Having a look at vans and found one that looks too good to be true,
Its a Peguoet Expert
17 151 on the clock
spic n span
turbo intercooled diesel
extremely good fuel consumption, should get a decent distance over 1000km from a 80 L tank (off the interweb)
$22 000
Im asking, whats the catch? I know european cars are expensive come service time but has anyone owned an Expert/pegouet before and come across major problems?
it's Peugeot....
pricewise it all comes down to the country you're in, they're cheap to service here, and there are sh!tloads on the streets.....
shares the same body (and parts as the citroen jumpy and the fiat scudo)
average 7 L/100km
is it an expert 1 or 2 (teepee) ?
make sure it's the long model, you can' tfit a board in the short teepee without reclining the front passenger seat.
good car, good engine
Not a bad van. I would recommend a VW though, but still Experts are quite nice and have pneumatically regulated height of the rear axis, so the van doesn't lift in the back when not loaded.
User reviews at this UK site:http://www.roadtestreports.co.uk/
Put me off considering a Merc Vito or VW Transporter after reading reviews for these vans, though not many negative reviews for Hiace vans!
Vito is a piece of ** my friend has 2004 Viano and had it repainted because it was very rusty, I have 2002 T4 and it has practically 0 rust and old 2.5 TDI 102HP engine, which can make easily over 500.000km...from 2003 onwards, the T5 models are very good, but only 1.9TDI engines, others suck ballz and tend to break down.
The best thing with VW is that they have loads of spare parts made from other producers which are more or less good quality but up to 5 times cheaper than original parts, the second benefit is that they are made to be converted into something else and the measurements are in my opinion the most suitable for storing gear.
I just bought a Toyota Hiace basically because it has the best load length for price of 2.9m no problem getting board sails and masts in.
^^^ You can't beat the Toyota Hiace - mechanically sound & hold a good resale value IMO. I had one for about 10 years and never had an issue with it.
