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17 hours ago, grogee said:

 

Interesting collaboration between manufacturers, too. I wonder if PSA and Mitsubishi are still talking. 

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Mitsubishi, is now part of the Nissan Renault group, Nissan bought it a couple of years ago for it's phev tech.

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1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

18mpg around town and 27 at 70mph if you are being *very* gentle, mine averaged out at 22, so they are not great, beautiful car though, how much mister? do you want a saab cabrio? :D

Edited as I've just checked the MOT history :(

Ooh Ye think I'll give it a swerve 

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12 minutes ago, Jamie said:

Ooh Ye think I'll give it a swerve 

 

1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

18mpg around town and 27 at 70mph if you are being *very* gentle, mine averaged out at 22, so they are not great, beautiful car though, how much mister? do you want a saab cabrio? :D

Edited as I've just checked the MOT history :(

Corrosion mentioned on MOT's going back to 2006 😂 can't beat an old Jag for rot

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This will be the last in an occasional series of random van reviews as our duties are changing next week and I'm going back to a trolley duty. Can't come soon enough, our entire fleet of vans are fucked and I shan't miss them at all. 

I had a puncture last week,  they fixed that then on Tuesday my regular van FTP'd. We'll, almost, luckily it was still drivable enough to finish the duty. It has said 'risk of filter clogging' for about three weeks but our van manager said drive it til it breaks as we have no spare vans. Well it went into limp mode on Tuesday not surprisingly with the cooling fan staying on. 

The next day I get given this fine machine. 

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Several shades of pogweasel and not a straight panel anywhere. But I more interestingly, as soon as I start it up it displays these two messages. 

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Well I obviously can't do either of these things so I decided to carry on regardless. As soon as I drive out of the yard it is obvious that this too is in limp mode but at least with out the cooling fan on like the Peugeot. So I decide to carry on, we never leave a 30 zone so being in limp mode isn't too much of a hardship.

When I get back I told somebody in the office but didn't report it officially (if I fill a form out it has to be taken off the road until fixed) as they had told me how short of vans they are. But I said if they give it to me again I will report it because eventually it's going to stop, I assume it is DPF related, and I don't want to be in it when it does. I saw it out again today. It wouldn't surprise me if some our drivers don't even notice it's in limp mode. 

So the next day I get this. 

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You can see it uses the same basic bodyshell as our 11 and 12 reg Partners but it is quite different to drive. The biggest difference being the lack of a handbrake. There is a button to  switch it on and off but you don't feel any mechanical movement, just a brief buzz of a distant motor. But you don't actually need the button, it is fully automatic. It comes on when you switch off the engine and releases again as you drive off. This is better than a recent Merc Vito I had which had a foot operated handbrake with what looked like an ashtray to pull out to release it. 

Another thing of note is the absolutely tiny steering wheel with much higher gearing than our old Partners and no feeling at all. 

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Also, people used to laugh at Allegros quartic steering wheels. Well they weren't nearly as daft as this one. 

Then I had a little time to play with screen today. 

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That's really useful in a van. If I was in the least bit tech savvy I'd have loved to have filled it with pictures of shite off my phone but alas I haven't the foggiest. 

This sounds interesting. 

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But turns out not to be. 

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To my mind it says press it and all the tyres instantly go flat. Sounds like more fun. 

And as a parting shot, as this will be my last driving duty for some time, I changed the language to German before parking up. No pictures because that would be childish (I just forgot). 

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During the first lockdown I bought a Favorit brochure off eBay and the packing slip showed it actually came from a military and automotive bookshop just down the road from me which I had no idea was there

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I was in there for a browse today, a real old school shop with mainly second hand books crammed on every shelf, and boxes and boxes of brochures, magazines, journals, maps ,photographs in every spare corner. The kind of place you could spend all day in , and the kind of place that eBay and the like must have all but killed off. The owner was saying he only opens on Saturday and now does most of his business online

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for between 2 and 3.50 each

then I noticed a box of random brochures for £1 each or tenner the lot. 

So I took the lot

I wonder what gems are in here

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If anyone in SE London or  SW Kent would recommend popping in and having a browse if you are interested in cars, buses , planes or the military

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27 minutes ago, Asimo said:

The interior of that Peugeot van looks utterly hateful.

It's certainly quite far removed from our own Pugs. It's more car than van. I don't think anyone makes proper vans anymore. When I started, admittedly 30 odd years ago, we didn't even have radios. And the high top Sherpas had longitudinal tip up vynil bench seats in the back. We used to go out with six or more posties perched on these with no seat belts, no windows and lots of naked spot welded seams. Admittedly some of us probably died but there ought to be a happy medium of a decent, safe reliable van without all the pointless tech. 

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4 hours ago, HMC said:

Maxus!!!

Inventive use of rope. What’s it holding on/ down?

The bonnet.  The seller opened it this morning for the first time in a while to fit a replacement battery as the old one was on its last legs, and the catch seized.  Nobody had the time, inclination or tools to hand to try and unseize it so we just tied the bonnet down.  It was on the safety catch anyway but I don't 100% trust those, especially at motorway speeds.

It needs a fair bit of fettling to a number of niggly faults, but it drove back from Bognor with no problems, and it's the first usable van I've seen in a while that went for halfway sensible money - it still wasn't cheap by pre-pandemic standards, but it was a much better buy than the rotten MOT-less 90PS Transits for £1500 that seem to litter eBay these days.

It's the 135bhp version too so it picks up its skirts rather well when required - although annoyingly it seems to be limited to 75 like Kiltox's old one was - not the end of the world mind as I tend to trundle along at 60-65 in big vans to keep the fuel consumption down.

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2 hours ago, wesacosa said:

If anyone in SE London or  SW Kent would recommend popping in and having a browse if you are interested in cars, buses , planes or the military

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Well, that's dangerous - Musical Offspring has just moved to Catford, which must be all of three miles away...

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1 minute ago, chaseracer said:

Well, that's dangerous - Musical Offspring has just moved to Catford, which must be all of three miles away...

definitely worth a look if you are in to that kind of stuff. Would probably call first or check his Facebook site for opening as its Saturday only but probably closed if he at a show or something

 

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Very few updates on my fleet as nothing of note has happened at all since purchase about a year ago and saving to finish kitchen so frivolous purchases are outlawed.

Espace had a service Friday and got the front left suspension top mount fixed.

Rear calliper is sticking too and I had plans to look at that myself yesterday until I woke up and realised it was freezing and sacked it off.

 

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In an effort to get out a bit more I went for a shortish Walk this morning, partly through the commonwealth war graves part of brookwood cemetery. Obviously immaculate with some beautiful memorials and rather poignant given than the only sound was gunfire from pirbright ranges. It’s also where the Chelsea pensioners are laid to rest I’ve read.

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18 hours ago, Yoss said:

It's certainly quite far removed from our own Pugs. It's more car than van. I don't think anyone makes proper vans anymore. When I started, admittedly 30 odd years ago, we didn't even have radios. And the high top Sherpas had longitudinal tip up vynil bench seats in the back. We used to go out with six or more posties perched on these with no seat belts, no windows and lots of naked spot welded seams. Admittedly some of us probably died but there ought to be a happy medium of a decent, safe reliable van without all the pointless tech. 

Doblos and Kangoos are still recognizably van like, but of course they have both been out for well over a decade.

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