Help finding a Transit Tipper

[dangerous brian]

Try a scrap yard thats where all mine ended up ,useless bags of crapp do yourself a favour and get a cabstar,mine has outlasted three transit tippers and is still going strong,id think twice and spend once,go japanese.

[Mark Bolam]

Most common arb truck? Transit.

 

Most common wheel shape? Round.

 

Doesn't matter if you agree or not, these are facts, and there is probably a reason for this.

[County4x4]

Mate of mine has a County Transit tipper for sale in Ireland at the minute - thats the 4x4 version. It's a '98 I think but can check. Belting motor and I'd have had his arm off for it if I'd not bought a Mk6 van a week ago as I'm taking my County van off the road for a while - off the road as in parking it up, not going offroad! I've had nothing but Transits for years including two 4x4's and honestly can't see myself ever buying anything else.

 

 

Andy

[chaffey]

We have a 55 plate transit. Where do i begin!! It starts every morning which is always a good thing and to be honest with you it is a little underpowered especially when towing but the biggest problem is as, someone has already said, the weight limit. We can carry about 750kg in the back once we have all our tools in the crew cab and that is a big problem as you will probably appreciate it doesn't take long when taking down a tree to get that much chip in it. And you're probably thinking now that it's no problem as you won't get pulled but if you do it's points and a fine for being overweight (and i don't mean the driver!!). We had nearly 5 tons on ours once you can tell it is there but everything will go in the back!!

[chaffey]

I said 5 tons the vehicle gross weight was 5 tons so a payload of 2 1/4 tons before someone picks up on that:001_tt2:

[Lorry thompson]

We love ours they are a bit underpowered but there's no rush has anyone know anyone that's had one re-mapped I know you can do it to get more power but haven't heard of peoples reviews I'm guessing a bit more power would help the clutch

[Mark Bolam]

I'm interested in remapping as well, for fuel economy more than anything else.

 

When you think about it, the back is empty more than half the time!

[Lorry thompson]

I know sounds too good to be true though doesn't it more power and better fuel economy a friend of mine got his van done and said it is a lot better but it's only used for motorcross so isn't pulling much weight would like to hear of a tree surgeon who has had it done

[Big 'Ammer]

Depends who's going to be driving it too!

 

Staff will not be driving it with fuel economy and clutch life forefront in their minds.

 

If theres a clutch issue, upping the power is going to make it worse rather than better.

[Lorry thompson]

I was wondering wether it would be better or worse thought it would make it better I thought the engine labouring would put the stress on the clutch I'm crap with mechanics