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timbop37

I am just curious as to how many of you have a motorhome as a sole source of transport (not counting public transport, cycles and motorcycles).

We sold our 21' CI and our car and use our 19' Compass as our sole transport. We have saved on tax and insurance, servicing, etc, and feel we are getting the most out of our van.

Perhaps you could contribute to the poll above.

Regards

Tim

TwinTravellers

We use our Adria Twin quite a bit, but we do have a car which my partner uses for work as parking is at a premium in London. But maybe when retirement comes we will perhaps get rid of the car and use the van fulltime. I love driving it.

Spacerunner

When we had our first van we really tried to use it as our only vehicle, using public transport as much as possible. It was ok for shopping at the supermarket and where you could find decent parking facilities. However, as more local authorities barrier-off their carparks to higher vehicles finding parking spaces gets more and more difficult. And if you get an emergency, such as an admission into hospital, then public transport is out, taxis are unreliable and hospital parking is most 'inhospitable'!
So we were bludgeoned into getting a second, small vehicle just to make life bearable.

Motorhomersimpson · Moderator

Hi Tim,

tricky with only two options on the poll, although you will never have enough option's to suit all Wink

I have voted 'Yes' although my wife does have a car.

I sold my car a few years ago and have used a panel van conversion since as I my transport, although I do use the wife’s car if available .... See I said it was tricky Very Happy

Rob

sallytrafic · Campsite DB Admin

We're not tricky just the one vehicle.

annetony

We kept our car for a year after we got our van, (just in case we didn't take to it) we let our Son use the car and we used the van, but decided we loved the van more than the car so the car had to go, (son sulked a bit), Best thing we ever did, The only problem we have is what has been said before, parking in some places, but we manage, if we go somewhere and there are height barriers we would just go somewhere else where there isn't and spend our money there.

Anne

johnandcharlie

The beauty of fulltiming on your own, in a van that's too small to tow a car, is that you have to Laughing

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timbop37

The idea of the poll was to get an idea of which members relied on ther MH for everything, i.e. they had no car to fall back on. We go to the shops, take our son to school (his school is 3 miles away), and generally go everywhere in it. Having said that, we have to.

Rob - that's cheating a bit, because I bet if you need a big shop your wife goes in the car. I go to work on my pushbike a few times a wekk but I don't count that as it's fitness orientated,

Frank - that's the sort of thing I was after.

Friends have said we must be mad to just have a MH. I was just curious as to how many more mad people there are out there.

Thanks

Tim

GerryD

Nice idea but not practicable as it would not be possible to park either at work or in town. Also, with MH consuming fuel at 23mpg and car at 47mpg for one and 39mpg for other, makes economic sense to use cars for commuting.