Dog van?

[redlig]

8 doggos is it.......

Pardon our interruption...

Licking the vomit and unmentionable stains off of the seats should keep them quiet for a few miles.

 

[octo0072000]

Vivaro 1.9 cambelt V 2.0 chain people say early 1.9 better engine with your pack a LWB sounds about right

 

[roofman]

As it is a pack of wolves a Vivaro is probably ideal.

Vivaro, Traffic, Primastar all the same thing and you see plenty of older ones around which tells you something and they're a bit small for the average courier so you can still get hold of them. Plus they don't seem to rust like the Ford offering and parts are cheap.

I don't know much about the 2.0 but I've got an older (2006) 2.5 that I've had for about 8 years and apart from an engine rebuild (cambelt fail) it's been faultless and for a 20 year old van is in good nick (rust free).

I think @roofman might run Traffic / Vivaro and did a thread about rebuilding an engine a while back?

Yes i have rebuilt 5 M9r engines( 2.0) and 2 1.9...i think the 1.9 with a nice re-map is the better motor. I have a 1.9 with an aggressive re-map (higher fuel pressure and boosting to just under 30psi) cat gutted , new turbo with a cold air feed and it goes like stink. Injectors are on max duty higher up the rpm so cant push any more.

 

[eddie49]

On an EV Forum recently:

Dogs prefer EVs?

Had to take the dog to the vet today, which is a bit of a car trip. In the old petrol mazda she hated it and would be anxious and whining the whole trip. In the surf, she started out sat on the rear seats and all I got was an occasional whine. On the way back, she laid down in the footwell and...

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Quieter, no exhaust smell.

 

[Old Dog]

You can get four Bullmastiffs in a Vauxhall Astra estate but not much else, so we've got a 71 reg 15ltr Vivaro SWB crated out and packed with all the show kit. Easy to drive and fits in a normal car park space.

 

[Erie Fred]

Ford E-350 15 passenger van......