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Thinking of selling the VW T5 (day van, not a camper), it’s an 06 plate and just isn’t suitable for what I need now. Looking at getting another van but maybe a size down.
I do 12,000 miles a year (at least), country roads usually, with town driving.
Must be able to carry 2 kids in car seats, 3 adults and a 40kg dog at the same time, in some amount of comfort.
Automatic preferably - dodgy hip
Nothing above £10k
A Ford Tourneo seems the obvious choice, anyone have one? Any other makes out there that I should be looking at?
Anything mechanical to watch out for?
I do 12,000 miles a year (at least), country roads usually, with town driving.
Must be able to carry 2 kids in car seats, 3 adults and a 40kg dog at the same time, in some amount of comfort.
Automatic preferably - dodgy hip
Nothing above £10k
A Ford Tourneo seems the obvious choice, anyone have one? Any other makes out there that I should be looking at?
Anything mechanical to watch out for?
blue_haddock said:
If your looking at a VW caddy which is the sort of size you need then whatever you do, dont get the 1.6 diesel as they are dreadful.
I've got a later caddy maxi life 2.0 tdi dsg and in 4 years and 75k miles i've only had one breakdown and its taken everything we've thrown at it.
My boss has a caddy and has had trouble with injectors, something I don’t really want to deal with. Not sure if that’s specific to a certain engineI've got a later caddy maxi life 2.0 tdi dsg and in 4 years and 75k miles i've only had one breakdown and its taken everything we've thrown at it.
blue_haddock said:
If your looking at a VW caddy which is the sort of size you need then whatever you do, dont get the 1.6 diesel as they are dreadful.
I've got a later caddy maxi life 2.0 tdi dsg and in 4 years and 75k miles i've only had one breakdown and its taken everything we've thrown at it.
I second that comment, avoid the 1.6I've got a later caddy maxi life 2.0 tdi dsg and in 4 years and 75k miles i've only had one breakdown and its taken everything we've thrown at it.
OP I'd be keeping the Transporter if it's still in good shape.
AmaSco12 said:
blue_haddock said:
If your looking at a VW caddy which is the sort of size you need then whatever you do, dont get the 1.6 diesel as they are dreadful.
I've got a later caddy maxi life 2.0 tdi dsg and in 4 years and 75k miles i've only had one breakdown and its taken everything we've thrown at it.
My boss has a caddy and has had trouble with injectors, something I don’t really want to deal with. Not sure if that’s specific to a certain engineI've got a later caddy maxi life 2.0 tdi dsg and in 4 years and 75k miles i've only had one breakdown and its taken everything we've thrown at it.
A500leroy said:
Silvanus said:
A500leroy said:
JDM stuff
Quite a few of the JDM people carriers are longer than a SWB T5.
cool little things, there's a Veedub style one near me. They have a T3 too, which although not really that big, makes the Samba look comically small.
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