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  1. 27th February 2007, 09:08 PM #11
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    Don't go the Mercedes. Had a mate with one, bought new, off road with everything wrong for literally months.

    Which is you might write off as a one lemon thing, but the dealer and Merc Australia would do almost nothing. Like no replacement van, or a van of a lesser capacity, or just nothing.

    Again, you expect that behaviour from a dealer, but when the manufacturer is messing you about too...

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  2. 27th February 2007, 09:11 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by George130 View Post
    That was my first thought. A 110 should count as a van also.
    Just realised after my previous post that we do have 2 landrovers on our fleet. Both are defenders, one is a 130 dual cab with 950000 on it and the other is a 110 trayback. Worth considering.
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  3. 27th February 2007, 09:12 PM #13
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    I used to have a VW Transporter years ago when I was a courier, it was a 95 model. It would have to be the most comfortable vehicle I drove, I would recomend that you get VW to look after it as if the wrong people look after them it could be costly (personal experience unfortunatly) due to lack of knowledge. I am 6'2" btw .

    I cannot vouch for the merc, but I will say that VW do a good vehicle. I got rid of mine with 300000km on the clock and it was starting to fall apart at that stage, motor was still strong but it did start to rattle all the bits and pieces off being a 5 cyl diesel. Biggest problem happened around 230000km when the harmonic balencer died and it took 6 weeks to get one from germany. Apart from that a fantastic work vehicle
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  4. 27th February 2007, 09:46 PM #14
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    Our local insulator - Merv - who is 'the woolmen' has a Merc Sprinter - very tall and 6 metres long - absolutely hammers it. And loves it - the damn thing goes like a rocket - amazing.....

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    Buy a Ford Transit... then you can pretend its the 2007 Defender


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  6. 27th February 2007, 10:22 PM #16
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    Hi there it just so happens the sparky we have used a couple of times has a VW van 03 model got tallking about it and has no probs the 2 years he has had it. Plenty of room i like the interior of them too.


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    a mate of mine runs 3 merc vans with no problems used for shifting av equipment for conferences... but the renault's look good

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  8. 27th February 2007, 11:20 PM #18
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    i hired the new vw version of the merc lwb van the other week, very very nice, way better than the merc equivilents i had hired before... lot cheaper to run and a bucket load more power...
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  9. 28th February 2007, 06:58 AM #19
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    as far as I know all the euro vans are good
    I've git a mate with a merc (got out of a mazda) he loves it and it's had zero issues
    The VWs are also excellent
    perhaps just to save a buck look at the not so popular (in oz) models
    you can get fait here now (cheap trying to break into the market) they are very common in europe (just as common as VW & merc)
    I sat in one (fait) the other day VERY comfy (front wheel drive though )
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  10. 28th February 2007, 07:52 AM #20
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    you can get fait here now
    I think you ment FIAT, if so they make very good engines and were pioneers of common rail diesel, they have been around more than 100yr's now so you'd think they would know how to make an engine. They also own Ferrari,Maserati,Alfa and Lancia.
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