Need ideas for Sprinter Van setup

[ericbuggeln]

My 14 ft boxvan uses $180.00 per week unless of course we work in the town i live in, which is 50% of the time. In town its like $100.00. I saw a Nissan boxvan recently with a walk in and it looked real sweet. Smaller then my Ford Econoline walk in. If you cant fit 16 fters in that would be a gigantic minus for me. Mine slide all the way into the cab, so an interior door maybe a plus. All of my shelving and bench are pocket holed into floor with 2 1/2" screws and cabinet screwed to each other. Check the floor so screws dont puncture anything. Put the biggest, baddest logo on and advertise evrytime you turn the ignition, Eric

 

[Tinker]

Mileage is better than what?  Jesus man I would say 20mpg is extremely poor you must be running some very fuel hungry vans/pick-ups  lol

I would hate to drive a van which only does 20mpg.  My Van does 40mpg  and I think that's not great.   Would cost a lot to run a van which only does 20mpg.

Jmb
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That's great mileage, JMB.  But once in awhile you have to go back up the hills  [poke]
Tinker

 

[Steve R]

Mileage is better than what?  Jesus man I would say 20mpg is extremely poor you must be running some very fuel hungry vans/pick-ups  lol

I would hate to drive a van which only does 20mpg.  My Van does 40mpg  and I think that's not great.   Would cost a lot to run a van which only does 20mpg.

Jmb

That's great mileage, JMB.  But once in awhile you have to go back up the hills  [poke]
Tinker
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Jmb,
What is your van? Ion drive?

Cheers,
Steve

 

[jmbfestool]

Mileage is better than what?  Jesus man I would say 20mpg is extremely poor you must be running some very fuel hungry vans/pick-ups  lol

I would hate to drive a van which only does 20mpg.  My Van does 40mpg  and I think that's not great.   Would cost a lot to run a van which only does 20mpg.

Jmb

That's great mileage, JMB.  But once in awhile you have to go back up the hills  [poke]
Tinker

Jmb,
What is your van? Ion drive?

Cheers,
Steve
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I wish!

 

[Deansocial]

Mileage is better than what?  Jesus man I would say 20mpg is extremely poor you must be running some very fuel hungry vans/pick-ups  lol

I would hate to drive a van which only does 20mpg.  My Van does 40mpg  and I think that's not great.   Would cost a lot to run a van which only does 20mpg.

Jmb

That's great mileage, JMB.  But once in awhile you have to go back up the hills  [poke]
Tinker
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i drive to most jobs at about 85mph and get an average of 35mpg, 20 is piss poor

 

[speed]

i think an american gallon is diffrent to a uk gallon?

 

[Deansocial]

1mpg us = 1.2mpg uk

 

[Deansocial]

OI brainiac. im comapring mpg not gallons

http://www.mpgtokpl.com/mpgustompguk.htm

 

[jmbfestool]

OI brainiac. im comapring mpg not gallons

http://www.mpgtokpl.com/mpgustompguk.htm

Oh bollocks I didn't look!  I just took it we where still in gallons lol

 

[Steve R]

1 Imperial gallon = 1.20095042 US gallons
1 US gallon = 0.83267384 Imperial gallons

so 20 mpg US would be about 24.02 mpg Imperial.
and 40 mpg Imperial would be 33.31 mpg US

Plus most here in the US use gas not diesel that will go better per gallon.

When I lived in Ireland for a year it became obvious you have/get better diesel engines than we do on this side of the pond.

I can't remember what the your cost of diesel to gas was. When you consider that diesel takes less refining it should be cheaper here in the US. But that would lower Exxon and BP profits.

Cheers,
Steve

 

[Alan m]

petrol. 1.68 euro
deisil 1.58

at the mo

 

[peter halle]

Alan,

Is it fair to assume that price is per liter (?)

Peter

 

[neth27]

Yes it will be litres, diesel is around £1.45 per litre in England.
(And yes I have spelt litre right [big grin] )
John.

 

[neth27]

About $8.81 for a us gallon of diesel..

 

[peter halle]

Yes it will be litres, diesel is around £1.45 per litre in England.
(And yes I have spelt litre right [big grin] )
John.

I love you guys!  [thumbs up] [thumbs up] [thumbs up]

Peter

 

[Deansocial]

so we pay £5.50 for  a us gallon of diesel

 

[Steve R]

so we pay £5.50 for  a us gallon of diesel

= $ 8.86 US.... or 7.07 Euro  [censored]

Makes $3.80 per gallon US and 20 mpg US not look horrible. Even if you guys can get 30-40 mpg...still more than we are paying per mile.

Cheer,
Steve

 

[neth27]

Yes but to make it worse we get 30-40 mpg on uk gallons which is about $10.50 a gallon..

John

 

[Kev]

so we pay £5.50 for  a us gallon of diesel

= $ 8.86 US.... or 7.07 Euro  [censored]

Makes $3.80 per gallon US and 20 mpg US not look horrible. Even if you guys can get 30-40 mpg...still more than we are paying per mile.

Cheer,
Steve

But you are burning twice as much planet per mile.

 

[Steve R]

so we pay £5.50 for  a us gallon of diesel

= $ 8.86 US.... or 7.07 Euro  [censored]

Makes $3.80 per gallon US and 20 mpg US not look horrible. Even if you guys can get 30-40 mpg...still more than we are paying per mile.

Cheer,
Steve

But you are burning twice as much planet per mile.

Kev, you got that right! I would love 40 mpg and I don't know anyone here that would not buy the 40 mpg vehicle if we had them here! All I can think is that Big Oil likes Auto companies that make low MPG vehicles.

Cheers,
Steve