Converting my Vauxhall Zafira into a Car Camping Office (on wheels)

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  • Опубліковано 15 січ 2025

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  • @markwhalebone751
    @markwhalebone751 7 місяців тому +1

    I think that it would be handy for a Friday CC as you can get to a park up nice and early going the opposite way from the London bound flow and it means that as soon as you log off you are free instead of Friday nights traffic battle to get away, I know that you have suffered from this in the past. It also means that later in the year you have more exploring time as the nights draw in. The porta potti is like the AA, handy to have in an emergency. Especially when a bottle is not what you need.

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      Now this is a good idea dude - I so want to go essex side, but whenever I see the traffic, I’m like “nope”. And you all know how much I love my Porta potti ❤️

  • @siobhancalway2223
    @siobhancalway2223 6 місяців тому +1

    Have you managed a work from the car day yet. All this beautiful weather is coming up next week. I can just imagine you, parked up on the driveway, laptop to hand, coffee , and a sneeky beer cooling on the side.

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  6 місяців тому +1

      You know what is rather gutting - no sooner do I make this vid, our whole team has been called back to operational work …. So looks like we are heading back to offices for a bit 😝

  • @siobhancalway2223
    @siobhancalway2223 7 місяців тому +1

    Great idea.. start out working from the drive.
    And don't be like me, clumsy, I've spent most of today discovering just how far a knocked over cup of hot chocolate can go.. 😂

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      Oh no 😂 I’m guessing all the nooks and crannies 😂

    • @siobhancalway2223
      @siobhancalway2223 7 місяців тому +1

      🥴 yep , thankfully, the floor is vinyl, and the rugs washable. I feel a summer spring clean day happening tomorrow .. 🙄

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому +1

      @@siobhancalway2223 these things happen to make us clean, much like when you invite the family over 😂

  • @shoreylife
    @shoreylife 7 місяців тому +1

    Haha love it dude. Soooooo wish i had a remote job like that, so full time vanlife could happen. Great video. Look forward to seeing how it works for you buddy.

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому +1

      It’s funny, I never used to like working from home when I could, but I must say I have adapted to this life very well. And the fact that I’m saving a good few hundred a month in petrol is rather awesome too ❤️🚗
      (I only started filming this today at 12.30pm - 5.5 hr turnaround is a new record for me 😂)

    • @shoreylife
      @shoreylife 7 місяців тому +1

      @zafiracamper yeah I bet that saves a canny penny too. Use the car for more important things bud, like camping 😉
      Very impressive turn around too. 👏

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому +1

      @@shoreylife oh yes in indeedy, as long as I make it off the drive that is 😂

    • @shoreylife
      @shoreylife 7 місяців тому +1

      @@zafiracamper 😄 🤣

  • @h.bsfaithfulservant4136
    @h.bsfaithfulservant4136 7 місяців тому +1

    👍👌💫💯.MPV magnificence...🌟

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      Andddd just for you, the porta potti was not wearing his usual jacket 😂

    • @h.bsfaithfulservant4136
      @h.bsfaithfulservant4136 7 місяців тому

      @@zafiracamper Haha. I was well impressed...PP looked as lovely as ever 💖😁

  • @theyrenuts2845
    @theyrenuts2845 7 місяців тому +1

    Cool..im looking forward to learning how well it goes with this new layout in use. I did consider taking my middle row out but then i heard that if you do you have to tell your insurance as an ammendment and thats just not an option for me. Admin alone is 40 then any changes that update premium is only going to batter me. Where i live there's a lot of uninsured drivers and lots of snow day accidents loyally that all screw my insurance so high that its over 1000 despite a clean 25 yrs ncd. Its hard to find that these days so taking seats out and it being even more ..is just not an option. So..goodluck and i cant wait to see how you fare.

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      Omg how much 😫 defo don’t want to be doing anything to make them charge you anymore then 🙏
      I think it will perfectly / in fact I can even try it with the folding bed- as that fits in both configs and gives you under bed storage for actual car camp bits and bobs :)

    • @theyrenuts2845
      @theyrenuts2845 7 місяців тому

      @@zafiracamper I haven't tried the camp bed lark yet.. I bought one.. but havnt been empty enough to try it yet... but.. on the topic... I do have and have used ( with me scrunched on back seat plus more suited but the 5 foot back layout) with large dog bed cussions. Effectively floor cussions. I got three of them 7.99 each at that popular high Street/retail Park shop HB. Made with diced chunks of memory foam.. they shape into any gap and offer comfortle squidge. Perhaps they could work as scatter cushion seating while working as well as bed option plus foot rests if using rear seat.. I like the comfort they offer me and of course they seperate to stuff anywhere. They are nof just a thin foam mat. Very affordable I thought.. especially compared to ones the big six Al di one currently available at around 20 each. Anyhoo food for thought

  • @Billy88london
    @Billy88london 7 місяців тому +1

    Id love to have a work at home job 😢 when i go fulltime vanlife ive gotta find one that would be my dream parked at a beach typing away on the laptop 😊

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      If I were single then I could so do that full time ☺️

  • @LittlePixelTM
    @LittlePixelTM 7 місяців тому +1

    I've been thinking about this sort of thing a lot of late, with the idea of a Kei van or Transit Connect / Berlingo. But a Zafira seems pretty good! One thing with the hotter summers I also think about is an EV as you can run the climate control for hours at a time and not have to have the engine idling.

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому +1

      All great cars :) Although if you were buying for this purpose, then prob a transit connect would be better as a lot more spacious (well they look like they are on YT vids I’ve seen).
      Yeah keeping cool in heat is defo something I’ve not had to contend with yet - mines moreso been contending with cold 😅

  • @lou-dicrous
    @lou-dicrous 7 місяців тому +1

    I have toying with this idea as well. I have a camper so a smidge more room. How does one go about privacy during the day, though, when one is ....errrmmm on the throne?

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      Well, I do have the answer for that…. For me, I can pull the Amazon central curtains and then whack up the blackout covers on the windows 🚽👀🫡

    • @lou-dicrous
      @lou-dicrous 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@zafiracamperI see a big job for a big job 😂😂😂😂

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      @@lou-dicrous 😂😂

  • @MancavetoOutdoors
    @MancavetoOutdoors 7 місяців тому +1

    #ugger the car office when you doing your first wild camp ???? hehehehe

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому +1

      😂 This is what I call a filler vid 😂 Wanted to car camp last week not make this 😭 But I have a healthy stash of driveway approved vids that I can make when needs must 😅
      I think my wild camp set up is there now, pretty sure I have everything I need 😱 So quite possibly, after my next car camp 😱

    • @MancavetoOutdoors
      @MancavetoOutdoors 7 місяців тому +1

      @@zafiracamper only joking m8ty good idea when your stuck in a small room looking at the same walls keep them coming

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому +1

      @MancavetoOutdoors no no it’s good to keep me motivated - I was never nervous about my first car camp - I am for the wild camp 😂 It’ll be a proper go for a hike and hope I find a spot 😂

  • @Bongoben
    @Bongoben 7 місяців тому +1

    I dream about having the bongo set up with Wi-Fi and leisure batterys so I can just travel and make vid along the way. 👍

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      Then you would be proper loving the dream ❤️🚗

    • @Bongoben
      @Bongoben 7 місяців тому +1

      @@zafiracamper 😂👍

  • @alvarovallezdelgado9047
    @alvarovallezdelgado9047 7 місяців тому +1

    Bro, your zafira makes an auto regeneration of antiparticles filter? What zafira have you got?

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  7 місяців тому

      I don’t even know what that means? I have a 2013 Exclusiv :)

  • @michaelprunty1399
    @michaelprunty1399 17 днів тому +1

    Can it be put on book as camper?

    • @zafiracamper
      @zafiracamper  17 днів тому

      @@michaelprunty1399 hi there, erm not too sure, I’ve never looked into this as my whole set up is non permanent and in reality only used as overnight camper twice a month :)