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Pondering a small van for lugging around bikes, furniture, diy kit.
Will be second car so don't need anything flash, or expensive. What's cheap to own and run, reliable, ideally 3 seats.
A quick piston heads search throws up the Berlingo, I'd shy away from citroen cars normally, are the vans better?
No, but you prob should have lower expectations for a van / 2nd car, and a berlingo will be fine. Do they have 3 seats tho?
Its french things will fall off and quality will be a bit iffy in places.
It will be cheap to run and repair and good for a second van/car.
Where the hell has the myth of French being crap sprang from? The mrs 307 is on 270000 miles with only service items, belts, 1 clutch and DMF and a turbo.
My 15 year old van is on 170000, one broken ecu wire 2 year ago the only fault. I've pulled heads off Dw8 and Hdi engines with well over 250000 miles and they still have the original manufacturer's bore honing marks present...
I'd a Berlingo van for a few years and was great. Loads of room. Not three seater though. I can't remember anything going wrong with it apart from a few very frosty night killed the battery. I even liked the non turbo 1.9d engine.
My friend had the Peugeot Partner car version too without any major problems.
peugeot 206 85000 miles with one oil change and only consumables have gone- tyres exhaust that sort of thing
Would love it every vehicle was as good as this has been tbh
Berlingo B9 model vans, so any built from 2008 are 3 seater BTW
Renault Kangoo maxi Ive had mine two years,takes 4-5 bikes,beer and gear no problem,been all over the Uk in mine,cheap runner and does what i need it to do,not 3 seater but your looking at transit size for 3 seats,only Van i seen had 3 seats was the 3rd seat wasn't big enough for anything bigger than a small child,Even my Mates VW T5 was a squeeze with 3 adults up front,
Just for balance Pug 3008 2011 1.6 diesel. Two engine rebuilds by 45k miles!!! Now at 49k and so far touch wood no problems.
85000 miles with one oil change
Seems a bit rash tbh.
Doug. Just sold my pug partner lst week an all.
My only word of advice would be - buy a multi space. Much more versatile
We had one of each for a long time and the multispace was always the first taken. Plus it can carry almost as much - but when you unload the seats go up and you have a family car again. You will wonder why not all cars have sliding doors.
Seats back down - bike slots in .
Unless you really want a van for hiding a bike in -and I'd never suggest leaving a bike in a van....Buy the multispace.
Cheaper to buy - cheaper to insure.
You can get a Kangoo Maxi with a folding (and split) extra set of seats. A nice little van to drive and economical/cheap to insure. Even a lanky git like me can comfortably drive it and sleep in the back (even with a fixed bulkhead). A fairly long wheel base XL 29er fits in the back with the wheels on too.
Most of the little 3 seater vans are really "2+1" seating.
It's more of a medium sized van but selling my T4