Sold Fucked Maxus £234 Gloucester

[Guest]

There's a brand new one parks at the bottom of my street sometimes, must remember to take a snap.

[Noel Tidybeard]

[Kiltox]

I've been wondering that. Makes for an entertaining thread if nothing else!

Just a thinly veiled form of self harm. Send help.

 

[oldcars]

Yes you bought it. Class.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Serious cob on for these .......... as said, can shift for a van. Loved the one I borrowed long term from a mate.

Very well done fella. Landed on ones feet there I think.

 

I'll join the queue for roffle when you decide you want a Sprinter or something

[Kiltox]

as said, can shift for a van.

Except this one!

[D Spares & Tyres]

I borrowed on for a day once

 

I thought it drove really well. Tiny mirrors and crap interior with no cup holders were the downsides.

 

Royal Mail may have limited the power for theirs?

[Kiltox]

Nah I really do think it’s fucked

[Dirk Diggler]

There everywhere here again; Harris is importing them and An Post and every council in the country is buying them

 

Apparently Waterford Council bought 63 of them with no intended use; definitely no brown envelopes involved!

[Kiltox]

The new ones are pretty damn cheap too

[af1]

 

this was actually a thing! and i believe more reliable than the Vivaros!

[garbaldy]

The lwb high top crew van I had was a right flier but it had two big problems,

 

1. The gearstick was like trying to stir a bucket of bricks.

 

2. Once you own it then it's pretty much impossible to sell, took me months and months to sell and even then it was nearly given away, was in good nick and low milage too.

[Kiltox]

I need to fuck the side windows off - red vinyl on the outside or just limo tint?

[Christine]

You'll need pink not red vinyl 

[Kiltox]

Hahaha it’s not as pink on the sides actually (I think, haven’t seen it in daylight yet)

[Guest Hooli]

Paint the inside of them for max AS points.

[DodgeRover]

Do the windows have a rubber or are they flush fit bonded? If a rubber fit vinyl inside, if bonded fit to outside. Stuff limo tint you may as well use black vinyl.

[Hendry]

Maxus you say. Here is one I snapped (and was briefly a passenger in) at the Swindon Royal Mail sorting office. I was there picking up a 67-plate Peugeot Partner RM van.

 

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Royal Mail still seem to have a fair few of these hanging around their yards, usually in a state of disrepair (flat tyres/mould growing around the parking spot/very sun faded RM-related bumf in the dash still etc...)

 

Birmingham City CLOWNcil had a few of them in thier fleet when I worked there a couple of years ago. Never drove it properly myself as I always got given bloody Transit Connects or Fiesta Vans, plus the Maxus eventually got bashed by another inexperienced driver. I really want to try one out properly.

Ok I’m nosy, we’re they defleeting a 67 plate already or bought too many and weren’t going to use them so sold them on?

 

Arnold Clark had quite a few of these in their rental fleet around 2008 and they weren’t limited, loads of space but utterly awful cheap nasty interior.

 

I also remember the one we hired was a year old just, and had a scrape on NSR corner which was rusty as fuck already. Do these rust badly normally?

 

Ps well done Kiltox, you managed to find something worse than a 1.6 HDi engined Fix It Again Tony. Although I’ve said time and again the later 1.6 HDis from the mk3 Focus onwards were modified I think to help try and prevent the issues with the older ones, something about gauze oil pick up pipes removed or something? Old mans Mondeo has 90k on it now and touch wood it’s fine, but has Ford main dealer history religiously every 12,500 Miles (although being a tightwad taxi driver he’s doubled the service intervals to 25,000 which it hasn’t had a shit fit about yet) and the Mrs has a Grand Cmax with same engine but not start/stop econetic bollocks like the Mondeo and it gets loads of short journeys and never fully warmed up and it’s been fine for 4 years since new although has only done 25k.

[Dave_Q]

 

 

I need to fuck the side windows off - £shop gaffa tape or £shop rattle cans?

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Do the windows have a rubber or are they flush fit bonded? If a rubber fit vinyl inside, if bonded fit to outside. Stuff limo tint you may as well use black vinyl.

 

snakeskin effect for the ultimate WIN*

[Lord Sterling]

Ok I’m nosy, we’re they defleeting a 67 plate already or bought too many and weren’t going to use them so sold them on?

No, it had been serviced at the Swindon sorting office which has it's own garage. It was going to another site.

[Kiltox]

V5C/2 I had was invalid and the post office made me complete a V62....

 

Probably not getting a V5 am I

[Asimo]

 

http://trymark-books.com/Maxus-Workshop-Manual-Engine-VM-2.5-CDi.html

[Kiltox]

Nice - ordered that and if it’s any good I’ll order the CD with repair videos they also offer

[tooSavvy]

Must say if I had a van that should do 100 but only did 75 I would find that upsetting even though I wouldn't wanna drive it over 65ish

 

I have no idea "how fast it'll do, Missta!".. Carina II >> never likely to find out.....

 

My experience, in all [few occasions] I've had to 'go warp factor' because of evolving Inbredds/Interface scenarios    >>

 

>> ... It can get out of the way of its own arse!! 

 

 

TS

[Kiltox]

FTP surprise surprise - won’t start. It is fucking cold though.

 

Also - couldn’t find Easy Start in Halfords or Asda...

[FakeConcern]

FTP surprise surprise - won’t start. It is fucking cold though.

 

Also - couldn’t find Easy Start in Halfords or Asda...

There's some in my garage.

 

I 'spose that's not much help, sorry.

[Kiltox]

Anyone want this pile of shit that can either tow it out of the car park it’s in or bring a jump pack and some easy start?

 

(glow plugs are tired and it’s cold)

[twosmoke300]

Brake / carb cleaner works as well as easy start . So does lynx - as brother found out

[D Spares & Tyres]

Use any aerosol

 

Deoderant, paint, hairspray or whatever, its as good as easy start