Sold SOLDED grotty Citroen Dispatch 2.0Hdi combi six seater

[messerschmitt owner]

Well, the time has come to punt on the DIspatch. We've owned it since February 2013, when we bought it a week before we moved house. It's been a useful bit of kit ever since but a bigger van will be taking its parking space soon. It has never let us down and only twice had a Failure to Proceed that has caused its recovery to home, neither of which was engine-related. We bought it at 185000 miles and she's on 218000 now. Genuinely uncommon van which is taxed as a car so has the benefit of car insurance. You can fit a bike or two in the back with the seat folded forward. Carries 700kg comfortably. Located in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.

 

So, the details!

 

MoT'd till mid January 2017

218,000 miles and rising

2005 2.0HDi turbo (110bhp)

towbar (electrics worked last time I used it).

 

 

Good points:

four good tyres (all van tyres)

MoT till January

Six seats (three in front and three in back)

Rear seat removable

All six headrests (well, you may find this important, I found one a pain and always had it removed so I could see out the rear doors)

 

 

Bad points:

Log book missing but registered in wife's name - reliably informed it costs £25 to get a new V5 but change of owner should be free.

One key - opens all doors apart from rear passenger door on nearside, which can be locked and unlocked from inside.

One tyre illegal - will be swapped with spare before I drive it again (and a correct size Citroen wheel with correct size car tyre supplied)

must need a timing belt by now ...

alternator squeaks occasionally

light leak from power steering (don't know where and have not investigated - just topped up every few hundred miles with ATF)

offisde rear lamp has chip out of it

driver's seat has normal issues you seem to find in a van

450 miles off being due a service (so just assume it needs a filter and oil)

occasional induction fault - I had a pipe replaced and it cured the fault but it still occasionally comes back when engine is being laboured. Not happened for six or seven hundred miles and I wasn't worried about it - £120 to replace pipe when I popped a new one on. No warning lights on.

Grubby inside - but it will wash out!

Rust on top of suspension turrets - but it is just surface and has been like that since we bought it.  Photo below o one side - the other is no worse.

 

 

Shiter price is £300, although she will be advertised for £500 elsewhere.

[messerschmitt owner]

oops, forgot stereo needs code - which I don't have!

[Cavcraft]

Holy f*ck, that's ace.

[twosmoke300]

4 good tyres -,ones bald 😄

[Cavcraft]

What does it say on the V5 please? I.e 'Dispatch HDi' or 'Dispatch van' or something? Cheers

[messerschmitt owner]

If I had the v5 I'd know. I know it's taxed as plg and is considered a car by the insurance. I think it should say dispatch Combi and pretty much guarantee that's what it will say.

[messerschmitt owner]

4 good tyres -,ones bald 😄

yep. That is correct.

[messerschmitt owner]

According to the insurance which has come off the v5 it is a Citroen dispatch combi hdi

[Cavcraft]

Thanks, that could be good news.

[Jazoli]

Ideal trackbike transport that is, shame I've spent all my money

 

Should be subject to car speed limits too, which is a big plus.

[messerschmitt owner]

Yes it is a car therefore has car speed limits. I have had two bikes inside. A third would fit at a push.

[Cavcraft]

Before I get excited and check my defecated finances, is anyone available to 'Shipley' this to Chester please and if so at what cost? TIA M8s.

[seacow]

Before I get excited and check my defecated finances, is anyone available to 'Shipley' this to Chester please and if so at what cost? TIA M8s.

I'm assuming this is in Scotland - how quick do you need it moved? I go from Dunfermline to Chorley fairly often but might be a few weeks until next trip

[dollywobbler]

It is in Gloucestershire.

[messerschmitt owner]

this is in the Forest of Dean - it was last in Scotland in April!

[seacow]

See I fell for the flag! I am naff all use to anyone then - as per usual! Perhaps as well as I was a bit tempted myself!! And should have got the Forrest reference after dating a girl from there years ago - was never quite the same

[messerschmitt owner]

I'm Scottish - living in the only part of England exactly like Cumnock & Doon! Only the accents give it away...

[purplebargeken]

That is a worthy thing indeed! 

[Coprolalia]

Only a couple of hours from Billy!

[Cavcraft]

Two hours on the train to Hereford.

[beko1987]

don't forget to get shed envy whilst your there! and there's awesome railway signs in the pub over the road to look at! and a great truckers cafe a few miles down the road on a dual carriageway

[Lankytim]

I really like this, it looks brill!

[messerschmitt owner]

Ok, yesterday I put the brand new Hankook spare on the back, hid the illegal (now) spare back underneath, threw a decent wheel and car tyre inside the load area, checked the fluids and topped up the power steering fluid and filled a one litre bottle back up with ATF for the power steering and placed that under the passenger seat. Today I squandered £25 on a V5, which should be with me early next week. She's pretty much ready to go and next week is being advertised to the great unwashed.

[Jim Bell]

I cany see location. Am I just being a dumbass?

[messerschmitt owner]

I cany see location. Am I just being a dumbass?

The Forest of Dean, northern edge, overlooking Ross on Wye and eight miles from the M50.

[Jim Bell]

Cheers fella. Hella far from me. This makes me sad.

[messerschmitt owner]

lol - you live in Utopia, I live in Shangri-La!

[bub2006]

Shitely?

[Jazoli]

I'll have this, just waiting on a green light for a new job but consider it sold, will pm later to arrange the details

[Station]

Shite fact: I have been a passenger in this.