Ultimate Van ?

[bigneil]

i am thinking about changing van, What is the best van for a tiler??
Anybody have an opinion?

[Dave]

Hi neil...check these threads out......

Best Van for your tiling business?

van or car??

Have you got graphics on your van/car

[bigneil]

LOL i sure wasn't the first to start a van thread, Ill go and read them Cheers

[Dave]

And there is more if you search........any questions neil..just come back to this thread and ask away.......The scudo is a popular choice...( i have one ).....

[Jamie.I]

I have a berlingo matey hdi with side loading door and roofrack spot on !

[smurf21]

citroen dispatch , scudo, peugeot expert all the same vans dif names wicked vans two side loaders double back doors and the 19 injection is like shyte of a stick

[smurf21]

mind you the way diesals going up the reliant robin is looking good

[hillhead]

Renault Traffic,great van!

[Dave]

citroen dispatch , scudo, peugeot expert all the same vans dif names wicked vans two side loaders double back doors and the 19 injection is like shyte of a stick

I have the 2ltr jtd dynamic 120 bhp....quite quick for van.............

[Raja]

I have the 2ltr jtd dynamic 120 bhp....quite quick for van.............

yes very quick for a man of your age now

[pjtiler]

you cant beat the Austin A35 van
it was made for tilers

[Grace'sDad]

depends on your budget.

I didn't want to be paying for a van if it was sat on my driveway so I bought a R reg Peugeot Partner from a mate. Full service history and very clean - nothing special though. Good van and reliable too.

If money was no object (or I was of a mind to finance / lease etc) I would go for a VW Transporter Kombi with all the trimmings. The extra seats would be great now for school runs etc.

Think I will sell my Partner and move up a bit to a Citroen Dispatch or similar with 3 seats up front. (still rather pay cash though)

[smurf21]

three seats in front great for catching forty winks while waiting for customer to come back from school run..lol

[bigneil]

i did simelar, i baught a W reg peugot partner and i love it. like go-kart racing . but i'm starting to wish i had gone one size bigger and got something scudo sized. any one tried BIO diesel?

[Grace'sDad]

I know a guy who puts vegetable oil from Tescos straight in the tank (non turbo). Costs him 37p a litre and he should be telling customs and excise but doesn't! Run well for 12 months so far - oldish Berlingo 1.9 diesel.

[Mike Strutter]

I reckon you should get one of these

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/05/...e-custom-vans/

[bigneil]

vegie oil! does that not need some sort of refining first...

[bigneil]

LOL Pimp my van...

[Grace'sDad]

vegie oil! does that not need some sort of refining first...

Apparently not - as long as it's a non turbo diesel without modern engine management like the newer HDI engines. I can't believe it either!

[Droopy]

Apparently not - as long as it's a non turbo diesel without modern engine management like the newer HDI engines. I can't believe it either!

I'm pretty sure that the very first Diesel Engine ran on veggie oil or peanut oil.
Or maybe i dreamt that

[bigneil]

I am going to investigate some more.. what happens when the lady at the local spar shop realizes you are not frying 200 kilo of chips a day with it LOL

[Dan]

A good Search

[cam_low]

i run LPG in my 2001 Pug Partner !!

[andy-h]

I know a guy who puts vegetable oil from Tescos straight in the tank (non turbo). Costs him 37p a litre and he should be telling customs and excise but doesn't! Run well for 12 months so far - oldish Berlingo 1.9 diesel.

ive run diesel engines on vegy oil for years with no probs but the price now is as much as diesel if he's gettin it for 37p a litre is it tesco in another country it's about a quid a litre now,& you don't have to inform customs & exise any more.

[bigneil]

ok so i can run my partner on veg oil, 1.9 bog standard diesel engine. cool : and a quid a litre is still a lot cheaper than the 1.30 or 1.40 a litre at the pump. what about LPG then i assume some sort of engine modifications are needed? maybe i could start looking for something a wee bit bigger than my partner that is already converted.

[bigneil]

perhaps he is getting used oil for that price and filtering it himself?

[MickD]

I reckon you should get one of these

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/05/extreme-japanese-custom-vans/

...but do you think anyone would notice you in one of those???

[bigneil]

...but do you think anyone would notice you in one of those???

LOL get an Amber beacon lamp fitted on top.

[Matthew77]

Do you lose much performance running your van on veggie oil?

[bigneil]

This thread has diversified from 'Ideal Van' into Alternative fuel solutions. i have been doing a little re-search on the subject because i often take jobs that involve driving a long way, my last job was 120 mile every day.
So ,Bio-diesel is used like ordinary petro-diesel and is safe to use with no modifications to the engine on 99% of diesel vehicles manufactured after 1990 regardless of turbo's and other modern refinements.

SVO (straight vegetable oil) is NOT bio-diesel and cannot be run without modifications unless you want to shorten the life of your engine, injectors and fuel pumps. the reason being, that the viscosity of svo is 11-16 times that of ordinary petro-diesel or bio-diesel. So in order to run it safely and to gain any kind of starting ability in cold weather, the viscosity must be lowered there are two main ways of doing this,
1) heat! 2 tank system, 2 separate fuel tanks, one for SVO which is heated. and one for normal, start on normal switch to SVO when the engine heats up, then switch back again 5 mins before switch off
Or,a 1 tank system, 1 heated SVO tank and some engine mods. enabling true pure veg running

2)Thinners. The SVO can be cut with petrol, white spirit or ethanol among others in order to lower the viscosity and lower the flash point temperature, but, although the fuel is free to move through the fuel lines and filters, without excess pressure on the fuel pumps, it still raises the question of how well the oil will mix with air, or how efficiently it will combust if it is not heated(causing build up of unwanted deposits). also, many manufaturers of fuel system parts specifically do not recomend the use of alchohol blended fuel.

to sum up. . Some engines will run on SVO with no mods, but cold mornings could be nighmare, and you will probably shorten the life of the engine.

sorry for the long droll waffle that was nothing to do with tiles..... i need to get out more. ...and if you made it this far down the page without loosing the will to live, then you have my permission to go down the pub