General Re: How Many Doblo's! The Official Thread Discussion!

[sludgeguts]

Re: How Many Doblo's! The Official Thread!

Aside from mine, a neighbour 100 yards down the road has one & there's another 300 yards the other direction.
Coming out of a local car park yesterday I drove past one with a wheelchair lift built into the back.
They're getting quite popular round here.

Oh, and the dealer who sold it to me rang this morning to see how I was getting on - I wonder what he's after?
Perhaps they've never sold one before & want to know what it's like?

 

[Ozzie1989]

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I see lots around now in my local area, before I bought one I only ever saw one Doblo owned by a taxi driver, now every bu**er's got one

So I had to modify mine to make it unique again

 

[RichDoblo120]

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I sometimes get waves from other Doblo'ers :wave: (not vans). We must be quite a friendly bunch. I had a Panda hire car and another Panda driver gave me a wave.
Is it a Fiat thing?

 

[sludgeguts]

Re: How Many Doblo's! The Official Thread Discussion!

I sometimes get waves from other Doblo'ers :wave: (not vans). We must be quite a friendly bunch. I had a Panda hire car and another Panda driver gave me a wave.
Is it a Fiat thing?

That always used to happen years ago, sort of an unofficial owners club & the habit sort of phased out but it's good to see a bit of courtesy on the roads. Us Dobbin owners should stick together - even the vans.

 

[Ozzie1989]

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There is only one type of vehicle I know (apart from really expensive cars) where the majority of owners still wave at each other, and that's the people driving Landrover Defenders!

My local Landrover specialist keeps a stock of flasher stalks as people keep using them too much and wearing them out!

 

[Niall_G]

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My local Landrover specialist keeps a stock of flasher stalks as people keep using them too much and wearing them out!

usually to let the AA man know where they have broken down......:devil:





More seriously...... A couple of months ago I used Mrs_G's Cargo to do a delivery late one evening. My route was from Coventry to Kent. Not long after joining the M1 I became aware of another Cargo following me down the motorway. As I left the M1 to join the M25 he accelerated to a point where we could 'eyeball' eachother and he gave me a cheery wave..... I did wonder if I'd seen another FF member?

 

[Ozzie1989]

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In all honesty I have waved and received waves from people in Doblo's, and I've spoken to a few people with them in car parks etc.

But whenever someone waves it me, it tends to be of the age category 70+... I'll never forget the day after I picked up the car when they were rare round here I had a wave off an old couple as they drove past

 

[tinman]

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Is it a Fiat thing?

no one has ever waved to me in the van, but they used to in the Cinq Sporting and Seicento Sporting. it is a little bit of a Fiat thing, although not exclusive.