Rojie

I have a 2006 3 litre V6 with the 5 speed. Wonderful on motorways. I usually travel at 60mph. Many earlier vehicles Pre 2005) have 4 speed and later than 2008 have 6 speed. What year are you considering ? I doubt that there is much difference in gas mileage. Cambelts do need changing at 100k, or every 10 years, according to my local Toyota Dealer. Water pump at the same time. £522 plus VAT at my local dealer. The cost of two extra plugs is not, IMHO, a reason not to buy a V6 The V6 fitted to pre 2008 is a non interference engine, so should the cambelt fail the valves will not hit the pistons and wreck the engine. If the engine drops a valve that is a different matter! Hope this helps.

I could be interested in the A and B units. Do you have the curtain rails too ?

I tried Adrian Flux. Hard sell techniques, major efforts to upsell. I normally pay my insurance monthly. APR at Adrian Flux is almost 40 percent. Forty, not four. Extortionate ! I had never heard of the Insurer (Markerstudy). I insured my Alphard, a Jaguar XJR (rocketship) and a Ford Fiesta for about £550 with Aviva. (APR about 13 percent) Alphard with Aviva, no problem, although the excesses on the Alphard ("import") and the Jaguar ("rather sporty") were a little higher than I had hoped for.

I am a newbie at all this, but have done quite a bit of research prior to buying my Alphie (2006, MZ G V6) I believe nearly all Alphard 2002 to 2008 have swivel second row seats. there is, apparently, quite a technique to it. Check out YouTube. The seats I am referring too are the single and the 'one and a half seats'. Northstar do swivels for the front passenger and driver seats. They are not cheap! If you have the Captains seats in the front and second rows, as I have, Northstar say their swivels will work on the front row, but not the second row of captains seats. I believe I have a method to achieve a way of having the second row seats rear facing; but they will not be able to swivel. If my idea works, I will post it in the Forum.

Well, I did it ! I was looking for a Bongo as a newbie to camper vanning; but bought a V6 2006 MZ G. I took delivery earlier this week and brought her home to South Devon. My main vehicle is a Jaguar XJR, and, I am delighted to say, that the Alphard compares very favourably with that (excluding the V8 supercharged performance). Smooth, quiet, refined; wonderful. Having already preselected a specialist Convertor, I am preoccupied with specifying the built. I love those front camera views, although not the overall (lack of) functionality of the Japanese head unit. Virtually nothing works in the UK. So that is a mini project too. So far, SO GOOD, and thanks to this Forum for providing extremely useful information which was invaluable while making my buying decision. Keep a look out for us, we will be waving to all Alphard owners we encounter on out travels.