Beating the Tip Nazis - Mobile Skip Required

[Kiltox]

Say you have a considerable amount of household rubbish to shift and need a suitable vehicle for doing so

 

Consider also that if your perfectly capacious MWB van was used, you’d end up on some kind of shit list with the council very quickly because the Tip Nazis are very hot on that kind of thing

 

What do you buy that qualifies as “AN CAR” but can shift a small nation?

 

I’d imagine a Volvo 940 is getting quite “OMG CLASSIC” for this purpose

 

Load space is the name of the game. Enough test and capable of forward motion for long enough to complete the task.

[Kiltox]

Oh and it’s well established that a less insane man would just hire an actual skip

[Iamgroot]

B5 Passat I reckon, cheap as chips now, big and should last a while

[sierraman]

Mondeo Mk3 Diesel estate. Then leave the fucker at the tip.

[Skizzer]

BMW X5?

[Lacquer Peel]

Berlingo Multispace?

 

When I used my Inca van to dump stuff I had to sign a sheet of paper to say what the waste was, i.e. household not trade waste, no charges. Obviously councils vary.

[Tamworthbay]

V70, loads about cheap. Old accord estates are thinner on the ground but enormous inside.

[pshome]

keweseki

[Brodders]

Omega estate? That's what mine is being used for right now and it is doing the job admirably.

[J-T]

I did exactly this with a Volvo 850 a few years back when I was renovating a house. Must have been to the tip 20 times in it and never got questioned. It cost £156, was wholly and utterly abused by me for 6 months and my stepdad has it now, still going!

[angle]

Picasso. Find one with crumbly sills and 6 weeks MOT for just above scrap money and take all the seats out (they unclip). I got a sofa to the tip in one, no bother.

[Dave_Q]

chodweaver's grand voyager, berlingo, eurovan I (806/Ulysse/Synergie) or II (807/C8/Ulysse)

[Iamgroot]

Picasso. Find one with crumbly sills and 6 weeks MOT for just above scrap money and take all the seats out (they unclip). I got a sofa to the tip in one, no bother.

Actually, that's a great shout!

[clayts450]

PT Cruiser is a good bet for a 'nearly out of ticket, m8' skip if you get the seats out too

[Doctormop]

Do Kia Sedonas sometimes fall into just above scrap territory anymore?

I'd imagine the carrying capacity is better than some vans with the seats taken out

.https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201903015449153?price-to=1500&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&postcode=la97et&model=SEDONA&advertising-location=at_cars&sort=distance&radius=100&make=KIA&page=1

Cheapest I could find within 100 miles but haven't dared to look on Gumtree.

[Landy Mann]

Another vote for the Picasso, 1 large heavy 2 seater sofa with foot rest fitted no problem in ours.

[txe4]

+1 for Berlingo Multispace / Partner Tepee.

 

You can get a fucked-but-still-running multispace for buttons, especially if pez, and it "looks" like a car (windows all round) so doesn't trigger the tip nazis. With the seats folded back (or removed entirely) it holds as much shit as the van version. Taller than an estate so much easier to load.

 

Still miss mine.

[loserone]

I was so hoping that was going to be a suggestion of a model S

[Dead_E23]

I'd imagine a Picasso/PT Cruiser/Sedona/Berlingo would be cheaper to insure than a van too.  

 

(Is insuring a van for private use still as difficult and/or expensive as I have been led to believe?)

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

BMW 3 series touring. You can fit 21 meters of turf comfortably in it or 22 lengths of 2.4m 3x2 and shut the boot... And change gear... Or a locker unit of 10 lockers, a tea urn, a printer (in it's box) and bags of shit, shutting all doors and driving 70 miles. 

 

Edit, ooh and full sized floor boarding, close, but it goes! Need a spare sock tho to protect the corners from stabbing the dash.

 

Wait... Where can such a machine be obtained though???

[Cavcraft]

Berlingo or Kangoo absolutely ideal.

[skoda_fan]

+Another for Berlingo/Partner. My previous "ideal" vehicle for this was my Felicia Fun....except it wasn't...even with the Truckman top on it was refused entry for being a "commercial vehicle". I paid only £750 for my well-used Partner as it was too good to miss. It has the load capacity of a small shed (OK, it IS a small shed!) and qualifies as a private car. I bought it for practical purposes without expecting to like it. It's actually quite amusing to drive.

[catsinthewelder]

Mk3 Astra estate is the best car I've used for this, noticably more useful than the 405 particularly as it was impossible to ruin.

[Shirley Knott]

There still seem to be plenty of cheap/battered 940's doing the rounds TBF...

 

Otherwise perhaps Mk1 Octavia Estate? Lots about, fairly reliable, Mk4 Golf platform so plentiful parts and huge space available with the back seats down.

[Timewaster]

Galaxy, Zafira, picasso.

 

Infact if you fill a Zafira up with crap for the tip, just leave it there and walk home.

[Steve79]

Citroen C5 estate

[txe4]

Berlingo or Kangoo absolutely ideal.

 

Are Roomsters shite yet? It looks like probably not, the cheapest ones on autotrader being £1300? If the rubbish isn't too filthy you could probably do OK buying a scabby Roomster, using it, then selling on - but that's probably not really what the OP intended.

 

The Roomster feels a lot more solid than the old Berlingo did but for some reason I've never really bonded with it, it's just a tool. Silly attitude as the Roomster has been faultless and bits were always falling off the Berlingo...

[busmansholiday]

Around here you need a permit for any vehicle to use the local tip. It's because we're between Sheffield, Donny, Rotherham and West Yorkshire so if any of them are on strike or shut people just bob over the border and use the tips in the next council area (obviously, I haven't* done that).....

[83C]

TD5 Discovery? I have one with 4 weeks test for £875.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

A chap at work is renovating at the moment and is using a Berlingo very effectively...