Well UK ones anyway. It's so boring. Must make it difficult to find your 'van among a load of them parked up 'cos they all look the same.
Why don't caravanners demand more variety? Why are they so uninterested in individual expression. Says a lot about 'em, IMO...
(Mind you, even if they were painted more imaginitively/attractively, they'd still be mobile road blocks that are difficult to get past.)
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I assume it's for the same reason that American ones are silver - it reflects the heat in summer and contains it in winter, but I agree with you about the lack of expression. I'd want a bad, black one with a shotgun rack on it...
What really baffles me is their naming - I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck behind a 'sprinter'.
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I assume it's for the same reason that American ones are silver - it reflects the heat in summer and contains it in winter
That and the natural colours of the fibreglass. It's the same with boats: fibreglass ones are white by default, but even wooden boats are usually painted white (at least if they are big enough to have accommodation), because otherwise they can turn into ovens in the summer. It's less of an issue in Northern Europe than in other climates, but look at the colour of boats in the med: they are either white or they are baking.
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The Serious answer is like a plane or fridge truck to reflect heat. German caravan maker Hymer does a nice met Silver
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The Serious answer is like a plane or fridge truck to reflect heat.
That, and the glassfibre-reinforced resin they're made from is naturally off-white in colour. Its easier add pigment to the resin to make it brighter white than it is achieve a consistent finish by adding coloured pigment.
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I bet there are more not white,caravan showroom near me not one pure white one there.
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I bet there are more not white caravan showroom near me not one pure white one there.
Bailey (the best selling make) are off-white. A sort of magnolia colour.
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You can paint them any colour you like. I saw a dark blue and cream two-tone one yesterday.
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"dark blue and cream two-tone"
Towed by a Vauxhall Cresta, I hope!
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I think it's a thick coat of algae, but I do frequently see a green caravan locally.
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White plastics are much more UV-stable than coloured. Put a piece of coloured plastic in the sun for a couple of weeks and see what happens to its colour. With white, there's no problem>
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Our VW T5 camper van is raven blue - a sort of mid metallic blue. I was tempted by silver, for the heat issues as discussed above, but actually, with the roof up it doesn't get too hot in the sun.
And it's very easy to find in the camp-site!
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White makes them stand out more against the road, hedges etc. Easier to spot in the sights of the RPG launcher :)
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and they show up on Google Earth a treat. I recently checked out a walk round Flamborough Head that I did, spotted an odd pattern, zoomed in out of curiousity and aaghh! caravans! No wonder the aliens are keeping away.
JH
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why are caravans white? its because they blend in with the field they are parked in so as not to offend passers by admiring the scenery....really i suppose it helps stop the suns rays turning them into ovens as most are summer use possibly?
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Why are white-van-man vans always white?
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Saw a nice two tone beige one today.
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Why are white-van-man vans always white?
Dunno, but I remember when vans were usually blue. In fact they're still blue in Taiwan
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No offence to Mad Maxy, but caravans aren't always white at all. They come in all sorts of colours and are often streaked with chrome or anodised aluminium flashes.
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i remember just after the riots in 81 all police transits suddenly became midnight blue instead of the usual white(throw a petrol bomb at me) shade as they sillouetted around our inner cities at night....ah the good old days
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White van are white because colour costs money. Back in the 80s our borough council started buying new trucks in white rather than council yellow because it saved them £400 per vehicle in respray costs.
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white and light colours are best for not showing up dents,ripples and minor abrasions etc
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Was that because white didn't show damage and scrapes or because white paint is/was cheaper than yellow?
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The council quote was something along the lines of white is standard. Anything else costs extra.
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