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Hunting Dubs Time wasn't much of a healer. The memory of the oil making 4-motion was with me as I searched the internet for a suitable replacement.  "It had been a bargain and what if it had been a simple fix"? I might have thrown away a genuine bargain and I was now struggling to find a van with similar speck and at a similar price without astronomical miles on it. Time however was on my side (healing properties omitted though they were) and one particular example did crop up on auction. Sat at a starting bid of £12,500  and no bids there was a silver 2.5 130ps LWB with electric pack,  barn doors and a few bits added to make it into a light day van. Some pimping Landrover alloys, coil overs, a rear spoiler and fancy headlamps also gave it a pretty gnarly look. The mileage was at 85k, not bad at all for a van, so after messaging the seller to see if they were happy with a bit of a wait I stuck a minimum bid on it. Which I won. I paid a holding deposit...

Picking Picking the right van was a far more difficult task than it aught to have been, but then I am a picky bugger. Having recently sold my Audi A4 Avant B7 Sline SE 2.0 Tdi 180ps (to give it is's short name) I had gotten used to a rather plush drive. I also had to shift the urge to not buy one of those big bi-turbo S6's or similar, so suffice to say my research was far reaching. My needs were simple. I wanted a reasonably interesting vehicle that could transport a couple of guys, bikes and kit to a race and back . A car and trailer were an option, but an undesirable one, if I ever wanted to take up motorcycle racing seriously. That left a van. There are lots of these about but they are generally agricultural at best which is great if you are using it for work but this would also need to be my primary caging device and as mentioned before I had turned into a bit of a tart so this was going to be tricky. So a premium van was in order; realistically leaving me the Merc...