Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Blackadder on March 13, 2016, 02:56:20 pm
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Thinking about investing in a Transit custom, anyone using one at the moment? How are you finding it?
Struggling to fit everything in the Peugeot Partner now, gutter vac, pressure washing gear, I've outgrown it!
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Love mine.
Power was low when new tho.
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Got a 650 ltr diy system in mine
Love it
Fuel consumption is good as well
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My one worry is that a majority of my work is residential and wondering if I'll have much trouble fitting it in to spaces.
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Are you serious?
It's a van not a lorry ;D
I am 95% domestic and never once had a problem with parking.
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I have a long wheel base van, it was hard parking in tight spaces to begin with but you get use to it and after a while don't think nothing about squeezing in tight spaces ;D
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Are you serious?
It's a van not a lorry ;D
I am 95% domestic and never once had a problem with parking.
I thought it would get that reaction ;D
I'm sold.
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Are you serious?
It's a van not a lorry ;D
I am 95% domestic and never once had a problem with parking.
I thought it would get that reaction ;D
I'm sold.
I know where you are coming from with regards to parking but i went from a combo to a transit custom. It's easier to park custom. Even more so with sensors and a camera ;D
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Are you serious?
It's a van not a lorry ;D
I am 95% domestic and never once had a problem with parking.
I thought it would get that reaction ;D
I'm sold.
I know where you are coming from with regards to parking but i went from a combo to a transit custom. It's easier to park custom. Even more so with sensors and a camera ;D
Did you buy or go for the lease?
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I bought mine new from Ford got it for a good price tbh. She's two years old in June.
Lease wasn't for me as i did this to it lol......
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1457886934_IMG_3052.JPG)
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I have a Transit Custom. I love driving it. I'm as happy driving it as my wife's much more expensive car. I reckon you need something bigger with a gutter =vac though. I'm sure lots of people will tell me I'm wrong though.
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Looking back the lwb and maybe the semi high top would have been a better option but i hated the looks of the semi high top.
Ideally i didn't want to drive something i thought was ugly.
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Ideally i didn't want to drive something i thought was ugly.
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Agreed, a lot of our job is about image.
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I have a Transit Custom. I love driving it. I'm as happy driving it as my wife's much more expensive car. I reckon you need something bigger with a gutter =vac though. I'm sure lots of people will tell me I'm wrong though.
I get the gutter vac and all components in the partner but it's a tight squeeze :)
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I've had mine a week so far and love it did have a doblo cargo and the custom is a lot better great for parking less bilndspots and with sensors a doddle has room for an 800litre tank pressure washer and all my chimney sweeping gear
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(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1457901494_image.jpg)
I like the setup you have clever forum name ? Did grippa max do the whole setup including the hose guides in van floor
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Grippa tank did the whole lot in 2014
Currently having some custom rollers made to further improve the set up.
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I've had mine a week so far and love it did have a doblo cargo and the custom is a lot better great for parking less bilndspots and with sensors a doddle has room for an 800litre tank pressure washer and all my chimney sweeping gear
Hi Harry, glad your happy with your new Custom, I'm thinking of maybe getting one later this year, just wondering what size
Custom you bought plus payload, i have an older T230 lwb connect with 500 litre tank, plus occasionally take out a Skyvac,
but seriously thinking of going for a bigger van.
Lal
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a friend has a custum and his barrory keeps going flat cos he is start stop all day aa man said he gets it all the time there is some thing that stays on for 20 minits after turning the van off that flatends the battory he ant very happy with his
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What sort of price was that setup clever forum name?
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Best speak to grippa tank really as at the time the hose reels were about £330 each plus vat, plus i had a few extras. So you could save a few £ here and there. Looking at about 4-6k depending on size of tank etc. You could price it up yourself as most prices are on the grippa site.
Its been faultless.
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Bateman you can run but you cannot hide.
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Bateman you can run but you cannot hide.
random ???
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I drive a transit mk7 lwb semi high. Comfort is 100% for me. had a custom swb, stop start. on 7 occasions while doing warranty work.
Fast
easy to drive, like a car
good size.
BAD POINTS
week springs, bottomed out at 30mph doing round a bend and dip.
Hard seats.
cheap plastic
and the one that shocked me the most BAD mpg. I got 22 mpg. My bigger, older van gets 26. they state 40's. What do you get
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I get 500ish mpg from a full tank, which I'm happy with
A full tank cost me £70
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I get 500ish mpg from a full tank, which I'm happy with
A full tank cost me £70
29mpg. That's ok
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I think that's nearer 35mpg as the petrol I bought was £1 per ltr as I remember
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