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    MX Hiace owners

    Some one must have been here before?
    Im looking at buying a hiace to cart a couple of dirt bikes around.
    Cr125 and Crf250
    I know bigger is better but ...Will a short wheel base be enough?
    or is a long wheel base a must?

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    Shorties will take both bikes and still have room for gear.
    Long ones are a tad more expensive but if you score one with the fold up rear seat I believe the bikes will fit behind that, so you can take the pit crew too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    Shorties will take both bikes and still have room for gear.
    Long ones are a tad more expensive but if you score one with the fold up rear seat I believe the bikes will fit behind that, so you can take the pit crew too.

    100% correct, long wheel base means 2 bikes, plus back seat down

    short wheel base will do but know back seat with bikes in,

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    Thanks Heaps looks like the shortWB will do the job.
    Ill have to make the my umbrella girls take the bus thou

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    Quote Originally Posted by owner View Post
    Ill have to make the my umbrella girls take the bus thou
    If they're the right shape they fit in the front just fine.
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    My hiace could fit in 2, but i have all my work gear, tools, toolbox etc etc and yeh still fits in one bike comfy
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    We only fit 2 cr250s in boooms hiace. thats wqith the seats up.

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    Yeah thats a funny one, i got the long wheel base and have to fold the back seats to get two bikes in.
    Maybe they changed the wheelbase after 1990 model which is the one i got.
    but can get 3 bikes in mine tho.
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    time to clarify.

    wheelbase is easyly checed by noting the gap between the sliding door and the rear wheel well.

    SWB about 2 inches
    LWB about a foot
    Hi Roof about another foot longer than the lwb

    SWB you cant get any bikes in as well as the rear seat.
    LWB you can get 1 cr250 in with 1 row of seats in place, or 2 CR250s with the seats folded up
    Hi Roof, who knows, you MAY be able to get 2 bikes in and a seat but i have never tried one.

    advise for buying a hiace, dont buy a 2.4 turbo one. also the leaf spring models are better for carrying loads, which makes the Super Custom variety not as good for loads and lots more boaty feeling.

    if your up for big spending, there is a 3 litre turbo diesel long wheelbase with leaf springs in the rear, these are awesome, but hard to find and expensive.

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    i had a 2.8 non turbo, lwb, leaf spring one for a couple of years, i could get 2 bikes in behind the fold down seat, you had to put them in backwards, but it fit quite well, 3 in no probs with the seat down,

    i also had a petrol 2.4 model lwb as well, same deal, 2 bikes in easy with seat down

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    ecovans seem to have a lower roof line as well, had to fold the handbars down to fit in the bikes
    Hi-aces no problem their.
    Dad has just brought a new one (2.2? litre petrol) and it come with tie down points on the floor already in the back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scott411 View Post
    i had a 2.8 non turbo, lwb, leaf spring one for a couple of years, i could get 2 bikes in behind the fold down seat, you had to put them in backwards, but it fit quite well, 3 in no probs with the seat down,

    i also had a petrol 2.4 model lwb as well, same deal, 2 bikes in easy with seat down
    what kind of bikes we talking? honestly, theres no way in my lwb u can get a bike long ways in behind the seat in place, to get 1 in there the bike has to be diaganol

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    sorry to sound like a know it all
    Hiace rear deck area --SWB 2.7m deck
    LWB 2.95m deck
    Jumbo 3.1m deck
    The way to tell a jumbo is they have a porthole window behind the sliding door.

    They come in High roof,4wd and the one Ive got which is called a Just lo --Long wheel base High roof with No wheel arches to take up space.
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    i could carry 2 KX250's in their,

    trick was to go in backwards, and then tuwn wheel so the fotn wheel would be in the rear corner, then put one tie down up to the vent at the top of this corner,

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