What van, farm vehicle?

[Mur Huwcun]

A friend has just bought a London Taxi as a farm vehicle, I can see the logic and there is heaps of them redundant unfortunately at the moment with covid.

Wasn’t there quite a famous one for sale on Ebay last year........

 

[michael N123]

Iveco pickup

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Would age or miles put you off something? Would you buy something young with high miles or old with lower mileage. The transit connect above sounded a good purchase.

It will do very little miles here. Thinking below 5k per year. It's just for handyness. Missing not having old one.

Fiat panda 4x4s don't look too expensive and most will have been driven by grannies.

New as you can with higher miles, definitely in your case as you doing so few, lots of stuff on you list for mot fail is age related not mileage.

 

[Robt]

Would age or miles put you off something? Would you buy something young with high miles or old with lower mileage. The transit connect above sounded a good purchase.

It will do very little miles here. Thinking below 5k per year. It's just for handyness. Missing not having old one.

Fiat panda 4x4s don't look too expensive and most will have been driven by grannies.

Two words .... Italian electrics......

 

[Farmer Fin]

Subaru Forster. Will go across any field at speed and don’t need tax or mot apparently!

 

[Tomr10]

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[sahara]

Drove past this this morning.

Any good?

Railway station is a 5 min walk away!
2014 Fiat Fiorino 16v Multijet SX £4,995 (tonemotorcompany.co.uk)

 

[homefarm]

We replaced a fiesta van with a Dacia sandero stepway car. Love it. Better ride more space with the rear seats down can seat four with the seats up if needed. £25 road tax seems to run on air goes places the fiesta would bottom out.

 

[Kildare]

Dacia duster. Cheap as chips to run and buy

 

[Chae1]

We replaced a fiesta van with a Dacia sandero stepway car. Love it. Better ride more space with the rear seats down can seat four with the seats up if needed. £25 road tax seems to run on air goes places the fiesta would bottom out.

How reliable are they?

 

[homefarm]

Touch wood no issues, done 50,000 when we got it 63 reg and had just been fitted with new starter. We got in 2017 and do about 5000 a year. The air con has stopped working but probabally just needs gas

 

[Cowabunga]

How reliable are they?

Nissan/Renault engines and transmissions. So as good or bad as they are but much cheaper to buy like for like.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Nissan/Renault engines and transmissions. So as good or bad as they are but much cheaper to buy like for like.

Are Renault engines any good and transmission?

Do you know much about the newer 2litre they put into the latest Trafic?

Is it put into any other manufacturers vehicles?

 

[Tony1989]

I had a new Merc Citan with the 1.5 Renault engine and it had to be recovered 3 times in 12k miles

 

[mtx.jag]

Mk1 freelander was probably the best farm truck we ever had. If it’s not going off road just remove the 4x4 prop for economic fuel consumption

 

[Boomerang]

Are Renault engines any good and transmission?

Do you know much about the newer 2litre they put into the latest Trafic?

Is it put into any other manufacturers vehicles?

Merc use Renault engined in A class

 

[Cowabunga]

Are Renault engines any good and transmission?

Do you know much about the newer 2litre they put into the latest Trafic?

Is it put into any other manufacturers vehicles?

No idea about the 2l but the 1.5, 1.6 and 2.2 litre engines are very well established. The gearboxes are very nice to use but may have been a weak point at one time in their Traffic vans. Things change though and different generations may have different reputations and I certainly don't have that experience or knowledge. I am into the 1.5 diesel because I've owned a couple and even those two were/are totally different in that the older was far noisier, less peppy and far more thirsty than my current Euro5 compliant vehicle. The latest are Euro6 of course. Very early ones had a habit of eating timing belts but that was sorted years ago. Over 10 million of their 1.5 Diesel engines have been sold worldwide. So Renault are certainly not inexperienced. In fact the 1.5 is one of the most prolific Diesel engines ever made and I'm not sure whether it holds the world record.

 

[Cowabunga]

Merc use Renault engined in A class

That 1.5 gets everywhere. Mercedes also use Renault's matching manual gearbox/transaxle and clutch. As do Nissan, Dacia and so on.

 

[CPF]

When we go out to Romania.
The Dacia’s are like ants out there , if they can put up with the Romanian roads and Romanian drivers they can’t be that bad because they drive like they’re on a F1 Circuit all the time. I have two family members who run dacia duster and some good friends in Romania run them as well,
never seem to spend a penny them.
Dacia makes a seven seater version out there but not sold in the UK that’s popular as well.

 

[Hilly]

When we go out to Romania.
The Dacia’s are like ants out there , if they can put up with the Romanian roads and Romanian drivers they can’t be that bad because they drive like they’re on a F1 Circuit all the time. I have two family members who run dacia duster and some good friends in Romania run them as well,
never seem to spend a penny them.
Dacia makes a seven seater version out there but not sold in the UK that’s popular as well.

Another one drives a duster !