HOW MUCH??! - We Got Paid To Own A VW California!

Have a nosey into our financial life and find out how much we paid for our Volkswagen California Beach T6.1 Camper Van. I think you'll be surprised!

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[Akash-z]

Very crisp and indepth . Help to decide on a camper.
Thanks.

[lukedrive]

Very interesting and very handy. Thanks for sharing Sean. Regards Luke.

[peterclose]

Sean, great video, really helpful for new people looking to buy. VW van prices are very strong at the moment. We bought a year old Cali in 2021 and sold it 10 months later and made a £4K profit. This covered the cost of upgrading to our new Hymer sprinter van. I am not sure how long the prices will remain high, one dealer at the Feb CCM show said many of the small van converters were struggling to make sales.

[SunnyUplands]

I enjoyed the video. I think you've been very astute and lucky. Timing is everything.

[knitrundig]

Very interesting! We have a 2018 Ocean that we don't want to sell for a while. We extended our mortgage so paid cash for it and had a much lower interest rate. It has of course gone up now but it's good to know that the van is holding its' value, unlike a normal car. We had to sell a sports car to get the deposit, but the dog couldn't fit in it so he didn't mind!

[hmi]

great video and thanks for sharing. I think you missed the implications of inflation though too - the costs have gone up a lot and perhaps in relative terms, your profit is not too much, but still amazing and better than losing your money in depreciation and interest payments.

[alanbenham]

Very insightful. Thank you for providing such an in depth VLOG.

[vintagevantics]

Useful video. Thanks. You know I’m amazed the dealers markup was so low! That was an amazing price they gave you. Atypical I would say. Must be cos you are such nice people ….plus your YouTube presence?!

[Simon_PieMan]

Interesting video, many thanks for being so clear on the costs. ✅

[lgx]

Incredible you made a small profit on the vehicle! I'd love to see you do the same calculations with the current prices of VW Calis, and see whether you think it is affordable. When I look at the figures, I'm just totally put off. E.g. £85k Ocean, say £10k deposit, maybe I manage to get a £7k discount. The GFV after 4 years is about 40k. But that's still an enormous monthly amount on PCP and the total amount with ~ 9% apr is huge.

There's an example on Autotrader of a new Cali with £25k deposit and it gets the monthly PCP figure down to about £770.
🤦‍♀

[familiemitbulli]

Great calculation, thanks for sharing. Our dealer in Berlin, Germany has four Ocean Edition similar to ours and offers them around 100k (in Euros) each. They sold around 80-85k two years ago. Since they will discontinue the last true VW transporter soon, the prices could go up even more or at least stay as high for a couple of years depending on how the new California offerings based on electric VW vans or the new Ford chassis will look like. 🚐👨‍👩‍👦🐕

[timeaves]

Brilliant film you two (as always) That is not depreciation, but appreciation! I have a 2022 Beach, and worked this out too.
I have owned about 24 vehicles since I started driving, and can't say that I made money on any of them... apart from the very first one I owned!
And that was an ex-GPO Morris Minor Van in 1977. It was bought for £300 and sold, 18 months later for £320. I wonder what it would be worth now?
I hope all is well

[matauboy]

The point is you make a nice profit when you sell your current van but if you want to replace it you are going to have pay a much higher price for that. Also assuming that prices will stay high is a bit risky. After COVID house prices here in NZ went through the roof. Now interest rates have soared and house prices are dropping and people are losing their equity.

[normhanson]

Much appreciated, I’d love to own one in seven years when hopefully I can retire .

[ROBOLT]

We bought an approved used Beach from VW just as covid hit (2018 with 6k miles on the clock with LED headlights) for £34k which was an amazing price. We sold it privately a year later for 44k. We then saw the same van 1 year later being sold by VW again for 53k. I couldn't believe my eyes.

[moibelgium]

Well, we sold our 31 year old t4 westfalia california for almost double what we paid ourselves 10 years before.
High prices are here to stay. I don't think the price of a new one will drop (we'll see what the completely new vw california will cost); they have gone up like crazy the last few years.
Used ones will continue to be very expensive even with an expected increase in used calis due to many disappointing experiences after the purchase from people during the pandemic.
But they are still worth the money because what you have is unlike any other converted small campervan. It also replaces your daily transport and is therefore worth two cars. And they are great to travel with 😉

[TheTaxer-fzsq]

Great Video. These vehicles are so popular.

[rickyard]

I pick up our Beach tomorrow and hope to enjoy it, if not we haven’t lost any money by the sounds of it.

[paulbrook]

That’s great motoring, well done ! you basically had it for free 👍👍the residual value on the transporter rage is great, I personally think that will be the case for a while, they will be classed has real Vw s in comparison to the new fordsporter due out soon 😊😂

[pharmacistsdoitoverthecoun]

13% discount on DtD currently on Cali's