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Knöpphütte
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Location: Aschaffenburg, Bayern, Germany
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 Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:58 am Post subject: Re: Anyone bought a Westy in Europe and kept it there for traveling? |
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Just for information,
https://takeanadvanture.com/rent-a-bulli-t3-mietstationen-in-europa/
this is a homepage with 13 stations where you can rent a T3 in europe. The site is in german, but if you scroll a little bit down you will find the links to the providers.
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gbrandt
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Location: Calgary
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:59 am Post subject: Re: Anyone bought a Westy in Europe and kept it there for traveling? |
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| surfer6900 wrote: |
Check out Live.Travel.Play on Facebook.
Recently met them in the UK in August '18
They are from Canada but are taking an extended tour around Europe.
I think they shipped their Westy, but I'm sure they'd have some helpful tips. |
Yes we shipped our Westy from Canada. We are in Italy right now heading out of the EU soon to keep everything legal. Our Facebook is: https://m.facebook.com/Live.Travel.Play/?ref=bookmarks
Gregor
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'Lucky' our 1987 Red Westy, ASV 1.9 TDI ~130HP, Peloquin differential (had a GW 2.3 that we loved, but it died, we drove it hard!)
We've driven in 49 countries and 5 continents to date
Canada to Argentina and back, 2015 to 2017.
Canada to Europe and back (including Turkey, Morocco and Iceland), 2017 to 2019
Mexico 2022-2023
https://www.instagram.com/live.travel.play/
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dobryan
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Location: Brookeville, MD
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crazyvwvanman
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Location: Orbiting San Diego
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone bought a Westy in Europe and kept it there for traveling? |
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Thanks for the rental links. Renting is a good way to go for most of us. For a single trip of a few weeks or a couple months it saves a lot of bother and would be cheaper. Once you get past 2 months though the rental costs approach and start to exceed DIY costs by enough to make DIY a practical consideration. When I have checked I couldn't find T3 rentals for less than about $700 a week, for spring and summer use.
One option I have seen offered a couple places is to buy a camper from them, use it for your trip, then sell it back. The longer you have it the less they pay you when they buy it back. This must somehow allow it to keep EU plates and insurance or it probably wouldn't work for buyers outside of the EU. Don't know how the total costs compare or if this is really an officially permitted way of doing things.
My van is back home now and I'm thinking hard about sending another one over to take some more trips in. Probably a custom camperized tintop this time rather than a factory Westy.
Mark
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