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I've been driving the works van for 2 weeks which is a 16 plate VW caddy with the 2.0 TDI and my god was i glad to get back in our Suzuki Swift afterwards, the engine is so much more flexible, refined and quiet.
my god was i glad to get back in our Suzuki Swift
Something I never thought I would hear
we have a 64 plate c-max titanium diesel 1.8 had it 3 months .. £35 tax low insurance £21 a month f/c and it sips diesel maybe £15 every 2 weeks . it's even better than the corsa with fuel
but you have to take it out on a 50-60 mile jaunt every week or so just to give the engine and exhaust a good clean out ....
Why do people quote how much fuel they use a week? Its totally meaningless. I use about £60 per week of diesel, does that mean my car is 8 times less efficient than that C Max? No, it just means I do more miles...
If you're doing such low mileage that your'e spending 15 quid every 2 weeks, there's no way in hell you're doing enough miles to warrant a diesel
Out of curiosity how many miles do you get out of roughly £60 of diesel?
Bring the discussion back around to the prospect of buying a used car, you do need to consider that there may be a bigger supply of diesel variants in the used market compared to petrol (for the Quashqai+2, Autotrader suggest more than double the number of diesel compared to petrol). What this means is that, engine aside, there is more chance of finding a suitable Diesel than a suitable Petrol and hence the prices you have to pay tend to even out more. Or in simple terms, effectively the fact that diesels normally cost slightly more than the petrol equivalent is negated somewhat by what is effectively slightly more depreciation. So say a diesel with a list price of £22k may end up costing the same in the used market as a Petrol with a list price of £20k. If they were registered before April 2017 they typically have very low tax as well.
The reason I highlight this is that typically diesels don't make sense as a new purchase - especially given the tax changes - unless you do a lot of miles but this isn't necessarily the case in the used market, where I think the mileage threshold is lower.
we have a 64 plate c-max titanium diesel 1.8 had it 3 months .. £35 tax low insurance £21 a month f/c and it sips diesel maybe £15 every 2 weeks . it's even better than the corsa with fuel
but you have to take it out on a 50-60 mile jaunt every week or so just to give the engine and exhaust a good clean out ....
lol no my daughter lives almost that away and we go down every 10 days or soSo every week your burning 60 miles extra just to keep it running?
I beg to differ but if I'm spending less on fuel with a larger car(old one a corsa) with a bigger engine .... then I can't see a problem ....Why do people quote how much fuel they use a week? Its totally meaningless. I use about £60 per week of diesel, does that mean my car is 8 times less efficient than that C Max? No, it just means I do more miles...
If you're doing such low mileage that your'e spending 15 quid every 2 weeks, there's no way in hell you're doing enough miles to warrant a diesel
I'm not saying it does a regen then just saying that's what we do ... a long run every so oftenYeah that sounds like you've got bigger problems on your hand, the DPF shouldn't need a regen that frequently!
Mine performs a regen about every 475 miles, i can get maybe 750 out of a tank. Back when i was doing a lot of driving i'd easily be getting a regen once a week, now i'd be lucky to see a regen every 6 weeks.
or nothing would go wrong ? I don't see where all the negativity comes from ...If you’re spending 15 quid on fuel every 2 weeks, you’re probably saving a fiver a month having a diesel. For the complexity and potential reliability issues, those sums do not add up whatsoever
You could run it for 25 years and only just be able to pay for a replacement DPF with the savings lol
I've been driving the works van for 2 weeks which is a 16 plate VW caddy with the 2.0 TDI and my god was i glad to get back in our Suzuki Swift afterwards, the engine is so much more flexible, refined and quiet.
£110 of diesel lasts me around two months
if you're going to do short, start-stop journeys, i suspect a hefty DPF bill is on the horizon...
I have no idea what the Caddy are like but my parents have/had a fair few vehicles with VW 2.0 TDIs and they are generally reasonably refined, quiet and smooth.
Driving a 3L V6 ~2 ton pickup you don't want to know how long £110 of diesel doesn't last me