Hello! Yes it does! As it makes the poisonous emissions very low. I have to get it tested yearly and get a certificate.
What's the thinking on windows? Neither of your top two have them.These are my top two vans:
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PLus another £10k to convert. I really don't want to spend £30k so i'm trying to work out what my compromise will be. Maybe an Alphard would be big enough. I'm not planning to live in it, but I am planning long trips around Europe, so I do want something comfortable and reliable.
My best mate is a cabinet maker and thinks it is a silly idea, but if I buy a van and drive it to his workshop, I think he will help once it is in front of him.
If you want to carry bikes, you may want a 'race van' with a garage under a fixed bed at the back. There are endless debates about how long you can make widthways beds, but the Ducato/Master/Relay vans are wider than the Sprinter and Transit.
Quirkycampers is a good place for van porn.
Probably need 1 or 2 (one on each side), too many is less private and colder of course
You can get them put in, doesn't cost too much. Or a skylight.
I drive an XLB hi-top Iveco, and the biggest thing to watch out for is those height bars in car parks!Probably a silly question, but what are the disadvantages of getting a really big van? Like this ex -Police one? 3 litre Iveco diesel. I know what's it like driving them, have had several jobs doing it. Does the size stop you from taking it to places that smaller vans can go?
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Piece of piss. They come as kits, and you basically cut a hole in your van with a can opener, and bolt the window in place
Sounds good. How much did it cost? And how do you find out which vehicles can have a PF? I looked on the ULEZ approved list...these are all the vans I could see https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/wp...RAS-Approved-Devices-Open-List-Version-30.pdf
Yes my van is not Ulez or even lez compliant, which means that I would have to get a coach or train if I was going to London. However with the pandemic I would have to hire a vehicle.
Ooh, I wondered what happend to that, glad you still have it.I drive an XLB hi-top Iveco, and the biggest thing to watch out for is those height bars in car parks!
There is a railway bridge near where I used to live that is 3.2m high, and I can hear an aerial scrape when I go under it...
My fucking enormous bus, earlier.
(btw, I say "my"...the former Mrs E, it turns out, had designs on exporting it to France when she went. Until she spoke to a few People In The Know who explained some of the many and varied aspects of French bureaucracy that she might be able to learn and love if she did so...at which point it became MINE, muahahaha)
Just got to get it MOT'd and back to Lovely Laugharne.
Oh I have a VW T4
It was 2k 
. Still, no way I could have afforded to replace the van with one that was LEZ compliant, that would have costed 30k or something. Haven't got access to those kinds of funds!
Give me a link, and I'll out myself.
It's coming to live in Laugharne! Probably in the church car park, until I can organise more secure storage (some obliging farmer's yard, for example). It has an electrical (leisure end) problem since some welding work was done, and I want to fit a solar panel and charge controller to keep the leisure battery topped up, and I have all the bits to put a heat exchanger into the engine bay so as to heat my hot water with waste engine heat, so that'll need doing too.
He loves it, though, but then he's 30, not 57.
Perhaps one way of looking at it might be that the environmental cost of building a vehicle represents a substantial proportion of its carbon footprint over its lifetime. The economics of camper vans are such that it pays to keep older vehicles on the road for a lot longer (there's a fair few 1980s-registered motorhomes still going strong), which means we're getting more benefit from that initial carbon cost than if the thing had been scrapped at 10 or 12 years, as it would if it were "just a van".
Folk remain stubbornly wedded to the idea that the only problems are to do with emissions and carbon footprints.Perhaps one way of looking at it might be that the environmental cost of building a vehicle represents a substantial proportion of its carbon footprint over its lifetime. The economics of camper vans are such that it pays to keep older vehicles on the road for a lot longer (there's a fair few 1980s-registered motorhomes still going strong), which means we're getting more benefit from that initial carbon cost than if the thing had been scrapped at 10 or 12 years, as it would if it were "just a van".
Furthermore, camper vans don't generally do huge annual mileages, so they're not contributing that much to emissions there. It's good to see you playing to your strengths, but I think you'll find it much easier to make a case for fomenting moral outrage about SUVs than about the far smaller overall impact of people owning camper vans. Word to the wise taps nose
Do they mention a test on the Tfl site? Vans, minibuses and more I've read it umpteen times and I can't find it. It links to the CVRAS site Clean Vehicle Retrofit Accreditation Scheme - Energy Saving Trust and I've also read that until I'm cross-eyed. Maybe the page is just wrong? Is there another authoritative source you could recommend?It was 2k 
I don't think you need to be too concerned about lists of approved vehicles. You can fit a particulate filter to any diesel vehicle. As long as it passes the emissions tests, you're sorted.
That's a great find, thank you! It's a lot like my plan, because I would try to wander where the warm weather is. Maybe Sicily or even the Canaries in the winter? I haven't researched this, I'm just daydreaming. But I don't want to be parked up for any length of time in the UK in the cold. On the other hand, best laid plans etc....there are bound to be times when I have to hurry 'home' to deal with life.Maybe not helpful to your current quest.
But I found this article interesting about life as a Nomad in the States.
Off-road, off-grid: the modern nomads wandering America's back country
Across US public lands thousands of people are taking to van life, as featured in the Oscar-winning film Nomadlandwww.theguardian.com
Hi David!
