End of the Road | LDV Convoy Retirement
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- After three action-packed voyages across continental Europe spanning 28 countries, battling the extreme winter elements over the toughest terrains European soil could throw at us and our van, it's all finally come to an end.
Our six-wheeled humble abode of the last five years failed its MOT back in November so badly that we simply had to call it a day. No surprise to many, our LDV Convoy is well-beaten and it certainly shows. We've covered 47,000 miles with 13 breakdowns and around £6,000 in repairs during our time on the road.
But fear not! This is by no means the end of the road for us. When we built our Convoy home back in 2016, we had sunny France, Spain and Portugal in mind. We've since discovered a love for wilder countries and colder climates so our next van will be adapted and kitted out to better suit our needs.
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Guys, your van is actually repairable. Buy yourselves a little MIG welder and you'll be amazed at how little it actually costs to do all that. Many, many hours. Well, days. Okay, weeks. Spend time, not money. I've lost track of how many weeks solid I've spent welding LDV Convoys!! Sheet metal is cheap, welding comes with practice and if that was my van with all the sentimental memories attached, I'd go for it! Have a look at the little Hyundai inverter MIG welders, really nice machines and very well priced. Hope you're both good :-) Take care. Rich.
My father inlaw worked at LDV factory untill he retired in 2005 and the factory closed. I know they were never the most reliable van they were let down by lack of investment by the 3 men and an overdraft and the previous owners. When we used to go on holiday we used to play spot the Sherpa . My father inlaw used to put the roofs on. He is now in a care home with dementia sadly he will never understand your channel to appreciate where you took your van but I think he would have been very proud. Well done to you both and good luck with rest of your future travels.
Wow what a lovely, interesting and sad comment! Such an interesting history, those Sherpas are rare these days but we'd love to get our hands on one, and finding someone with knowledge about them is even rarer it seems! Best wishes to you and your father in-law ❤️
@@FromRustToRoadtrip thanks for your reply much appreciated.
That's awesome! What a beautiful story. Well your father in-law lives on in my life as I have a beautiful LDV Pilot on the driveway which I used to live in and will do again soon!
Haha" I thought mine was bad!! Keep loving it ) had mine for 20 years.. thanks for sharing
A very moving final section, beautifully scripted. It was well worth the wait. Rust in Peace - an inspired ending.
Thank you! I think we did her justice ☺️
LDV vans are getting rare now
Fantastic video guys wish you both all the best 👍 👌
@@pigeon-uc9wo Thank you! Spoiler alert: we got the van back on the road and had many more adventures in it which you can see on our channel 😄
Its not the end, its the start of a new beginning.
Shame the old gal has bit the rust. She was a good un.
Lucy is much braver than me!
What an adventure
I had a LDV Convoy done thousands of miles very slowly across europe, mostly Germany and Poland. Biggest problem? Water coming through wiper spindles making cab floor rot out because of sound deadening under rubber mat holding the moisture. Keep yours as a Shephard's Hut as long as you can while its still livable, sell axles etc to get some cash back when the time comes to part with it.
Loved the opening sequence I bet that was bracing. Some great memories in the LDV, my particular favourites were the snow ones. She did you proud!
Those were our favourites too! LDVs are surprisingly good on snow 😂
Guess we just love the cold 😄
This is sad, I like this old van I think it’s much nicer than new. I hope it will work again. You made your hair nice with cut in front, me like 😊
Thank you! 😀 Our van has always looked older than it is, but we will certainly be getting something even older as new vans just seem to be a big bag of electrical problems waiting to happen. And thanks! It's the first time I've changed my hairstyle in probably 18 years 😅
Life is always changing and we eventually come to accept the inevitable. This beautiful tribute tells me you're ready to move on and build new memories. I'll miss the van too, but something tells me your talent, strength and love will create films just as worthy.
What a lovely comment, thank you 🙏 We agree, it was hard to deal with when it happened as it was so sudden, but we will continue onwards and upwards and there are plenty more adventures just around the corner
@@FromRustToRoadtrip see you then ♥️
My 2005 LDV got me from the lakes down to Portugal and back in 4 weeks ,fond memories watching your video.Spent 800 on welding ,changed the rack and she never let me down.Had her 7 yrs and decided to go to a smaller van ,had nothing but trouble since.My old van is still on the road,happy days !
Wow that's awesome! When you get a good LDV they can do you proud for sure. We've seen people have so many problems with theirs but ours has been amazing (well, the engine has at least... 😂)
Just think what them headlights have seen. RIP LDV 💙
As a vanner who started out in 2015 myself. I can almost feel the pain of losing your van here! I'm glad you have space to keep her. My heart broken a little when I sold my van in August. End if an era. But it's the most amazing way to travel and see europe. I don't think especially with brexit, any Brits will ever get to experience the freedom to wander like we did in the past five+ years.
Definitely the end of many eras this year, what with Brexit, COVID and the new laws in Portugal. But we will continue onwards and upwards hopefully with a new van soon 😀
Glad to c u 2 back😃
LDV's fell apart like that from new, so you've done well with it!
Yup, it's done us very well over the years!
We had 2 brand new ones at work , felt like a 15 year old van driving them ,the gearboxes were shocking lol
I think the MOT chap did you a favour. From looking at the video there's rust everywhere, and, on top of the mechanical problems that you know about, is the fact that things just eventually wear out. I'm a huge opponent of a throwaway culture but sometimes calling it a day is by far the most rational solution.
It's served you better than well, but in the final event it's an inanimate tool and IMO you could spend your money on better things.
Obviously it's your van so do as you choose.
I've had enough of this rain. 12 noon and it's barely daylight. Cornwall in winter.....
However....spring is getting ever closer.
Yeah you’re right there! We’ve repaired this van countless times, long after it became not financially viable to do so. But the memories it’s given us are priceless! Everything’s repairable at the end of the day, it just depends how much you want to spend... 😂
Can’t believe the rest of the country has snow and here we are with mizzle 😫
Lovely video, such happy memories following you two guys on your adventures with the unbelievable LDV . 🚐👍
Ahhh, that's sad. Scary too, as I've got one a couple of years older and I can now see the future too clearly! I'm amazed looking at the rust underneath it that you got it through the last two MOTs. Ours was already converted and embarrassingly expensive when we got it (about the same time as you got yours), and then we found the lake under the cab floor and had to strip it out. Took a few goes to work out where the leaks were, but (fingers crossed) it's now pretty dry. Not been anywhere as challenging as you, but maybe after all this Craziness is over we will. Love the video, well done.
Thank you! If you don’t take your van on such salty wintry roads as we did it’ll probably last a bit longer 🙏 Would love to know how you fixed your leak- in 5 years we still haven’t worked it out 😂
@@FromRustToRoadtrip After trying what most people said - windscreen seal, wiper mounts - it was still coming in somewhere. I finally tracked down this site vandogtraveller.com/fix-water-leak-in-ldv-convoy-van/ and that was the solution. It's the back corners of the guttering around the engine compartment, where two or three panels join. The gutters get clogged, water sits there and rots through and comes out behind the dash. I modified the gutters, adding drainage tubes in the back (because I park it on a slope so it doesn't drain all the rain out the front as designed) and also little additions to the front to direct water over the headlights rather than down inside the back of them! Sorry it's too late for yours, and all the best with your new project!
I had an m reg ldv 200 ex police minibus with what I can only think was a left over 2 litre sherpa petrol engine...it took me on many trips around Europe until one day the head gasket decided to go pop just as I'm climbing that hill as you drive out of Dover...Great van though
.. good times..
Very cool! We love those old vans, so much style 😄
Loved the video! I used too take young people away in LDVs and we had some fun, but the lakes & da les are nothing too what you two did! Owes you nowt & your memories are priceless! Take care stay safe x
Great vlog guys she's done you proud fair play 👌👍
My condolences. She served you well. Here's to new and exciting adventures ahead!
Ah well, you did well to keep it going this long. I have fond memories of LDV minibuses having driven one as a job for many years.
The van sounds like a real character! I love the inside. They become part of the family I think, they've been there with you for so many special moments. I hope you guys can save up and get her done up to last for years. I've never driven or been in an LDV, but did spend some time in Shepas and Freight Rovers when I was much younger, they were the predecessors to the LDV. I'm going to subscribe so I can follow your journeys. Take care. From Dan.
Ps the montage at the end is epic! 👌
Thank you! Got any good words to say about the Freight Rover Sherpas? Reviews online seem to be very mixed but we've got our eye on one as an option for future travels 😄
@@FromRustToRoadtrip My dad used to sell them! We used one to move house in 1987 when I was six, that was a Freight Rover 400 I think (the bigger one, not the sherpa derived 200). They used landrover engines were are pretty bomb proof, they just (very slowly) chug on forever. You don't see many around now, but you don't see many 30+ year old vehicles I guess. They are basically the same as your ldv so far as the body goes I think.
That's great to know! From what we've read they seem to be super simple to fix, plus they look awesome. If we got one it would certainly be with a Land Rover engine and gearbox, or a swap. We'd love one of those rare 4WD ones but they're even rarer on the roads these days...
@@FromRustToRoadtrip I think it's like anything of that age now - parts supply probably patchy and you're catching up with 30+ years of rot and bodging.
I’m amazed you got as far as you did! Amazing adventures. Great memories! And loved the “Rust” in Peace at the end. Your ‘new’ Bedford will be interesting- I drove a Bedford minibus in Manchester back in the early 1980s. Remember it well! 🚐👍
Wow that's cool! Our Bedford's going to be a little bit bigger than a minibus haha So few of them on the roads these days but they are cool vans
That beautiful van has taken you on genuinely epic adventures, thank you for taking us along we've enjoyed every single video and the van definitely deserves not to go to the scrapyard 👍🏻. So looking forward to watching the new build, always great videos thanks again 💙✌️xx
I’ve just subscribed after seeing this. What an amazing old girl. She did you proud I’d say. Not many vehicles could do what she did.
Thanks so much! Yes we certainly pushed her to her limits, as no doubt we will with our next van on future adventures 😁
I only started watching you're channel because of the ldv. I kept watching because you make great videos. I've owned 3 of these vans and had a lot of fun in them. Strangely I've owned 3 cf vans too. Can't wait to see your next van and the cf up and running
You've had some great times in that van, But I would definitely let it go!
Blessings to Rusty , you did her proud , here's to 2021 & your new adventures .
Shame . Bless it 🚐👍
I’m happy you are keeping the ldv convoy I love them vans your one looks great so happy it isn’t getting scrapped
Wow, just Rediscovered you guys. An epic end to some epic adventures! Looking forward to the future..
I've enjoyed watching many of your videos. Sorry to see the end of your bus but you'll have gained so much experience from this and I bet your next bus will be great. All the best.
What a life indeed, I feel the seeds sown in your LDV's life sprouting already, mighty may they be.
Wonderfully put! The LDV felt like our be-all-and-end-all but now it seems more like a springboard for new beginnings and a clearer direction in our lives ☺️
I've had my 1998 convoy for 22 years now after several MOT'S said the same.
Good to hear there’s more out there still going against the odds!
Absolutely love your video making skills and adventures, I always feel I'm there myself, can't wait until the next adventure begins, and to see how the Bedford gets on 👍 good luck and stay safe 👍
Thank you Dave, we can’t wait to get it finished. It’s coming along well now! Take care 🚌
He's seen so many beautiful places with you, what a great end of life ! R.I.P Good Old Rusty Van !
What a great video. Well done you two. Amazing
I have enjoyed your videos. I always thought you were brave taking an LDV so far. You did remarkably well, congrats (and commiserations)
I’m glad your still living and looking after it👍 I’ve lived and watched all your videos! Can’t wait for the new adventures and projects! Good luck guys👍🤞
Thanks Max! Hopefully we get a chance to meet up with you and your mum this year, we'd still love to film a van tour with you 😀
I really enjoyed your videos guy's and I'm looking forward to following your next adventure in the Bedford,
Rust in peace little LDV 😢
Arguably, when you first stripped it down to fit it out, you could/should have sealed it in rust preventative although that could have been just delaying the inevitable.
Loving all of your videos. Can’t wait for what comes next.....
I’m so glad you are keeping the van it would be lovely if you could do a video update on the van now and again 😊👍
We’ve watched all your vids in your awesome van, it’s done well 😊🚐
Looking forward to your next adventures
Thanks for the back story.... now I understand!
We thought it would help to explain the history of our van for those who haven’t been with us the entire journey ☺️
You've had more adventures in that van than most people or vans ever have. Onwards and upwards with the new one. I'm looking forward to seeing it. :)
Totally agree! Big things are just around the corner 😁
Good to see you back, and looking forward to following your new project and adventures, RIP LDV but I'm sure you will be a phoenix and rise from the ashes😁😁
It's very sad but it's also a chance for new beginnings now we've refined what kind of travel we enjoy most and what type of vehicle will take us to the places we want to go (it's got to be a 4x4 next)
Good effort by the van 👍💙❤️
That was a pretty cool start to the video 😉 Your poor old van, she's been so brave and had really taken you and us the most amazing places.👍 I hope you'll let us follow the build of you 'new' van. You know that I've got a soft spot for Bedford 🤗🍻💐
She really has! Definitely further than most minibuses could go (apart from Albanian ones but they're next level boss haha). We'll be filming the entire Bedford build then throwing ourselves into a new build of our own to take travelling next year, all being well 😀
@@FromRustToRoadtrip Absolutely, that's no lie, I'm looking forwards to it
So good to see you back. :)
Such an amazing channel and an amazing van it had definitely had an amazing life 😊
Good to see the mount again. I used to live in Marazion. Miss it so much. Great vid. 👍
Thank you! We only dare venture there out of season but when it’s quiet it’s lovely ☺️
@@FromRustToRoadtrip I can fully understand that although I did rely on the tourist trade .... I ran Cobble Corner there! Beautiful place and wonderful people. ❤
Another great video
Poor old van, done you well tho for the last 90k. From road trip to rust bucket! All the best guys
Like the mot guy said, its served you well, hope you get sorted soon and take care 🚐
You have had some amazing experiences in the LDV and thank you for sharing them with us. If you do buy a welder buy a mig welder with gas as these are very easy to learn how to use. Best wishes for the future and I look forward to the next instalment. 👍😊
Thank you! Yes we’ve heard that, would be good to start with something easy, you never know we might be able to rebuild our van and get her back on the road again ☺️
@@FromRustToRoadtrip I have fully rebuilt a landrover chassis and a old ford cortina and a few transit Van's so anything is possible if you can do it yourself.
Yea that chassis looks worrying! Time to move on! Sort the roof leak out and the van can still serve as a home 😁.
Though I cannot tell you the cure, as our Transit (Faith) still leaks after so many repairs 🤔
LDV Makin Memories
Come on young man yes it takes lot work you will have to strip out everything inside your van I have rebuilt my Ldv Convoy 2004 bus new floor wheel arches sillls ball joints etc brakes front back cost lots but worth it theengines are bullet proof i am over 66 so young man do it
You both are an advert for LDV and myself for Renault
If LDV wasn't defunct we'd definitely be asking them for sponsorship by now haha
Poor van if you can get it undercover that would save it a little bit longer also the rusty bits spray them with waxoyl that will help against it getting worse
Yayyyyyyyyyyyy little tooth. Nice fringe ❤️❤️❤️
So sad that she has got so bad, just had my 2004 Iveco daily minibus MOT'd this week and I have advisories about corrosion on that one but she is otherwise reliable so I will keep her going for a couple more years hopefully. I will look forward to more on the Bedford, stay safe
That’s not bad for an old Iveco! We’ve had constant issues with rust on our van but it really went downhill in the last year. Still not as bad as the Bedford though so who knows 😅
@@FromRustToRoadtrip I have the occasional electrical issue, mainly due to the previous owner being a bit of a bodgit and scarper kind of guy🤨 but I have a great brother who is ex RAF and very good with electrics and mechanical problems 😊
From Rust To Roadtrip Now From Roadtrip To Rust ehh Many Memories But you can still use her on Drive Ehh. ATB Guys xx Stephen xx...
😂 Eventually our story will be something like From Rust to Roadtrip to Rust to Roadtrip to Rust to Rust to Roadtrip
Lol 🤪😂😂👍🚐🚐🚐🚐ATB X
When I See These Buses, I Think Of Balamory.
You definitely gave her the best years and I doubt some other vans would have got through it as well. What country did you find less friendly to van life, as I am thinking of traveling to the east this summer as Italy is getting way to hot in the summer.
My late Godfather ran a back street garage in Liverpool and priced every job in 'sheets'. A sheet being a pound note. 'Call it twenty sheets'. A bigger job would be fifty sheets and a really big job like an engine out might be a hundred sheets. I think your van might just be in the 100 sheets category!
I've taken my van off the road for now. Last year was a disaster for van touring and when the MOT and tax was due at the end of the year I sorned it. I'm not that confident that things will be a whole lot better in 2021?
Haha that’s a great story! Probably quite a few stacks of sheets for this old van 😂
We’re not confident 2021 will be much better for travel, certainly not internationally anyway, so we’re hanging back until 2022 before our next trip to be on the safe side. There’s all sort of vaccinations and quarantines to sort out for travel atm so it seems like too much of an expensive headache to us right now 😅
I'm sure I saw your Van on a top ten camper van builds the other day 👌😍
Oh really? Where was that? 😄
Van Clan channel. The Top Ten Camper Van DIY Builds
Sad Sunday viewing 😢😢😢. Hopefully you will get something else on the road soon - maybe even the Bedford (which I know you had other plans for).
Hopefully the Bedford will be ready this year to hire out, then shortly after we're looking at getting ourselves a new van more equipped to deal with the kind of roads we like to drive 😀
Next Week Rust to Roadtrip is sponsored by Vauxhall Movano showing the world British vans can climb mountains LOL.
😂
I’m crying
You’re not the only one 😢
Ah damnit, Marazion, it'll soon be two years since I've been to Cornwall.
I’d love to have a go at fixing the van, just a shame I’ve got 3 of my own LDVs to fix first.
Scrap it! It's too far gone!
Don't ever come down a mountain relying on the Brakes in the future, its not safe; use the Gearbox for Engine Braking. Lunch break from welding my rust, feel free to ask advice
Thank you, yeah we do use the engine braking as much as possible, but when the revs are maxing out in second gear and we can't go any slower we have no choice but to use the brakes 😅
OK.... Now I'm sad! 😔😔😔😔
It looks like the van needs to have its feet up,permanently.
Pushed to the limits and beyond. Still sad, I’m rebuilding my Land Rover that I’ve had since I was 18 (cough I’m 43 now) so I understand the draw of rebuilding your baby.
Wow what a project! Kind of worth it on a Land Rover, not so much an LDV but the emotional attachment is strong so you never know
So although the repair sheet is as long as your arm the king pins would of passed, yes/no 👌 😀
😂 Doubt it, we can't work out how to actually get the grease into them haha
probably a world record for an ldv to travel that far,fair play to you for the effort,not an economical repair though
You know we thought that, until we saw a guy on the LDV page on Facebook saying he was in Japan having troubles with his LDV... 🤯
Lucy looks like a film star, crawling out of the water - think of Bond, poss Gold Finger & you look like ( dont let this go to your head ) Russ Crowe, (passin resemblance) at the age of 'Gladiator' you look like you would be one of the Thracians tho' with the beard !
Anyways onto LDV's I got one too, and its a Camper. It was about to be condemned this year when it failed its MOT but I'm currently resurrecting it from the LDV graveyard back into surplus with lots of good tasty welding ( arc to those who know ). So dont give up ! Footnote:: Always afraid of a breakdown with my old un going to Europe but you have given me hope to take that chance when its back on the road again. ;) Yes Deffo get a welder, thats what I did - no lookin back. I also had a leak in my roof, after I removed the small SAT Dish that previous owner had put on. I used a transparent perspexy bowl lid from B&M to cover it with copious amounts of gorrilla outdoor grab stuff to secure - perfect and no leaks now. Yeah; Engines a cracker - Bannana I think, they just keep on goin. Struggle up hills though.
I SEE Y you love your ol LDV. Furthest ive been is Cornwall would you believe, yes all the way down to Lands end. NICE VIDEO
Oh thank you that’s so kind ☺️🙊 I think anyway... 😂
Sounds like quite a project! Ours is pretty much in the same situation right now, they’re not really worth saving but we love them anyway! We hear nothing but good things about the banana engine although we love our Duratorq and it’s never let us down so far ☺️ Pretty quick too (when it’s not in limp mode😅)
@@FromRustToRoadtrip It was all meant in the 'Best possible Taste' 😂
If you want to see my old LDV Camper you can visit my instagram here:
instagram.com/wild_poetry_webs/ and scroll right to the bottom ( wade through all of the Poetry cover pics :) and you'll see it. It has been painted since into a deeper darker red.
@@FromRustToRoadtrip It was all meant in the 'Best possible Taste' 😂
If you want to see my old LDV Camper you can visit my instagram here: I'm just putting my Instagram handle as sometimes TH-cam has a bad habit of deleting the post with links in! /wild_poetry_webs/
nd scroll right to the bottom ( wade through all of the Poetry cover pics :) and you'll see it. It has been painted since into a deeper darker red.
Such a sad day 😢
Never thought this day would come!
It's sad I've been there NOT GOOD good luck😀
Have a look at nitrosilvia on TH-cam, he is working on an LDV and you would learn loads on his channel even welding.
Thanks for the tip, we’ll check him out!
Pick up another ldv and transfer interior from old van into new van.
From an LDV to a Bedford.... Dont think anything is going to change in the new home hahaa
Ow dear a tarp on the roof will solve the water.
There a local scrap yard near me brakeing plenty of them and I can weld if you want help
Aw thank you! That's such a kind offer. That is a plus there are so many of these in scrapyards for parts. We won't be looking at restoring it anytime soon but we'd love to give you a shout if and when we do ☺️
I could really use the fuel pump (if it's the 2.4 diesel) my ldv convoy pick up 2002 desperately in need
This was 2 years ago now, our van is back on the road again! Try Diesel Technika, they do refurbished fuel pumps for a reasonable price
Dear Lord put it out of it's misery😢
Time to let her go now
Rust is the van killer. Its like cancer and not many vans make it past 20 years. Some die at 15 unless you get under the van every year and treat/ repair everything that looks suspect. Between 15 and 20 years if it not rust is major engine failure. Broken timing belts, dropped chains and seized water/oil pumps quite often ends as catastrophic death for the engine.
Lol I replaced my LDV steering rack and it still wobbled like a tractor !!
Rust in peace LDV bus