Sherpa Freight Rover LDV alert

[dome]

What better way to tow your TR8 rally car?

[Matty]

2 hours ago, dome said:

What better way to tow your TR8 rally car?

Fit

[stuboy]

On 31/12/2025 at 18:31, 500tops said:

Cub in Tesco car park, Callington, earlier 

had 1 as company van in 2000, drove and handled like crap...  swapped it with a collegue for an older transit

[stuboy]

Spotted on mister smiths late brake show on that there tube of you..

[Rustybullethole]

Live advert get in quick!!!!

 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Rustybullethole said:

Live advert get in quick!!!!

 

@Cavcraft 😀

[Rustybullethole]

Don't use facebook. Despite setting it up to offload treasure on marketplace I've not got around to it yet. Every so often someone sends me a facebook link which has me trawling through shite until i regain my senses.

On a very odd occasion something of interest pops up. Quick everyone, best get a tv licence!

Now you may believe they are fully chatting shit here. Even if you are buying into this fear campaign you must admit catching people across the uk in minutes is a bit of a stretch.

 

[yes oui si]

On 07/01/2026 at 18:46, Rustybullethole said:

Such a cool van with a great logo from a great company.

Agreed, a bit excessive for a set of strings though...

[500tops]

Lovely, unmessed with 04 Pilot panel

 

 

[neil72]

Somewhere in SE London, it was an X Reg

[500tops]

[mk2_craig]

Pile of shite van is described as pile of shite. 

 

[500tops]

A working Convoy in Paignton 

[500tops]

22,000 mile Pilot 

 

  https://share.google/gzDv3g6ZbR0SUFcF9

 

 

[Dan302]

1 minute ago, 500tops said:

22,000 mile Pilot 

 

  https://share.google/gzDv3g6ZbR0SUFcF9

 

 

Ooof that's a lovely colour

[R Lutz]

1 hour ago, 500tops said:

22,000 mile Pilot 

 

  https://share.google/gzDv3g6ZbR0SUFcF9

 

 

Thats special.

[500tops]

Totnes. 

This looks like a XLWB.?

[Cavcraft]

Frieght Rover Pickup | eBay UK

[D.E]

Spotted today, a 1989 Daf 400 horsebox. Last tested in 2012...

[worldofceri]

Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!

Worth approx a tenth of the asking price mind you.

[eddyramrod]

1 hour ago, worldofceri said:

Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!

Worth approx a tenth of the asking price mind you.

But that's the same as everything else now.  

[R Lutz]

On 12/02/2026 at 16:03, 500tops said:

Totnes. 

This looks like a XLWB.?

I owned one of those. 55 plated. The owners of Devon Conversions were my neighbours. It drove brilliantly. 

[D.E]

2005 Ldv Convoy 3.5t

[Dave_Q]

31 minutes ago, D.E said:

2005 Ldv Convoy 3.5t

Revenue weight: 3850kg. 

Might have been downplated, doubt it can carry much if so.

[Saabnut]

3 hours ago, Dave_Q said:

Revenue weight: 3850kg. 

Might have been downplated, doubt it can carry much if so.

No, sounds right to me. A modern transit 16 seat minibus is plated at 4600kg and they have a lot of more modern and heavy safety items. Normally an LDV would max at 3500kg but this has been upgraded but still a class 5 MOT test.

[Dave_Q]

What I mean is it's listed at 3.5t but comes up on reg check as 3850kg, so either seller is wrong or it's downplated. I think a lot of these larger LDVs were 3.8t, nothing wrong with that in itself I'm just saying with it being downplated and presumably on the heavy side even with the seats taken out, it won't have much weight to play with for eg a camper conversion.

[Saabnut]

3 minutes ago, Dave_Q said:

What I mean is it's listed at 3.5t but comes up on reg check as 3850kg, so either seller is wrong or it's downplated. I think a lot of these larger LDVs were 3.8t, nothing wrong with that in itself I'm just saying with it being downplated and presumably on the heavy side even with the seats taken out, it won't have much weight to play with for eg a camper conversion.

Sorry, I am confused. All LDV commercial goods have a max of 3.5t or 3500kg otherwise they become classified as LGV and need plating, operators licence etc. A minibus can be up to (from memory) 5500kg gross so class 5 or PSV(L). So plated at 3850kg it has to be a class 5 or a plated commercial, so it has been upgraded, not downplated. The ministry takes 75kg as the average weight of a person, so 16 x 75 gives a payload of 1200kg, the empty van being approx 1800kg so it still allows 850kg for fuel, luggage etc. As an LDV is relatively light for its size, 3850 allows a decent payload.

[Dave_Q]

This one was plated at 3850kg from new and I've seen a few posts on camper van forums about downplating larger LDVs to 3.5t.

I was under the impression they were a lot heavier than that, more like 2.5 - 2.8t unladen but maybe I'm wrong.

 

[Saabnut]

To be plated above 3500 from new it must have started life as a minibus. The reason for downplating to 3500 when converted to a camper is a) to be able to drive it on a post '97 licence and b) to enable it to be tested as a class 4.

Back when I was a lad (a long long time ago) pickup trucks were referred to by the carrying capacity in hundredweights. A single wheel transit would be an 18cwt truck, a twin wheel transit a 35cwt truck. Metrification put an end to it  

[quicksilver]

Reminds me of this late-registration XLWB Convoy Max a local minibus firm had. The VIN suggests it was built in 2004 and it wasn't their usual colour so I guess it had been knocking around in dealer stock for a few years and they got a good deal.