Spec me a van

Acme said:
Where would you rather spend the night?

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I dunno....new ply, new carpet cushions on the wheel arches few pics on the sides some shelves :p

Led lights :p acoustic guitar hung up on the side :p

Beauty of a van is you can park anywhere
 
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Fiat Scudo / Peugeot Expert / Citroen Dispatch are cheap and pretty good, had a few issues with mine but mostly down to wiring (think loom is damaged somewhere), going well now though (to be fair, it was £450 spares/repairs). 2.0 hdi/jtd has more potential for issues then the 1.9d, but more economical and goes a lot better!

Drives pretty well I think (much prefer mine to my dads T4!), although a long way off a car. Should have space for a bed and a bike in the back, can fit one at a time in mine (got racking for tools etc taking up quite a bit of room).
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Acme said:
Why would anyone buy a 1.9JTD Doblo over a 2.4 D5 Volvo V70 estate with spec galore, comfy seats, comparitively decent handling, and enough room in the back for an 8 ft giant to lay down comfortably? (the seats all fold totally flat) - You couldn't even lay down in a Doblo anyway. Not to mention the fact that the 2005 1.4 petrol Doblo I drove once, was the worst vehicle I have ever driven, looked at, or sat in. It was just horrible to drive. It was like being pirched atop a creaky box of unstableness. It made the work Transit feel like a Rolls Royce.
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He said he wants to fit a mountain bike in it, realistically your not going to fit a mountain bike in a volvo estate without some sort of dismantling.

Anyways, id sooner take car buying advice off my 8 month old rather than you.:rolleyes:
 
MrKnifey said:
He said he wants to fit a mountain bike in it, realistically your not going to fit a mountain bike in a volvo estate without some sort of dismantling.

Anyways, id sooner take car buying advice off my 8 month old rather than you.:rolleyes:
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Your handbag matches your eye-shadow! Nice touch. :) :p
 
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In the past i've tended to say get a decent estate car instead of a van BUT after thinking about it a lot more lately and using our works van a bit i'd go with a van.

You can easily rig up a bunk in the back which could fold away and be able to have your tools, bike and even some cooking equipment in there all nice and easily. I use a Nissan NV200 in work and that's about VW caddy size being 2m long in the back so quite a lot smaller than a transit or full size van but something that size would fine for a bike and a person. Bonus is its a lot better to drive than a full size van and easier to park as well as its footprint is probably more like focus size.

Even though i own a decent size estate car (Avensis) its still about 50 times easier to go mountain biking with a van than a car, no taking wheels off and trying to manoeuvre it into the back without scratching any trim or mashing a pedal into any windows etc, no worries about it being a bit dirty or smelling as you're separated from it all.
 
sovietspybob said:
In the past i've tended to say get a decent estate car instead of a van BUT after thinking about it a lot more lately and using our works van a bit i'd go with a van.

You can easily rig up a bunk in the back which could fold away and be able to have your tools, bike and even some cooking equipment in there all nice and easily. I use a Nissan NV200 in work and that's about VW caddy size being 2m long in the back so quite a lot smaller than a transit or full size van but something that size would fine for a bike and a person. Bonus is its a lot better to drive than a full size van and easier to park as well as its footprint is probably more like focus size.

Even though i own a decent size estate car (Avensis) its still about 50 times easier to go mountain biking with a van than a car, no taking wheels off and trying to manoeuvre it into the back without scratching any trim or mashing a pedal into any windows etc, no worries about it being a bit dirty or smelling as you're separated from it all.
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I quite the look of the transit custom.:)
 
TripleT said:
Think he'd struggle to sleep in the back of a v70 with his mountain bike too though!
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Nah, I've literally done exactly that. Wheels off, stacked vertically against the side windows frame upside down next to wheels - that takes up one seats width, leaving you with the equivalent on a single, or 3/4, to sleep on.

Big old estate would also be my vote, and considerably better to spend time in driving and better on fuel.
 
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