For the true LDV Pilot experience, you should have stopped halfway round the track and set up camp in everyone's way, then bugger off to nick some copper wiring.
If you're going overland to Russia, you don't go through Belarus. Most truckers turn north at Warsaw and drive through Lithuania and Latvia and crossing the border straight into Russia, to avoid the bureaucrats and taxes, despite the much better quality roads and shorter distance on the Belarus route. I drove a Pilot in the early 2000s when they were almost new. I was kind of excited to drive one as it was being marketed as a British phoenix rising from the ashes, but it was mediocre. I was using it to take special needs kids to school. I don't think it was taking it round the Nurburgring that knackered your Pilot though; it probably was before you got it.
OK so yes there may have been a little BS here but has nobody heard of the Mongol Rally a rally for crappy cars form London to Mongolia and many LDV vans have completed this so this is not as crazy as it seems .. infact looking at video list to the right there is a video of an LDV doing exactly that
p24hrsmith any vehicle can make it. After all these were made to drive many miles a year. A leaking radiator wouldn’t stop you from getting there though. Rad weld is sold at every garage! Eggs etc if they really wanted to do it they would have done. Prob only had the weekend
Yeah, im pretty sure if your driving to Russia, you wouldnt go through belarus, youd turn north in poland and then turn to go through lithuania to avoid taxes. Just saying
What a load of bullshit. Doesn't matter what you buy at that age LDV van or Mercedes car etc if it has not been looked after it will not manage to do a long drive like that. I wouldn't have left my town in a van where it is obvious it has been neglected and needs lots of work down to it. We used to have a 1978 Leyland Sherpa that used to travel from Paisley, Scotland to all of the new Dodge City DIY branches all over the country that was very reliable although the diesel engine like most was very noisy back then so this LDV van having a Peugeot engine should have been no problem as well if it had been serviced and all of the problems like the exhaust sorted before setting out. These were built and sold as cheap vans at the time and there is plenty of people running them now as camper vans etc and do actually look after them.
What a load of bullshit. Doesn't matter what you buy at that age LDV van or Mercedes car etc if it has not been looked after it will not manage to do a long drive like that. I wouldn't have left my town in a van where it is obvious it has been neglected and needs lots of work down to it. We used to have a 1978 Leyland Sherpa that used to travel from Paisley, Scotland to all of the new Dodge City DIY branches all over the country that was very reliable although the diesel engine like most was very noisy back then so this LDV van having a Peugeot engine should have been no problem as well if it had been serviced and all of the problems like the exhaust sorted before setting out. These were built and sold as cheap vans at the time and there is plenty of people running them now as camper vans etc and do actually look after them.
For the true LDV Pilot experience, you should have stopped halfway round the track and set up camp in everyone's way, then bugger off to nick some copper wiring.
That van has passed its MOT in July 2020! It's still going.
And in 2021 - still going even now, and it passed with no advisories!
1.31 that's the 'farting' exhaust note Pilots have. I used to hear that quite alot.
It is back in england. has a new mot and 1 years tax. so they must have taken it home !!!!
James Stephenson yeah you’re right, what a load of bs
Really?
You aren't wrong. They probably stopped at Poland because they realized what a stupid idea it was.
Aaaand... it's still going! Mot until June 2020.
The mighty Pilot is still going. Mot until July 2022 with no advisories 💪
Gave it a straight exhaust
If you're going overland to Russia, you don't go through Belarus. Most truckers turn north at Warsaw and drive through Lithuania and Latvia and crossing the border straight into Russia, to avoid the bureaucrats and taxes, despite the much better quality roads and shorter distance on the Belarus route.
I drove a Pilot in the early 2000s when they were almost new. I was kind of excited to drive one as it was being marketed as a British phoenix rising from the ashes, but it was mediocre. I was using it to take special needs kids to school. I don't think it was taking it round the Nurburgring that knackered your Pilot though; it probably was before you got it.
I was so excited to see how you guys to in China LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
That 'tow' pickup, a brand new Ford Ranger was on UK plates as well...Fake challenge full of Top Gear style BS
You can see that same truck at 2:24 parked in the background on the left.
It’s probably there backup car
Yes and someone recorded them coming off the nurberg track pmsl
still got mine
If it wasn't shagged chances are it is now if you towed a R380 gearbox with the prop still attached. Shame because it looks a great van for £500.
You can attract attention 2 ways: have the best, or have the worst. This is the latter
This is BS because that same van was used in the 2 vans for under £500 video where they knocked the roof rack off.
That's right! The roof rack is still knocked off in this video as this was filmed after the £500 challenge.
For a Pilot its not bad condition. Mind you filler doesn't rust.
OK so yes there may have been a little BS here but has nobody heard of the Mongol Rally a rally for crappy cars form London to Mongolia and many LDV vans have completed this so this is not as crazy as it seems .. infact looking at video list to the right there is a video of an LDV doing exactly that
p24hrsmith any vehicle can make it. After all these were made to drive many miles a year. A leaking radiator wouldn’t stop you from getting there though. Rad weld is sold at every garage! Eggs etc if they really wanted to do it they would have done. Prob only had the weekend
A winker cannot judge
what cameras please?
Yeah, im pretty sure if your driving to Russia, you wouldnt go through belarus, youd turn north in poland and then turn to go through lithuania to avoid taxes. Just saying
In a town called 'Dick Milk'
Im dead
Well they only had a week
The van probably did you a favour breaking down in Poland.
Not channelling your "white van man" on the circuit otherwise nothing would have got past you HeHe
loooooosers!!!!!!!!!!1
What a load of bullshit. Doesn't matter what you buy at that age LDV van or Mercedes car etc if it has not been looked after it will not manage to do a long drive like that. I wouldn't have left my town in a van where it is obvious it has been neglected and needs lots of work down to it. We used to have a 1978 Leyland Sherpa that used to travel from Paisley, Scotland to all of the new Dodge City DIY branches all over the country that was very reliable although the diesel engine like most was very noisy back then so this LDV van having a Peugeot engine should have been no problem as well if it had been serviced and all of the problems like the exhaust sorted before setting out. These were built and sold as cheap vans at the time and there is plenty of people running them now as camper vans etc and do actually look after them.
Well said
I call bullsh*t. You gave up over a radiator and a hole in the exhaust pmsl. It’s easy fix even on. The roadside.
What a load of bullshit. Doesn't matter what you buy at that age LDV van or Mercedes car etc if it has not been looked after it will not manage to do a long drive like that. I wouldn't have left my town in a van where it is obvious it has been neglected and needs lots of work down to it. We used to have a 1978 Leyland Sherpa that used to travel from Paisley, Scotland to all of the new Dodge City DIY branches all over the country that was very reliable although the diesel engine like most was very noisy back then so this LDV van having a Peugeot engine should have been no problem as well if it had been serviced and all of the problems like the exhaust sorted before setting out. These were built and sold as cheap vans at the time and there is plenty of people running them now as camper vans etc and do actually look after them.