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Dont buy an LDV van....
« on: 21 July 2009, 19:46:13 »
....unless your gonna break it!

Bits are pretty much impossible to get with body panels fetching serious premiums (600 quid for a single rear door!)

It would appear that a large percentage of thier recent sales have been to the UK government.....
« Last Edit: 21 July 2009, 19:46:28 by Mark »
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« Reply #1 on: 21 July 2009, 19:57:07 »
My last van was a twin rear wheel LDV convoy crew cab. And I loved it. Fast good road holding for a van, and I could drift it, 2.5 turbo diesel, but noisy engine when pushed.
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #2 on: 21 July 2009, 20:15:47 »
Firm I worked for had a fleet of Maxus vans.
Biggest pile of s***e I've ever driven.
More metal in a kitkat wrapper than the body panels.
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #3 on: 21 July 2009, 22:12:37 »
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....unless your gonna break it!

Bits are pretty much impossible to get with body panels fetching serious premiums (600 quid for a single rear door!)

It would appear that a large percentage of thier recent sales have been to the UK government.....
similar story when any manufacturer goes tits up.  trust me, I know ;)
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #4 on: 21 July 2009, 22:18:00 »
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....unless your gonna break it!

Bits are pretty much impossible to get with body panels fetching serious premiums (600 quid for a single rear door!)

It would appear that a large percentage of thier recent sales have been to the UK government.....


Im my courier days i had a

Transit 350 LWB 125ps Rubbish
Merc sprinter 308 MWB average
Merc Sprinter 313 LWB Superb to be honest

Ok the Merc is expensive to buy and run but will out live the Transit and others by far..
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #5 on: 21 July 2009, 22:18:50 »
got rid of a lwb 2.5 td in january. it needed a new cab floor. i even bought a mig to attempt the job, but let it go for £200. great weight carrier, and the peugot engine once up to speed went like hell. :) 
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« Reply #6 on: 21 July 2009, 22:25:40 »
Hav'nt driven vans full time since the days of the Merc 307/8D. Took ages to wind up & steering was heavy to say the least!!! Tough as old boots though.
    Prior to that most mainstream panel/luton vans came with petrol engines...really they did!!! :o ::)
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #7 on: 21 July 2009, 22:28:31 »
had a few transits when i used to do a real job.  the K reg one i had was brilliant, i loved that one.  other largr vans i had were mk3 tranny, and sherpas. they were both shite
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #8 on: 21 July 2009, 22:30:49 »
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had a few transits when i used to do a real job.  the K reg one i had was brilliant, i loved that one.  other largr vans i had were mk3 tranny, and sherpas. they were both shite


I spent 12 years at Royal Mail and know all about the sherpa and the early LDV......lol :y
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #9 on: 21 July 2009, 22:30:56 »
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had a few transits when i used to do a real job.  the K reg one i had was brilliant, i loved that one.  other largr vans i had were mk3 tranny, and sherpas. they were both shite

Yep, I have many a fond memory of the Mk1 Transit, vans and crew buses.... :y :y :y
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #10 on: 21 July 2009, 22:39:49 »
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 and know all about the sherpa and the early LDV......lol :y

30 years ago the bloke I helped do a milk round for had a Sherpa flat bed. I just remember reverse was across & back, somewhere into one of the seat cushions!  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #11 on: 21 July 2009, 23:18:54 »
 A fitter in the post office said about the old ldv convoys was that they where the only van that could
take the abuse, and when they did you fixed them
with a hammer and screwdriver. they wernt that quick
but fast enough for the posties. Dont rate the transits
at all, mercs disappear wfter 5 yrs, vw to expensive
and not that realible.  only van thats best is the toyota
hiace, a thousand pikeys couldent be wrong!
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« Reply #12 on: 21 July 2009, 23:46:01 »
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 and know all about the sherpa and the early LDV......lol :y

30 years ago the bloke I helped do a milk round for had a Sherpa flat bed. I just remember reverse was across & back, somewhere into one of the seat cushions!  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
Hi Andy. Had the same job at 13/14 years old but this milk van was an early Bedford CF 1800 petrol. I'd drive, do most of the legwork while he took the money i'd collected & do the book. This was working out of the Storrington W.Sx Unigate depot.
    You'd never get away with that nowadays!!! ::)
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« Reply #13 on: 21 July 2009, 23:59:50 »
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 and know all about the sherpa and the early LDV......lol :y

30 years ago the bloke I helped do a milk round for had a Sherpa flat bed. I just remember reverse was across & back, somewhere into one of the seat cushions!  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
Hi Andy. Had the same job at 13/14 years old but this milk van was an early Bedford CF 1800 petrol. I'd drive, do most of the legwork while he took the money i'd collected & do the book. This was working out of the Storrington W.Sx Unigate depot.
    You'd never get away with that nowadays!!! ::)

I used to drive the van down the road lane from being about the same age as you, that's when he had a Commer van VVV ???L. Years later at 17 just after I'd passed my test he used to let me drive on the road, I even did the round a couple of times while he stopped at the farm. He'd 'progressed' to a Crona pop (Peter Kay's Rola Cola  ;D) delivery van by then. The gear box on that was just guess work, you knew the next gear was in there somewhere ...... it was just finding it!  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
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Re: Dont buy an LDV van....
« Reply #14 on: 22 July 2009, 08:12:18 »
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....unless your gonna break it!

Bits are pretty much impossible to get with body panels fetching serious premiums (600 quid for a single rear door!)

It would appear that a large percentage of thier recent sales have been to the UK government.....
similar story when any manufacturer goes tits up.  trust me, I know ;)

Nah, this is much worse......you cant get ANYTHING body work wise.

He currently has an 18 month old MOD one with a bashed rear quarter....and the only parts available are from breakers!
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