What Van ??

[fenboy]

You have perhaps read my post about my Van breaking down in France , the general gist is its engine is shot and with the cost of recovery and a recon engine I have pretty much decided to cut my loses and scrap it over there.

 

So I am now looking for a replacement , I am pretty keen on the Citroen Berlingo in the 1.6 HDI as I already run a car with the same engine and so far its been trouble free and I know they are regarded as pretty bomb proof I would be looking at a van around 2007/8 perhaps with 50-60 k on it.

 

I have also seen one or two Renault Kangoos for reasonable money with a 1.5 DCI engine but have no experience of them , where as I know one or two people with berlingos who are quite happy with them .

 

So anyone who runs these vans got any comments on reliability etc , or anything else I should consider in the 3-4k bracket

[bi9johnny]

I have a 53 plate kangoo kitted out for my shooting and dogs and love it great little van , there are 12 houses in my road and three of us have kangoos

[sitsinhedges]

Had a Berlingo from new 5years pretty much faultless but mine is 1.4 petrol.

[aga man]

i can vouch for the renault kangoo vans i have used them for my business for the past ten years. good reliabilty, good mpg [even when heavily loaded] easy to work on and cheap to buy second hand.

whats more if you forget to take a sack and have a good day on the pigeons the passenger footwell will hold 70 or so dead pigeons

[foxy bingo]

 

whats more if you forget to take a sack and have a good day on the pigeons the passenger footwell will hold 70 or so dead pigeons

whats up with putting them in the back

[aga man]

whats up with putting them in the back

lol, the back is fully racked out with tools and spare parts and of course the decoying gear

[fenboy]

What sort of mileage do you get out of the kangoos chaps ??

[aga man]

What sort of mileage do you get out of the kangoos chaps ??

never really gauged the mpg but i reckon east 40+ probably nearer 50 a real luxury compared to the disco.

my last kangoo had 140000 on the clock when i got shut. i generally always get the cambelt replaced every 50 000, or so for piece of mind.

 

edit to say mine has a fair amount of weight in the back and pipe and ladder racks on the roof that probably won't help the mpg.

Edited October 6, 2013 by aga man

[houlsby]

Had berlingo's, connects, kangoo's, combo vans, t4's..

 

Had 3 berlingo's. a really old petrol/LPG, a 2006 hdi, and a brand spanking new hdi.

 

The newest was **** on fuel, but was fast. Came with the dash light on, left resembling a Xmas tree after 6 weeks and 9k miles.

 

The hdi was the best all rounder and by far most reliable, it took some proper abuse over 2 years and never broke down and didn't undress itself. (Although by the time I'd finished crashing into things in London it looked like a dog.)

 

The LPG was cheap as chips, cost me £500 and I did over 40k in it. At about 70mpg.

 

Transit connects are poo. Have one as a works van ATM, slow, bad on fuel, eat tyres, small, cramped, drives like a bucket of custard.

 

Kangoo's fall to bits if you slam the door too hard, 40mpg and slow as hell I did 40 k in one year and it went to the boneyard

 

Combo, by far the most unreliable van in history. But, very very safe! I got rear ended about 40mph at some lights and shoved into another car, survived, I ditched it whilst shooting, survived, a very large steel gate closed onto it in some high winds at google, survived without a scratch! Also, very good on fuel, 60mpg. I did over 30k in it. Very very very slow