Advice wanted RE purchase of 82/83 watercooled camper

Post by **ghost123uk** » 16 Mar 2006, 16:08

This site has a buyers guide under the "wiki" link near the top of this page.
A shortcut to the bit you want is here ->
http://www.club80-90.co.uk/wiki/index.p ... yers_guide

From what I can gather as a newbie myself, it is mostly common sense, but rusty seams in the bodywork and weeping head gaskets on water cooled types seem to be the first things to avoid.

Rusty bits on the rear arches can be fixed but it apparently quite a big job, check in the reamost r/h and l/h cavities in the engine bay for rusty seams as well.

Post by **thegamwellsmythes** » 16 Mar 2006, 16:27

Another buyers guide in the brickyard:-

http://194.242.159.246/brickyard/info/buy.htm

Really useful.

We took it to buy ours. Referred to it but you can guarantee that some of the things in the lists will crop up so you just have to weigh up how bad things could get and either go for it or run away.

Good luck. Buying a bus (1985 T25) has been one of the most fun things we've done and we've only used it once. Seeing it on the drive everyday always makes me smile.

Post by **ghost123uk** » 16 Mar 2006, 16:38

Off topic

Hey "The Gamwell-Smythes" you in Chester too ?

Post by **thegamwellsmythes** » 16 Mar 2006, 18:04

Yep.

We have a beige Autohomes Karisma that you might see tootling about.