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jall55 said:
Bit of a trip but have a look at my bros place
The van yard.net
Plenty to try - for me a connect or a caddy !
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Don't caddies have issues with the injectors, very good friend has one and just spewed 1500 for new injectors. Apparently its a common issue with them he reckons, and if one goes its best to do the 4 hence the hefty price
 
jimmy milnes said:
Don't caddies have issues with the injectors, very good friend has one and just spewed 1500 for new injectors. Apparently its a common issue with them he reckons, and if one goes its best to do the 4 hence the hefty price
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Same old story I think Jimmy
everything has issues if its not looked after
Vivaros used to be bad for it but - the vast numbers sold makes the problems sometimes seem worse I think
 
Had a wasted day today riding round looking at vans. You'd think 5 grand would buy something but apparently not.
A standard Caddy is too small and a Maxi is a struggle to find within budget that hasn't been driven to the moon and back.
The Nissan is the one I keep coming back to for reliability and fitting the brief. Just messaged about a tidy looking ex-police dog NV200 that's in budget and VAT free.

I need to find something before the end of next week or I might start losing work.
 
Finch said:
Had a wasted day today riding round looking at vans. You'd think 5 grand would buy something but apparently not.
A standard Caddy is too small and a Maxi is a struggle to find within budget that hasn't been driven to the moon and back.
The Nissan is the one I keep coming back to for reliability and fitting the brief. Just messaged about a tidy looking ex-police dog NV200 that's in budget and VAT free.

I need to find something before the end of next week or I might start losing work.
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If you need a van in a hurry for work then just buy a £500 runaround that will tide you over instead of rushing into a 5 grand sale now and regretting it in a couple of weeks or months. Used vans are not getting more expensive and there will probably be a lot more of them for sale due to imminent job losses unfortunately.
 
Fair Hill said:
If you need a van in a hurry for work then just buy a £500 runaround that will tide you over instead of rushing into a 5 grand sale now and regretting it in a couple of weeks or months. Used vans are not getting more expensive and there will probably be a lot more of them for sale due to imminent job losses unfortunately.
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Been thinking that. I know it makes sense but I've been running my 4X4 for more than two years on non-commercial insurance so I'm pretty sure my commercial van insurance will have to start again from scratch with zero history or NCB, which is going to be expensive. Not a lot I can do about it but that coupled with the tax is going to take a chunk out of the budget so I was hoping to get something more long term straight away.
And, I haven't seen that many really cheap runarounds about.
What I might do is buy something decent, but smaller and cheaper, like a Partner or a Berlingo. I really need an Expert/Dispatch size but I could cope with smaller if it came to it and it saved me a grand.
I think what's happening at the moment is lots of self-employed people are spending their government Covid grant payments on tools and vans. That's keeping sales and prices up, especially at the lower end of the market where I'm looking. When those payments stop next month I bet sales will tail off and prices will drop. And as you say, if unemployment rises sharply they'll drop even further. Ideally I'd wait for that to happen but if I do I'll be one of the unemployed as well..
 
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Finch said:
Been thinking that. I know it makes sense but I've been running my 4X4 for more than two years on non-commercial insurance so I'm pretty sure my commercial van insurance will have to start again from scratch with zero history or NCB, which is going to be expensive. Not a lot I can do about it but that coupled with the tax is going to take a chunk out of the budget so I was hoping to get something more long term straight away.
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You could do a lot worse than the van that Woodsmoke found.
 
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