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Also in the wanted section, but ........
Syncro bus with either multivan or camper interior. Preferably already with Eberspacher Standheizung!

Preferably 2.1 DJ Engine, but open to all variants (incl 1.6 diesel)

Preferably with Westy type pop top.

As you can see, I am pretty flexible, but want something with a good solid body and all for less than £2.5K

Let me know what you've got!!!!!

mattk918 wrote: for less than £2.5K

Let me know what you've got!!!!!

good luck


jed

tbh mate.you will be lucky to get a half decent 2wd for less than 2.5k...

Unless you are increadibly lucky you wont get anything close to what you want for that kind of money.
Russel

I'll have two!

Hey, no point in saying I want something rubbish and I want to pay a fortune.... got to set a target to aim at!

As I said, the main thing is good body work... flexible on everything else.

Try www.busman.be but to add to the others you will have to go a bit higher (2k higher ?)
Andy

I've been in email comms with CJ about this one, wanted to see what else is out there for similar money.....

As I said, the main thing is good body work... flexible on everything else.

I would consider having a longer think about that if i were you.
Body work can be fixed relatively easily compared with things like gearboxes.

If it were me, i would try and get the most mechanically sound one i could find, and then spend a little while pottering about making it look nice. It'll be on the road a lot more often that way.

v-lux wrote:

As I said, the main thing is good body work... flexible on everything else.

I would consider having a longer think about that if i were you.
Body work can be fixed relatively easily compared with things like gearboxes.

If it were me, i would try and get the most mechanically sound one i could find, and then spend a little while pottering about making it look nice. It'll be on the road a lot more often that way.

I second that!

I bought a cheep one, and whilst its been alot of fun and I now know verious bits in too much detail, its not been without the pain of it not working for many months, though me leaving it parked up for 4 months didn't help this statistic. The specalist bits like the gearbox I couldn't fix myself eather so its cost a bit, though I have fixed many other bits that would cost for someone elses labour. Don't think it owes me much different to buy and do up now to what a buying a sorted van in the first place would have cost, so from that view it wasn't a more expensive route but a more effortful one. I've spent significantly more on the van than I bought it for, which some think is odd. Couple to that, I've had it about 15 months and the useable camperish intererior still hasn't apeared because I'm still doing mechanical things first.

Buy a syncro, then spend about £2k on it was common advice a year back, now I have the T shirt I agree. Only way to bypass this expense is to buy a tidy one off someone who's already spent the money and done it right, but they'll be an enthusiast, know what its worth and price to reflect it, doesn't mean its a bad buy though.

Rust or body damage isn't cheap or easy to fix either.

I personally would look for a solid tidy van & do the mechanics.

Maybe not the cheapest option, but you will have a more original van at the end of it.

Either way, a Syncro = Cash. There is no easy way.

Pete Nice wrote:Either way, a Syncro = Cash. There is no easy way.

All mine has cost me so far (nearly two years now) is a new clutch.

But I forked out the money on purchase

How's the search going?

try patrik at http://www.vw-tristar.com/ in sweden he gets some syncro campers or panels in occaisionaly you will have to do some work but good value