I sold my VW T3 diesel California last spring. I bought it in 2013 in Birkenhead, and after some repairs to make it road worthy had invested £8K. It had a bit of superficial rust that would bother the purist, so got it fairly cheap. We spent our summers traveling Europe from Sweden to Croatia, then shipped it to America (Galveston from Southampton) in 2016 and did a four month 13,000km trip through the Rockies to Vancouver Island, then down the Pacific coast. I sold it in the US for $10k. The 1.6 turbo diesel was slow going but what a reliable engine. I put around 40k miles total and only changed the oil & filter. The headlamp switch melted in the 'on' position, and had a rear wheel bearing issue that led to having the rear brakes repaired - that was it.