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Hi, conneechiwa

I'm a very recent Bingo convert, i have owned mine for 10 days now and loved ever minuite of it. Mine is a 53 reg 2.0HDI Desire.

So far it is every thing i expected it to be, and cannot wait for my first camping trip, all that room

I was looking for about a month before buying mine, i found you can get a much better deal buying private or ebay if you go and have a good look first than from a dealer/garage most Bingo owers are usually not the boy racer types but may have been used for a bussiness.

I would recommend holding out for a turbo diesel with all the extras if you can - so practical, even the roof bars swing through 90 degrees so you can have then in line or across the car! And the clip in shopping trolly made me laugh.

The only niggle I have, is mine takes ages to warm up (engine) it gets to 70 degrees after 3 or 4 miles then takes another 3 or 4 miles to reach 80 degrees. I fitted a new thermostate but its just the same, is this normal fellow owners?

Anyway good luck.

Quite sad really,

A few years ago it would be GTI's, big alloy wheels, Cortina 1600E's, vinyl roofs, 3.0 Capri's, twin carbs, polishing the inlet manifolds, taking the baffles out (Yamaha FS1E)

Now its Citron Berlingos with extra storage space and removable shopping trollys.

I think I'll get my pipe and slippers I need a lie down.

Quote: Originally posted by RAF35Y on 14/11/2010

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Quite sad really,

A few years ago it would be GTI's, big alloy wheels, Cortina 1600E's, vinyl roofs, 3.0 Capri's, twin carbs, polishing the inlet manifolds, taking the baffles out (Yamaha FS1E)

Now its Citron Berlingos with extra storage space and removable shopping trollys.

I think I'll get my pipe and slippers I need a lie down.

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We have the 1.6 petrol old version and it is the perfect camping car.

The space is incredible and it even has 2 plug ins in the back for our sons ds and the fridge.

On the down side it struggles around corners you sort of have to encourage it round.

regards

Tony 

Having now had mine for nearly 3 weeks I am very happy with it, but am only getting 37 MPG from it, I was expecting somewhere in the mid/high 40's.

It is a 2.0hdi, what do you fellow bingo owners get??

I drive with economy in mind changing gear around 2500rpm or less if possible. Checked the air filter and that is clean, starts first time and runs nice and smooth with no smoke from the engine.

Any ideas.