How do you get to a dive site?

[fishyheid]

Originally Posted by Scuttler

Now I have a 3 series saloon. Two sets of gear is about all I can fit in as there are twinsets and stages to go in these days!
I have been thinking about getting a spare car, maybe a Volvo estate or BMW Touring....trouble is it's about item number 35 on the list!!! I keep trying to persuade SWMBO that she'd appreciate an estate but she's hell bent on a RX-8

Get SWMBO the RX8, and lose the 3-series. Make up some bollocks about service intervals on the Mazda incompatible with BMWs frequency.

Then your road is clear for buying something bigger. M5 touring

[witchieblackcat]

Originally Posted by RubberD

How come, if your little yellow car is so good, you catch a lift with me every weekend? Can’t remember the last time you drove.

Get yourself a double cab pick up with a top on the back. Carries 4-5 divers, goes wherever you want, payload 1000kg, which is 5 sets of gear no problem and still cruises at 90+ (allegedly ).
Only problem with the thing is you always get lumbered with the driving.

I seem to remember driving you to Roa Island incorporating a scenic tour of Walney Island only the other week.

But you have a fair point. If there's a lift on offer I let you drive

[finbar.taylor]

Originally Posted by steveharriss

Citroen Berlingo van. Cheap to buy, insure, and run and keeps all my kit out from under the Wifes feet!

Me too (well pegeout partner)

and it runs on veg oil so hardly any fuel costs!

Still only enough space for my dive kit though
It was a little full for the trip to scapa but most of that was food for the journey!

[big_si]

Originally Posted by steveharriss

Citroen Berlingo van. Cheap to buy, insure, and run and keeps all my kit out from under the Wifes feet!

Originally Posted by finbar.taylor

Still only enough space for my dive kit though
It was a little full for the trip to scapa but most of that was food for the journey!

This is what I commonly use too. Borrowed from the folks. Either this or

Fiat Doblo (borrowed from the future inlaws) which has LOADS of room. Enough space for 2 full sets of gear twins, stages, all the other gumph too!

Or

Fiat Punto... Can squeeze my gear in it. Not a lot else though



I wanna truck!

[Ding Dang Doo]

Originally Posted by Diving Dude

Discovery, perfect height for sitting on the back and kitting up.

Seconded, Dude!

(and bollocks to all those eco friendly types out there... I pay my dues everytime I fill up; and now I pay that bit more on my road tax...)

Pete

[PBrown]

Mercedes vito van with bench seat in the back. Can fit 4 divers and enough kit for a weeks cave diving in France (8 twinsets, shitload of stages & 3 J's), and still enough room for a couple of cases of duty free on the way home!

Originally Posted by GLOC

a 2 seat Smart Car.

Every time I see one of these I wonder if I could fit one in the back.

cheers,
Paul

[Dave Crampton]

130PS Diesel Volkwagen Passat Estate. Good on Fuel but with a little umph if you need it. Plus lots of space, a tow bar and a roof rack.

[neilh]

Mondeo ST220 estate - nice car for cruising about in with plenty of poke plus a great sized boot for all the baby stuff (and boy do you need some space for that ).

I've even managed to put the dive kit in a couple of times

...it's not that great for fuel efficiency tho

[The Penguin]

Toyota Yaris in DIR regulation black!

Easily holds two lots of drysuited diver's kit, plus extras like first aid and O2.

Have also had my kit and portable compressor, and on a separate occasion 3 divers + all their kit.

With a custom-made boot liner i have no worries about throwing wet kit in the back.

Have gotten 62mpg out of it (once)...

Pity it can't tow a boat though

[Neil McLeod]

1979 VW T2 van. All the comfort of an old park bench, the acceleration of a noisy tortoise, gearbox designed by a random number generator and the fuel ecomony of a sieve. Plus, the added excitement of will it just stop working at anytime?

But,

Loads of room, and "entertaining" to drive. to paraphrase JFK, "We drive it not because it is easy but because it is hard".

Neil