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lame plumber
so dont get a ford or you wont have any spares, got to go frog like and get a merc
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Don't you have a Modus and a Kangoo??they are french!!!!!!!
Couple months ago I took the plunge and changed my 07 Vivaro for a new transporter LWB
Here she is
Got her all shelved out with roller bearing units, never been so organised.
Couple months ago I took the plunge and changed my 07 Vivaro for a new transporter LWB
Here she is
Got her all shelved out with roller bearing units, never been so organised.
customers in N Devon will think you charge to much if you drive that
You can do that in any vito too, just remove the panel and 4 rivots in the centerHi, i have a Nissan NV200. My major likes is that 3 m of pipe i can get inside as it will slide under the passenger seat with the removal of part of the bulkhead. Van is really easy to manoeuvre, i work mainly as a service engineer & it suits me fine.
Glad I ain't in North Devon then lolcustomers in N Devon will think you charge to much if you drive that
We have Transit Short wheelbase vans - semi hi tops with 6 speed gearbox -all under 1 year
cause they are on lease
Full tank costs ÂŁ110.00 max and they run all day long for 8 hours + at 80 + we have had 110 out of one on the level near Chepstow on the dual road bit wwhere we know there are no cams
So last week we (I and Dirty dave ) did a job at some place near Brighton
- south coast ish. Full tank at west lancs - it ran all day we were there at 0800am
rtn and it needed a little drink of derv at juncton 16 northbound m6 while we were trying
out the new Burger King
Upshot I cannot fault the latest trannies well laid out cab wise and - well we think
the 2 litre holes for lemo/coke could be chilled and maybe a micro wave in the
shot guns hopper - CHK
My VW T30 130bhp costs ÂŁ110 to fill up and I get about 420 - 450 miles out of it, although its mainly driving around town.
Bought the nv200 just to increase bottom line. Merc lwb high top sprinter. Sprayed twice and it's a rusty heap. 2009. Transits just full of junk.
How many miles is this to a tank?
How many miles to a tank on the Vivaro/Traffic 115 engine if anyone has one? (+how much to fill)
How many miles to a tank on the VW Transporter? (+and how much to fill)
Interested to see what others are getting real fuel economy wise. Sometimes the fuel saving is enough to warrant a new van in itself.
Did you rack it out yourself? Its very impressive, much better than mine. I may have to copy yours haha.
5 years is a looooooong time though
No I was like that before I went to France, plumbers were the best trade etc, but seeing the arrogance of the Brits has only served to enhance it
Puddle ,
I was an arrogant sod almost from the word go, being a London trained plumber we used to consider ourselves a cut above the rest
I have been lucky in the trade, and done just about all there is, apart from hospital work, right across the board, lab work with poly and glass wastes, and 4" soil stacks,, 4" lead pipe work, cast iron soil stacks, drains, water mains up to 12", 6" copper water and soil, PVC water mains up to 4", 150mm blue Poly water main with electro fusion, 63mm Poly gas main with electro fusion and hand, gas lamp heated saddle tapping tool, also worked on sludge main in a sewerage works, steel tube up to 4" once with a solid head die stock for 4" threading, worked mostly on large developments, but done a fair bit of house bashing as well, also had a time in the office as a junior design engineer, doing pen and ink drafting, with a bit of estimating and taking off from bills of quantities, plus a couple of spells in the Middle East
When I first went to France I thought that I would wipe the floor with these "peasants", but I am not ashamed to say they used me as the floor rag, at first. Example, I was sent to second fix a school, everything was there they said, bench, bottles, a few bends, and half a dozen "bar" of copper, no couplings, no tees, in a few places around the building there were a few stumps of copper tube sticking up out of the slab, ranging from a couple to more than half a dozen, it turned out that I had to make on site the manifolds and join them to the first fix tubing, this is normal in France, how many UK plumbers would know what to do??
In the time I have been in France, I have had to go back over work carried out by UK "trades persons" to rectify the work, a good half of it would not meet the Norms, and when the person is told this, the standard reply is, we have always done it like this in the UK, whilst you might soft solder all copper pipework, its hard solder for water, and silver solder for gas, ring mains are not allowed same as unswitched neutrals in the fuse board, or 13 amp socket outlets but the "English" still insist on them
Supermarkets somebody with two trolleys, no food but just booze, arguing with the girl on the till, in English, that last time he was allowed that amount of booze, or hearing them swear in front of the girl, because he did not get his way
Whilst its not all milk and honey over here, the trade training is better, a tradesman is a respected person in the community, the wages are lower than the UK, but you can live better than in the UK for what you get, there is not the compulsion to work all hours god gave you, "family comes first" I offered to work on a sunday to help get the job out on time, and was told nobody works 7 days a week full stop
I do reserve the right to defend my adopted country, which has given me the opportunity to retire early ( I retired 2 years late at 62 instead of 60 the norm for France), a better pension, no council tax bill because I am retired and don't have enough to pay the council tax, also we are below the income tax limit so no income tax to pay (between us we pick up from the state in the way of pensions the best part of 14000€ a year say £13000) health care
we pay about ÂŁ60 a month to cover us for the difference between what the state pay and what the medication cost, the state pays normally 70%, life saving drugs are 100% paid for by the state
Edit:: One thing I did forget to mention, is the fact that nobody can just pick up a set of tools and start work as a plumber, electrician, etc, they have to register with the authorities first and that means a week back at school, doing accounts, tax, vat returns, the law in relation to your work, after this is done you have to find an assurance that will accept you, for the mandatory 10 year assurance of your work
How does that grab you all you plumbers in the UK by law you must guarantee your new work for 10 years, repairs and renovations are for 2 years
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