Our company has just bought hundreds of these things, our Sprinter workhorses are being phased out.

I'm not an owner I just drive them, I can't comment on reliability, too soon and not my department anyway. Same with value for money. So, I'm only commenting as a driver, nothing else, someone who has to sit in these things and do my job.

As for practicality, we have custom built bodies, they seem fine but they are nothing to do with Iveco.

Good points - a nice tight turning circle, thats a definite plus.

Lets start outside. The wing mirror mounted indicators, dont like them as the flashing light is clearly visible in the cab, thats a distraction I dont need thanks. Also dont like the visibility in those mirrors.

The cab doors;, why are the door handles mounted the wrong way round? Look at any other current car or van (other than Citroen) and you will see whats odd about the Daily door handle. In hinges in the same way as the door. All other vehicles now have handles that hinge in the opposite direction or hinge up or out. Why do that, why add that little complication?

Ours have the gearbox with the manual/auto option. But the gear stick is far, far too sensitive, it only takes a mild touch on the gear stick to deselect auto and find you are grinding along in manual, which you only realise when you've gone too far in 2nd. We had essentially the same gearbox set up on some old Sprinters, never a problem like that, because it was configured differently.

The gear changes are clunky, often feels like they are coming in at the wrong point, feels like its over revving in low gear as well sometimes.

The internal doorhandles are in the wrong place, how the hell did that happen? In most other cars/vans I dont have to scrabble around to let myself out, I reach out and the handle is where I implicitly expect it to be. Its a sign of good design. Ivecos's designers are cleverer than that. They have carefully mounted the internal door handle low down under a protruding fairing, you have to actually look for it visually the first time, after that its merely an irritating scrabble around to locate it every time. Obviously the handle should have been mounted higher up in that fairing - but wasnt. Why?

The radios in our model have another bonus stupid feature. For some years every car/van Ive driven has a simple switch for the radio. You press the button once to turn it on, you press the same button again to turn it off. Its not rocket science. Not in our Ivecos though. You have to press it to turn it on but for some mind bogglingly stupid reason, to turn it off you have hold down the button for a few seconds. What the hell is the point of that?

Its difficult to insert the ignition key, again most vehicles are designed so that the key slides into position over whatever the surrounding trim is. Not in the Daily, as with the door handles, you have to fumble around every time or locate it visually.

The 12v sockets, there are two, thats handy. Except they seem to have a problem, sat navs etc dont always plug in properly. I realise that the humble cigartte lighter socket is ground breaking technology, only perfected mere decades ago but even so Iveco could have made a tiny bit more effort.

The window control buttons; helpfully set up so that they work in the opposite direction to nearly all (all?) other vehicles. You keep finding yourself pressing the 'up' button because in a proper vehicle that would be the 'down' button and vice versa.

The hooter, I and other drivers assume there was a malfunction, we naturally assumed that it was located in the steering wheel. What idiots eh! Its much more handily mounted on a stalk on the left of the steering column. More Iveco genius.

Suspension; hard as hell. Feel every bump and jolt in the road, that gets tedious after a while. Also I suspect a higher number of breakages in the payload as a result, cant prove that though.

I note - through personal observation only - that, despite some of the reviews here, I see very few owner operator Daily vans on the road, or belonging to small operators. I suspect that anyone who had to drive one - wouldnt, not if they had a choice. Hence most of them on the road belong to businesses where the people who purchase them are completely isolated from the people who have to drive them.

i got my 35s12 brand new in 2004. Since then have done 432,000 miles on the same engine, gearbox, axle the lot!! had a few problems with it such as drive shaft pinion bearing gave up, and and have gone through 2 inline fuel pumps and starter motors and a few other little things, but for the miles i do it very rarely lets me down. the main issue i have with them are the brakes. useless! the calliper sliders seize . . . . ALOT! easy to fix, but lets the van down. as long as you service it and look after it, it will carry on and on. i will be getting another one.

i have owned since new 45c15 3.0 hpi minibus,have suffered many electrical faults i.e engine management warning light edc brake warning light 3 times faulty headlights corroded battery terminal resulting in breakdown faulty brake caliper broken inside door handle engine egr valve, only today just been quoted £420 to replace front discs and pads!!many hours of downtime and inconvienience, big mistake, wish id bought a sprinter ive owned a 313 cdi sprinter 7 years no faults at all!!

35C18 MWB H2 Heavy Duty Van 2010, Really nice van, fantastic engine but has 1 major flaw- the handeling is attrocious. Van wanders very badly when going past other vans, lories, buses and in anything more than a slight wind and bumpy roads. When towing it can be dangerous and is not a joy to drive. I have other Iveco Dailys (an 07, an 04, and a couple of 55 plates) and these handle fine.

These vans are just plain trash. My 35C15 3.0litre is only 7 months old and has so far had.. new gearbox at 6000 miles, new flywheel and clutch at 12000. New suspension drivers seat, new headling (windscreen was leaking!) New steering rack, new front bushes, new front leaf spring, air con wiring burn out twice, various engine valves replaced, engine management light and EDC warning light on all the time despite numerous attempts to repair, front bumper replaced ~ its the colour coded type and the headlights keep digging into the paintwork, new key set, new fuel tank and sender unit, awaiting paint to dent from when new, side door fixed 4 times, gearbox being to judder again so maybe another new box is due soon.. These vans are a waste of money. Pay the extra 5k and get a sprinter!!

Purchased 11x dropsides, 4 have been delivered so far. After 333 miles one wouldn't start; another with less than 150 miles showed a warning light saying there was water in the fuel system; another with less than 500 miles now has an engine management light on and EDC light warning. One which has not yet been delivered has had a new fuel pump, egr valve & a gearbox sensor within the bell housing replaced.
The first one sent back has been off the road for over a week due to the fact Iveco Germany insisted on checks being made to ascertain if bio-fuels have been used in the vehicle (finding ways to shift the blame in fact!)
As a new customer of Iveco I'm finding a 75% failure rate ever-so slightly unacceptable - These are brand new out the box!!
Now dreading delivery of the other 7 & don't even want to think about the 18t Eurocargo on order :(
£380,000's worth of aggro me thinks. Be warned.

I HAVE DRIVEN MY 29L9 FOR 7 YRS AND HAD VERY FEW PROBLEMS...I HAVE REPLACED THE CLUTCH MASTER CYLINDER UNIT (CHEAP) HAD A NEW EXHAUST (NOT CHEAP) NEW PADS ALL ROUND AND A STARTER MOTOR AND GEAR ACTUATION RODS (NOT TOO EXPENSIVE). BUT THAT IS IT. IT RUNS LIKE CLOCKWORK. I DONT KNOW WHERE THE GUY IN HERE GOT HIS 80MPG ONE FROM THOUGH, AND PERFORMANCE ISNT GREAT, ALTHOUGH IT COPES WELL WITH NATONAL LIMITS AND PULLS LOADS WITH NO BOTHER...I AM A ROOFER AND HAVE HAD IT TO THE LIMIT AND NOT EVEN FELT IT WAS THERE...APART FORM UP STEEP INCLINES ...THEY DRINK FUEL; THAT IS THE ONLY VICE. I AM A HAPPY OWNER WHO WILL GLADLY BUY ANOTHER NEXT TIME ROUND...SOME TIME YET I THINK

This is a must buy work horse not a van. This van has got to be one of the most comfortable vans ever to drive on long distances without fatigue, smooth ride, I have an older model LWB twin rear wheels, very well balanced, very economical. My vehicle is fitted out as Broadcast van full time, drives beautifully.

Love/hate relationship with my Iveco Daily van. when all is well this van is a great driver and makes my job as a courier pretty cruisy. It has good acceleration, comfortable enough interior, decent fuel economy and carries weight up to two tonnes well. It actually drives better [smoother] with a bit of weight on it. BUT the reliability issues of this van drive me absolutely crazy. It seems like every week it develops a new fault to add to the list and when you have no choice but take it to the dealer, be prepared to pay a fortune. Actually, I think I hate this van.