Transporter question (as your all VW owners)

not only wrong section but wrong website/forum but still,

any ideas on MPG on a 2.4 non turbo Transporter? im going to look at one in the morning and i dont want to buy a fuel drinker like my van im selling tonight.

also are they sluggish?

my mates 2.5t isnt,.

cheers guys!

I had one, they're pretty slow and not that economical either. Mind you, mine was a LWB. The 2.5TD is a much better engine than the 2.4 non turbo, it might be worth hanging on for one of these…..?

this is a LWB one, how many miles were you getting to a tank? and how much to fill up? and what was it like under load? i rarely carry heavy loads but dont want to be stuck at 50mph uphill on a motorway!

sorry to bombard you with questions.. ive found this one for half the price of others so im tempted to go for it.

is this a series 1 or 2 mk1 transporter rivage?

nickhead said

this is a LWB one, how many miles were you getting to a tank? and how much to fill up? and what was it like under load? i rarely carry heavy loads but dont want to be stuck at 50mph uphill on a motorway!

sorry to bombard you with questions.. ive found this one for half the price of others so im tempted to go for it.

There's got to be better forums than this one you can ask the questions on. Try www.clubgti.com, they'll have anyone! Also try general camper forums, etc???

Anyway, I got (from vague memory) around 25-35mpg and it has an 80l fuel tank. It could cruise quite happily at 75-85mph, although I remember one trip to the Cote d'Azur where I was going at 130kph on autoroutes and it got a little hot (South of France, very hot weather though). Didn't seem too affected by loads - it was so heavy, that any load was proportionately less.

As said before, if I were to go back to one, I'd seriously hang on for a 2.5TD rather than go for the 2.4D. The only real advantage of the 2.4D would have been its lower stressed and less complicated, but there haven't really been reliability concerns with the 2.5TD. You'd have to research this yourself, however.