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Question about Ford Transit Connect

  • 13-06-2011 8:53pm
    #1
    RuthieRose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭


    Hi All.
    My husband bought his first van a couple of years ago and just LOVES it. Its a Ford Transit Connect.
    We have been blessed with a baby boy since.
    Problem you might have guessed by now is that we don't have enough seats for all of us to travel together. (Its handy for camping)
    My questions are...
    1. Can we put seats in the back?
    2. If so where do we start looking for them.?
    3. Can you get just 1 seat?
    3. What kind of information do we give the insurance etc...

    Thanks in advance for your help.
    RuthieRose


Comments

  • #2
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    Would he not look at getting a Transit tourneo or whatever the passanger connect is called? It would be alot easier to remove a couple of seats from one of them to use for transporting stuff(whatever the van is normally used for) then it would be to legally fit 1 seat to a commercial connect.


  • #3
    RuthieRose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭RuthieRose


    Its the money thing. Can't afford a new (to us) one at the moment so we thought we'd explore other options first. Its just the whole thing of insurance and tax etc. Can it be done. Will it end up costing us much more as a crew cab?


  • #4
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    RuthieRose wrote: »
    Its the money thing. Can't afford a new (to us) one at the moment so we thought we'd explore other options first. Its just the whole thing of insurance and tax etc. Can it be done. Will it end up costing us much more as a crew cab?


    This is why I reconed it would be easier to change vans.
    With the rules now being enforced for crew cabs you are legally only insured to carry employees to and from the place of work or something along those lines if it is insured and taxed as a commercial/crew cab.

    Others would know for sure but I recon to fit extra seats for private use you'd have to re tax the van as a private car, then you'd likely need an engineers report for the insurance company to say the seats are fitted correctly etc.


  • #5
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,534 ✭✭✭✭guil


    i think after all that there is no guarantee of getting insurance either, i know its the same if ya change the engine in a car


  • #6
    twomeys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭twomeys


    You cant put a seat into a factory made transit connect for a few reasons. Firstly its taxed commercially so it cant have seat in the back. Secondly your insurance would not cover it and finally there are no anchors for seats or seat bel mountings in a connect van. Now if you had the connect Car and converted it to a van you could re convert it back but otherwise its impossible I think.

    The 09 berlingo has 3 seats in the front or if you buy a used Fiat Skudo (or whatever the peugeot or citreon version is) they are the same size as the Connect but have 3 front seats.

    We've been trying to buy a transit connect. Hard to find. How is your one on fuel?

    Eoghan


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