Ford Transit Forum

by **tim** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:45 pm

Ooh! lads look at this,Brown bags out again

Spoken like a true LDV owner wobler!

What a lot of 'Transit experts' don't realise is that is was designed by the same guy as the 'old' sherpa/J4 then the strength was engineered out to reduce costs!!

It just runs on Ford bits - just take a look underneath! (Not the current version)

A colleage of mine was at the Launch of the 'new' at the time transit with the sloped front, they openend both the optional side sliding doors and loaded two pallets of bricks on to show it's versitility, then the doors wouldn't slide shut because the chassis had bowed! Quick closure of curtains and red faces all round!!

Glyn

by **MrMPuk** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:48 pm

Which Transit are you talking about?

by **tim** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:49 pm

dont know mate ,just got it off the LDV sherpa forum

by **Luke** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:59 pm

tim wrote: they openend both the optional side sliding doors and loaded two pallets of bricks on to show it's versitility, then the doors wouldn't slide shut because the chassis had bowed! Quick closure of curtains and red faces all round!!

did that really happen or is he making it up

by **tim** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:03 pm

dont know mate,just got it from the LDV forum site,but just because they can get 25 years out of a van they think they are the dogs b****x

by **Nighthawk** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:53 pm

Sounds like a load of balls to me

Transit has always been built to do a job for a finite length of service, if any model was designed to last forever then sales or new vehicles and replacement parts would suffer.

If LDV or Austin as it was then hadn't used enough steel in their chassis to build an ocean liner it's drive dynamics and fuel economy might have been better........it's looks would have still been dire though :!:

LDV are a company who want to cling to the 70's and thats why they need to buy in their power units and drivelines.

The NEW transit is currently having it's UK dealer launch in Cannes, and there have been no issues as yet :wink:

by **tim** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:58 pm

i am no LDV fan but i would gladly swop my 05 transit LWB for the new ldv maxus as i have had nothing but trouble with my transit and my mate has had no trouble at all with his 55 plate maxus

by **bortaf** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:16 pm

I like LDV's

by **AndyG** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:09 am

tim wrote::oops: Ooh! lads look at this,Brown bags out again

Spoken like a true LDV owner wobler!

What a lot of 'Transit experts' don't realise is that is was designed by the same guy as the 'old' sherpa/J4 then the strength was engineered out to reduce costs!!

It just runs on Ford bits - just take a look underneath! (Not the current version)

A colleage of mine was at the Launch of the 'new' at the time transit with the sloped front, they openend both the optional side sliding doors and loaded two pallets of bricks on to show it's versitility, then the doors wouldn't slide shut because the chassis had bowed! Quick closure of curtains and red faces all round!!

Glyn

Have you looked at a Ford Transit chassis? It'll be highly unlikely :!:

Comments like this make my blood boil :twisted:

How come a tipper can take the wieght :?:

How come an Ice cream van conversion take the wieght of all that refridgeration equipment :?:

SHOW ME THE PICTURES

by **AndyG** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:12 am

bortaf wrote:I like LDV's

Are you sure you know what forum your on :?:

by **100ps_drw_hicube** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:22 am

ye right you should see what i chuck in the back of our vans i dont see no bent chassis :lol:

dont worry his maxus will go wrong very soon if it dont break down it will fall apart :lol:

you want the truth well i shut a side door once on a v reg ldv convoy and bloody thing kept going :lol:

absolute crap :!:

as someone else said you dont see ldv using there own running gear!! no they use transit engines :lol:

by **AndyG** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:03 am

LDVs are just a cheaply made van :!:

Harrow council ordered a fleet of the old shape ones and they've been nothing but trouble :!:

The ones they had before litteraly fell to peices :!:

Their 'locks' could be opened with ANY key with the exeption of the back door which didn't need a key even when locked :!:

Horrible choppy ride :!:

And as someone else said a van whos design is in the seventies :!:

I'm not biased, credit where credit's due their new M**us is a welcome improvement but that's all it is :roll:

Just don't compare it to a transit :shock:

by **Neil** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:19 pm

dont listen to pub talk a pallet of brick in each sld was they lilliput pallets :lol:

by **MrMPuk** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:51 pm

Neil wrote:dont listen to pub talk a pallet of brick in each sld was they lilliput pallets

Unless it was a special 12 foot wide version! :lol:

by **AndyG** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:14 pm

MrMPuk wrote:
Neil wrote:dont listen to pub talk a pallet of brick in each sld was they lilliput pallets

Unless it was a special 12 foot wide version!

What