DEALER VIEWPOINT In 1997 MAN set up MAN Select: an
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in-hoe approved used vehicle programme designed achieve greater consistency across the netwo in sales and residual values. Thirteen of the MAN truck centres participate in the scheme.
Only vehicles up to four years old a included and they are subjected to stringe inspection and mileage limitations. These us vehicles are covered by the MAN Select thre month used truck warranty which gives coy up to the full purchase price; new parts for to membership of MAN-EuroService; and t chance to extend full or driveline cover to months at reduced cost.
MAN's Vehicle Management Centre at i Swindon HQ sells some vehicles direct to ape ators but Select Network normally has fir call on any stock.
John Donnelly is sales manager for M Central at Coventry, which is a few hundr metres from Junction 3 on the M6.
"Operators in the Midlands like the power the six-cylinder engine," he reports. "Mc F2000 8x4s are bought for muckaway a demolition work so day cabs are the norm wi tipper bodies. All are specified with the ZF 1 speed box—the Eaton 16-speed only becar available with the recent introduction of t Evolution models this year, We've begun to sel few 35.364 lightweight models with air suspe sion on aggregate work.
"There was some concern about the di brakes on the F2000 eight-wheeler to bel with," Donnelly adds, "but they've been in servi for three years now and operators are findi that they are more efficient in urban traff and with development of the brake material p life has been extended to as much as 120,000k On very early models the tyre valve was plac inside the wheel rim where it was thought to more protected in a harsh working environment, but in practice it was found that picking up a stone on site could cause it to break off on contact with the brake caliper "We have just sold our 1998 35.403 demonstrator with 44,000km on the clock for £50,000," he says, "while a 1996 35.343 P-reg tipper with 148,000km recently sold for £39,500."