[Sseddon]

At the moment I am car less. As I'm building I'm concentrating work into 1 or 2 days a week & using wife's X3. TBH, I feel daft turning up in an X3, but for the next year or 2 would prefer a car to a van as although I mostly walk or cycle when not working, sometimes in really bad weather I could do with a car for dropping son to school/picking up.

Can anyone recommend an estate that will swallow up to 8 Pure Freedom 25ltr drums plus trolley & pole? Looking for older/cheaper. Thought maybe Volvo v70 or Peugeot 406?

[woody1]

get any car and get a trailer for it all i have seen a few windy's with them round my way

[Window Washers]

astra estate or escort estate are cheap, used to use one till I wrapped it round another car and side of a road will easy fit 8 barrels in.

[Londoner]

A trailer is a very good option if it suits your situation. Big old estates are a bit like gold dust. Very hard to find a good one and big bills looming if anything goes wrong.

[brianbarber]

Transit connect crew van, seats 5.

Mr B

[Sseddon]

Hmmm. Interesting thoughts. Crew van looks good but nothing in the price range I had in mind. Trailer would be a problem for parking/storage. Only have one parking space and road parking is very limited here. Astra/Escort & Focus look interesting.

[Richard Neal]

i have a small an and a Toyota Avensis as a family car and have had to use it loads of times for work when the vans been off the road, huge in the back bomb proof engine and about a grand for a w reg

[s.w.c]

vectra vxr plus 1mm jets you will need less drums,

[gary999]

im using a volkswagen passat estate at mo
i only take 6 barrels out with me fit in back  easily with
back pack without having to drop seats down

[AuRavelling79]

I have a Y reg Pug 406 estate Hdi 2.0 110 and a 400kg trailer.

I use neither for window cleaning as I have a van. But I have used an estate before when I had a trolley.

The 406 estate with the HDi 2.0 110 diesel is superb. Do not be foooled into thinking the 1.9 is better - it is higher on road tax, less economical and sluggish.

Get one Y (March 2001) reg or later and your road tax is only £125 due to its emissions rating of 149. You will get over 55 mpg on a run and over 44 mpg on stop start.

With the seats down you have over 6ft of load space and can easily put 8 barrels plus a trolley in it. I wouldn't recommend it but I know a guy who has a 175L tank plus four barrels in his plus a reel.

[gr cleaning solutions]

im using a polo estate gets all my gear in traditional stuff back pack plus five barrels but i dont always need that much.And when im not cleaning windows my carpet cleaning machine fits in as well and still have space for the kids

[darren clarke]

vectra got a lot of room in