Well we find ourselves with a bit of a dilemma on our hands and I wouldn't mind your thoughts on this one.

Back last year our family wagon threw a rod on the M4 and has since been parked up. A week or so later we went and bought a different MPV (a VW Touran) so that the wife had a means of transportation and I didn't have to do the school run in a 7 tonne HGV (which was interesting!)

 

The Mitsubishi is a '56 plate Grandis Warrior turbo diesel, being the Warrior edition it obviously has full leather interior, all of the usual toys and to be fair is in bloody good condition. We figured that prior to the engine issue it was worth around the £7500 in the current market, but of course that's with a running engine.

 

The engine is a VW lump, similar to the Outlander and a few VW's though the Grandis varient seems to be few and far between (I suppose they rarely go wrong).

 

Anyway, we're weighing up the pro's and con's of either storing it for a bit longer until we have time to source an engine and fit it/have it fitted (which is difficult as we're moving to a farm out in the sticks and have several other cars and caravans that also need to come with us), or alternately we could sell it as a non runner (which clearly would be the easier option but would mean we would get a lot less for it).

 

Realistically it wouldn't have the engine sorted by the time we moved so it would have to be trailored and then sorted once we were settled. Breaking isn't an option as the same issues with transportaion etc applies.

 

We could as I say, sell it as a non runner but how would you determine what it's worth in that instance (there are no Mitsubishi Grandis non runners being sold at present as far as I can tell so wouldn't have a clue where to start)

 

Any suggestions guys?

If you can I would keep it mate, as you say it will be worth a LOT less as a non-runner needing a new engine. It'll come into it's own once you get sorted and move to a farm :)

Cheers mate

 

I've done a bit more digging and I think it's the same engine as the one that VW put in the mk6 Golf TDI, so fingers crossed it may only require a few minor modifications to fit in a Grandis and Golf TDI engines aren't that hard to come by

 

We are really hoping that the farm comes off for us, we've spent a long long time searching for the right one that's close enough to a good school etc, because this will be us now no more moving. We were given good news this afternoon by the morgage provider so the ball is rolling slowly but surely, we've already started to box the house up....I'm running out of fingers to cross :biggrin:

Cheers mate

 

I've done a bit more digging and I think it's the same engine as the one that VW put in the mk6 Golf TDI, so fingers crossed it may only require a few minor modifications to fit in a Grandis and Golf TDI engines aren't that hard to come by

 

We are really hoping that the farm comes off for us, we've spent a long long time searching for the right one that's close enough to a good school etc, because this will be us now no more moving. We were given good news this afternoon by the morgage provider so the ball is rolling slowly but surely, we've already started to box the house up....I'm running out of fingers to cross :biggrin:

 

Nice one mate, exciting times for you :thumbup1:

Good luck on the house/farm move mate as for the mpv if you can, keep it and fix it as you will get very little selling as a non runner.

Good luck Pez... all sounds exciting..

 

regarding the cars Id keep it.. I actually prefer the grandis to the touran..

 

out of interest do you tow the van with these or something bigger? How do they handle with the van on?

Certainly plenty of food for thought

 

I wouldn't tow with the Touran, it's got plenty of power (its twin charged) but I think it's quite a light vehicle despite it being a propper 7 seater. The Grandis (we've had both the 2.4ltr petrol and 2ltr diesel) are ideal for towing. For now I'm considering using our old Toyota Granvia as a tow/support wagon for trailering the zed around.

 

There are other options but I'd have to check the legality and practicality aspect of towing with the business wagon on just a Cat C licence

 

But you are right the Grandis is a better looking vehicle than the Touran, especially in black