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Quote: Originally posted by White Rose on 23/6/2013

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Oh, meant to add, don't trust a dealer or anyone else (not even me ;-) Even apparently reputable dealers will sell damp caravans whilst swearing that they won't. Take your own damp meter and check and check and check. Read the guides and info on buying a new can on here, on the camping and caravanning club website and anywhere else you can find them, they'll all have nuggets of useful information you can squirrel away :-)

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Quote: Originally posted by White Rose on 23/6/2013

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Oh, meant to add, don't trust a dealer or anyone else (not even me ;-) Even apparently reputable dealers will sell damp caravans whilst swearing that they won't. Take your own damp meter and check and check and check. Read the guides and info on buying a new can on here, on the camping and caravanning club website and anywhere else you can find them, they'll all have nuggets of useful information you can squirrel away :-)

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as others have said get it checked by an engineer. I have just bought a 1999 ABI Sprinter which is bone dry and has no issues. It needed 2 new tyres, a service and I have been away in it this weekend and the only problem is an issue with the kithcen tap, which worked fine until I started using it and probs an easy repair.

I looked and looked at private sale vans (IMO dealers are a waste of time at this money you will just find expensive rubish and lie after lie off dealers saying the vans are dry when they are not). One I found a van that I though was ok I got an engineer to carry out a damp report which cost me £45 a time. The first van I had tested was damp, and you would never have known- no smells or visible signs but yes it was damp. Then I found another van, git it checked and it was bone dry. I paid £1500 for a really nice van with awning and water containers etc.

It is just a numbers game, keep looking and you will find what you want, just make sure you get it checked out properly.