better late than never, NEW 16 Plate Blue100 hdi chiller van

[ATL_driver]

Well what can i say, after 3 great years with our 63 plate chiller van (90ps) getting up to 147,000 pretty much trouble free miles.
We have bought another one , this one being a 16 plate Blue100 semi-auto, only had it 10 weeks and we have gone over the 10,000 miles mark,

Pictures to follow soon . 
 
ATL_DRIVER

[ron]

That 3 years flew by.I would be interested to know your thoughts on the transmission.

[ATL_driver]

so far all good, much prefer it in manual mode, if trying to get a swift move on it has a habit of dropping a gear putting you out of the power zone into 4000RPM of the gear below in A, in M it only drops if you do foot to floor past the natural point of full throttle theres a stiffer bit past it,


couple things, do they have smaller fuel tanks on the ADBlue models etc




here are some pictures

[Image: ED76484E-CA08-4EED-9C0D-23F6D9EC12FF_zpsa2dkjbdz.jpg]
[Image: 0E20596C-7E74-4FC1-B675-2262936275CE_zpse9witcnq.jpg]
[Image: BDCF3E22-5CAA-4DA7-B61B-0D78AD3F04DF_zps5pbdoiqt.jpg]

shes up to 11,000 now and all going well, better on fuel than the 5 speed 90 but i'm driving it hard atm lol busy busy


on the plus the auto boxed van is weighted at 1980KG so can do 70 everywhere heaven hha

Charlie

[ATL_driver]

You sound like you're in a lot more of a hurry than me.

yeah, you could say that, paid salary and no paid overtime, but always over my hours lol so i buzz about in my vans, upto the speed limit, we have trackers that track speed etc so wouldn't speed etc

love how i can now do 70 on dual carriageways, as we have no motorways here in east anglia

[ATL_driver]

just a little picture of the little fleet



[Image: BF121E24-E57D-43DC-9AC9-5B2CF113D8D8_zps0xgejoba.jpg]

[ATL_driver]

Well, it had to happen, i drive 70,000+mls a year, and no our luck ran out.....




[Image: B835A9D4-FEBF-432F-9408-59F558CB7F0B_zpsncstqquy.jpg]
[Image: 9C26FE69-AA90-45B6-A46C-4068EF3F1C11_zpsxmlppt6m.jpg]
[Image: 88BC9763-89F1-4E15-A6ED-13E274FAAD07_zpsihgujpoz.jpg]
[Image: 883DD51A-43F3-43C4-A290-C7016C49CC64_zpshabhqa74.jpg]
[Image: B18D13A2-38CE-44E9-AAEB-FD80FB7E30FB_zps7e9nzftj.jpg]


currently at a crash centre, assessing whether it's to be written off or not, it didn't drive to well on the way back to HQ, cruise control didn't work ,  and worse than the fact i really liked the 24,000mls since September is my neck is killing me and im in this massive thing!!
 [Image: 101BB03C-B0CC-4A3C-90CA-2C0B317E278A_zpsghek71w2.jpg]

[Angela]

Glad you're ok apart from whiplash maybe. You were hit at speed though judging by the photos.

[polar]

Wow that a decent ammount of damage! Need to keep a close eye on your neck now you could well have some damage there?

Hope you get everything sorted soon - its never nice when you have a RTI especially when its not your fault.

[ATL_driver]

yeah i have a physio assessment on my neck Monday, 111 told me to go up the hospital which i did, I've sprained my neck.. the thing is I've checked back on the dash cam and i was doing 40 still when she hit me, so glad i wasn't stopped

[MarkT]

yeah i have a physio assessment on my neck Monday, 111 told me to go up the hospital which i did, I've sprained my neck..  the thing is I've checked back on the dash cam and i was doing 40 still when she hit me,  so glad i wasn't stopped

Blimey - if you were doing 40, how fast must she have been going, to make a dent that big?  The general visability weather-wise looks ok in the photos.