Have you considered a vw caddy? There was one guy on here who had one that had gone over £300,000 miles with very little trouble. Can`t remember who it was though.
The one that he's buying will have as it'll be at least 10 years old. He's tighter than a fishes bottom
Not considered a caddy might look into one of them.
Depends on the age of the van, the newer ford's with AdBlue have a wet belt.
No adblue with mine(2017).I thought it was the custom that had wet belts not the connects.my bad!
Sometimes they have different engines but they are all the same shell. We have a 63 plate Doblo, it has a different engine than the Combo of the same era.
Ask Gary Google and all is revealed, the more I look into Ford and wet belts I'd avoid one like the plague £1,000 bil or more every 4 years basically my wife and I were considering a custom that has been totally ruled out as off this morning I found this https://fordtransit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=225908 and it has put me right off.
It will be interesting to see if this actually happens at all because I have been watching vans for a few weeks and I'm seeing some just sitting at dealerships and private sellers for over 2 months, I picked up a well-priced Berlingo with less than 50k on the clock last summer because the dealer had two of them for 3 months and hadn't been able to sell them.
I was looking at those Combo’s recently. Less than 40k, no more than 10 years old. They were up for £6.4-7k. Where our office is there is a chap who buys and sells cars, has an account at the auctions etc. He was able to show me where the vans originated from just by the number plate. He went down to the auctions, the next lot going through had approx 10k less miles. They were piling through the auction at £7k plus fees. The week later on Autotrader the first lot had sold and those new ones were up. The price had gone up to £9-10k. This is much closer to the price of the Berlingos etc.
How do you find the doblo? good payload I think but varies as they do. The ford connects can have decent payload but also have the wet belt issue in the newer models I think
To be honest I hate driving it but lads have all taken to it well. Had it 3 years now, only getting rid because it’s getting old now. I hate it because my Dispatch has cruise control, air con and apple car play. It’s pretty rapid as vans go and has a phenomenal payload for its size (over a tonne)
