Yes. I dont like massive vans like sprinters etc drove one for yrs when I was on the books and done my head in. Anything huge I get delivered to site or the firm I contract to get it there for me but thats very rare I cant take it in either my trafic or volky.
I have a '07 Crafter and I hasn't missed a beat (yet). Its a luton rather than a typical van as we do the whole furniture side as well as floors but the chassis is the same. If I was to fault it I would say the turning circle is worse than Austin Powers and sixth gear isn't all that different to fifth, dunno how many times I've been looking for seventh!! But like I say on the whole crackin vehicle
But the reason a bin lorry can go anywhere is cos the driver doesn't give a sh1t about scraping the paint on Mrs Smith's ancient Yew tree
been narrowing down my choice. at the mo it's between the Nissan nv400 or the new transit H4 L3 one, or an Iveco if I have time to drive to nearest garage 60+miles away :-/ any good or bad reports out there about them?
Does the NV400 have all Renault running gear, with a Nissan badge ? I know my Vivaro, and my mates Primastar is. Not complaining about mine. Its just coming up to 35k and not had a any work except tyres. Also a 100k warranty. Every report I read on a new van seems to slate all of them.
i believe they made in the same factory mate yeah servicing every 2 years and 3 yr warranty etc etc To be honest at the lwb size they all very much and such Price is all around the same (1 - 1.5k difference at most) Just want to hear positives or negatives for both vans Ive had my current iveco monster since new in 06 and its got 81k, body work is starting to let it down tho here and there
Iveco vans are supposed to be the more reliable van out of them all but not as refined, I worked for a man who tested Diesel engines, basically they have a engine hooked up to a computer and abuse it, full revs, slowing down engine using gears ect he said because the engine isn't pulling anything it's given more abuse by them and the best engine out of the lot were by far the iveco, they'd break a engine normally in 24 hours, can't remember how long it took to break the iveco but it were best by far out of other makes. Only iveco I've driven were like a bus the steering wheel were flat and the gear box were tight together but it were a N reg.
