[mommabear]

Hi all,

Looking to buy my first T5 / T6

Are panel vans expensive at the moment?

I've seen a thread about campers being overpriced but not sure what I should be paying for a basic van ready to convert, and if they are overpriced at the moment

Looking at 2016 T6's. What roughly should a 2016 T28 102 with 50k cost and have prices risen since last year?

Thanks for any help. Not sure if best to wait a while or take the plunge

Yes in a nut shell - they are ridiculously expensive.
For basically the same couple of reasons hand gel went from £1 a bottle to £5 a bottle.
Demand - Covid tax -pure capitalisation.

Since Covid kicked off- people who have "always wanted" a camper, but have been going abroad for their holidays, have now bought one - the thought process and justification being 'we wont be going away anymore, Brexit and Covid have seen to that....lets buy a camper"
It will provide us with years of inexpensive holidays which will offset the cost of our annual £££ trip abroad.

Camper builders who buy vehicles from auction or smaller dealers are scrapping like nutters to get the best vans at the best price to convert to meet the new demand.
And unfortunately, both at auction and at the hands of the bigger greedy bastards....no.....not greedy bastards.........."Financially astute" dealers and converters, we are all now faced with "Covid Tax" price increases across the board on anything you can sleep in that has a VW badge on it.
There have been spikes in demand before, but this problem is here to stay -

The irony is - and I've said this before- - in 18 months to 2 years time, we will see an Autortrader/gumtree/ebay market packed and saturated with really nice second hand conversions, that would usually have fetched nice prices, selling at desperately low numbers because the demand will dry up coz everyones got one.
This in turn will put many camper workshops out of business because you can buy a neat van for £££ less than converters can put them out with enough profit in to keep the workshop lights on and pay their staff.

Its basic economics - mathematics doesn't lie.

If you can hold out....do it......youll get more bang for your buck over the next 2 years and beyond.

 

[DXX]

Governments have spent decades telling people to save for retirement but you get bugger all interest on your savings and defined benefits pensions are extinct. So naturally many people think lets put our savings into something that will give us some joy and forget the problems later on.
Supply and demand rules again and always will.

 

[mommabear]

Governments have spent decades telling people to save for retirement but you get bugger all interest on your savings and defined benefits pensions are extinct. So naturally many people think lets put our savings into something that will give us some joy and forget the problems later on.
Supply and demand rules again and always will.

Very true
I could tell you about my colleague, she's been a nurse for 35 year and has just received notice that her pension she's paid into for all that time without a gap, is totally worthless and she cant live on it.
We get shafted left right and centre while the 1% get richer.

You're right really mate - and I'm not saying dont buy a camper, I build them lol, im saying were all headed for an industry changing plughole I can feel it.

 

[3crispies]

I was going to trade ours in now but tbh it is probably worth the same as I paid for it 3 years ago and have driven 65k. So we are going to keep it for another 3 years and see where the electric/diesel market goes then. Instead I bought a 4 year old car that is zero road tax and 60/70 mpg I can run and keep the van.
With auctions online for dealers only the main place to look around is overpriced fleabay probably, it is not just Vws all vans have gone up look at how many extra couriers are about now. The equivalent van to ours now is £23k and lucky enough we only paid £17k for a demo panel van at the time. Also as above if you use Vw finance you can pay large lumps off to save £££

 

[James1000]

With auction prices 30% above trade on base vans and high demand of converted vans, is it time to cash in or sit back and smile at the wise decisions we have all made?

 

[RayF]

I was told by the company converting my van that I could probably make £10k if I sold it after it is delivered.

 

[RedUn]

I'll be keeping mine

 

[Stay Frosty]

I've worked out that mine has cost me just under £6,000 per holiday since buying it two years ago, thanks to moving house to a fixer upper at the same time and Covid those ten trips a year haven't quite materialised.
Would I have changed anything with the benefit of hindsight... yes, booked more trips!

 

[Ali-G]

As I said in another thread on here, I am seriously thinking about selling mine.

 

[Niknak]

Been offered silly money for mine but not letting it go just yet but it is tempting serious profit to be made if you don’t want to go buy another, I’ve not got a fancy van but lucky it’s got it registered on the v5

 

[Dickieboy3]

Don't want to profit out of mine as I would miss the campervan trips we go away most weekends when allowed and start our year of weekend camping on 16th April.Also it's my daily driver after part exing my 66 plate polo GTI about 14 months ago.

 

[dubber36]

I bought my Mk2 Golf GTI 16V about 11 years ago for not very much money at all. Looking at prices now, I could possibly treble my money if I sold it. However, if I did, I wouldn't have a Mk2 Golf GTI 16V anymore.

 

[Dickieboy3]

That's a nice car I know what you mean cash in and profit but it means you loose the car and all that goes with the ownership.

 

[Strettyp]

I'll give up my van, when they prise it from my cold dead hands

It's the same as dogs, always said we'd get one when my daughter left school as we could make sure there was always someone in the house when I wasn't working from home

Now the bloody things are £3k a pop

 

[GeekGrimmy]

If you were giving up on a campervan for whatever reason then yeah, now would be a great time to cash in.

A quick look at my old saved searches from late last year before i got my T6.1 finally - the same age van in a lesser specification seems to be 3.5K more than what I paid 6 months ago. Its a bit like buying a house, great if your value goes up but so has all the houses you'll be looking to buy so it levels out a bit.

 

[VioletVW]

I bought my Mk2 Golf GTI 16V about 11 years ago for not very much money at all. Looking at prices now, I could possibly treble my money if I sold it. However, if I did, I wouldn't have a Mk2 Golf GTI 16V anymore.

I sold my MK2 GTi 8v Atlas grey in 2013. Had a few issues with it and didn't have the time to sort it. Wish I'd kept it as they are fetching good money now. Would love another one but I've a Splitty too. SWIMBO wouldn't be happy with another old VW in the family...

 

[CALLAKN]

Check the price on this van that’s for sale near me .... mental!!!

VW Camper Van | eBay




£38,000!!!!

 

[Scruffy]

Yep, mental. Prices are silly at the mo, that's why I'm buying a new one and selling my old T6.