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Hi All,
I have just learnt, (with the help of this forum ) that my camper started life as a Vaillant Boiler service van, just wondering if anyone else has got one?

Must have high millage, those boilers were terrible. Id love to know the origin of my van.

http://www.vaillantnorthampton.co.uk/im ... %20van.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

MarkBarden wrote:Must have high millage, those boilers were terrible. Id love to know the origin of my van.

Yes dreadful boilers, I've just had to replace mine after only 29 years of trouble free service, some things are made for planned obsolescence.

Mine was first owned by Sutcliffe catering,

itchyfeet wrote:Mine was first owned by Sutcliffe catering,

Crikey, hate to think what went into they're burgers.

lefty67 wrote:

itchyfeet wrote:Mine was first owned by Sutcliffe catering,

Crikey, hate to think what went into they're burgers.

On a positive note it was spotless inside.

No cannot join in ... Came direct from vw to totnes then to exeter . Tada here is your new devon that will be 13500 thank you. . Wish they were still that cheap . Still i can look at the origional bill of sale and think for afew grand more they could have bought a house ......

Mine came from an airport.

The only story to mine is my father in laws friend built my van and he could tell me all about it and its story . Pretty damn cool i thought.

Hello,

I always wanted to know what the 'aillant' meant on the van roof and found the picture you linked to a year or so ago. If you have any other info I'd be pretty interested.

Hi JonB,

Thanks for your post, Your the only person so far I have found with a vaillant van ! Is yours still vaillant green with a white roof? love to see some pics if you have any.

I found out mine was a vaillant van from the paint code. Vaillant gruen was the original colour of my van but it wasn't listed as an original T25 colour. Also my van was first registered as a right hand drive van in Germany. After asking the lovely people on here, I was told Vaillant bought T25 vans and imported them from Germany and used them as Vailliant boiler service vans. Then I found the picture http://www.vaillantnorthampton.co.uk/im" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... %20van.jpg
and it all made sense

Yeah still green (had a blow over a bit before I bought it) and has the original white roof. As per my previous post its had a 'Vaillant' sticker on its roof which has been removed but when it gets dirty you can clearly see what it used to say.

Plenty of photos here showing the progress whilst I converted it.
https://goo.gl/photos/3eGWafNm6r9c2UvA9

After seeing you post I had a quick browse and found the following link, the reg plate is damn close to mine (about 70 out) so it must be a Vaillant.
http://avaxnews.net/touching/60th_Anniv ... he_UK.html

Don't suppose you know what RAL colour Vaillant is, got some nasty seam rust which need sorting.

Aw mate, your van looks sweet, thanks lots for the photo's.
Will post some of mine soon, just waiting to get it back from the paint shop Hope it looks as good as yours!
The paint code is VWL 62N Vaillant Gruen