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URL: http://riceornot.ricecop.com/?auto=89392	Submitted by: wannabemustangjockey
Comments: 20 (Read/Post) Favorites: 0 (View)	Submitted on: 06-08-2013
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Description: My office, a 2012 Ford Transit Connect.

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#1	6-08-2013 @ 05:33:39 PM
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck	Reply \| Edit \| Del
Do you get taken to the cleaners much? :p


#2	6-08-2013 @ 07:04:57 PM
Posted By : Skid	Reply \| Edit \| Del
I've often thought I'd like to get a Transit Connect and do it up '70s custom van style.


#3	6-08-2013 @ 08:03:50 PM
Posted By : DiRF	Reply \| Edit \| Del
My sister wants to replace her xB (my God, is it really a 7 year old car now?!)... prior to the xB, she had had an Aerostar and a Mazda MPV... she wants to go back to having a vehicle with a sliding door again... but she doesn't want one of the monstrously-large "mini"vans on sale now... so, really, me and her husband have laid out that she only has two options... one of these in passenger-spec, or a Mazda5.


#4	6-12-2013 @ 09:50:47 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
After driving Transits for a couple weeks now, I have to say they're a decent little van. Having trained for the job using two Transits, a Grand Caravan C/V and a shambling Astro, I like the Transits best. They're particularly handy with their tight turning radius, good for my routes in residential neighborhoods with a lot of cul-de-sacs. And they're just big enough to haul all the clothes I deliver in a day. Problems: The rear brakes on these vans are awful. I don't know if the other drivers are reckless or if it's just all the frequent stops and hills in my area, but a 1-yr-old van with 16k on it shouldn't have brake problems already. One of the vans squeals and shudders during braking, and feels like a warped rotor but the rear brakes are drums. Both of them get unpleasant when the brakes are hot later in the day. Also the plastic seat adjustment levers are flimsy and are broken on pretty much all the Transits in the company fleet. And they have no power, but that I can deal with.


#5	6-19-2013 @ 12:56:48 AM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
My other office. http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums.../100_6651-1.jpg The van in the main image is newer and I think the company is planning to rebrand soon, so they haven't spent the money on a fancy vinyl wrap for it.


#6	5-05-2015 @ 07:33:32 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
I just learned that the 2008 Caravan C/V I drive twice a week is due to be replaced soon, and the company just bought a new Nissan NV200. Bleh.


#7	5-05-2015 @ 08:19:38 PM
Posted By : DiRF	Reply \| Edit \| Del
#6, Embrace the compromise. Embrace your inner-taxi driver.


#8	2-29-2016 @ 02:27:27 AM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
Well, my boss finally decommissioned the two Caravans, #18 and 19. For the last few months I was driving both of them every week. They've been replaced by two more NV200s, #39 and 40. I miss the two magnificent bastards (whose book I did, at least partially, read). My manager knows how much I hate the NV200s so she assigned me the oldest Transit Connect in the fleet (#30, a 2011 with 92k miles and a nasty vibration) and the newest one (my original #35 which now has 60k). I had a "Save the Caravans" campaign going on for about a month at work but as expected, management didn't go for that. Then #18 crapped out a week before it was slated to be retired and that was pretty much the final straw for both vans.


#9	2-29-2016 @ 02:52:37 AM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
#8, It's weird how endearing a piece of crap minivan can become when you spend so many hours a day in it and learn all its quirks, then suddenly they take it away from you. #18 2008 Grand Caravan C/V http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums...s2/IMG_4963.jpg http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums...s2/IMG_4960.jpg This damn thing taught me how to do a whole delivery route in second gear. For about 3 weeks, that was the only forward gear I had to work with 95% of the time unless the van decided to let me manually shift it for 5-15 minutes at a time. The company finally fixed the transmission after the shift linkage broke and left it stuck in park, stranding another driver. It also once had a coolant leak that resulted in a nervous wait in traffic with the heater on full blast and the thermostat pegged. I thought the dash vents were going to melt. Otherwise it ran pretty well for me in the months before it was retired at 152k miles.


#10	2-29-2016 @ 02:58:04 AM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
#9, #19 2009 Grand Caravan Flex Fuel http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums...s2/IMG_5159.jpg http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums...s2/IMG_5157.jpg http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums...s2/IMG_5236.jpg The van looks better in these pictures than it did in real life. My coworker had a blowout and crashed into something, messing up the front fascia. Otherwise, no real problems. Retired at 119k miles. #40 2015 Nissan NV200 http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums.../IMG_5462_1.jpg Delivered brand new from Utah with a busted rear window. Ugly, cheap and weird. It works as a van but doesn't really do anything well and is depressing as hell to drive. Some of my coworkers like it simply because it's new. [Edited by wannabemustangjockey on 2-29-2016 @ 02:59:47 AM]


#11	2-29-2016 @ 05:37:12 PM
Posted By : DiRF	Reply \| Edit \| Del
#10, ...at least the logos/paintscheme is a bit fancier...


#12	2-29-2016 @ 06:43:09 PM
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck	Reply \| Edit \| Del
I was ready to argue that whoever wrote that lame first comment should be flayed when I first saw it, but..... I'm reconsidering.


#13	2-29-2016 @ 07:41:42 PM
Posted By : DiRF	Reply \| Edit \| Del
#12, You know your puns are bad when you end up wanting to lynch yourself...


#14	3-03-2016 @ 11:56:32 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
Van 35 with its current mini logo sticker. Unfortunately this is its good side; a former coworker bent up the passenger side rocker about 2 years ago without any explanation. http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums.../IMG_5520_1.jpg http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums...s2/IMG_5524.jpg When I was originally hired, the signage on that van was a magnetic panel on each side that had to be taken off at the end of every shift. One of them fell off one day while I was driving and that was the end of that. We switched to the permanent stickers. My co-workers seem to prefer the small stickers because the company phone number is so tiny... Also, Transit #30 just got the engine and transmission mounts replaced. Old Shaky sounds and feels like a brand new van again. Downside is the brakes were just checked and are already making noise again - which is a primary reason why my boss has sworn off any future Transits and has been buying NV200s instead.


#15	3-04-2016 @ 03:07:36 PM
Posted By : Driven_out	Reply \| Edit \| Del
#14, Damn wimbles, at it again with the white vans~


#16	3-04-2016 @ 03:15:28 PM
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck	Reply \| Edit \| Del
Our shop does quite a bit of work replacing engines for contractor vans whose drivers/owners don't give a crap about treating them right. Some even seem to be strangely proud that they've just made their THIRD engine start to tap and knock.....


#17	3-10-2016 @ 06:22:13 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
Oddly enough I've seen both of the decommissioned Caravans around town. #19 turned up last week at the shopping center across the street from my store near the Blackhawk Museum, and #18 was parked in front of an estate auction house this afternoon.


#18	6-21-2016 @ 05:27:31 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
So a fourth NV200 and a RAM ProMaster City have just joined the fleet. Haven't driven the PM City yet.


#19	7-16-2017 @ 12:23:55 AM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey	Reply \| Edit \| Del
Van 39, a Nissan NV200, is no more. One of our newest drivers was texting and stacked it up into another car. He needs a new job now...


#20	7-16-2017 @ 12:27:36 AM
Posted By : DiRF	Reply \| Edit \| Del
#19, http://i.imgur.com/JOd9YKI.gifv

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