Breaking dormobile
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October 7, 2013 at 11:26 am #1164
With great sadness I’ve got to break/scrap our original dormobile, FKN319L 😥 Delightful people with holiday house next door (who’ve been up about 3 times since new year, and not at all previous year) have leant on Council environmental planning about poor old scruffy Landy. A&B Council now want it gone within about next fortnight (or else) even though she’s on my own ground. Yesterday my daughter, her partner and I took off the massive roofrack and the dormobile top, then removed doortops and glass. Sad to say the framework/bulkhead etc is knacked but the aluminium panels further back appear to be not too bad. I’m trying to salvage what I can. The roofrack is a Brownchurch galvanised beast of a thing – full expedition roof rack has front legs which fasten onto the front bumper and incorporate weldmesh headlight guards. Measurements are 83″(211cm) long by 58″ (147.5cm) wide by 1foot deep, and 51″ (129cm) from bumper to roof rack base. We’ve also managed to extract the kitchen units. Not sure if I can get the back seats out – or rather how much of them I can get out – an awful lot of stuff seized in place. WD40 is wonderful stuff! Any of you folks interested in any of the above?
October 7, 2013 at 8:27 pm #5157Where are you please?
The unique Dormobile stuff mustn’t go to the scrappers!!
The seats – front and back, the interior “cardboard” bits and all the little bits of metal, the kitchen and the wardrobe and the Dormobile sticker / plate with it’s number on are worth keeping and selling on
Any where near West Yorkshire? text me on 07799278578Just seen your previous posts – Scotland – quelle domage!
Regards
Alex
October 7, 2013 at 11:08 pm #5158That’s really sad when you can’t keep something on your own land 😕 Can you not build a temporary cover around it so it can’t be seen ?? Or drag it with a tractor into a shed ?? Maybe write to the council and get an extension of time needed to remove it ?? I’d being trying every trick in the book to delay getting rid of it and get yourself some time to dismantle it.
Sounds like your roof rack is the same as mine and would be quite a rare item, as Alex says the dormobile stuff must not go for scrap. I find those 12 volt battery angle grinders are very useful for stubborn bolts etc. if the vehicle isn’t near a power point.
Good luck with it ……………….and I won’t even mention the neighbors
October 8, 2013 at 9:28 am #5159Tried the “unique vehicle/useful parts” line, but planning guys not really interested – depending on where some of them are from they often haven’t a clue about stuff like this. The older generation of them used to look at old cars and say “ah, so you’ll be putting an ad in the Oban Times that you’re selling a ‘good island vehicle’ then?” that being the answer for reliable old cars with no MOT or tax – Coll, Iona, Tiree, Colonsay, Lismore and Kerrera are full of them 😉 (My location is on the shores of Loch Awe in Argyll, not far from Oban.)
Daughter and partner coming back up today to see what else we can get off the old girl. Yes. those wee 12 volt angle grinders are great things – we used to laugh at husband for having breeding colonies of them, but he reckoned they were cheap enough to justify “spare” ones. He was a marine engineer and working our way through his workshop is an ongoing nightmare and infernal game of three-dimensional chess.
The salvaged stuff off the landy I can stash well inside the garden on pallets and covered in tarp. Labels and small bits are what yoghurt pots were really designed for 🙂
Thanks for your feedback.October 8, 2013 at 2:25 pm #5160Hi Dieselhen,
if you chose to break it, I’m interested by the Dormobile badge on the front wing. Let me know if you are ready to sell it and for what price.
KR
Loïc
October 12, 2013 at 12:45 pm #5161Don’t whatever you do scrap any of the trim bits or Dormobile stuff, i’ll happily take them off your hands instead 😆 .
I might be interested in the roof rack, depending on condition, how much you want for it, and exactly where abouts you are
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Ant
October 12, 2013 at 9:30 pm #5162On further thought, my interior lights and fibreglass gutter over the rear door are busted, and if you happen to have another spice rack, I was thinking about mounting another one… Also, you don’t happen to have a decent table, do you? (all again, depending on where abouts you are and how much you want… 😀 )
Thanks,
Ant
October 13, 2013 at 12:55 pm #5163Scotland is the location Ant
October 13, 2013 at 6:44 pm #5164Oh right, thanks. It’s a long way from me, but I do have a relative in Scotland, so if I was very lucky, they might be nearby.
Ant
October 16, 2013 at 5:40 pm #5165You should just move it within your own boundary, I doubt they would have a leg to stand on. I need to remember the planning rules, but I am sure that moving it would start the whole process again… Oh and then make your neighbours life a misery….
Other than that ebay it complete on a short run. Even is Scotland you will sell it if you start it low enough….
And whilst mulling over this, the Council don’t really have a leg to stand on, they can’t just waltz onto your land and remove it. I would love to know what they have cited, as frankly Planning enforcement in Scotland is an interesting subject, they can actually very rarely enforce anything and often don’t due to legal costs. I would have fought this, they are using bully boy tactics and you neighbours are the worse kind of holiday home owning NIMBYS… Thankfully where I grew up on the Black Isle the holiday homes have mostly gone now and when they were there they would not have tried to have something like this enforced.
November 12, 2013 at 9:40 pm #5166Hi Dieselhen,
It’s crappy what your neighbours are doing and council are enforcing. It’s a terrible shame to have to scrap it. If you haven’t been able to move it or save it, I would be interested in some of the bits if available. Can we talk? I will send you a p.m. with my details.
Christian.
November 15, 2013 at 4:08 pm #5167Hi deiselhen,
Have you,by any chance got any seats from your Dormobile,or am I too late?
I’m desperate for seats for my ’72 Dormie & even though I live in Wales, I’d come & collect them if you have! 🙂
Toptaff.
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