Best Used Pick Up

[Bob-iylho]

L200 Barbarian here, like driving a bath tub, but I bloody love it

[Mammasaid]

Willhire89 said:

Did the salesman at Nissan tell you that?

I would like to see that confirmed from somewhere real - in seven years of Amarok ownership and tens of thousands of miles I have never been fined at 70

It is a non articulated GV under 7500 laden

Never been mentioned before.....

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Speed addicted]

Willhire89 said:

Speed addicted said:

Note that the ranger and amarok are both over 2t so have lower speed limits, where the Japanese trucks don’t. They’ve just put average speed on a load of the roads I use regularly so this influenced my buying!

Edited by Speed addicted on Sunday 3rd February 09:52

Did the salesman at Nissan tell you that?

I would like to see that confirmed from somewhere real - in seven years of Amarok ownership and tens of thousands of miles I have never been fined at 70

It is a non articulated GV under 7500 laden

He did mention it, but I was already into my research by then.
The salesman at VW confirmed it too.

I know two people that have been caught in transit connects (same issue), and others that simply hadn’t checked the limits for the weights of what they were driving.

[Willhire89]

Speed addicted said:

Willhire89 said:

Speed addicted said:

Note that the ranger and amarok are both over 2t so have lower speed limits, where the Japanese trucks don’t. They’ve just put average speed on a load of the roads I use regularly so this influenced my buying!

Edited by Speed addicted on Sunday 3rd February 09:52

Did the salesman at Nissan tell you that?

I would like to see that confirmed from somewhere real - in seven years of Amarok ownership and tens of thousands of miles I have never been fined at 70

It is a non articulated GV under 7500 laden

He did mention it, but I was already into my research by then.
The salesman at VW confirmed it too.

I know two people that have been caught in transit connects (same issue), and others that simply hadn’t checked the limits for the weights of what they were driving.

Peugeot Bippers and Transit Connects are indeed subject to the lower limit - it is not the same issue

[Speed addicted]

Willhire89 said:

Peugeot Bippers and Transit Connects are indeed subject to the lower limit - it is not the same issue

It is, they look like similar vans but because of payload capacity they’re subject to lower limits. With the pickups it’s the weight you need to look at, if it’s over 2040kg you get to drive slower.

30 seconds on google (plus the links above) show that the heavier pickups are subject to lower limits.

Chance of getting caught? Probably low, but let’s say you’re caught doing 63 in a NSL, you’re actually 13mph over the limit. The police can (and do) regularly catch people going too fast for the classification.

If we just go by not being stopped doing it as far as I’m concerned there are no speed limits for motorbikes at all!


https://www.businessvans.co.uk/van-law/speeds/is-i...

[mcjimny]

Currently in a ‘17 ranger 3.2, its auto so is slow between shifts but knocked over to manual it will get on a bit better and i’ve seen nearly 130 from it. I love everything it does, i’ll agree that the size can be a problem parking occasionally. I live in a small market town and some places i have to give on a space, it either overhangs the path or sticks out in the road. I get mid 20’s as a rule but 30+ on cruise. They’re unfortunately restricted to the lower speed limits and if you add a top on it tips it over the CV tax rate and into the regular company car tax bands and you lose the flat tax rate that makes them attractive.....ignoring the impending clamp down everyone is worried about.

Replaced a series 4 L200 with it, the L200 was a nice truck until it had the notorious cracked block/head gasket issue at 50k. I had a series 5 warrior and a barbarian while it was in and hated them. Plenty quick enough and easy to drive but the handling was terrible and it felt far too light. Couldn’t see past the reliability issues of my series 4 despite the dealer insisting its a whole new block. Mine went back about 10 times to fix the steering controls for the radio/media before I got sick of the back and forth and just lived with it for the remaining 18months of the lease. Rust was a huge detraction too, sidesteps went rusty inside of 9 months and they don’t warranty them(dealer cleaned and painted them for me), the whole underside had surface rust and scabs on brackets and joins, any areas of the chassis you could see(inside the arches etc) looked awful. The tailgates are made of old coke cans to keep weight down and as a result the slighest nudge damages them. The interior aged terribly too, it went back at 64k and looked like it had done double that......all considering i run cafes for a living and it got an easy life.

A mate has a 13 year old ranger, hes had it for about 3 years now and other than the fan belt snapping has been 100% reliable. Everything in it is tight as a button still and its on 130k now, hes currently looking for a 3 year old XLT to replace it.

[dvshannow]

Just picked up one too , got a Hilux

They are good value compared with SUVs imo - and that’s without the tax breaks , as it’s a great workhorse for the house while doing enough at family transport to be a second car

[FocusRS3]

dvshannow said:

Just picked up one too , got a Hilux

They are good value compared with SUVs imo - and that’s without the tax breaks , as it’s a great workhorse for the house while doing enough at family transport to be a second car

This is my thinking.

If the wife hadn't gotten involved that Evoque wouldn't be on the drive now