Rise of the T5 !!

That's looking at that guy on the unicycle on the chimney

 

Mrs All Funny is very unimpressed with you....

 

I've come over a little queer, wasn't that Brent's opening joke to the Swindon lot

 

The blinged one looks
A bit plasticky
And wouldn't last as long and would go down
As soon as you took it out the showroom

 

Weirdo.

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And ?

 

Just nice to know I'm not the only one here.

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Haha! It was a special last run of the T4 van I think mostly 2003. It had a long nose like the Caravelle with cruise control, leccy Windows, single captain seats, heated mirrors etc etc. 88hp 2.5 5 cyl. Lovely torquey engine and really solidly built van. Easily the best of the four T4's I had. We mildly lowered it on KW springs over RS6 alloys and stuck a SS twin exhaust on it. Looked lovely in black. Really subtle with absolutely no stupid shiny bling on it. The missus cried when it was replaced by our T5.1. Should have held on to it really...

 

It is a well known fact the the later T4's with the TDI in em were better built and had a stronger engine than the t5's, loads floating about on the forums with over 300k on them

 

We bought ours with about 30k on it and sold it at about 120k. Used every day for work and weekends for camping. Apart from normal servicing, timing belts, water pump etc we had only one breakdown when a tiny wire in the fuel relay loom broke, which I think is a common fault. I put new injectors in just before I sold it because it needed them and cleaned the egr valve. So really really reliable.

 

Best get a caravan . Oh you will have a shower as well .

 

True about engines, if I'd have researched more I might have got a 2.5 5cyl over my 2.0 4, thanks to Europe and the emissions I guess! They reckon these later ones are a bit gutless

 

Yeah, when the T5 turned up I thought it was a bit gutless seeing as the old T4 was 88hp and the T5 140hp. Didn't seem a great difference between them and just put it down to one being a 5cyl and the other a 4 pot. I recently had the T5 remapped and it has come alive! It's apparently got near to 190hp, drives much much smoother, is more responsive and even the mpg is better as long as you don't nail it all the time!

 

The cruise is nice on the motorway and gives your foot a rest..you can even tie the tiller to the gearshift and go put the kettle on when a nice straight stretch of road is ahead...

 

Get a remap and you will have more power and more mpg

 

Absolutely! They can even remove the DPF filter and get even more power..

 

Yep, but best to keep it until it gets blocked/requires replacement.