Vauxhall Movano Workshop

Advantages: good to drive lots of space low easy loading
Disadvantages: major faults with driveshaft & gear link

...i own six vauxhall movano vans, all from new from my loacal vauxhall dealer. all went well for the first twelv months then all of a suden the gear link started to go one by one untill every van had been in to be repaired. then to cap that the driveshafts started to fail at a cost of £700 each to repair per side. as you can see im not very happy with my vans and am now in dispute with vauxhall & vauxhall finance who just ignore anything & everything. i have wrote to gmac sevral times & still await a sngle reply if you want to no more let me no & ill fill anyone in on the full details, this is a very very short version of events.... Read review

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Advantages: size, easy to own, handles well, cheap to run
Disadvantages: driveshafts in early models

...I have owned a 2000 Movano high roof with a 2.5 diesel engine for about 8 months, bought from a local dealer with 100,000 miles on the clock. I have found the van to be good to drive, with direct, positive steering and surprising nimbleness for such a tall vehicle. On a run, even fully loaded up, I can get around 28 miles per gallon, though in town this plummets to around 24. I can easily drive the tank range of 330 miles without fatigue from the seat or driving position. Looks are nothing special, certainly loosing out to the newer Vivaros and Vitos, but then it's a lot bigger, and compares reasonably well to the Iveco daily which is its real competition. In my version, there are two main problems; the gearchange is very vague. Second gear almost impossible to find in the first 4-600 yards (don't know why, once the engine is warm it... Read review

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Advantages: nice ride and good interior build quality
Disadvantages: high repair cost and low service interviles

...Please don't read this review and take it the wrong way, it may sound like I am having a moan about this vehicle but in fact I am very happy with it and would recommend to anyone. For those of you that are not very up on commercial vehicles this cab says vauxhall in a few places and you could take it to vauxhall for service but that is where the link with vauxhall ends. Designed and built by Renualt it is French through and through. Oh no I here you say, the gearbox is going to spend more time on the bench than on the van and the doors are going to fall off. Well I can say that the 100k I have done in this {plus the 100k on the clock when I bought this vehicle} have been far from trouble free. You may say that buying a vehicle with 100k on I should expect break downs, but it was a calculated risk as being only two years old... Read review

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