Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Jim Waugh(Albright & Shiny) on January 22, 2013, 07:52:30 am
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As you know Im putting together my business.
One big question is Whats the best vehicle out there for the job.
Its going to be a one man WFP setup.
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It depends how much you want to spend mate. I have a fiat scudo with 500 litres Its big enough for me and it has a big payload 900kg. It has not broke down yet in two years.
Also a ford transit connect are worth a look
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Peugeot expert hdi ;)
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Defender 110.
All day, EVERY day.
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We've just changed one of our vans for a Citroen Dispatch 2.0 LWB and I must say that already I am very impressed with it. We've had Fiat Ducatos, fine solid vehicles, Vauxhall Vivaro, pretty van but crap engines, Renault Trafic, same as Vivaro crap engine
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Ford Ranger pre 2007 if you want to keep it simple.
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have you got a commercial autotrader to hand ... take a look at everything for sale cos someone will suggest one of them ;D
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VW t4 , pretty cheap to buy and bulletproof , mine has cost me nothing in 7 years , bar service parts of course , also everybody sees them as expensive for parts , they are not , even main dealer aint bad !
Rich
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LWB PUEGEOT BOXER or SIMILAR
Get a 1000 ltr system and save yourself a fortune upgrading later
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have you got a commercial autotrader to hand ... take a look at everything for sale cos someone will suggest one of them ;D
Funny and true ;D.
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For 1 man you really do not need to go bigger than scudo/expert/dispatch.
My personal preference would be to have a 500l tank, so you need to go for a vehicle that will fit the size tank you want and be OK on payload.
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We've just changed one of our vans for a Citroen Dispatch 2.0 LWB and I must say that already I am very impressed with it. We've had Fiat Ducatos, fine solid vehicles, Vauxhall Vivaro, pretty van but crap engines, Renault Trafic, same as Vivaro crap engine
Had trafic from new done 80,000 miles in it with no major problems, ball joint & brake discs this with a 650 ltr tank in back, 2 hose reels, poles etc. and full roof rack.
Now have a new vivaro sportive, only done 4,000 miles in it and loving it. These are vans that drive like cars, ok you get problems with some but mine was ok.
Oh by the way, I have a Citroen Relay swb 1.9TD for sale complete with tank, pump etc, cos it drives like a van.
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toyota hiace my old fruit, cannot be beaten for realibility
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Steve a how much do you want and can I have some details on the van
Email me woodswindowcleaning@hotmail.co.uk
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toyota hiace my old fruit, cannot be beaten for realibility
100% agree mine has lived up to the rep they get. i wouldn`t have anything else, i dont need the size but its bomb proof in every way.
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Defender 110.
All day, EVERY day.
how much does a defender setup like yours cost ?
looks cool too. i like them.
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VW t4 , pretty cheap to buy and bulletproof , mine has cost me nothing in 7 years , bar service parts of course , also everybody sees them as expensive for parts , they are not , even main dealer aint bad !
Rich
Agree with the above , best and most reliable vehicle I have ever owned . Just get a 2.5 tdi as the 1.9 is gutless .
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toyota hiace my old fruit, cannot be beaten for realibility
100% agree mine has lived up to the rep they get. i wouldn`t have anything else, i dont need the size but its bomb proof in every way.
That's interesting to know, I'm looking for a bigger setup and heard good things about the Hiace.
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I'm looking to sell a 05 Renault Trafic LL29 at beginning of Feb, fitted with Ionics Thermopure PRO6 600ltr system and van is speedlined. Van has 131K on it. £5,500.
I sold Vivaro over Christmas and could have sold this at the same time but needed time to kit up new van first.
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Mitsubishi L200 Trojan works for me with 400 ltr flat tank . Mike
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Aye Nice Landie Souter loon, just the very thing for cleaning a' them windaes ahint benachie..
had an auld uncle that used to live up round Insch way s. I had a hoose in Heatheryfold when I worked up there in teh early 80s. Liked it up there but just a wee bit on the cold side for my liking..
Any chance of photo of how you have fitted the reels. in that beast?
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Vw transporter bullet proof ! 8)
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I've had...
Dispatch , transit and landrover 110.
The best was the landrover 110 by a distance, they just take abuse
End off.
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Mitsubishi L200 Trojan works for me with 400 ltr flat tank . Mike
Is the load area long enough for poles or do you have some sort of rack?
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If its a small van you want there is only one FORD CONNECT. Well made its takes the load.
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Aye Nice Landie Souter loon, just the very thing for cleaning a' them windaes ahint benachie..
had an auld uncle that used to live up round Insch way s. I had a hoose in Heatheryfold when I worked up there in teh early 80s. Liked it up there but just a wee bit on the cold side for my liking..
Any chance of photo of how you have fitted the reels. in that beast?
Keep your eye on the website we will have a detailed blog with an entire build on it it the next couple of weeks....
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Soapy, You are now officially the Landie god. Is a 90 pickup bed too short for a single WFP setup? or is it 110 all teh way...?
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Pole goes in cab in between the 2 front seats and hose reel goes on back seat., As I have a tonneau type lid on back and.not a canopy .Mike
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Soapy, You are now officially the Landie god :D. Is a 90 pickup bed too short for a single WFP setup? or is it 110 all teh way...?
You could get a 400l or so tank in a 90 no problem. We only have 450l tanks in our 110s. This is because it keeps the centre of gravity very low. To be perfectly honest you can not tell whether the tank has water in it when you are driving because our set up is extremely stable on the road.
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few pics of my two landys windowcleaning, currently have a transit , which is forsale and will be getting another 90/110 defender as soon as i can..... nowt wrong with the transit , its just not a landrover
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(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1358953435_carmel working 2.jpg)
this has a 300 litre tank here but has a custom fit tank too
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few pics of my two landys windowcleaning, currently have a transit , which is forsale and will be getting another 90/110 defender as soon as i can..... nowt wrong with the transit , its just not a landrover
nice very nice
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stupidly sold it and bought a pooproen dispatch :'( , which i killed in six months......... i will have
another by the end of 2013 ;)
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tom what size tank did you have in the defender
james
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Started with the black 300litre that's in the discovery pictures
Then had a 500 litre made that fitted between and over arches.
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Im starting to like the Landrover idea. Yes as far as carrying a load its over specced .
But that means Im less likely to trash it with overwork.
It would have a secondary use as a towtruck to replace the knackered old trooper which
I currently use to feed my habit of dragging a caravan around on a weekend.
and I have to say Soapy's Landie is easy to recognise . Great form of advertising your presence ...
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they hold oney too, i bought the red one for £8500 in 2007 and sold it
last may for £9000 ok i added wheels and rack but not many other trucks can
boast a proffit in 5 years after being used as a window cleaning truck!
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fuel wasnt good in winter , only 22mpg with all the stop starting and short journeys.
im averaging 31 in the transit at moment but would swap back in a heart beat..
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VW T5 2.5tdi T32, massive payload amazing torque power pulls like a freight train ;)