Nissan cabstar - iveco daily

[MattCharlton91]

Hi all,

I'm looking at getting a dropside van for my fencing business. I don't want a transit, we've ran a fair few, and found that the vehicles of 2006/2010 vintage to be horrendously unreliable.

At the minute, I've narrowed it down to either a cabstar or iveco daily. Both of around 2005 vintage.

If anyone could spare some info on either of these vehicles, that would be fantastic.. Such as reliability, running costs (mainly fuel consumption, servicing and minor repairs I can do)

Thanks in advance!

Matt

[Vincecj]

Canter?

[Odhran]

Toyota Dyna?

[MattCharlton91]

Both good options, but seem to be few and fat between on budget!

[Odhran]

Check on Irish website Donedeal.ie. toyotas very popular in republic plus favourable euro exchange means a bargain is easily achievable. Importation isn't too much of a hassle either!

[s2sol]

I've had a few I'veco Daily vans over the years. The 35c15 is a decent chassis cab, but heavy. The payload in a box van was only about 950kg. The smaller engine (2.3 rather than 3.0) is a lot lighter and doesn't give a lot away in terms of performance. Rear break calipers seize for a hobby. It's worth having a couple of spares at hand if you need the thing available all the time. The pad wear sensor wires for the front brakes break, or the sensors fall off. It'll always tell you the pads are worn. Other than that, they're pretty reliable. Synchro on 3rd will be noisy up and down the box eventually, with no other effect.

ExceptionaL items were a rear wheel bearing that took the half shaft out on a 35s14 (partially my fault) and a head gasket failure on a 35c15. All my 2.3 litre vans were ex rental, at about 35000 miles and ran to 200k. The one 3.0 was bought at about 105k, and sold with 289k 3 years later. The big engined one was the most trouble.

I didn't fancy the small cab on the Japanese vans, or having to tip the cab to do any work on them.

[wack]

I ran a 35C15 from new for 7 years , 90% of that at 7 tonnes towing a trailer, I found it to be very reliable, in over 300,000 miles I only had one breakdown and that was when the terminal on the battery corroded away, there's a fuse box on it that wants looking at .

The guy I sold it to had a head on crash with a car doing 70mph , he walked away, the guy in the car didn't , they're good in a crash .

It did have a couple of diffs though

It was great when it was empty, 150bhp , cars would come alongside in the right turn only lane thinking they'd nip in front, got it bit of a shock when it took off like a scalded car

Edited by wack on Friday 24th July 22:06