Renault Master -v- Vauxhall Movano chassis for 3.5t horsebox

You want to go for the Renault Master with a chassis pan/cab so in other words just the cab and the chassis.
As you probably know the Renault Master has the lowest chasis to the ground which makes it ideal for a horsebox with a low incline ramp.
 
PeterNatt said:
You want to go for the Renault Master with a chassis pan/cab so in other words just the cab and the chassis.
As you probably know the Renault Master has the lowest chasis to the ground which makes it ideal for a horsebox with a low incline ramp.
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I went or the Renault, it has been great and I wanted it low to the floor not because of a low ramp, but because the lower the centre of gravity, the more stable it would be in high winds and just for a generally less sway-ey ride.
 
ElleSkywalker said:
^^^thanks PeterNatt very intresting. My old lorry was a Renault Master and new one probaby will be too just as am used to them but good to know they give a better ride! :D
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Doesn't feel so stable now Boggle enjoys aggressively itching his arse every time he's on the motorway!! Hehe
 
My brother is a van dealer. He says that the Vauxhall, Renault and Nissan 3.5t are all the same van. You might want to check that out though.
 
They are all the same. My lorry was on a Nissan Interstar which is less common, but it is exactly the same as the Renault Master.
 
I may have suggested she sell him and keep the lorry as the lorry was nicer and worth more :eek3::eek3::eek3::eek3::eek3:
 
ester said:
I think essentially he let her spend lots of money, giggled, and said he'd planned to behave all along ;)
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Basically yes!!!. So the lorry is trashed, there is a fair bit of bent metal (the partition bit is bent where your boy bent it- again!). The rubber kick skirt thingy is totally torn off from him pawing off it, the wall matts have lots of hoof dents, the metal strips that reinforce the cladding on the sides are popped out. The bars on the anti jump barrier are no longer straight. I have scars on my arm from where I got rammed against the side of the lorry and I sported a seriously swollen foot for a while where he trampled it.

I literally put him on it every day twice a day, just started from total scratch aka asking him to turn into correct position and stand for a second, unload and repeat (he wouldn't even do that when he got back from the pro) and built it up, second by second every day. I haven't shut him up in it and asked him to stand for longer than 5 mins at the end of the journey or stopping for fuel etc as I figured perhaps that will come with time once he's totally used to going out etc. Oh and I put him on a valerian calmer.

He gets a bucket of fast fibre hung up to keep him amused and a likit thingy (everything is covered with sticky goo). Essentially his lorry is like a childrens play pen.

He's still a massive pain in the arse in so many other ways though.. and finding new ways to destroy my property aka snapping my Schockemohle breastplate from his acrobatic session when things got too exciting out hacking the other day!
 
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