I have been offered the option of breakdown insurance at £250, covers three call-outs, two for any one same thing and a tow-in if needed and I think I’ll go with that and a three-month driveline warranty
that would be a good buy… how long will you plan on keeping this truck for?
At least a year to see whether my plan is viable- although the alternative is to just sit at home and burn through my savings- I will lose far more if I don’t buy a truck than if buy the worst one on the market.
After six months I should have some idea as to whether it is working, and my figures will be based on what I actually have done, rather than what I am expecting to do. At that point I will think about where to go next, whether to carry on with what I have, to upgrade to a brand-new truck to drive myself, or buy a second vehicle and take on a driver.
I have been offered the option of breakdown insurance at £250, covers three call-outs, two for any one same thing and a tow-in if needed and I think I’ll go with that and a three-month driveline warranty
that would be a good buy… how long will you plan on keeping this truck for?
At least a year to see whether my plan is viable- although the alternative is to just sit at home and burn through my savings- I will lose far more if I don’t buy a truck than if buy the worst one on the market.
After six months I should have some idea as to whether it is working, and my figures will be based on what I actually have done, rather than what I am expecting to do. At that point I will think about where to go next, whether to carry on with what I have, to upgrade to a brand-new truck to drive myself, or buy a second vehicle and take on a driver.
well you should base if its working or not if you have spent £9360 on repairs… I have based this on £360 pw lease. If you have spent more then you should have leased! if you have spent less then you have bought well.
Deeireland:
Would you want a left ■■■■■■ Harry,shaften trunks in holland have some great looking ones all well looked after ,some of them 460hp some 510hp ,sky blue colour some euro 5.very tidy.
A left ■■■■■■ and some moody foreign plates and you never have to worry about LEZ compliance Don’t know if the shiny tracksuit would suit you though
Deeireland:
Would you want a left ■■■■■■ Harry,shaften trunks in holland have some great looking ones all well looked after ,some of them 460hp some 510hp ,sky blue colour some euro 5.very tidy.
Harry, have you ruled out CF 460 DAF’s, a lot of room in the high top cab and possibly cheaper to buy? though i haven’t looked about.
We have a few of them at work, yes they do have the odd niggling problem and tend to engine water leaks, but ours are driven night and day by different jockeys.
They are 460’s with the manual box, IMO a proper drivers truck like DAF particularly, and others, used to make, chuckable, very fast and as economical as the competition, better in many cases.
When i have a full days work with some hill climbing and A road heavily trafficked work i prefer to use a manual DAF CF over any of the other premium trucks we have, one particularly hard run i do regularly the DAF will knock 15 minutes from the 4 hour journey time of the premium make auto alternatives we run with no fuel penalty, the constant progress and quicker resumption of cruising speed adds up…all at or just under 44t.
Satans auto box ruins this otherwise decent truck, not as good on fuel as a properly driven manual and frustrating to the extreme in close work, traffic and junctions etc.
I only have one real gripe about DAFs and thats the tag axle, the driver has little control over the thing making wet or slippery conditions unpleasant, lots of wheelspin…possibly adustable?
Oh and the switchgear siting is simply dreadful, who the hell designed it, though that applies to XF too.
Juddian:
Harry, have you ruled out CF 460 DAF’s, a lot of room in the high top cab and possibly cheaper to buy? though i haven’t looked about.
We have a few of them at work, yes they do have the odd niggling problem and tend to engine water leaks, but ours are driven night and day by different jockeys.
They are 460’s with the manual box, IMO a proper drivers truck like DAF particularly, and others, used to make, chuckable, very fast and as economical as the competition, better in many cases.
When i have a full days work with some hill climbing and A road heavily trafficked work i prefer to use a manual DAF CF over any of the other premium trucks we have, one particularly hard run i do regularly the DAF will knock 15 minutes from the 4 hour journey time of the premium make auto alternatives we run with no fuel penalty, the constant progress and quicker resumption of cruising speed adds up…all at or just under 44t.
Satans auto box ruins this otherwise decent truck, not as good on fuel as a properly driven manual and frustrating to the extreme in close work, traffic and junctions etc.
I only have one real gripe about DAFs and thats the tag axle, the driver has little control over the thing making wet or slippery conditions unpleasant, lots of wheelspin…possibly adustable?
Oh and the switchgear siting is simply dreadful, who the hell designed it, though that applies to XF too.
Well said that man , it nice to see a sensible post about a very very underated truck , and not based on badge snobbery . !!!
I bought an 105xf 460 6 months ago, and now need to do an oil change. Does anybody know the sump capacity, and is there anything else I need to know about doing an oil change along with all the other filters on one of these. Up to now I have always been a Foden/■■■■■■■ man?
Don’t know if the shiny tracksuit would suit you though 
