Depends on whether the T2 owner is a 23 year old hipster millienial twat with a gay manly beard who's struggling to undo the wheel nuts.
Or some middle aged fart trying to look cool, bit like your Dad wearing Superdry.
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Re: Tales of a Transhit
Neither apply in my case, I'm old.
I couldn't look cool if my life depended on it and wouldn't even bother trying.
I couldn't look cool if my life depended on it and wouldn't even bother trying.
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Re: Tales of a Transhit
We have a new Transhit for work (hire van). Turkish built. It's a proper bag of shit and already suspect at a few thousand miles. Heater goes stone cold when you stop moving and the engine rattles occasionally. And it stinks like fuck because of that horrible bile a modern diesel engine needs. Oh, and the fuel consumption is absolutely dreadful.
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Re: Tales of a Transhit
Looking cool is like patina on old motors: if you think that you have to add it, then you just don’t get that you will never have it.
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Re: Tales of a Transhit
Transhits are abysmal. There is only one unreliable modern van worth a damn, the Renault Trafic. They too have issues but they drive so well and are comfortable. After 45 minutes in a Transhit my right leg is in agony. I fucking detest them.
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Re: Tales of a Transhit
Banana transhits where the last ones worth having.
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Re: Tales of a Transhit
But they rotted like a bastard. The old T4 was a better bet, from an era when VW stuff wasn't junk.
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Re: Tales of a Transhit
We had a couple of Mark 3 Transhits but petrols, a 1986 2.0 and a 1989 1600. I Waxoyled the 1600 when we bought it at a year old and it was still unrusty when scrapped in 2004.
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Re: Tales of a Transhit
My tipper hasn't been used for ages. Disconnected the battery as there's a drain. Of course the battery was still dead. Charged it up overnight and is apparently 'full' according to the charger. Engine only turns very slowly then behaves like a flat battery. Tried jump leads from Punto but same result. Tried my Lucas charger/ starter and same result. Thought it might be a bad earth lead but adding a jump lead made no odds.
I'll try a known good battery. I only want to move it 10 yards.
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