What do you drive?

[sparkyork]

im currently using my boot in my mk2 mondeo! im off van shopping in a bit and have been thinking about vivaro or renault/nissan variant.

however im undecided ive heard a lot of bad things bout these vans, what with fuel pumps, injectors, gearbox, clutch probs to name a few!!

yeh transits do have that stigma but to be honest im thinking about getting a swb base one, any ideas anyone?

dont want anything too small like burlingo's etc, caddies are ace vans but also just a little too small! i hate having to stack stuff on top of other stuff when loading un loading!!

rich

just to add ive been comparing volume (load space) of a few vans: transit connect 2.8m, vw caddy 3.2m, merc vito 4.65m, transit swb 6.5m, vivaro 5.0m

yeah sad i know this is my list of vans i could get but dont know which too get!!, thinking of avoiding vivaro, so think its between caddy, vito and transit.

quite tricky tho cos its hard to work out how much room you really need! if you wanna transport endless ammounts of gear around for maintainance purpoeses as well as tonnes of cable i suppose it would be the vito or transit?

any of you peeps no if you can get a pair of steps in a caddy ok?

rich

 

[London Luke]

Landcruiser

Vans get robbed all the time in London

 

[mdes]

Renault Kangoo 1.5dci, ex british gas, fully racked out, towbar and roof rack fitted. 40-50 mpg.
no probs whatsoever.
would recommend, if you can handle a bit of a tight space. and don't mind strapping a few bits to the roof.
can't justify a bigger thirstier van at the moment and work on own so need all materials at hand.#
get most large items delivered as most wholsalers will at short notice.
so all good.

 

[sparkyork]

off too buy a tranny connect lwb 2moro, yipee!!

 

[rumrunner]

off too buy a tranny connect lwb 2moro, yipee!!

Hi
Bloody good vans,Got offered one a few weeks ago for 200 quid all it neaded was a fan as the old one had a blade missing ,it shuddered a bit when idleing but went ok ,bit noisy though but old deisels are,it was ex telecom and there serviced regular ,but some builder had had it and as far as i know he got the brakes done,i was going to have it for the engine and swap it with an old petrol out of a pickup,but the pickup was newer and had different mountings.shame i think it was worth the money,its hard to get them at the right price ,most get shipped to india or africa,i think ive got an exahst someware that should fit a connect,but yorks maybee a bit far to drop it round ,they tend to rust bad and its handy to have a spare
good luck with it

 

[Cirrus]

Same tranny Rum? Connect only came into production about 5 yrs ago IIRC

 

[rumrunner]

Same tranny Rum? Connect only came into production about 5 yrs ago IIRC

Naw the one im on about older than that.but some of the bits might still fit,

 

[jimbo198966]

this

 

[rumrunner]

this

I like that,how much head room have you got ,2 inches chopped out the middle would make it well different ,nice though ,did you build it?

 

[jimbo198966]

cheers bro. i partially built it...next on the list is a roof chop, about 6 inches (lowered), at the moment ive got about 5 nich head room

 

[rumrunner]

cheers bro. i partially built it...next on the list is a roof chop, about 6 inches (lowered), at the moment ive got about 5 nich head room

you must be shorter sitting down than me yeah it will be the doggys danglies chopped
what lump have you got in it ?

 

[JonathanK]

I drive a Lexus.

 

[tony.towa]

Drive a company escort van for work, good old workhorse with the acceleration of a sleeping hippo. Own vehicle is a Volvo estate, great for taking out the grandkids and rumour has it for the odd job at weekends, but I wouldn't know about that

 

[montybaber]

I have a 05 tranny and a fabia vrs, I drive the fabia to work normally (100 mile round trip) and the tranny for lugging stuff about and for my dogs.

The van is great I would recommend one to anyone, my brother and friends have had movanos etc but had problem after problem but my ugly tranny keeps going (touches anything wooden nearby)

got best of both worlds really came from an impreza show car and tbh the fabia goes ok (as does the tranny but it is a van lol)

I have fitted stainless cages i fabricated at work as well as fans and extract intake fans in the roof, i wired in a split charge leisure battery linked to a solar panel on the roof so I can leave the fans going all day long for my boys to keep them nice and cool (cant be too carefull) also made a control panel to control everything with switches for every fan and changeover switches to change roof mounts from blow to suck if one of them farts lol

my tranny

my old subaru (i miss her)

my old triumph (i miss her too)

 

[montybaber]

btw the vans fuel consumption is well into the 40's on a run with two big lumps in the back and cages end other gear