Help me change car

Diagro · 8 Sep 2015 at 11:42

Oh the BMW 120D, That looks interesting. Will have a look.

iaind · 8 Sep 2015 at 11:48

Begbie said:
Corsa is a bit of side step from a Clio Sport though. Probably more power, but less handling characteristics. Can see it being just as much fun as the Clio. The Clio will do 38mpg~ at 70mph on the motorway too.

What about saving a bit more and a decent Octavia VRs?

6k is more than enough to get a decent VRS, petrol or diesel, maybe not one less than 5 years old though,.

Diesel is 0-60 in 8.0 and 47mpg combined, Petrol is 0-60 in 7.0 and 37mpg combined

The ride isnt great but replacing the shocks with Bilstein ones improves it no end. A couple of nice ones on Briskoda at the moment

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/370210-octavia-vrs-20-tfsi-2007-57-62k-stunning-car/
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/364177-2008-octavia-vrs-tfsi/
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/365304-2007-škoda-octavia-vrs-tdi-pd-170-£4950/

radderfire · 8 Sep 2015 at 11:50

Personally I would not buy an Alfa Romeo, because I do not feel the build quality or reliability is good enough.

Diagro · 8 Sep 2015 at 11:51

iaind said:
6k is more than enough to get a decent VRS, petrol or diesel, maybe not one less than 5 years old though,.

Diesel is 0-60 in 8.0 and 47mpg combined, Petrol is 0-60 in 7.0 and 37mpg combined

The ride isnt great but replacing the shocks with Bilstein ones improves it no end. A couple of nice ones on Briskoda at the moment

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/370210-octavia-vrs-20-tfsi-2007-57-62k-stunning-car/
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/364177-2008-octavia-vrs-tfsi/
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/365304-2007-škoda-octavia-vrs-tdi-pd-170-£4950/

Thank you.

This is the sort of post i was after!
Im not a fan of the saloon shape, but im sure it could grow on me, those cars sounds lik a lot of car for the money.

iaind · 8 Sep 2015 at 11:53

Diagro said:
Thank you.

This is the sort of post i was after!
Im not a fan of the saloon shape, but im sure it could grow on me, those cars sounds lik a lot of car for the money.

It's a hatch

radderfire · 8 Sep 2015 at 11:58

I am just putting this out there:

£5,500 MAZDA6 2.2 D Takuya 5dr

Personally I wouldn't buy a diesel again, but it's 0-60 time is 9.2 which is almost what you want, good fuel economy. Nicely specced car. Not sure how good the diesel engine is on this though, might be awful haven't looked into it.

iaind · 8 Sep 2015 at 11:59

radderfire said:
I am just putting this out there:

£5,500 MAZDA6 2.2 D Takuya 5dr

Personally I wouldn't buy a diesel again, but it's 0-60 time is 9.2 which is almost what you want, good fuel economy. Nicely specced car. Not sure how good the diesel engine is on this though, might be awful haven't looked into it.

They're nice engines to drive, but have plenty issues with the usual stuff like DPFs

radderfire · 8 Sep 2015 at 12:02

Yes, I would buy the Mazda 6 in petrol instead, but I wasn't sure if the fuel econ was good enough and it's a bit slower than he wants:

£5,900 MAZDA6 2.0 TS2 5dr

Well specced cars though, and roomy inside. The dash controls are bit fiddly for my liking though.

Armageus · 8 Sep 2015 at 12:03

radderfire said:
I am just putting this out there:

£5,500 MAZDA6 2.2 D Takuya 5dr

Personally I wouldn't buy a diesel again, but it's 0-60 time is 9.2 which is almost what you want, good fuel economy. Nicely specced car. Not sure how good the diesel engine is on this though, might be awful haven't looked into it.

I know high mileage isn't necessarily a problem, but not sure I would want to spend 5.5k on something with 124k miles

Armageus · 8 Sep 2015 at 12:08

Relax the age requirement by a couple of years and get a Diesel A4 or something similar?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201504172688893

8.6 seconds to 60, 48.7mpg, reasonable comfort?

radderfire · 8 Sep 2015 at 12:09

Armageus said:
I know high mileage isn't necessarily a problem, but not sure I would want to spend 5.5k on something with 124k miles

I probably shouldn't have suggested it, because the diesel engine has too much big bill potential really. I don't really like diesels anyway

kaku · 8 Sep 2015 at 12:34

You will be disappointed if you're expecting decent mileage out of a Leon FR. The TSIs drink fuel like crazy if you go anywhere near the throttle.

Diagro · 8 Sep 2015 at 13:38

radderfire said:
I am just putting this out there:

£5,500 MAZDA6 2.2 D Takuya 5dr

Personally I wouldn't buy a diesel again, but it's 0-60 time is 9.2 which is almost what you want, good fuel economy. Nicely specced car. Not sure how good the diesel engine is on this though, might be awful haven't looked into it.

I love the look of that car. If only it was under 100k miles. I would sacrifice the performance

Diagro · 8 Sep 2015 at 13:40

Armageus said:
Relax the age requirement by a couple of years and get a Diesel A4 or something similar?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201504172688893

8.6 seconds to 60, 48.7mpg, reasonable comfort?

The age is not too much of an issue. have added that to the list of cars to test drive!

Jim99 · 8 Sep 2015 at 13:53

Diagro said:
Real world tests show the Alfa doing 47Mpg and the Leon doing 43mpg. Both cars fall within my range. So its possible to find the car i want...

Not saying it's not possible, just wonder whether it's worth the hassle for a potentially small saving as compared to 55-60mpg options. Just things to consider ahead of picking your final choice.

Nasher · 8 Sep 2015 at 13:53

Unless your doing LOADS of miles I'd go with petrol TBH.

These days you can have a nice and light, 1.6t petrol that will run rings around a diesel and get 40+ MPG. Plus much cheaper to maintain.

But your unlikely to find the specs you want for £6k (and still in good condition).

Armageus · 8 Sep 2015 at 14:04

Nasher said:
But your unlikely to find the specs you want for £6k (and still in good condition).

Nice edit - but correct, as other than 1.6T corsas, you will struggle to get a decently fuel efficient petrol engine car in that price range (small turbo petrols are still a relatively new thing - e.g. last 3 years and so still command a premium)

Nasher said:
Unless your doing LOADS of miles I'd go with petrol TBH.

These days you can have a nice and light, 1.6t petrol that will run rings around a diesel and get 40+ MPG. Plus much cheaper to maintain.

Not sure where the cheaper to maintain bit comes in really, as other than a DPF there is nothing different to maintain (i.e. at lot of modern petrols now have a DMF which was a common stated diesel related issue)

14k/year mileage arguably either petrol or diesel are both viable choices - wouldn't have thought there would be much in it.

Diagro · 8 Sep 2015 at 14:46

Armageus said:
Nice edit - but correct, as other than 1.6T corsas, you will struggle to get a decently fuel efficient petrol engine car in that price range (small turbo petrols are still a relatively new thing - e.g. last 3 years and so still command a premium)

Not sure where the cheaper to maintain bit comes in really, as other than a DPF there is nothing different to maintain (i.e. at lot of modern petrols now have a DMF which was a common stated diesel related issue)

14k/year mileage arguably either petrol or diesel are both viable choices - wouldn't have thought there would be much in it.

Sounds like I'm stuck tbh

iaind · 8 Sep 2015 at 14:57

Armageus said:
Nice edit - but correct, as other than 1.6T corsas, you will struggle to get a decently fuel efficient petrol engine car in that price range (small turbo petrols are still a relatively new thing - e.g. last 3 years and so still command a premium)

Not sure where the cheaper to maintain bit comes in really, as other than a DPF there is nothing different to maintain (i.e. at lot of modern petrols now have a DMF which was a common stated diesel related issue)

14k/year mileage arguably either petrol or diesel are both viable choices - wouldn't have thought there would be much in it.

The difference is the rate at which diesels go through DMFs due to the torque and more rattly nature of them