Van HELL!!! Any advice very welcome - going to buy a new one.

[kay-jay]

anyone know about transits? 53 plate they reliable model or not...been offered one cheap ish, good nick,low mileage full electric pack, stereo, silver for a grand, they aregoing on auto trader for around 1500-2k. anyone know if these are prone to expensive faults??

cheers

 

[Leo21]

Mine was a 51 plate and the gearboxes fail in the fwd models around that year.

 

[kay-jay]

Is the 53 plate prone to gearbox failure also then Leo? How much is it it to put right?

 

[Leo21]

Not 100% sure weather if it was resolved. Cost me about £1600. It was six or seven years ago. I took it to an independant garage who butchered it, I could select gears but it was a pig. So I drive it straight to the Toyota garage.

 

[Leo21]

Though to be fair if it's nearly ten heads old, it's either bad a new one or its ok. Just don't change gears over a speed bump. That's what I did and it never left second gear again.

 

[Dannypipe]

I haven't got the photos off the phone yet. But I've spent the weekend racking and loading the new van.

It's almost 100% now. I need to buy one more small box for the racking (for my 22mm pushfit fittings). I've fitted a Rhino roof rack and a Rhino pipe carrier.

I'm actually excited about going to work in it tomorrow. Haven't been excited about going to work in a looooooooong time!!

Going to be a treat compared to the last van. I will get some photos up tomorrow I promise. Thanks for all the help advise and general kind words I've had on this thread!

 

[michael c]

I haven't got the photos off the phone yet. But I've spent the weekend racking and loading the new van.

It's almost 100% now. I need to buy one more small box for the racking (for my 22mm pushfit fittings). I've fitted a Rhino roof rack and a Rhino pipe carrier.

I'm actually excited about going to work in it tomorrow. Haven't been excited about going to work in a looooooooong time!!

Going to be a treat compared to the last van. I will get some photos up tomorrow I promise. Thanks for all the help advise and general kind words I've had on this thread!

Can you not upload from your phone mate?

 

[SimonG]

I was wondering when we would see the pics Danny?

 

[Gerard17]

I had van hell with a transit connect not so long ago and needed 2 grand to fix all the problems. Knew a feller who runs an auction house so he told me to put it in his auction even tho it had a lot of problems an got nearly 2500 grand for it. It was an ex virgin media van with full service history on it so when I bought it thought I was buying good

 

[Dannypipe]