Shitest vans

[twosmoke300]

They don't like diagonal speed bumps that I do know . The transverse leaf springs get all confused and its rocks like buggery

[Inspector Morose]

Mobile library eh?

 

 

[HH-R]

Does anyone know why they (Sprinters) flash the reverse lights when they're stopped? It looks like as if you had an auto and were changing from drive to park and going through reverse. My mate's dad's manual randomly puts the reverse beeper on going forward too.

[Lacquer Peel]

It's funny reading about Sprinters feeling dodgy to drive, they way I see them being driven you'd think they felt totally planted!

 

Maybe 4x2 Sprinters are okay but the 4x4 version is horrible to drive.

 

In the early 80s someone told my mother that vans were cheaper to insure than cars

 

I think they still are, my Caddy is quite a bit cheaper to insure than the equivalent car.

[catsinthewelder]

Fewer seats = fewer whiplash claims

[dollywobbler]

Does anyone know why they (Sprinters) flash the reverse lights when they're stopped? It looks like as if you had an auto and were changing from drive to park and going through reverse. My mate's dad's manual randomly puts the reverse beeper on going forward too.

 

Our bloody Crafters do this too. The sensor for the reverse lights seems a bit OTT at times. Especially annoying in the rain, as it automatically turns the rear wipers on too, which always seem to judder and scare the shit out of you and the passengers. Bloody lovely to drive though. Makes the LT seem about 50 years out of date.

[AnthonyG]

LDV Pilot,definitely. Failing that the most f**ked Transit Connect you can find, at 12 years for the oldest they are deffo shite now.

 

Of course, a Nissan Ebro (sp?) would make you a vanshite HERO.

[Dead_E23]

I'd nominate the Talbot Express.  

 

A friend of mine bought a couple of ex-London Electricity Board ones from Paddock Wood auctions, and would put them (& sometimes me) to work on various nice little earners.  One got hired to a fishmonger for a couple of weeks and then got put back in the auction because it stank even after hours with the jetwash.  They looked resplendent in oxidised orange paint and had a fibreglass hi-top with a canopy that could be slid out over the back doors.

 

I remember them being surprisingly quick once timed to run on 4 star and as quite pleasant things to drive.

 

 

I suspect there are very few vans left, probably due to rust.  There seem to be plenty campers though.

[Asimo]

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I think they still are, my Caddy is quite a bit cheaper to insure than the equivalent car.

My Transit connect cost more than my MR2 to insure, both on 8000 miles a year and full noclaims.

[Felly Magic]

Nissan Ebro? Spanish made thing that briefly hit the UK market during the mid 80s?

 

[Asimo]

Suzuki Supercarry: no power, no brakes, no grip and no hope at all in a crash.

[AnthonyG]

Nissan Ebro? Spanish made thing that briefly hit the UK market during the mid 80s?

 

That's the one! I can't imagine there are any UK registered ones left, the van equivalent of a Seat Malaga. From what I remember they were epically shit, and rarely made it past 5 years old.

 

They made the MK3 Transit look like a combination of a Citroen DS and a Park Ward Alvis in comparison.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Does anyone know why they (Sprinters) flash the reverse lights when they're stopped? It looks like as if you had an auto and were changing from drive to park and going through reverse. My mate's dad's manual randomly puts the reverse beeper on going forward too.

prolly cos reverse is next to 1st and the switch is adjusted approx 1-2 turns too far into casting- ergo slapping it in 1st pushes the reverse light switch

 

you used to be able to tell when a maxi driver had gone into 5th for a similar reason!

[155V6]

Has Cavcraft not been on & suggested Iveco yet? 

[Noel Tidybeard]

Mobile library eh?

 

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ahh ya bollox you win!

[dollywobbler]

prolly cos reverse is next to 1st and the switch is adjusted approx 1-2 turns too far into casting- ergo slapping it in 1st pushes the reverse light switch

 

 

You'd think so, but reverse is next to second!

[Felly Magic]

Many Splinters are Badermatic these days, driver shoving em in park when stood instead of using the handbrake?

[Junkman]

[Felly Magic]

BRS BMC noddy van!

[I_am_Diesel]

 

 

If only I hadn't bridged this bad boy.

[wuvvum]

with SCoupe front lights

Hey, never noticed that before!  Every day's a school day &c.

[Pete-M]

Å koda 1203 1.3.

 

Not only slow enough to make a Nissan Vanette feel positively sporting, but with the added design feature of a chassis pretty much guaranteed to snap after a few years use through Czech winters. There are broken-backed examples littering the rural parts of Bohemia.

 

There's no 0-60 time. The 1.3 only does 90-95 kph.

 

They're still available new.

http://www.ocelotauto.cz/

[Ben_O]

 

Obviously...

[plasticvandan]

My former daily:

[Adrian_pt]

Portaro Pampas

 

Dacia Shifter hardtop

[willswitchengage]

Malta Bedford Van by Tim Machin, on Flickr

 

After Years Of Loyal Service This Transit Was Put Out Of It's Misery by Bobert's Photostream, on Flickr

 

1993620187_L810PBF_C16431 by Mike Street, on Flickr

 

1993011311_L211OEW_C17035 by Mike Street, on Flickr

 

THIS FIAT IS VERY UNRELIABLE by Ben Terrett, on Flickr

 

G229 WVK by Andy Campbell, on Flickr

 

OCTOBER 2004 FORD TRANSIT 1998cc 260 SWB VAN LG54HKE by JOHN, on Flickr

 

Trollied! by Kevin Lane, on Flickr

[garbaldy]

That Malta Bedford is ace where can i get one. It looks like someone's dropped an old vw van on top of Christine.

[J-Rod]

That Malta Bedford is ace where can i get one. It looks like someone's dropped an old vw van on top of Christine.

Totally agree. Want. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

This one is in the early throes of restoration (documented on the blue forum). Interesting reading and a van I'd not heard of previously.

[cms206]

If it helps anyway I have for many years had a recurring dream that I was killed driving a Mk2 Bedford Astravan 1.6D when I pulled out in front of a Leyland Roadtrain.

 

Maybe one for the Autoshite low-budget remake of Duel.

 

 

My vote goes for a Fiat Fiorino 1.7D.