It will be a massive improvement then, will use a nice bit more diesel, but the improvement in comfort and safety will be vast. The election lift will take a good bit of getting use to, if he had someone to ring when in bother it would be a big help. There are little processes for most operations on the lift and for the first few times they can seem daunting and if you are not using all the functions regularly you can forget the way to do them. The electronic lift system can do so many things in so many different ways it can seem complicated at first, but they all become easy after a while. One of the biggest issues is most sales men and mechanics don't know how to work them properly and the operators manual is translated from french.