How many miles do you have to do..

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..to warrant buying a diesel?

At the moment, my work is currently about 2 miles away from where I live. But I am in line for a job which involves traveling 200 miles a week minimum.

Would this make buying and running a diesel worth while? If not, what is?

I did do a search on the calculation but I cant find it. :rolleyes:

Chars! :D
 
nah 200 miles a week doesn't warrent a diesel by far

i do about 200-250 and drive a 2.0 mondeo, currenty averaging 30 mpg ish
 
It all depends on what deal you can get on what car, but generally - when I did the sums - somewhere around 20k/year was around the figure.
 
I'm looking at changing to a diesel and I do 350 Miles a week just for commuting. Its still a close call (looking at the diesels I'd consider).
 
merlin said:
25,000 miles per annum is about the point where people stop laughing at you.
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yup

im sick of seeing small diesel hatches around town, so uttley pointless

a guy at work does about 10 miles a week in his 407 hdi, i asked him why he bought a diesel, he said because every now and then he goes down south to visit his son at uni.
 
I just don't want to get a car that is too much lower power than what I have. Insurance is no longer an issue :D (25, 6 years NCB)
 
DannyW said:
im sick of seeing small diesel hatches around town, so uttley pointless
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Do you mean people popping down to the shops or actual small hatchbacks diesels?

I have a 106d and I get 550 miles from a tank going to and from work and it is constant stop start junctions. But admittedly the price was pretty good.



paradigm said:
God no, next car will have more than 4 cylinders.
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Got your eye on anything? :p
 
Well it depends on the MPG you are getting at the moment.

I do between 3-400 miles a week

My car is a rover 420SLi which i got 30mpg out of

at say 350 miles a week thats 18200 miles a year. which is 606.6 gallon @ 4.546 lires a gallon that is 2758 Litres @ £103p a litre = £2840.64p

In a dieles that does say 45MPG that would be 404.44 gallon / 1838.60 Litres and @ 109p per litre = £2004 per year in fuel cost.

so on those rought figures I will save around £840 per year. So it would depend on the reasons for changing car on top of the reduction in fuel cost over the period you are intending to have new car.

Personally As my Rover is getting on and things are starting to go wrong I need a new car as repairs bills are beginning to get a tad expensive, so again its then looking at petrol V diesel in the car you are looking for.

So again for Eample take a Mondeo how much would say a 2.0TDCi be compared to a 2.0 petrol over same age and same condition ? then factor in how many years yer planning on keeping it and you can come up with some figures on whether it is in yer interests or not to go Diesel :)

hope that helps.

EDIt Just checking Autotrader and the difference between a 90k mile 2.0lx Mondeo and a 90k 2.0Td Ghia X ( sorry i dont know whether the specs are equivalent or performance etc) the diesel being a 02 and the petrol a 51 is about £200

so in this instance imho it would seriously be worthwile looking at the diesel as the fuels cost saving easily covers the extra cost in terms of purchase price, then the longer you own it the more you will save.
 
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tdci's are about a thousand pound more expensive then petrols and they are unreliable, injector and pump failures. i'd get the petrol tbh avoid the tddi aswell thats just dire
 
DannyW said:
nah 200 miles a week doesn't warrent a diesel by far

i do about 200-250 and drive a 2.0 mondeo, currenty averaging 30 mpg ish
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honestly ?

on rough calcs a disel doing 45 MPG against yours the difference in fuel cost is £31 a week for your petrol against £22 for a diesel.

thats quite a difference if you are looking to cut yer travelling costs or keep them as low as possible.

in fact for the same £31 he would get 281 miles.
 
DannyW said:
tdci's are about a thousand pound more expensive then petrols and they are unreliable, injector and pump failures. i'd get the petrol tbh avoid the tddi aswell thats just dire
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the car i picked was a total hypothetical I have no idea what the guy wants.

for all i know he could be comparing a 530CL against a 530d :p

I was not recommending any particular make of car just presenting the figures.
 
also, a 2 litre petrol will do 40 mpg on a cruise 70-90mph ish, i know i have one

the derv should do 50 mpg ish, i know i had one lol
 
Thanks mate. Some good advice there!

TBH I'm not really sure what to choose in terms of a Diesel. There's two petrol's I'm interested in. A mk2 Golf on twin Weber's and a BMW 325 coupe.
 
DannyW said:
also, a 2 litre petrol will do 40 mpg on a cruise 70-90mph ish, i know i have one

the derv should do 50 mpg ish, i know i had one lol
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sometimes this forum is hard work :p

how the hell can anyone work out figures on what the cars will do dependent upon what amount of miles a car does 70-90 mph a year :p

I used your figure of 30mpg as thats the average you get.

My Megane DCi for example gets 56mpg average however not all diesels will get that some petrols might get 50 mpg i dont know but for statistical purposes i used average figures :)

however none of these are accurate or precise unless he gives us the name make and model of the car he is after petrol version and diesel then we can work it out or he can.
 
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