The perfect dive car

[Woz]

Ah but your fancy pickups will be too expensive and you can't yet 5 people in a Sprinter. Come on- try harder. You have a budget of 2500 quid. Now there is a test for you. It must be able to:

Swallow gear by the ton
Tow a RIB
Take 5 people
Be comfortable on long journeys
Have a massive stereo
Be used during the week as a normal car
Cheap to run and repair
Lockable (so no open backs)
Not give a toss if it gets shedded up by scummy divers

I stil reckon my missus old estate ticks all the above boxes.

[Pierre Farrugia]

Hello WOZ,

Have you considered what happens if you trash your missus car? Would she then want to buy a new shiney one as you have just trashed hers. All the hussle you have to have, after a weekend trip if you forgot to clean all beer cans from car?

Regards

Pierre

[jlwarlow]

Had a Toyota MR2, not very good for diving. Next had a Vauxhall Frontera Sport, not too bad but had to have the back seats down for any decent room. Now got a Vauxall Vectra, much better MPG than the Frontera (44 as compared to 30 for long journeys!) Book is huge and swallows one set of kit and massive amounts of space with the seats down! Next car (in a few years) will have to be an Estate so I can sit down with my cylinders on

[Abyss Divers]

L-200 Rocks!! Best Dive Car ever!!!

[jim oldham]

Zafira.
7 seats for the 3 couple trip for a meal, 5 seats for normal use 3 divers and their gear and camping for 4 weeks, 2 seats for moving house.
46 mpg and holds its value.
Don't like 4x4's, cos I can park without running up the pavement.
Jim

[Angus]

Originally Posted by Woz

Ah but your fancy pickups will be too expensive and you can't yet 5 people in a Sprinter. Come on- try harder. You have a budget of 2500 quid. Now there is a test for you. It must be able to:

Swallow gear by the ton
Tow a RIB
Take 5 people
Be comfortable on long journeys
Have a massive stereo
Be used during the week as a normal car
Cheap to run and repair
Lockable (so no open backs)
Not give a toss if it gets shedded up by scummy divers

I stil reckon my missus old estate ticks all the above boxes.

What about pulling birds!!!

[Suzanne]

Dudes!!! You gotta have heated seats!!! perfect for thawing out after a dive, it may be just the end of summer now but are our memories so short that we can't remember what it was like back in Jan/Feb???

[Ashbypower]

Originally Posted by jim oldham

Zafira.
7 seats for the 3 couple trip for a meal, 5 seats for normal use 3 divers and their gear and camping for 4 weeks, 2 seats for moving house.
46 mpg and holds its value.
Don't like 4x4's, cos I can park without running up the pavement.
Jim

But 4X4's are Off roaders!!

[Martyn Ward]

Originally Posted by Suzanne

Dudes!!! You gotta have heated seats!!! perfect for thawing out after a dive, it may be just the end of summer now but are our memories so short that we can't remember what it was like back in Jan/Feb???

Hence my love affair with my big campervan.

Hot and bothered after a summers dive? No probs there, then. Off with the gear, down with the blinds, (curtains are SOOOO naff!), and into the shower, followed by a cold beer from the 'fridge.

Mildly chilled after a winter dive and a cold RIB ride? No probs there either! Just set the timer so the blown air heating kicks in half an hour before getting back to shore, then it's on with the kettle and the fluffy slippers!

Feeling a touch, errr, rampant after wearing all that rubber? Guess what? Yes, it's down with the blinds, (again!), and into the permanently made-up double bed!

And if times get hard, on with the cooker, up with the windows, and it's bacon butties and pots of tea at 50/- a throw!

[Gunna Do]

Well my preference is a trusty old van..
It can take 3 tanks, snaplock containers for wet soggy dive gear.
have a nice gas burner set up, for your cup of cha.. and a bed so you dont have to travel far from your dive site and you can catch that first early morning dive.
And the best part cost only 500nzd about 200 pounds on a rough estimate.
Another 1000 dollars on upgrading and designing..
However it aint going to pull the chicks, just not flash enough
But if it does the bed will be there

Steve