Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: stevegunn on February 27, 2007, 04:00:14 pm
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Has anybody got one.Anything good or bad to say about them?
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hi steve
what sory of van have you got a moment?
i havent go one myself but they look ok
kev
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I had one as a company van for the firm i used to work for, it was a 2.0(i think)(cant remember) turbo diesel
and I thrashed the dogs wotsits out of it, the only time it let me down was when i hit a humped back bridge going a little too fast(75mph) and destroyed the rear shocks,
but to be fair the van was fully loaded with bags of plaster..................
you also get a really big blind spot caused by the windscreen pillar on the drivers side.
look for one with a sliding side door, well handy ;D
theres loads of BT ones on the road aswell so thats good if you need replacement mirrors or you lose an ariel or something like that.
from what i can remember it wasn`t to good on fuel, but don`t hold me to that cause I had a diesel card so that may just have been what I was telling me boss.
If you get a red one you`ll look like postman pat ;D
What a review I should be on topgear or something 8)
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Got a relay at the moment but looking at 230 lwb 900kg payload.Got a loan of one at the moment but only 220 lwb but quite nippy
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The 220-230 lwb high tops are good, just make sure it gets cambelts when their due and keep an eye on the front wheel bearings, Andy
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there very poor ,
we had one on light hauage was brand new sold it after 16 months it had 150k on the clock it had two gear boxs in and was very heavy on fuel along with a head and gasket
we have had northing but problems with our new fords there not the vans there were
we got a v.w. caddy now much better van
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The Transit Connect is pitched at the market dominated by The Citroen Dispatch/Peugot Expert/Fiat Scudo family of vans. From memory, even the long wheelbase Connect was smaller than the Citroen. I believe that the Connect is built in Turkey. The Citroen family is built in Spain.
The Connect has lots of different door options. The Citroen comes as standard with two sliding doors and twin rear doors.
I have the Citroen which is four years old next week and is proving to be ideal for me. My only criticism is the wear rate on the front discs (20ish K). I think later models have gone over to vented discs which are, hopefully, better.
The Citroen/Peugot/Fiat family have just been replaced with a new van. First impressions are very smart, slightly larger but price a bit higher than a similar spec Transit/Vivaro type van.
Safe and happy cleaning :)
Ken
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I have hired two of these in the past and can't believe how crap they were.
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So far mine has been okay, I purchased from my brother in law for £2000, had 81,000 on clock. Very good condition, just the right size for all my equipment etc. Have nothing else to compare it to though as it is my first van, only had for 3 months. I know all the while my brother in law had it, he never once had any problems. See how it goes I guess, hopefully be reliable.
Nigel.
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we use vw caddy new shape very nice,not turbo but will cruise at 80 :o double side loader,would get new and get auto turbo they fly :o ::)
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I had a vw caddy aswell that was nice, but they don`t make them any more do they?
get a vw transporter, i`ve never heard a bad word about them.
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diahatsu extol every time the dogs nuts lol ;D
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our one is thew new shape ;D yes you can get them from new