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TATA pick-up

  • 20-10-2009 8:56pm
    #1
    badabinbadaboom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭


    A friend of mine is planning on getting a TATA pick-up in from the UK.
    He reckons the single cab has the biggest load bay of any other equivelant and he's sick of having to hitch up a trailer to carry digger buckets and stuff like that.
    Plus they go for dirt secondhand or new!
    Does anyone have any experience with them?
    Any good offroad?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭BeardyGit


    badabinbadaboom wrote: »
    A friend of mine is planning on getting a TATA pick-up in from the UK.
    He reckons the single cab has the biggest load bay of any other equivelant and he's sick of having to hitch up a trailer to carry digger buckets and stuff like that.
    Plus they go for dirt secondhand or new!
    Does anyone have any experience with them?
    Any good offroad?
    Thanks

    I remember seeing one going for peanuts on adverts (pretty sure it was) for a long, long, long time. 'Twas only 2 years old or so. It was something like €4k with 40k on the clock, straight as a die etc. If it was any good, it would have sold for that and more.... Looked like a right pig to shift.

    If yer man's going to stick buckets on the back of it, expect it to last pissing time. Tell to think about getting a small truck/large van instead, or else just make do with having to tow a trailer. It's hardly that much of a chore is it?

    I wouldn't touch one with the banks money, let alone my own in any case.


  • #3
    Slidey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    Cemex have one that they bring to get tested 2 months before it is due because it is such a heap of shyte and the parts are hard got.

    I honestly could not believe how bad this yoke was after 10 months since its last test.

    Virtually all steerin joints including idler arms, top wishbone bushes, wheel bearings rear hub oil seals... the list goes on.

    I wouldn't recommend one to my worst enemy.

    The Safari which is the passenger Tata is every bit as bad.


  • #4
    101sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    Yes, bad reputation, appalling build quality. Better off with a Transit pick up or similar.

    Tata bought Land Rover recently!


  • #5
    PaddyThai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭PaddyThai


    I use a Hilux single cab and often put a ton or so of sand or gravel in the back. A very solid capable vehicle albeit thirsty. I use the 4x4 regularly off road.


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