[Clever Forum Name]

Love or hate em?

Better than barn doors or a pain the bum?

Thanks

[Jonny 87]

I had a choice when looking to buy my hiace.

In the end I decided to go for a hiace with barn doors.

More secure. Although I've seen a few build a false partition in the back, so with the tailgate open, your just looking at a bulkhead with holes for hoses coming thorough and pump controllers etc.

It seems to work really well.

If you see a van that is perfect in every way, but has a tailgate, I wouldn't let that put me off.

[Clever Forum Name]

I had a choice when looking to buy my hiace.

In the end I decided to go for a hiace with barn doors.

More secure. Although I've seen a few build a false partition in the back, so with the tailgate open, your just looking at a bulkhead with holes for hoses coming thorough and pump controllers etc.

It seems to work really well.

If you see a van that is perfect in every way, but has a tailgate, I wouldn't let that put me off.

A van has come up, its ticks 8 out of 10 boxes. Mileage is higher than i wanted and it has a tailgate.

2008 90k transit 330 £6500 + vat

quite alot cheaper than my budget.

[Perfect Windows]

Love or hate em?

Better than barn doors or a pain the bum?

Thanks

Only ever had a tailgate.

Pros:
Somewhere to hide from the rain
Park anywhere near a wall and the back's secure and safe.

Cons:
At 6'3" I banged my head a bit at the start when I was uphill of the van
Park anywhere near anything and the back's secure and you can't get anything out.

I don't think it really matters.

Vin

[DaveG]

My old van had a tailgate rear door (Hyundai H100) and thought it was ideal, better security and "easier".

When I bought my Trafic, with barn doors, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. But I've kind of got used to it and like the fact that I can work with only one door open without displaying the entire contents of the van.

I do miss sheltering under the tailgate and having a fAg while it's raining tho!

[Simon Mess]

I have never had a van (well not for window cleaning) with a tailgate, but it would definitely put me off. I have quite a few customers who's parking situation round about their property would make it extremely awkward, if not impossible to do. Yesterday alone i did 2 properties, one was on a busy street and i just managed to squeeze my transit connect into a gap, if it had a tailgate, i wouldnt have been able to open it due to the distance between my van and the 4x4 behind me. With my barn doors, i can manage with a space of about 1' behind me if necessary. At the 2nd property i was in a small village car park, reversed in against the Chinese restaurant/takeaway who's windows i was doing. With a tailgate, i would have had to go so far forward to get the tailgate open, i would have been impeding the flow of other traffic in and out of the car park. Yes, i could have parked nose in, but it would have been very awkward indeed to get my hose around the building.   

[Lee GLS]

I have a transit 330 with a tailgate there are pros and cons, but I would definitely buy one again. I want to get the hose reel booms that pure freedom and in the process on making then with the tailgate a will have 180 deg angle that I can pull the hose out from.

Is the one you are looking at orange by any chance?

[Mitchellmoxo]

I had a choice when looking to buy my hiace.

In the end I decided to go for a hiace with barn doors.

More secure. Although I've seen a few build a false partition in the back, so with the tailgate open, your just looking at a bulkhead with holes for hoses coming thorough and pump controllers etc.

It seems to work really well.

If you see a van that is perfect in every way, but has a tailgate, I wouldn't let that put me off.

A van has come up, its ticks 8 out of 10 boxes. Mileage is higher than i wanted and it has a tailgate.

2008 90k transit 330 £6500 + vat

quite alot cheaper than my budget.

tailgate probs means an rac van which will be mostly motorway miles & well maintained

[Perfect Windows]

I have never had a van (well not for window cleaning) with a tailgate, but it would definitely put me off. I have quite a few customers who's parking situation round about their property would make it extremely awkward, if not impossible to do. 

Never, not once, happened to me in four years.

Vin