Jameshow
Veteran
It's a 1.6.
Actually I tend to park up, by backing into the driveway off the road as you're meant to but nobody does, then the engine is kind of left on until I've double checked handbrake, gears on neutral, look around to make sure I'm not to far over either way on the shared driveway, etc. It's probably close to 10 seconds anyway. Didn't know that's the advice though.
Vauxhall vivaro van engines no good? What van that size is good? Trafic is the same, the Mercedes have a rust issue, citreon are smaller, Nissan of some ages are same but newer are different iirc. The scene tax VW is too small, seriously the van tapers in from windows such that if my partner drives me and my son don't fit in the double passenger seats even when he was 6 or 7 when we were looking for a van to convert.
Ford I guess? Mind you knowing the way they built the engines for their pickups and other vehicles sharing that entire, not sure I'd trust Ford engines. Something about cutting costs with a cheap and nasty oil pump that fails causing the engine to fall and need replacement. A known issue that was a recall in countries with better laws for that I believe but in the UK they sell you a new engine with the same weak oil pump ti fail again. A mate got an engine quote 5k from Ford, they found one for 2.5k then offloaded it for a Isuzu pickup. They're farmers so needed it.
I suppose all van brands have issues like cars too. So far this van has been quite cheap to run for what it is. Nothing major being needed until now. Much better than the last car we had when we got this. A seat altea xl was a bit unreliable two alternators, plus various other issues. Oh and the crappy design where the climate control failed because of a £2 switch, well one of two £2 switches. One located behind the dashboard only reached by spending a day taking it all out, fit the switch then another day back in. Or you take the bumper off and various other bits taking day too. Of course you can't know which switch has failed so you could spend a day to find its the other one! All billable labour. Needless to say we didn't fix the climate control!
My best, most reliable car was a humble vauxhall astra.
Our van is a 16 plate vauxhall vivaro 2700 sportive 115bhp. The base model for a 2700 sportive without bi turbo. I believe the bi turbo system is kind of complicated design.
Agreed difficult decision on the smaller van market. Early ford custom would be my choice 2.2 chain rather than the dodgy 2.0 wet belt. Rust is usually an issue but I think the custom / mk 8 seems to be fairing better?
T5/6 obvs is the benchmark loved or hated!
