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LOL Its no that long ago when we used to hear "Scotland   What do you want to go there for? Its always raining"

TBF its to be pissing doon tomorrow but you will probably have snow 

When i was saying retaining clip i was meaning this (Video) Like i say the CV joint can move up and down the shaft a few CM. Not all fall off gladly as i never had one on the O/S CV joint on my Maxus.

Wont the UK ones have the wrong beam direction?

Night and day from the old Banana engine plus they have a bit more power. The black one i made the mistake if putting a solid flywheel in when the clutch end. Almost as soon as i turned the key i regretted it. That was only 90BHP and managed to get 90mph on the flat from that. Not bad from an old bus the shape of a house brick. The silver one what is plated at 4.2T was lacking in the power. Got that mapped to 120 and put 16" wheels on it to get the revs down. Now it pulls like a train. Bloody thing runs out of puff at 80 but that was just being curious. It almost a camper now and i cant see me doing much more over 60/70 in the thing. Think if the Pug Expert was the 2.0 and like Europe we had the LWB i may have kept it. Probably just made it a bit taller what i am sure is doable. When i started to do Gardening a bought a dispatch but that soon got to small as my client list grew so got the LDV Maxus for work. That was only the 1.9 also and was useless on hills with anything more than my gardening tools in the back.

I can confirm larger bikes fit

I presume that is the Matrix with the two plastic pipes sticking out the side. Worth taking out for a flush. How does the heater valve work??? My present bus its a mechanical gate operated by a wire. The gate has some steel parts that rust and jam either closed or open.

Was thinking fish van myself but yeah, nice looking wee van.

Think it was around 180k when i sold on my Expert and my Dispatch was about 130k. Next owner let the Expert rot and failed an MOT miserably. The Dispatch the last i looked was still on the road. Look after the engine with regular oil and filters changes they should run for ever. I remember working for Group4 and we switched from Fiestas to Pug 309's for a year then 306's. I am sure the early days were 1.9TD then switched to 2.0. These cars were on the road 24/7 and could easily rack up 100k a year. We had them on a three year lease and drove as good as we got them when handed back. Just the interior looked old and rotten but they had to be serviced at the proper intervals and the book stamped at Peugeot.  Yeah, Regular service and look after the bodywork and running gear there is not reason why you cant have that van up until the doctors says, "Hoy, Enough. Hand the licence back to DVLA you auld fart"

Sod the Pre MOT waste of money just get it in for a real MOT and a real fail sheet so you know exact what you need to spend. What side of town are you at? I used to go down to Scots garage at the Musselburgh end of Milton Road. He wont pass shite and will only fail you if something is dangerous so all the trivial jobs tend to get mentioned as an advisory.

To ,me it looks the same as fuel pipes but larger. Press this part in (Picture) Possibly one the other side so press both and pull.

When i put my last Dispatch out for pastures new and went larger one thing what pissed me of is not being able to judge reversing into gaps at night even when using a reverse camera. I was lucky i could take the whole light unit out and bin the lot for LED. This did help but i wanted a bit better as it things still looked like an out of focus TV so a put a small light low and in the middle. You can see it in this picture under the doors. It did not need to be bright just enough to reflect any cars, walls or whatever drunk that wants to walk behind a reversing motor. No recommendation as i just grabbed the first bit of flush LED tat on ebay and it was an instant hit. What i will say if you want to change all bulbs to LED make sure your stop/tail light is not Chinese tat. The majority of them you can hardly tell at night if the brake has been pressed. I even bought a set that said the P21/5W but looked more like 6/5W

Interesting. My Expert was a 99/2000 model where the Dispatch was 04. Would that make a difference?? Probably thinking my 306's then