LWB Vivaro

[Bikesalot]

In due course i'm going to view a 2003 lwb vivaro.

137k miles
New gearbox and cabled at 120k
Cambelt and rear springs replace at 135k

What should I be looking out for on these, it wont be a works van, more of a leisure van.

[anonymous-user]

Don't do it, I had 5 or 6 Vivaro's on my fleet at one stage and they were all a pain in the arse.

Turbo's, gearboxes, injection pumps and glow plugs made them absolutely ruinous to try and run past 3 years old.

[Bikesalot]

Any other suggestions?

I have read some horror stories but you get the same with every car, still see the motorway filled with them...can't be ALL bad?

I don't want a transit.

[anonymous-user]

I've got about 60 vans on my fleet, about 30% are now leased, the rest are high mileage Transits, mixed in with the odd Iveco, Merc and Citroen.

Without doubt the Vivaro/Traffic/Primastar have been awfully unreliable and very expensive to repair. The Transit's are a bit more reliable and a little cheaper to repair, mostly.

I'd be inclined to seek out a VW, they hold their money for a reason.

[mistergrumpy]

Yep. I have to agree too. We have 2 at work, one is the newer facelifted type and one just before the facelift, around 2014 or 2015 I think both are and they're absolute rubbish. The side door has fallen off the older one around 5 times now and has managed to lock someone in the rear forcing them to climb over the front seats. The plastic side trim keeps coming off. The radio doesn't work.The foam on the double seat of the newer one has collapsed and leaves you sitting on the framework and it has a light that keeps coming on the dash in relation to emissions or summat. They're always going in for repair.