Cheap Campervans for Sale

A usable UK campervan starts around £3,000 to £5,000. Below that you are generally looking at a project van, an unconverted panel van or something needing welding. Most of our under-£10,000 stock sits between £4,000 and £8,000, and the live price floor and average are shown at the top of this page.

A campervan is a converted van - the original body shape is kept, so it is narrower, lower and easier to park and drive. A motorhome is coachbuilt: a purpose-made living box on a van chassis, wider and taller, usually with a fixed bed, a separate washroom and more berths. At this budget a campervan generally gets you a better vehicle for the money and a worse bathroom. If you want a fixed bed and a shower, look at coachbuilt motorhomes instead.

Often yes, because a van conversion holds its value unusually well - Volkswagen conversions in particular barely depreciate once they are past about fifteen years old, and a decent Bongo has been worth roughly the same for a decade. The risk is not age, it is the conversion: a badly wired 12V system or a leaking pop-top will cost more than the discount that attracted you. Judge the conversion as carefully as the van.

Rust first - chassis legs, sills, arches and underneath, with a torch. Then the conversion: fused 12V distribution, a leisure battery and split charge, gas pipework in copper with a certificate, and furniture that is properly fixed. Then the roof: put a pop-top up and down and check the canvas. Then the mechanicals: MOT history, cambelt, service record and tyre dates. Finally the V5C, and whether the body type reads 'motor caravan'.

Yes, and Volkswagen is consistently the most-listed make in this bracket. At this money you are looking at T25s, T4s and early T5s rather than a T6 or a factory California - typically 1990s to mid-2000s vans, often with a DIY or small-workshop conversion. They are the most sought-after cheap campervans in the UK, which also means the tidy ones sell quickly and the cheap ones usually need welding.

No. Almost every campervan is well under 3,500kg, so a standard category B car licence covers it. That is one of the practical advantages of a van conversion over a coachbuilt motorhome, where the plated weight can push you into needing C1. Check the plate on the specific vehicle if you are unsure.

Generally yes compared with a coachbuilt - a van conversion is lighter, more economical and often cheaper to insure, particularly through a specialist campervan policy rather than a standard van one. Watch the emissions standard though: most vans at this price predate Euro 6 and will pay the daily charge in London's ULEZ and other clean air zones. Check before you buy if you drive into cities regularly.

Private sellers. Motorhome Pig is a brokerage, not a dealership - we do not own the vans or hold stock on a forecourt. Every listing belongs to its owner, and we verify the seller, market the van, arrange the viewing appointment at their address and handle the payment and paperwork securely. That is why prices here carry no dealer margin.