Reliability of LDV Convoy 2006

[gordonscobie]

I am looking at LDV convoys for sale. There is one on Ebay at the minute that I am interested in. I am not familiar with these vans. Does anyone on here have any experience with these vans?

I am wondering if they are reliable and what the values might be.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

(Just joined the forum)

Gordon

 

[parney]

I drove one for 3 years the high roof model cab seats were very uncomfortable.The cab area is as basic as it gets plastic everywhere. It was slow and heavy on fuel at motorway legal speeds. Reliable yes never had any massive issues.

 

[parney]

Value is what ever you think it’s worth to yourself.Very difficult to give a price on with out a viewing to see quality

 

[Terry]

Hi and welcome I used to use them for my work vans. They were a lot bigger inside than transits and half price. They were reliable with Peugeot 2.5 engines but then they used Transit 2.4 engines, again reliable but the prices went up towards Transit prices Hope that helps

 

[jongood]

I reckon that must be one of the last,so will almost certainly have the Ford 2.5Di which was a good engine for that time, reasonable performance and about the best on fuel, downside was noise, but it wasnt an unpleasant drone like the Peugeots. The insides were very upright and basic. a very roomy van and quite simple to fix.

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[The general]

Yes pretty basic which to me is a plus , rust will kill it before the ford engine .

 

[fishplug]

IIRC the Post Office used to use the Convoys.

Prone to tin worm but otherwise pretty reliable and, perhaps more importantly, mechanically simple so as long as you can still get the parts they should be easy enough to work on.

I had the Maxus which was bought as a 'skip on wheels' and was only ever intended to do one job over the course of a year. The idea was to sell it for roughly what I'd paid for it so I flatly refused to spend any money on it that wasn't absolutely essential.

I had to change the windscreen wipers and put a clutch master cylinder on it as well as a new set of tyres. Aside for oil and filters and a bit of windscreen wash that's all I did to the van in the 7 years I ended up owning it....

There's a part of me that wishes I'd kept it.

 

[tacr2man]

They seemed to like it

 

[chaser]

Our first van was an ldv bought unseen off eBay, a month later we were here did 3000 miles on that first trip never missed a beat, loved it but spent more time welding it than going in it in the end.