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Fri 9 Sep 2011 18:07
Toyota Hiace - Toyota Hiace power output - Yorky1

There are two BHP outputs - 95 and 120. Does anyone know if there's a significant difference in power, insurance and fuel consumption? It would regularly have a payload of 800kg

Thanks in advance.

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Tue 13 Sep 2011 12:41
Toyota Hiace - would you buy this van? - Yorky1
The following van is for sale vans.autotrader.co.uk/stock-item-id/at8ab0b11b31b3...t

It's the particular model I'm looking for which is not readily available.

One of the pictures jogged my memory that this van was sold at auction in Manchester in July. The auction description said one stamp in the service book. I queried this with the current seller and they provided copies of all of the service dates which are as follows:

9/3/09 @11765 miles,
25/6/09@22971 miles
14/11/09@33089 miles
4/3/10 @42285 miles
26/4/10@50796 miles
16/07/10 @61026
16/11/10 @70600

The first four services were done a couple of thousand miles late. The servicing garage has emailed a screenshot of the digital service record.

It was registered by a main agent in Cumbria as a demonstrator in September 2008 and sold on in January 2009. It was then serviced by a main dealer in Yorkshire up to 50k miles and then In 'n' Out for the last two. It was then sold by auction to the current seller, a van centre in Scotland.

I'm concerned that it's "been around" alot for a three year old van, the servicing being late and the contradictory service history from the auction house and current seller, as mentioned above.

In consideration of the afore-mentioned, would you buy this van?

Thanks in advance.
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Tue 13 Sep 2011 23:49
Toyota Hiace - would you buy this van? - Avant

I'm no expert on vans but provided that you can verify that the services were properly carried out, that's not an unreasonable annual mileage for a van. Get a good test drive in it: walk away if the seller won't let you.

The more powerful version will of course be better to drive, and probably not much less economical. With a full load you;'d be using a lot of right foot with the lower-powered version just to maintain progress.

Edited by Avant on 13/09/2011 at 23:50

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