Petrol vans - making a comeback?
Discussion
I'll be ordering a new small van for work soon. We mostly run little Peugeot Bippers with the 1.3 diesel in them.
Inclined to think - given the current anti-diesel climate - it might be time to consider petrol vans.
Ford are doing their littlest van, the Courier, with the 1.0 litre triple in 100 bhp spec, which sounds appealing.
Is anyone else thinking the same thing?
My biggest fear is my numpty staff filling it with diesel.
Inclined to think - given the current anti-diesel climate - it might be time to consider petrol vans.
Ford are doing their littlest van, the Courier, with the 1.0 litre triple in 100 bhp spec, which sounds appealing.
Is anyone else thinking the same thing?
My biggest fear is my numpty staff filling it with diesel.
brrapp said:
I'm working for Royal Mail at the moment and all the new postie vans we've got are petrol Peugeot partners. They seem fine though the oldest is younger than six months so not had time for faults to show. The only bad thing is they are fitted with the same telematics as the diesels so show anything over 3000rpm as bad driving. Try pulling onto a busy roundabout fully laden without touching the loud pedal!!!
I'm feet manager, and I'll be in the cold, cold ground before any kind of driver monitoring is installed on our vans. 
Interested to note that I'm not the only one thinking this way.
The only bitter pill will be the fuel consumption (the Bippers return 50+ MPG driven round town!), but my reasoning is that my vans do very low mileages, and any future additional diesel tax may well be levied on RFL rather than fuel in any case.
May go and test drive a Courier then.
bigwheel said:
You can't get a Diesel nozzle (wider than a petrol nozzle) into the smaller petrol filler hole/neck!
Aside from the truly lunatic person who might try and trickle diesel into a small petrol neck without actually having the diesel nozzle inserted into the petrol neck. But then you wouldn't be employing someone of that calibre.
Or would you?
Army of middle aged women Aside from the truly lunatic person who might try and trickle diesel into a small petrol neck without actually having the diesel nozzle inserted into the petrol neck. But then you wouldn't be employing someone of that calibre.
Or would you?
Forgotten petrol necks are narrower.
Jag_NE said:
If it’s a lease I don’t think that petrol brings anything to the party apart from inferior fuel economy and a lot less pulling power. If you are buying the van and plan on keeping it for ten years it might make me think twice but a ten year old van will be shagged and worthless anyway unless it’s a pretty special spec.
We buy them and treat them very well. My main motivation is on the basis that the government is moving gently towards penalising diesel vehicle owners, and it might be best to be ahead of the game.
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