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Our company supplies our vans to us through a lease company, last year they renewed the contract and we all got given brand new 12 plate fiat vans all with about 10 miles on,
brilliant! .. or so we thought!
Fiats have been nothing but grief, auto locking keys inside vans, false oil levels, ignition failure in 2 vans, mechanical engine failure in 1 van and a few arrived with dents from the factory! My personal expeirience is with a Fiat Florinio, which was featured on the
installer monthly magazine, don't belive what they wrote about it and take it from a
up and coming heating engineer, there bloomin terrible!
 
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Was the false oil level on he dip-stick or electrically on the dash?
 
Will get some better pics later today it has a couple of minor cosmetics (1 small scratch, 1 small piece of laquer peeled off and a small crack in passanger mirror plastic) bought from evans halshaw for only really a few hundred more than private and cheaper than some small dealers and i got a fair price for the last one so im chuffed.
 

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just trying to decide how to do racking mate unsure at min. Got a mate offering to do wood racking for me but got to go visit him in scotland to get done. you got the pics of yours up yet?
 
Toyota HiAce for reliability. Previous van did 320K miles no major problems.(P reg). Later model with D4D engine, timing belt runs off fuel pump, makes timing belt change simple. Remove battery, timing cover, easy access, one hour job. Van vault for security, behind bulkhead, with sheet of ply over vault and wheel arches to cover additional toolboxes, and deter envious eyes, loading area on ply for radiators etc. Only drawback, shortwheel base model does not take 8x4 sheets. Happy motoring.
 
Toyota HiAce for reliability. Previous van did 320K miles no major problems.(P reg). Later model with D4D engine, timing belt runs off fuel pump, makes timing belt change simple. Remove battery, timing cover, easy access, one hour job. Van vault for security, behind bulkhead, with sheet of ply over vault and wheel arches to cover additional toolboxes, and deter envious eyes, loading area on ply for radiators etc. Only drawback, shortwheel base model does not take 8x4 sheets. Happy motoring.

At last someone who knows about vans. Toyota are brilliant. You know what they say in oz, if you want to go to the outback take a landrover. If you want to come back take a landcruiser.
 
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Can you still buy hiace? I mean new ones?

No, the engines don't meet the new emissions. Some dealers have still got some hanging around. There doing a new pro ace Wich is a Peugeot with a Toyota badge on it. Avoid.
 

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