The new Sprinter vans arrived via Dealer Euro Commercials. All are Sprinter 313 CDI models with 129 hp common rail turbodiesel engines and BlueEFFICIENCY packages which combine a raft of measures designed to reduce fuel use and exhaust emissions.
These include ECO-Start, the innovative system that cuts the engine whenever a vehicle is stationary – for example, in heavy traffic – then automatically re-starting when the driver is ready to move off and depresses the clutch. Other features include low rolling resistance tyres and efficiency improvements to items like the power steering system, fuel pump and battery management.
Most of the new vehicles are Long-bodied panel vans with external glass-carrying frails and internal racking, which are being used by its double-glazing fitters.
The line-up also includes an Extra-long van which is based at Leeke's store in Melksham and is used primarily to deliver furniture, and six Long chassis cabs with dropside bodies used by Leekes’ conservatory base installation teams.
Euro Commercials has additionally supplied a nine-seat Mercedes-Benz Vito Traveliner minibus which is now in service at The Vale Resort on Hensol Park, Vale of Glamorgan, a sister company to Leekes.
The retailer, which also has concessions in other stores and garden centres, runs 70 vans, the vast majority of them Sprinters. The new vans replace older vehicles that have been stood down, including several by another manufacturer.
Leekes’ vans are maintained within the Mercedes-Benz Dealer network by factory-trained technicians fitting only GenuineParts.