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Wed 29 Oct 2008 17:00
How do you know.... - R75
How do you know when buying a car that is not ordinary that you are getting a good deal?

My father who has MS needs to change his car. He currently has a motability car but due to worsening condition he can hand that back early.

So he is looking at buying a used adapted car. Because he needs a fully adapted car able to take an electric wheelchair he is very limited in choice and availability.

We think we have found one, a 2002 Grand Voyager 3.3l with less then 5k on the clock. Asking price is around the £18k mark!! New the car would have been £28k before the adaptations. A new one today fully adapted would be £54k ish (lowered floors etc).

As there are so few of these types around how can we be sure that the price is about right? £18k for a 6 year old car is a lot of money!!!

Any thoughts welcomed.

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Wed 29 Oct 2008 17:07
How do you know.... - Lud
I have nothing against Chryslers and may soon have another one, my third if you count the Singer Vogue estate I minicabbed in, but the Grand Voyager has I believe quite a bad reputation for costing a lot to run and repair. And of course 18 grand is a lot of money.

Transits, which spring immediately to mind, have high floors. But I have seen a lot of Renault vans of that sort of size with quite low floors. I would be thinking in terms of getting one of those converted. I bet they don't cost 18,000 quid.
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Wed 29 Oct 2008 17:22
How do you know.... - R75
The problem is getting ones that he can drive into in a wheelchair and then drive himself. Plenty around of the just a passenger type, not many for him to be able to drive. Also requires 57" from floor to roof, hence lowered floor!

I know the Voyager can be expensive, but there is very limited choice!!!
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Wed 29 Oct 2008 17:27
How do you know.... - jc2
The latest Transits have the option of FWD and have a low floor.The larger models are still RWD.And before someone says I'm talking Transit Connect,I'm not-the full-size Transit comes in FWD or RWD.
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