Owners of Vivaros beware!

[High Tower]

Anyone who owns a Vivaro, be careful in this weather!, DO NOT try and clear large amounts of snow off your windscreen with your wipers!!

I did and found its achillies heel, the linkage is connected to the gearbox with a simple ball and socket arrangement as is normal, unfortunatly on this particular model, a large amount of snow is enough to dislocate the joint.

And re locating is a 2hr ish job that involves stripping the entire scuttle panel out!, no fun at all this evening, on the drive, in -2c with it snowing!

 

[Tim]

Also just dont buy them, ive got an 08 plate primemaster (same as vivaro/trafic) and one of the injectors has given up after 60000 miles, luckely nissans 5 yr warrenty covers it otherwise it could run into thousands!!

 

[High Tower]

Mine has been as good as gold!

 

[Plonker 3]

Had a few bits done on mine. Its done 140,000 miles though so cant complain.

 

[Tim]

Sounds like ive just had some bad luck then. Also the heater/fan doesnt work on number 4, bloody annoying on these cold days.

 

[oldtimer]

Tim why not keep a soft head sweeping brush in the back to clear the snow off the windscreen roof bonnet etc think you will find most motors wiper mechanisms will struggle especialy if the snow turns to ic

 

[Parelectrical]

My 142000 mile vivaro has just been sold it was dying slowly

 

[Megavolt]

Mine done 50000 and 4 weeks ago had two injectors go at cost of £1200. Last Friday over two went great !

 

[chrish_1977]

I used to repair these vans before I retrained, the reason the injectors go is swarf, an this is due to when the fuel filter is changed I the correct priming procedure isn't followed is makes the pump run dry and then starts stripping the metal from inside the pump and then chucks this into to fuel system

 

[OWLelectrical]

used to have these as company vehicles found the turbo go on everyone and a few had a couple of turbos

 

[TaffyDuck]

Also just dont buy them, ive got an 08 plate primemaster (same as vivaro/trafic) and one of the injectors has given up after 60000 miles, luckely nissans 5 yr warrenty covers it otherwise it could run into thousands!!

The older 1.9CDTi`s are OK. The newer ones fitted with the Renault 2 litre engines are a nightmare for seized injectors. One seized injector in 2010 cost me £800. Another a few months ago cost £1200.

That was the last straw. Vivaro now gone (57 plate with only 55k on the clock) to be replaced by a quality make. VW.

The Vivaro 2,0 Renault hybrids are dropping like flies now, will never touch one again.

 

[High Tower]

Tim why not keep a soft head sweeping brush in the back to clear the snow off the windscreen roof bonnet etc think you will find most motors wiper mechanisms will struggle especialy if the snow turns to ic

I had brushed it off, and the snow was soft, it was the slab of snow that slipped down from the roof that did it

 

[applemac]

Heater fan man. The resister may have failed, usually fail on most settings but the fastest one as power goes straight though on highest setting flea at sell replacements

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

Had a 51 plate Trafic for 5 years and got a 08 Trafic Sport now for 1 year, both been brilliant.....so far

 

[mpb]

I got 250k out of my last Vivaro. the only problem i had was the fuel pump went a couple times.

Martin