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1 hour ago, Six30 said:

19,000, why want to buy it ?

No, I need an automatic. 

Ours in work has 66,000 on it now and no problems whatsoever but it's getting to the stage where you start to worry about the wet belt.  I'm looking for a van but it has to be auto, Transporter's are crazy prices and Sprinters are just as bad, Transit's are a decent price but there's always the worry about the belt .

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39 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

No, I need an automatic. 

Ours in work has 66,000 on it now and no problems whatsoever but it's getting to the stage where you start to worry about the wet belt.  I'm looking for a van but it has to be auto, Transporter's are crazy prices and Sprinters are just as bad, Transit's are a decent price but there's always the worry about the belt .

i'd be more worried about the gearbox in it...

 it is a stupid idea having a belt running through the oil... cant remember time wise but  ford have lowered the mileage on what time to get belt done think its 100k now , no way i would go that distance with out getting it changed, 

fella i know sells late vans , any with wet belts he gets changed before he puts em up for sale, none of em ever come back for failed belts its always dpf or adblue problems which is another stupid idea

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45 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

No, I need an automatic. 

Ours in work has 66,000 on it now and no problems whatsoever but it's getting to the stage where you start to worry about the wet belt.  I'm looking for a van but it has to be auto, Transporter's are crazy prices and Sprinters are just as bad, Transit's are a decent price but there's always the worry about the belt .

One of our transits with the wet belt engine broke the belt at around 50,000 miles but that's not the worst of it, as the belt wears the bits of it end up in the oil pump strainer block the flow and totally fuck the engine Ford put a new engine in one of our vans free of charge because of it. I was looking to buy that one off the company but even with he new engine and some of the other issues we've had with them i decided i wont touch it.
 

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1 minute ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

One of our transits with the wet belt engine broke the belt at around 50,000 miles but that's not the worst of it, as the belt wears the bits of it end up in the oil pump strainer block the flow and totally fuck the engine Ford put a new engine in one of our vans free of charge because of it. I was looking to buy that one off the company but even with he new engine and some of the other issues we've had with them i decided i wont touch it.
 

yeh thats what fucks the engines bits of the belt blocking the pump...

how much can you buy it for ? 

 

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5 minutes ago, Six30 said:

yeh thats what fucks the engines bits of the belt blocking the pump...

how much can you buy it for ? 

 

He just traded it in for a new van all they would give him was 5k for it and i was thinking of buying it for that, It was a mid top with about 70,000 miles on it so you could stand up in it which is what i was after.

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3 hours ago, boboneleg said:

No, I need an automatic. 

Ours in work has 66,000 on it now and no problems whatsoever but it's getting to the stage where you start to worry about the wet belt.  I'm looking for a van but it has to be auto, Transporter's are crazy prices and Sprinters are just as bad, Transit's are a decent price but there's always the worry about the belt .

Not just transits either, bloody daft idea.
 

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On 13/05/2024 at 19:31, Sir Fallsalot said:

No you don't you lost your language which was the common Brittonic language, spoken throughout Great Britain but you just bent over and let it get fucked out of you :classic_laugh: Brittonic evolved into Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Cumbric, and probably Pictish. I'm not a welsh speaker but even i know because the welsh language was forced out of us by the English it makes it far more important to keep the language alive now, even if its just to stick two fingers up to them because they didn't succeed at their evil plan. We could have bent over and let them take it from us but we didn't and it's still a language that's alive throughout Wales not having that heritage is why you won't understand how important it is  

so why dont you speak it then being a sheepshagging native?

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5 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

He just traded it in for a new van all they would give him was 5k for it and i was thinking of buying it for that, It was a mid top with about 70,000 miles on it so you could stand up in it which is what i was after.

but he can stand up properly in an escort van the short cunt he dont need no high top

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3 hours ago, Pedro said:

What’s the advantage of having the belt inside oil? Has to have some advantage.

it sounds like a crap idea, i cant see any advantage at all as always thought belts should be kept dry

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10 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

After three months that's the best reply you could come up 

He is Lionel 2.0

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15 hours ago, Pedro said:

What’s the advantage of having the belt inside oil? Has to have some advantage.

I believe they did it to increase the mileage between replacement, messed that idea right up.
My VW has a wet drive belt for the oil pump. I didn't know this when I changed the cam belt a couple of years ago and I'm hearing stories of them coming apart and blocking the oil strainer just like the rest.
I've recently got a Golf diesel engine apart as the cam belt died. They're a "modular engine" So the cam box has to be replaced complete with cams and some of the lobes have moved on the shafts.

As there were parts broken up top and many missing I had the sump off and that belt looked absolutely fine at 88,000 miles. Doesn't stop me worrying about mine though.

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13 hours ago, busabeast said:

it sounds like a crap idea, i cant see any advantage at all as always thought belts should be kept dry

less co2's ... yup that bollox again

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4 hours ago, boboneleg said:

Another tease photo , it should be delivered tomorrow ...........

 

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welcome to the club... 

Celebrate In Love GIF by Max

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