Ford Transit Forum

hi guys being a transit man as long as ive had vans i really want a small van for my window cleaning business and only have about 800ish quid to spend, looking for connectthats got a fairly clean body but not bothered about it needing mechanical stuff as i used to be a mechanic.
now have i got a chance of getting something clean looking at this price or should i start looking for a bloody combo or peugeot,citroen etc?
cheers glen

Thats very much spares/repairs territory

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-transit- ... 222wt_1178

I've somehow aquired 2 for sale at around a grand...

I've just put mine up for sale at 1600, I paid 2000 for it. Having done my research, connects for £1000 are crap scrappers unless you are very lucky.

Get the budget up to 1500 and they start getting decent.


800 = tatty 1999 berlingo

worzel wrote:I've just put mine up for sale at 1600, I paid 2000 for it. Having done my research, connects for £1000 are crap scrappers unless you are very lucky.

Get the budget up to 1500 and they start getting decent.


800 = tatty 1999 berlingo

Dunno where you are but to pay £2000 for a '52 plate with a rusty wing is mad!

I sold my '03 today for £1000

SWB LX model with every extra including AC and twin side loaders.

Taxed and tested until August,just had full service,cambelt and new pads

Also got a '54 plate Automatic Kangoo with 55,000 miles for sale at £1000

11 months MOT,5 months Tax

Dunno where you are but to pay £2000 for a '52 plate with a rusty wing is mad!

Apart from the wing it's in vgc, clean and tidy. A new wing is £40. I guess I paid over which is why I've put it for sale at 1600, that said the reason I purchased it was because it has only done 131k and has had the full cambelt works and new clutch at 125k. Plus it has handy extras; decent roof rack, decent rear door lock, bulkhead, alloys, 4 brand new tyres, dvd player with dvd etc. Also nearly a years tax & mot and it drives perfect.

sold my '03 today for £1000

SWB LX model with every extra including AC and twin side loaders.

Taxed and tested until August,just had full service,cambelt and new pads

Cough*bullsh1t*cough - Mileage??????????? let me guess, 41k FFSH?

It's interesting that people are saying about these dirt cheap vans yet I can't see them for sale here, on the bay or tree? where are you guys selling these dirt cheap vans, please tell me!? fairy land?

Permitting your 03 doesn't have a million miles, you under priced it by AT LEAST 1k. IF it's true that you sold it for 1k (now that is MAD) then the new buyer must have been laughing at you all the way home.

Here is an 03 LX - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321195778580 £2,495.00 and I bet the belt and clutch is due.

Head to Ireland, those prices seem insane, I picked up a 2006 connect for 2800 euro few minor dents shopping trolley stuff, no rust, 98000miles on it and a big aluminium roof rack

Bullshit eh?

Ask anyone who knows me...I don't tell lies

It had 132,000 miles on it.

I paid,6 months ago,£420 with one injector faulty and no MOT.

I have another,LWB '03 Connect with 152,000 miles for sale....£1000 also.

6 months Tax and MOT......Come and buy it and make a grand

i ended up buying a p reg peugeot partner, no laughing lol
basically it was on facebook for sale page and just down the road, as an ex peugeot tech i knew them in and out so thought why not go look at it for £350.
age really put me off but as soon as i got there i knew i'd found a gem, really tidy and probably better than alot later aged vans.
trusty old 1.9d engine,when peugeot made great diesel engines back in the day, ultra reliable but also not very quick being none turbo.
came home that night racking my brains out about how old it was but in the end the wife said get it for a year then after a year i'll have more money for something better rather than a £1000 budget snotter so got it and spent £40 on full service bits and a cambelt and while i was there having a good poke around the last guys had new front brakes inc calipers and hoses,4 new tyres, 2 bottom arms and a few other bits so needs nothing.
will do me untill next year, i pretty chuffed with it even though i was being an ageist!
heres a pic-

I miss my old partner, faster than the current connect and handled so much better,

captain hook wrote:Bullshit eh?

Ask anyone who knows me...I don't tell lies

It had 132,000 miles on it.

I paid,6 months ago,£420 with one injector faulty and no MOT.

I have another,LWB '03 Connect with 152,000 miles for sale....£1000 also.

6 months Tax and MOT......Come and buy it and make a grand

Yes bullshit, look at your post here:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=141585

Whenever somebody puts something for sale you tell them you sold a better one for a fraction of the price.

To be fair... i've been up to the captains place and seen the sort of stuff he has had for sale and I believe him!

Well, my view is this. If fake, he is a troll. If True, he is seriously under-pricing his stock and could of sold it at much more and it would have still been cheap.

Also, there is no need to tell everybody in the sales section how he sold one much better for much cheaper (on their threads), that isn't cool either way is it. It's that behavior that led me to believe he was in fact trolling, hard.

Anyway, I no longer care

Think you got a good deal there, ok its not the connect you wanted but it looks very tidy and will get you up and running, at the end of the day you are cleaning things so the cleaner looking your van is the better your customers will think.