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Say you  want a mid sized van..

 

You can buy Renault with a Renault engine

or a Nissan with a Renault engine

or a Vauxhall with a Renault engine

or a Fiat with a Renault engine

or a Mercedes with a Renault engine

 

If you not keen on Renault... There's a Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat, Toyota & a Ford with PSA engines

 

If you don't really don't want french,  either do your homework or go VW ?

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31 minutes ago, grantc said:

How have you found the Traffic Peter?

Heard horror stories of gearbox issues on nearly new vans, perhaps they've sorted them out?

 

 

So far no problem ours is restricted so dont know if that makes a difference, the kangoo on the other hand has had a new box, and that new box has been repaired again under warranty 

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11 hours ago, MrHappy said:

Say you  want a mid sized van..

 

You can buy Renault with a Renault engine

or a Nissan with a Renault engine

or a Vauxhall with a Renault engine

or a Fiat with a Renault engine

or a Mercedes with a Renault engine

 

If you not keen on Renault... There's a Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat, Toyota & a Ford with PSA engines

 

If you don't really don't want french,  either do your homework or go VW ?

Lol, that’s right!

the only one that is surprising is merc borrowing a Renault engine! 

 

Vivaro traffic primastar do have gearboxes supplies by Thornton’s apparently..... I’ve had 3 and never had an issue, they do get bad clutch judder sometimes when pulling away and that’s from brand new! 

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28 minutes ago, sjsturner said:

Lol, that’s right!

the only one that is surprising is merc borrowing a Renault engine! 

 

Vivaro traffic primastar do have gearboxes supplies by Thornton’s apparently..... I’ve had 3 and never had an issue, they do get bad clutch judder sometimes when pulling away and that’s from brand new! 

It's actually Renault-nissan for the mercs I think, on entry level cars , higher supposed to still have the Merc engine 

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I've got a 15 plate Traffic, had several warranty jobs so far.... 

Broken down several times with dodgy electrics, used to turn its headlights on when left sometimes!

Was leaking oil and now has a fault on the steering wheel, clicks like crazy sometimes, garage won't fix it as it doesn't do it all the time! 

85k miles now. 

I would never spend my own money on such a **** vehicle! 

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I know they had terrible trouble with gearboxes but to be fair they have about 350 of them on our outfit and I haven't heard of any having gearbox failure?

Most of our stuff is less then three years old and mine is the higher end of mileage at 84k @ 2.5 years.

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3 hours ago, Night Owl said:

Estate Astra - does the job but nothing fancy. Would love a pickup though, not mad on vans.

Vans are great to get all other side lines done , although I don't like to do to much plumbing these days unless own , and prefer to carry ladders in false floor type thing 

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2 hours ago, norman said:

Do you have magnetic signs dependant on the blag job you're attending?

Dont bother with any signs anymore , now just a white van driver , bit of this bit of that , blag here blag there, even catch a mugger now and then , it's the white van drive thing

 

 

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23 minutes ago, al-yeti said:

Dont bother with any signs anymore , now just a white van driver , bit of this bit of that , blag here blag there, even catch a mugger now and then , it's the white van drive thing

 

 

Can't get reported to the trading standards if they don't have your number

 

Invoices with a fake VAT number and a PAYG mobile number you change every couple of months...

 

I like it...

 

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