What do I need to know about a Chrysler Grand Voyager?

[Katymac]

I'm getting it tomorrow as a hire car (cos Tesco petrol killed my car)

Anything I need to know or look out for

Ideally persuade me against it - I can't afford one

that they are the ugliest cars ever invented?

I thought that was that butt ugly fiat?

I had one and loved it but got done for speeding once too often in it (petrol and went like the wind). We currently have a 807 and are going to sell it. I want a Chrysler GV diesel, but dh needs persuading. You can test drive it for me....

That they came off badly in the crsh tests that 'Which' did. I think they actually advised not to buy iirc.

Really? Is there a link. The 807 is a very dull car but at least it is safe.

I read on here not too long ago that apparentl;y the old ones were unsafe, the new ones now safe, but that someone on 'the inside' said rthat they still aren't safe....

I'm getting a new one - it was that or a Clio???

well, we bought one from new once (top of the range model, too ) and it broke down a grand total of 3 times within the first month, with serious (unrelated) faults.
We were on holiday at the time and Chrysler were utterly abysmal at dealing with it... there we were, stuck in France with two children under 2, being messed about royally by Chrysler. It cost us £600 in mobile phone calls.Chrysler gave us £150 as a 'goodwill geature'.
Biggest pile of cr@p we'd ever bought.

My friends have one, and it keeps breaking down with an undiagnosed electrical fault. Basically it keeps stopping. Chyrsler have had it in but say they can't find anything wrong with it. The last time it did it we were all together in the car - 2 adults & 4 kids in the middle of the cornish countryside.

They wish they'd never bought it. It looks flashy and has all the gizmos, but is a liability.

Well, that's off the wishlist then. Good luck with yours Katymac.

Everybody have put me off beautifully

Thanks

Er, I love mine.

The end.

Never broken down either.

GDG - don't say anything nice about it - I can't have one

here is a statement re NCAP

I'm not worried about it. I know it doesn't change anything about my car, but plenty of people are driving around in N reg escorts and the like which are much less safe (they certainly have less safety features anyway - airbags, side curtains blah blah). I still know which car I'd rather have.

Kind of irrelevant for Katymac though since apparently she isn't having one!

This is the piece from Which (aol, NB that the LHD version is much safer - it seems to be that they haven't designed the RHD the same way):

Voyager safety slammed
Chrysler?s Voyager MPV scores just two stars in Euro NCAP tests, as the right-hand-drive version lacks vital safety equipment.

The latest version of Chrysler?s large MPV, the Voyager, has been heavily criticised in new Euro NCAP crash tests. It?s the least safe large MPV tested since 2003, and only marginally betters the score for an earlier version of the Voyager, tested in 1999.

For a family-oriented car, its two-star rating (with one star struck through to indicate a ?high risk of serious or fatal injury?) is simply unacceptable. This is because in the frontal crash test, despite having an airbag, the driver?s chest hit the steering wheel with a force likely to cause serious or fatal injuries.

As the Voyager?s specification is lower in the UK compared with left-hand-drive models in Europe (notably, it does not have knee-protecting airbags), Euro NCAP has called on Chrysler to show much greater commitment to safety.

Euro NCAP Chairman, Claes Tingvall, said: ?I find it shocking that, in seven years, this manufacturer has not been able to improve the safety of this MPV ? a car that is clearly targeting families. Still worse is that Chrysler continues to sell this version in the UK while a better-equipped and better-performing version is available in left-hand drive across the rest of Europe.?

I have had 3 in the past and loved them all, like driving in your arm chair!! only complaint i have is how thirsty they are, especially top of the range petrol. As two of my children now drive I couldn't justify keeping mine.