Getting a Van soon, Which to get and can i get it remapped? And should i break my car or sell as it is?

[CitroenSport]

ok so im looking at getting a van very soon but cant decide what to get:
- Vauxhall Vivaro 1.9CDTI
- Renault Trafic 1.9CDTI
- Ford Transit and dont know the engines :P

looking for an 02 plate or newer

so any opinions on these vans?
easy to work on?
reliable?
and can you remap them?

and also im not sure if i should break my car or not . . .
i payed £1800
03 plate
70,000
Silver VTR
7 owners

It currently has 8 months for Tax & MOT

Since then i have:

Engine & Transmission:
K&N induction kit
De-cat
Supersprint Race System
VTS Gearbox (Last month)
New clutch (Last month)
2x New driveshafts (Last month)

Suspention:
Front lowered 50mm
Rear lowered 50mm

Wheels & Tyres
VTS wheels powdercoated in anthracite (Last month)
4x Toyo Proxes T1-R 195 45 15 (Last month)

Exterior:
Silver Dimma Grill
Xenon 6k Light Conversion
Smoked Headlights
Black Bee Sting Ariel
Black VTR Wingmirrors
Tinted Rear Windows
T-cut Rear Badges
Aero Wiper Blades

Interior:
106 GTI Half Leather Airbagged Interior Including Doorcards
C4 Lobe Gearknob
Sony Xplode CD Player
De-Pinned Doors
VTS Footwell Nets

Think i should sell as it is or break?? as i would like £2500

cheers:y:

[23carragold]

Why would you want to remap a van?

It sounds peculiar to me. I guess an increase in torque and power but surely the vans are powerful enough for their purpose?

[CitroenSport]

just i currently drive my bosses 180BHP transporter sportline and my saxo
so i want it to be nippy still :P

[Robin91]

Why would you want to remap a van?

It sounds peculiar to me. I guess an increase in torque and power but surely the vans are powerful enough for their purpose?

To make it quicker obviously! 99% of cars are 'powerful enough for their purpose', i.e. road travel. But that doesn't stop people wanting more power!

Transporter ftw.

[Mallyauto86]

don't break the saxo too many of them getting broken. They are going to be a classic like the 205GTI one day

[23carragold]

To make it quicker obviously! 99% of cars are 'powerful enough for their purpose', i.e. road travel. But that doesn't stop people wanting more power!

Transporter ftw.

I guess..

I don't have anything to reply with. I'm satisfied with that response.

[VTR01KBR]

Get the Ford Transit and put a cossie engine in it :y:

[CitroenSport]

don't break the saxo too many of them getting broken. They are going to be a classic like the 205GTI one day


Money is more important atm lol if i can get more buy breaking it or i guess i could put it back to standard and sell the mods:y:

[sparky771]

A lad at our place has a traffic remapped it dint make it that much faster just evened out the curves and actually made it slightly more economical ;)

[CitroenSport]

A lad at our place has a traffic remapped it dint make it that much faster just evened out the curves and actually made it slightly more economical ;)

so a little bit quicker? but better on the juice cheers mate:y:

[timmythechef]

transpotter ftw

expensive mind you

[sparky771]

Only Slightly it dont take it to like 100000mpg haha i think it did 25/30mpg before mappin then i thin it does 35ish now :) pulls alot better too

[evans1089]

vw caddy with a 20vt lump in it.. thats my soon to be project!

[nicole_]

the merc sprinter vans are bloody fast lol
boyfriend has a ford transit connect its on like 150k and its the most reliable thing in the world, slow though, some guy van raced him in a newer connect and pissed all over him lol

[Lewis]

Local lad has an old renault 'small' box van with the R5 GTT engine in it. Outruns evo's lol

[D--R--E--W]

Escort van with the rs bodykit and rs turbo engine. Mate has a widearch one in blue and its awesome

[MiniGibbo]

Only quickly scanned the replys but to easily reply the best van is a transporter, i have a 04 plate one.

Merc's rust badly seen year old ones with serious rot.
The vauxhal,nissan.renault thing the vivaro is awfu built like shit but is cheap.
Transit is a transit at the end of the day good work horse lol.. but you need an 06 onwards with the gearstick on the dash the floor ones are stone age in comparison.

As for smaller vans nothing is worth looking at but Transit connects or Caddys if you can afford one there mega money vs connects.

[Saxo-SX]

Transit with cosworth conversion.

[Reechard]

Ive had to drive a fair few vans for work. My list of favourites based on speed, comfort, mpg, handling and ease of driving goes like this.

VW Transporter, great van, pulls and pulls and still does good mpg. Plus vw reliability(These should remap pretty well as with all VAG engines)

New Ford Transit, possibly not as fast as the Transporter but fun all the same, and handles pretty well, even when full of machinery and stone.

Merc Sprinter, was decent enough, didnt accelerate too well but on the motorway it just ate the miles. Newer ones are much nicer after going in my mates one.

Renault Traffic, actually alright, nothing special though.

Peugeot Partner, good vans, the new engines are pretty good too, plenty of pull. Space in these always surprised me as they dont look very big. By far one of the better handling ones too.

Old Ford Transit, pile of junk, although had a bad example. The gears as have been mentioned were on the floor and aweful. interior also let it down and wasnt very comfy on long trips

LDV Pick up, hate this, drove to site, then told one of my workers to drive it home. Just didnt get on with it at all, slow too.

[mikeyboy456]

mate of mines vivaro he's done shit loads to it i think remap etc

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs275.snc4/40091_435332776360_599711360_5438413_7653649_n.jpg

[D8N_LL]

mate of mines vivaro he's done shit loads to it i think remap etc

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs275.snc4/40091_435332776360_599711360_5438413_7653649_n.jpg

Love that!!

[stupotvtr]

Why get the 1.9 vivaro remapped just get the 2.5 instead.

[Dave89]

Sprinters and Vito's are pretty quick for vans although not that reliable.

I would go for a Transit personally.

[MiniGibbo]

People who mod vans need a fucking slap! Theyre to make you money that is all when you spend money on them it kind of goes agaisnt the point of having one..

I do want the little spoiler they do for the transporters rear doors though :oops:

EDIT: And to add to my earlier point of mercs being rust buckets my 04 transporter has stone chips on the front with bare metal that are about upto four years old and there is zero rust on the van, chippy i know has a 04 Vito and its covered in rust.. Last mot he was told itll need welding on the seals to pass next year :S