New Transporter - first official pic

[Lubrown]

Parts are engineered to fail. It’s reoccurring revenue for manufacturers.

Exactly. Even if this were linked to something deemed necessary (but not always wanted) they could still easily place it out of harms way or cover it better.

Maybe the engineers/designers do initially but the bean counters make them cut corners or maybe it just is a sly way of making extra money from selling replacement parts/vehicles?

 

[B.different]

Something to note with the mew tranny/sporter is the paint used.on them seems to be very brittle and easy to chip. I've worked on a few now and the obvious observation is that the white ones come with hardly any paint on and in the door runner area on the 1/4. Rust was already starting to show on the raised seams. The metallic ones have better coverage but seems like i said earlier be very brittle.

 

[Sackmycook]

Omg

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

Something to note with the mew tranny/sporter is the paint used.on them seems to be very brittle and easy to chip. I've worked on a few now and the obvious observation is that the white ones come with hardly any paint on and in the door runner area on the 1/4. Rust was already starting to show on the raised seams. The metallic ones have better coverage but seems like i said earlier be very brittle.

Apparently all transporters come from the factory white. Then another coat of say grey/black/red etc. is applied to coloured vans.
So basically all white vans only have 1 coat of paint.
That’s why candy white vans are always much more prone to rust than any other colour. My white T5.1 was bad with rust.
It was my spray painter pal who told me that and he specialised in transporters

 

[Sasquatch]

I think he was pulling your plonker.

Either that or paint shops are very clever at removing the white paint without damaging the top colour coat, besause there definitely isn't any white under the blue on my daughters van. She's scuffed it enough times to see the layers and all there is to be found is blue and the grey which is presumably the zinc phorescent primer they use.

 

[Howzat]

Rust was a big reason reason I went from a tranny to transporter. Tranny was 10 year old and absolutely ravaged with rust on the sills, arches, basically anywhere the body was close to the road. Having seen @Dellmassive's post about his loan T7 having no under trays then the post above mentioning brittle paint it doesn't bode well for the longevity of the T7.

 

[Skyliner33]

I’ve said before “You can’t polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter” It’s a bit like the current court ruling on gender recognition - it was born a Transit!

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