You'd think by now the maker would realise that a certain group find Transit to be the perfect vehicle whether they own it or not, and design them to suit, maybe they sell more units due to the very fact some owners never need to visit the parts dept once they've got hold of one for themselves, finding all parts conveniently left parked on dark streets and industrial estates.

Really like the size of the Transit custom and it was on my list until I read about these security problems plus there's been a huge problem with injectors on the 2,0 units, which again took a while to sort, if indeed it has. We have a 10 year old focus, which has been a superb car, but not sure I'd risk another one, on their current performance.

They knew about the drivers door lock issue within a month of the vehicle going on sale in Germany; it took them over 4 years to change the production - not good enough.

The larger transit range (custom and full transit) has turned into expensive unreliable headaches for owners; the situation is not helped by the poor build quality from the Turkish fsctory. Paint work quality can differ considerably on identical vans, fit and finish differs considerably on identical spec vans.

Too many common expensive faults , too many expensive design issues that ford publically refuse to acknowledge and own, too many poorly built products.

Ford commercial division has gone down the pan in terms of reliability and quality.

I have come to the conclusion the only reason the Transit connect and Transit courier don't share the same problems is due to the amount of parts they share with the car division of the business, they avoid most of the junk that is unique to the bigger vehicles in the commercial range.

Don't get me wrong, the custom is the best van to drive of its size

But there's far too many issues with the custom and full size transit

The Peugeot Expert/ Vauxhall Vivaro / Citroen Dispatch / Toyota ProAce drive nearly as well but are proving to be better built, far more reliable and more durable .

Ford quality control at its Turkish commercial plants is shocking