Mercedes Benz Vito Automatic

MadMikeshalfhour

Does anyone have one of these people carriers? Is it any good? What';s the rust problem like?

Ta

27col

What rust problem. I don't think many cars have a rust problem these days. If they did,the manufacturers would soon hear about it. I had a long ride in a Vito people carrier last year. It was very comfortable and performed pretty well, as far as I could tell as a passenger.

jeannieblue

MadMikeshalfhour wrote: »

Does anyone have one of these people carriers? Is it any good? What';s the rust problem like?

Ta

Erm.......

Have you thought about another make?

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

27col wrote: »

What rust problem. I don't think many cars have a rust problem these days. If they did,the manufacturers would soon hear about it. I had a long ride in a Vito people carrier last year. It was very comfortable and performed pretty well, as far as I could tell as a passenger.

You haven't driven many Mercedes, have you...

MadMikeshalfhour

I've never driven a Merc!!! I was checking up on Merc Vitos and the van was the only review I came across - Many people were saying that there was loads of rust and I thought, okay well that's the van and maybe because people use it for work on sites etc, but is this a problem with the automatic version as I am going to be using it as a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle

newsseller12

If it is the V class (the one with all the leather trim etc) and not the Vito they have air suspension at the rear which is prone for going faulty and costing £1000's to put right, some of the older ones have been modified by removing the air suspension all together and fitting the coil spring system from the van.

MadMikeshalfhour

This is the one

wheelchair-access.co.uk and then forward slash mercedes-vito.htm

Joe_Sp

The earlier vehicles DO RUST! MB had a terrible problem with vehicles build between approx 1996 and 2005. What year Vito are you thinking of?

A very good place for advice is the MBclub forum

MadMikeshalfhour

2009 - I will be getting it in January 2010 brand new

ukjoel

We were also int he market for a people carrier and did similar research.
Decided due to unreliability, and high cost of servicing, to avoid the Vito.
Still havent made a decision because there isnt a huge amount of choice out there when you need that number of seats. Interesting several of the local nurseries run Vitos as their collection buses and we asked them why and their response was 'nothing else really out there when you need that number of seats.

Once you get to needing 7 seats and luggage or 8+ seats your forced to go commercial.

the_big_fact_hunt

nice vans, but they have problems, even the new ones, go to the relevant section of the benzworld forums and look up the black death, i had one that suffered it