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15/4/2011 at 1:27am
 Location: notts
 Outfit: van and lunar
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Just curios is there a great deal in it .

Have been looking on places like ebay and windows alone are between 50-100quid water heaters 150etc

anyone on here actualy break them and is it worth doing just concenplating it if mine dont sell before much longer might be another route to take .

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15/4/2011 at 8:18am
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think there may be money to make as spares arent as available as car spares etc.however I would think storage would be the main issue here.if you have it in your driveway,th neighbours arent going to be pleased looking at a caravan with no windows etc then theres the rain as well no windows then whats left inside will get soaked.

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15/4/2011 at 8:38am
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yes its worth it. a while back I bid on a wreck for the three way fridge. got the van for min bid £20 saw it and thought oh my god. the woman said its all or nothing as she wanted rid from her orchard. took wheel down road and got tyre patched and dragged it the twenty miles home. took half a day to strip it.

fridge £75. door £25. heater £25, windows £5-£10 each. sink £15. oven £20, fittings £5each. skylight £20. chassis £50. ali from body £40. and about £70. in bits and bibs. burnt the rest. and that was for a wreck,  a half good one you can sell the cusions fittings etc etc. even the plastic wheel arch liner is sellable as trailer mud guards at £10 a pair in many cases. and if you have a Zigg or water heater or shower ?? the portable toilets fetch a fiver plus and a thetford will get £40

the ali goes straight to scrap yard bit and bobs will fit into a small shed with ease only thigs on show by end of the day is the flat trailer sell it cheap to get rid of or scrap it. the axle is the value rest goes with it so to speak. a fit adult could strip two a day with ease and logg the item correctly. windows are not made for the caravan.  caravans use windows of that size. so note what its from but sell them by the size and shape. far too many people think their caravan is unique its not!   its made from parts bought in. trust me I know !

as said previous a small quick profit is better than a long large profit that  may never happen. sell cheap and reuse the space.

 







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15/4/2011 at 9:20am
 Location: Essex
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Its not hard to break a caravan. I did an old one abandoned here by some builders, and my boys (quite young at the time had a whale of a time attacking panels with hammers lol)It was before ebay was really up and running so I took some of the fittings, cooker, sink etc to Homesteads second hand shop and made a bit of money.

The windows made cloches for my veg patch. the bunks made benches in a shed and some bits (bulbs, knobs, light fittings etc)were recycled into later vans when needed.

The chassis is still here but only because Hubby still thinks it will be useful as a trailer once he`s modified it lol

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