I turned my Ford Fiesta into a ‘flat bed’ campervan for £15 – I went to Wales & slept on a mattress topper from Facebook
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A WOMAN has shared how she transformed her tiny Ford Fiesta into a campervan for just £15. Saff explained that she wanted to take a trip to Wales but had a strict budget, so had come up with the idea of turning her car into a place to sleep as well as her mode of transport.
![[Air mattress in the back of a car.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/i-went-wales-slept-mattress-965214605.jpg?strip=all&w=540)
She documented the transformation in a video on her TikTok page, as she began by removing the parcel shelf in her car and folding the seats down flat. "There's still not a massive amount of room, but it's enough - I'm only small!" she grinned. Her initial plan was to put a single air bed down, laying across the folded down back seats and into the boot.
![[Woman lying on an air mattress in the back of a car.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2851eb62-238c-47a1-a747-541f00449e7a.jpg?strip=all&w=576)
However, when she looked at how much room she actually had - and the size of the air bed - she quickly realised she had a problem. Saff blew up the airbed inside and then tried to position it in the car in a way that was comfortable for her to sleep. But unfortunately, she would have had to sleep almost vertically if she'd wanted to make the air bed idea work.
![[Mattress topper in a car.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ed7fee4e-e09f-4c06-97bf-fc16d8697fd9.jpg?strip=all&w=576)
So, she went back to the drawing board, and hit the jackpot when she spotted a single mattress topper being sold on Facebook Marketplace for just £15. And it "worked perfectly". Saff was able to fold a tiny section of the topper down to make a "little headrest pillow type thing", and it fit so much better that she was even able to lay down flat.
![[Person sleeping on a mattress in the back of a car.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/11b41a9b-dacd-4ba1-aab4-e4975c6ad81b.jpg?strip=all&w=576)
