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How many miles has your van done???

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MOSCOW FYLER
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How many miles has your van done???

Post by MOSCOW FYLER »

94.000+ mine has done and counting, total shed, in the garage at least once a month, triggers broom comes to mind. Was I dreaming or did royal mail used to get shut of them when they had done 40k them were the days.
gretsch-drummer
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by gretsch-drummer »

I'm on a collection this week with a trusty Ford Tranny on 120k.....She's a beauty.
sussexlad
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by sussexlad »

There is a 600 that comes to our office every afternoon to do a dispatch and at the last time of asking it had 740,000 miles on the clock.Our CDV van is a 10 plate and it has done 17,000
Richard007
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by Richard007 »

Vauxhall combi and done 104600 still goes but rough
bluealbert
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by bluealbert »

110,000 and counting everything rattling including me :dance
Shaman Mao
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by Shaman Mao »

2000. And its already had all the bodywork replaced on one side!
buckrogers
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by buckrogers »

Had a lovely movano today. 504 miles on the clock! About the same amount of grunt as a mk1 hct though.
jmlr1971
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Joined: 18 Jun 2007, 21:31
Location: scotland

Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by jmlr1971 »

Ford connect 06 plate 209000
noggin1969
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by noggin1969 »

Vauxhall combi 58 plate and done 110000 , uses more oil and water than diesel and bodywork looks like it's been round a stock car track :left:
robbertwhitton
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by robbertwhitton »

same here,all vans high mileage and being patched up and sent back from workshops,who I guess are run off there poor feet! I did raise this point in the comic courier a while ago,and got some reply from some head of fleet bloke who never answered my question on the poor state of the fleet,and how and who gets new vans.saving money at our expense again?like others have said if its not fit to drive we simply don't take it out,but oh what a struggle it is at times to argue the point.i hear theres a big push to get the vans back up to speck?mine has been done a bit and tidied up,but they still didn't push the dent out that they did at workshops? and cant even put a new royal mail sticker on the side door that they replaced from another van,mmmmm
pyphon
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by pyphon »

3,800 on a 62 plate, had it since apr
jim1963
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by jim1963 »

i worked in the po from 1980 to 1990...the EA vans we had then done around 150, 000 miles, we had leyland Itals they done around 100,000 before scrappage,,,by god could they move....not unusual to do 70mph on the motorway and still plents of guts in them
OnAFlyer
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by OnAFlyer »

Christ how many miles are you lot doing in a day?

Ours is a 59 plate and has done 8,500 miles. We average 10 miles per day.
tbi1959
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Re: How many miles has your van done???

Post by tbi1959 »

We've got a 55 plate 600 in our office with 1,000,000 km on the clock!!!