The Aussie Van Buyer's Bible

Buy the chassis.
Not the floor plan.

Two vans in the same yard, thirty metres apart, the same sixty-five grand on both windscreens. One will do the Nullarbor. The other will cost you a fortune. What's underneath decides which — and the advert never shows you that bit.

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Before you buy · 23 pages · 12 chapters

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Stop shopping for layouts and start shopping for chassis and compliance plates. Underneath that body is a vehicle somebody else built — a Toyota, an Isuzu, a Fuso, a Hino, an Iveco, a Mercedes — with its own faults, its own parts availability and its own service life. It has almost nothing to do with the brand painted on the side. The people who get burned bought a floor plan. The people who do well bought a driveline.

1The compliance plate: the only numbers that matter
2Licences and weights — the trap that parks your vanInsider
3The weighbridge: 23% fail, and how not to be one
4The chassis tiers, rankedInsider
5Mercedes: buy the V6Insider
6The honest counter: the Ducato isn't overbuilt
7What actually happens to the money
8Buying one that's been sittingInsider
9Brakes, bearings, bushes and seals
10The dealer's back rowInsider
11The five checks before any money changes hands
12The cheat sheets (print these)

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Where my expertise stops

I'm no caravan tech. I don't do lithium installs, I don't do gas, I don't do plumbing — and this book says so out loud, then tells you exactly when to pay someone who does. What I've done for thirty years is have these things up on a hoist with the wheels off, looking at the bit nobody photographs for the advert. That's the bit this book is about.

Buy the chassis.
Not the floor plan.

The Van Buyer's Bible