Testing the new Renault Trafic - not too bad! | Thomas Nagy 

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"Contractors only think in 8x4. You can show a contractor the sistine chapel and he will think ' A lot of 8x4 went into that'" - Richard Hammond

With orange plastic trim instead of the yellow, it'll be in your brand's colours. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Nagy.

It is possible to switch the seat belt noise off. There is a plug under the seat connected to the seat belt buckle, if unplugged the noise will disappear completely

You're going to be big mate. Its been great watching you grow. Keep up the good work!

They need to increase the ride height, in order for a Deliveroo cyclists fit underneath with out scratching the underside

To turn off the seat belt warning you just plug the middle passenger seat belt into your drivers seat belt socket, problem sorted 😁, and before the health and safety brigade jump on me that was called a joke.

these vans are excellent I have one but mine's a Fiat Talento model 2017 and they do feel like driving a car. The seats hold around you which giving great back support. another feature on all the models is that they are very efficient I have mine in eco mode and for 50 litres worth of diesel you can get over 700 miles easy. the vans also come with a new feature called Adblue it cleans the diesel emissions giving it that Euro 6 garuntee. The hands free Media SatNav is the best feature as it automatically connects to the phone as you enter the van. The engine noise is quiet 80mph down the motorway all I can hear is the wind on the roof rack. these vans are the best for anyone looking for a mid-range budget proffessional vehicle. Compared to my old van which was as 06' renault trafic used to feel like driving a bus. These new 17 plate models have changed and surprisingly have a slightly bigger amount of space than my old one. Great video Tom do love these vans.

Great video Tom, excellent content and production

If you like Renault - do yourself a favour and get the electric version. Even if you don't care about the emissions, or even the lower fuel costs, around London you will love the instant torque and free congestion charge!

Its amazing that people just cannot keep their negative comments to themself.... Great vid Tom! Sounds like a great van.

Great review chap, think I can hear the top gear for tradesmen calling!

This is one of the best presented videos I have seen on RU-vid. The presenter is better than anything you will find on TV. The editing is so professional you have to assume a huge team behind this or a genius. This guy could talk me into eating turnips. But he is not selling, it is a fair review. If he turned his interest to food tourism he'd be a millionaire in 24 months.

Your new video style and cinematics in this video are absolutely amazing! Keep up the good work :)

that was one of the best reviews ive seen, and was professional and entertaining to boot!

Informative, entertaining and top notch production quality

You only get the folding seat storage on the business plus edition or better. The standard Renault traffic doesn’t come with all the good extras that you have. Nice van by the one 👍

The camera and video work is on another level!

Is this an audition for the next Top Gear presenter? ;-) Great production !!

Excellent video mate well done, getting very very professional making these 👏

The production value of this video is better than most tv programmes

I picked my Trafic Formula edition up last week the LWB version! Great van

The quality of these videos are getting better and better. Good job with this one 👍🏻

Just traded in my Mini JCW for one of these. Only had it 3 days and can't wait to start my minor upgrade of the cargo area. It's a great looking practical motor.

Outstanding production values, keep up the good work!

Iv read a few of the comments bellow are quite negative. I bought this van last week....so far i love it. I think its great. Yes in the grand scheme of things some of the features you pointed out are small but they make a difference. Im not an electrician i was a mechanic and now work in the health service fixing people . I still enjoy watching trade videos and i must say yours are very entertaining. Many thanks for literally hours of entertainment . keep up the work.

Please do more honest van or car reviews.. i like that

yay .. hoorah !!! new rig !!! congrats buddy !!

Who does your video.. bloody good job... great flow, interesting scenes interspersed. Good stuff.

This video was really well edited. Well done mate

Hill Start Assist (HSA) is a system which, when you are stopped on a hill and want to drive off, will hold the brake for you for a second so your foot can move to the gas pedal without driving backwards. The Hill Start Assist system should trigger automatically and should not require any interaction of the driver. So when you are driving off and you feel like the van/car is held back for a second it might have been the Hill Start Assist system kicking in. In a friends Renault Clio ECO mode will disable the turbo he has in his car for better fuel economy.Not so sure about this van. And last stop-start will cut out the engine when you stop in front of a traffic light and you put the vehicle in neutral and release the clutch. The engine will restart itself whenever you depress the clutch and want to drive off. Do mind that the stop-start system will not work whenever the engine is cold and/or the battery is low on charge (And some other scenarios). The engine might also restart whenever it detects that the battery is depleting even when you didn't depress the clutch pedal

I’ve de-chimed many vehicles. Sometimes I’ve had to remove the ecm and de-solder the chime from the board. In the end, the piece and quite was worth it!

does look very nice and you did a fantastic van tour . I did expect you to show the trap door allowing 3m tube through the passenger side that I would think was helpful for your job . I also thought you had tried to match colour with your T shirts . enjoyed watching keep them coming

I'm getting a feeling that you might just buy this exact one! Yellow accents and striping included. Although they should change them to your company colour orange for you.

This was a quality video really enjoyed it keep up the work 👌

the production quality is amazing, great job :)

Thomas you are far from a bottom of the ladder tradesman fella.......Nice looking van that has some good features.

Thanks for the review Jeremy

So good to see some one do a good van review thanks

" Chunky buttons " I love it

Looks bloody nice Tom. Good purchase mate.

notification squad here. Great video nice review of the van looks like good set of wheels.

Great video My berlingo has the locking lever to keep one rear door locked and the rubber bumper incase you close the wrong door first, and the middle seat folds flat as a work station

Brilliant review. Well done.

Bloody good review that was you should do more car and van reviews your actually really good at it

beginning is like a hip hop video - sick m8!!!!

Can't wait to see the van with a cool vinyl roof rack and racked out inside 👍

Lots of these vans on the road. For every 10 trafic/vivaro/nv300/talento I see about 1 transit custom. Chatting to someone last week who had a custom up on a lift and was concerned about the corrosion underneath. Anyone with a trafic etc, look in below the van and you will see no shortage of underseal and even underseal between the bonnet skins...

Loving this new style of video!

An excellent review thanks, Tom. I’d buy one too if I was in the market - aside from the impressive mechanics, I also like the storage/cabin refinements. 😄👌👌👏👏👏👏

good review. I bet people would never have thought a 1.6l diesel would be enough with a 145bhp. Thats quite a lot of power for a smaller engine. only 5 years ago you would have needed a 2.0l diesel for that amount of power

sounds like jerermy clarkson when he says oh i love that after he explains about the seatbelt buzzer

Very nice van, I drove the old Trafic and found it suprisingly punchy even when fully laden. Had the LWB and it was fairly easy driving considering the length.

Pack in the day job Thomas I'm sure top gear will b in touch after seeing this!

Good review, Tom. The latest update looks decent. I've got a 2016/17 model LWB and love it. As you said, all those little things make it a great place to be. Only two things really bugged me about mine. 1) they didn't set up the basic version of the stereo for full integration with phone (ie voice commands) so being in Australia, I have to pull over to make calls. As a tradie that sucks. 2) The reverse gear is a really long ratio. I work in a hilly area, and backing up a steep driveway smokes the clutch. Other than that, a bloody decent van!

Dayummm. Nice editing

Thats the best van interior i have ever seen

you should have a go of the transit custom

Great video like usual

We have the Opel versions, the original , the facelift , the eco facelift , and the 2017 model , the 2017 is a big step up , it drives easy , comfy like the movano’s The interior reminds me of a luxury car, the upgraded dash with al the cup holders and storage places are much better than the previous versions , and the horizontal mounted door handles make the van so much cleaner , we got the version with the least hp but it isn’t slow , only thing that bugs me are the fabric seats, but that’s because I don’t always have clean work

I work for Vauxhall as a van tech. Honestly apart from the teething issues they had about 2 years ago that they ironed out there pretty good vans. See some with 180k mikes on 15 regs and there still going strong. Go for it if you like it. Just be careful with the gearbox. The bearings can sometime be a bit like chocolate and melt 😂

Great honest review Tom 👍🏻 Hope you’ll test drive some more vans 😆

I had a 2004 model Trafic and closed the wrong door first and it had the dent you spoke about. I now have a 2010 Trafic (phase 3) it has a stop on the door so no dent.

U can also disconnect the wire next to the seat belt clip

This was better than the new top gear....amazing review wow

Felt like I was watching an episode of Top Gear. Nice video. :)

Scissors jack as standard. The a-team stripe does match your uniform .

Genuinely loving the new intro style, have you hired a pro or do you just know talented people?

well played i enjoyed that!!!!!

Why was that van review so good? Youlle be snapped up for a tv show soon

" i like that" Going for a catchphrase?

Ladies and gentlemen, Thomas Nagy's Top Gear audition... "I like that"!

Isn't the Fort Transit Custom better than the Trafic? I have driven the new Transit and it feels really premium and is good thought.

Ive got a feeling Renault are feeling good ..Mr Nagy giving them some well earned PR.. "I Like it too! .."

Great van review. I have been looking at the traffic for a new van. 👍

Ive had a Trafic and a Vivaro. I loved the look of them and the roomy cab, (6’ 1 1/2”) but they were so unreliable. Between the two of them I had 2x gearboxes, 4x Clutches, 1x Turbo, 1x Air Mass Meter, 1x Inlet Manifold, 1x Front suspension, 1x Master Clutch Cylinder which means Gearbox out, etc. Rubbish. VW Transporter is the one to have.

U can press the clip on seat belt and will shut up when I was delevering with my traffic it annoyed me so much but that’s what u do Tom hope it helped x

Looks so good!

Are you going to do a video of building the back of the van like your old one? Would be sick!

Since it will be badged as the Traffic - NV300 - Vivaro - Primstar et-al I guess it'll come down to the quality of service at whichever dealer is near you. and offers a price you are prepared to pay. Didn't see any great leaps forward in security so we'll all be drilling deadlocks into those shiny panels although, to be fair, you can't cover everything in eleven minutes.

For the seatbelt warning sound. You can just buy some seatbelt adapters which you plug in. The van then thinks you have your seatbelt on all the time. I have them in my car as I found it very annoying.

Nice video bro

Great video it felt like I was watching the old top gear show haha

You can switch seat alarm of you unplug it under the seats

I see she has a reversing camera so handy

So an extra 4" in length keeps Thomas happy Till you try to park it

Never thought I'd see a twin turbo transit van honestly

Good video, that hood mishap was funny

Thomas depending on which van you decide to get you fitting racks into the back and roof racks on top

I’ve got the new Vauxhall Version and it is very similar to the new Renault Traffic but I bib not get the Choice which one I wanted and now having it for over 2,3 months I think the Traffic it looks a better than the Vauxhall. That is why you should go for the Traffic

Got both the old and new traffic and love them both.... Oh and I don't have a ding on the rear doors

Already better and less annoying than a car throttle review

Unplug the switch under the seat to silence the seat belt alarm

Of the two blanks to the left of the radio, one is a windscreen heater which I have but it wrecks my head not knowing what the other one is

Nice camerawork!

Hahaha, you at 3:00 reminded me of me when I got in my 2012 high trim Civic. Coming from a relatively spartan 06 Fiesta Zetec, even in just six years of improvement, it blew my mind. Lots of "what the hell is this? what the hell is that?" in the first few minutes, and still occasionally now after a year, and I still can't operate the infotainment properly! It's fantastic though, your van is in the same realm as your bed as somewhere you spend a *lot* of time and deserves some money spent. That's why I'm bitter that my company keeps me in a Fiat while my colleagues receive tooled up Transits.

nice review,and nice van,would definetly get a nice HP boost with a remap from that twin turbo 1.6 engine,although the new transits are very nice also.

Great review, any other reviews/test drives coming? VW Crafter or Mercedes Sprinter would be interesting :-)

Nice improvements 👍

Did you take this down to your parents on Friday. Seen a Formula Edition crashed on Woodbury Common. lol