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Hallo
Anyone know anything about LDVs? Looking at one with Ford engine, so hopefully engine bombproof but what's LDV bodywork like and how are they to drive?
Thanks
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The older ones are ok, usually suffer from diesel pump/injector probs than anything else.
They are underpowered, under geared and thus VERY tiring to drive any distance! You are up and down the gears, and will be ready for your bed and aching like you have run a marathon after a few hundred miles.
The new ones are a little more powerful, but suffer with rear door handles snapping (if you try to pull when door is locked - very brittle and cheap), also the window motors in these are far to powerful for the bonded doors. If you press up instead of down - then you split the door in two!:thumb:
But they are good and functional for a basic starter, there are worse things! Just not advised if you want to take on europe - it will do it, but you will feel it!
not very high on your list of favourite base vehicles then
I drove my brothers' old one 147 miles, and thought i was going to die, I was shattered! I am used to driving all over the country in all sorts of vehicles, but my god - that nearly killed me!.
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Have a look at a transit, or even a boxer (have arm rests too) - good thing with something like a boxer is - there are plenty of scrappies around you can get some motorhome swivel seats!:thumb:
Newer shape transits are quite cheap in the auctions now as well - from £600 - look underneath though, as these are commercial and not undersealed.
Also look for something like a hi-ace - these are as bullet proof as you will get!
Just not advised if you want to take on europe - it will do it, but you will feel it!
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Respect to JJ then....isn't he driving his stealth LDV panel van through France towards Spain/Portugal at the moment?
The older ones are ok, usually suffer from diesel pump/injector probs than anything else.
They are underpowered, under geared and thus VERY tiring to drive any distance! You are up and down the gears, and will be ready for your bed and aching like you have run a marathon after a few hundred miles.
The new ones are a little more powerful, but suffer with rear door handles snapping (if you try to pull when door is locked - very brittle and cheap), also the window motors in these are far to powerful for the bonded doors. If you press up instead of down - then you split the door in two!:thumb:
But they are good and functional for a basic starter, there are worse things! Just not advised if you want to take on europe - it will do it, but you will feel it!
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His van is an Iveco Daily (unless his LDV is so stealth that it is invisible )
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