We’ve had our 2 years, still get excited just looking at it! I still look out at it first thing in the morning last thing at night and if I wake in the middle of the night!
Hello,
I always mentioned to my VW dealer that a VW California is so much more than a camper van.
I can't even put my finger on it why this is the case, is it the high price? Is it the more time one has to spend with the camper (in comparison to a car)? Is it that the California can be used in so many, many different ways? Is it that we accept the compromises and learn to live with it? Is it that people who like camping are different to beginn with
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? Is it because people stop us on the car park and talk and admire the California?
I don't know. Maybe in my more mature age I start a kind of delayed midlife criisis. Every few month I think what could I change, amend or add to the California?
Coming back where the camper is parked. I am so glad that the van is parked in front of the sitting room (at the moment I am just 3 m away from him, sitting on the couch watching TV). Here I feel it is very save. Beside issues of dirt and rain no problem.
I see more the problem when out and about. Especailly in a lonley forest car park, while we are on a hike. It is that bad, that sometimes I can not enjoy the walk until we are back (stupid I know). When we are allowed to leave home again I will add the Pandora Immobilizer (I prefer that to Ghost2) to the van.
If the California gets stohlen, that means it is the end of the camping area. The insurance won't give me enough money to purchase a decent replacment (far away from a new one). I believe I would get EUR 45.000 and a new California Ocean is about EUR 74.000 (or so) in Ireland. I don't have the money to get the difference from my pocket.
So safety of the camper van is important (at home or out and about), especially at the moment when those vehicles are on high demand.
Save California,
Eberhard