Meet our Peugeot Boxer Van (soon to be Boxer Camper Van)

Why a Peugeot Boxer as a basis for our Camper Van

Peugeot Boxer?

Why did we go for the Peugeot Boxer as a basis to build our camper? Well, I looked at a lot of home (or semi-professional) build campers and what you can and can't do within the space you get.

I talked to my wife Rommy about it and we agreed that the Van (we already call her Mupke but more about that later) needed to be short and narrow enough to fit in a normal Swedish parking space. She needs to be wide enough so we could sleep from side to side. Service and parts need to be widely available. And the last demand was that she needs to be less than 6 meters long (19.68 ft) so we still would be able to get on the ferries and toll bridges at the cheapest price for a normal car. We love the Sprinters and Crafters but they are too narrow to sleep from side to side. Same goes for a lot of the other Vans from Ford, Nissan, and Opel etc.

In the end we ended up with a choice between Fiat Ducato, Citroën Jumper, Peugeot Boxer or Ram ProMaster. Looks like a lot of choices doesn’t it? Well they are actually all the same with only minor differences.

The size to look for was the so called L3H2 version.

Length L3 means that the overall length will be 5,998 meter. 

Height H2 means inside the height will be 1,932 meter.

And these vans will all be 2,050 meter wide.

This means she is under 6 meters, we can stand upright in her (even with the isolation taking up some space on the floor and ceiling) and we can sleep from side to side in her.

And this is her!

After we looked at several cars we decided to buy a 2013 (November 2012 registered) model Peugeot Boxer 3.0 HDI with 149.000 km on the clock. Took us a whole day to drive down to Borås and pick her up at Hedin Bil but she looked nice and with 12 month guarantee the risk wasn’t so big.

She needs some work on the outside with a small dent, trim that should be black and paintwork that's in desperate need of a good polish. But for the rest... not bad at all. 

On the technical side she needs service, the AC doesn't work (guarantee) the airflow selector works on 4 or not at all (guarantee) and the spare tire is stuck in it's bracket.

Time to get to work!!