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[holtender]

My son is looking to buy 1500 deisel, look a decent enough motor, anyone have any experience with them?

How often does the cambelt need changing?

Any obvious faults anyone knows about, looking for a 2001-2004


Cheers

[Del Boy]

I think from memory the cambelt needs doing every 70,000 or 5 years. A friend of mine had one, he liked it a lot, good little van. He did have a problem with something though, I can't remember exactly but it was fuel related.

[TheBoy]

I think from memory the cambelt needs doing every 70,000 or 5 years. A friend of mine had one, he liked it a lot, good little van. He did have a problem with something though, I can't remember exactly but it was fuel related.

If its French, must be something electrical

[the alarming man]

the driving position is dreadful (the old version that is the newer is a little better)...you have to have very long legs and very short arms....

[OOMV6]

Cannot be too bad me thinks - the Luxembourg postal service use them. See loads of these little yellow things nipping around the place. Mate of mine drives an ex-post van and has never had an issue. Sloooooooow if not turbo'd.
That said, I have heard the early ones to be referred to without the last "o". Kan-go

[BiodieselOmega]

DCi engine?
Treat the MAF sensor as a service item at about 90000.
EGR around the same time but can be cleaned with a bit of effort.
Clutch slave is inside bell housing and will stuff the clucth WHEN  it leaks.
Apart from that good vans!!

[holtender]

Thanks for all the comments lads, it is what makes this site such a fantastic place to visit! All noted and taken on board.

We have located a decent 2002 picking it up saturday, fortunately my lad is 6'2" so it looks like a marriage made in heaven

[omegod]

Enjoy changing the heater plugs! the 4th one is buried under the intake manifold, which has to be undone from underneath with 4 or 5 extensions   Make sure cambelt is done as my friends snapped,rear torsion bar snapped too but van was overloaded.