[paul mather]

Will be changing my van in the next 12 months. Just wondered what all you guys would recommend. I have a 400 litre tank in my Supercarry & it will take the weight but there is precious little room for anything else. I also do a days work a week treating lawns so I could use the extra space.

Not sure if I want to go upto a transit or vivaro size van, but was thinking about a Citroen Dispatch or Fiat Scudo. ( they look like the same van, just diff badge) A bit bigger than my Suzuki & the payload is 850kg I think.

Any of you guys drive one of those or something similar size ?

[Trevor Knight]

Hi Paul,

I use Peugeot Expert vans. They are clean, neat and tidy and provide good mpg.

An 18ft pole will sit nicely across the back and leave you space for 2 hose reels.

You can pick up a decent 2nd hand van for around £3,500

Best wishes,

Trev

[paul mather]

That looks the same as a citroen despatch,fiat scudo. What engine size do you have, presume they are diesels

[Trevor Knight]

Think they are the same.

The ones we use are 1.9D

Trev

[Morph]

They're all the same peugeot engine.
good choice. 1.9d
Fiat will be cheapest.

[Lee.]

Seems like a good van, my friend had a lot of trouble with the clutch on his fiat scudo. we have a fiat car and had trouble with the clutch on that. Maybe worth looking into if you are going for the fiat version. I bought a nissan vanette cargo. Plenty of space, reliable engine, 900kg payload, drives like a car, 2.3D, you don't know you have a 400kg load in the back when driving it. really happy with it. LDV do something similar called the LDV Cub don't know what that is like though.

Lee

[mark coates]

if you're thinking of going down the dispatch, expert, scudo route i would definately recommend going for the hdi or jtd model, they cost a bit more but are more economical and drive alot better