We're in the market for a new car and I am trying to gently guide my partner away from the overpriced SUVs and towards the mighty estate car. We currently have a Peugeot 3008 which is a decent sized SUV but once you go much larger than that you are into land barge territory which we don't want. I was looking at the Skoda Superb but the missus isn't a big far of the look of them and she does like the BMW estates. I do too but I understand that the badge tax on BMWs is real.
We're getting rid of the 3008 because its a diesel and like seemingly a lot of modern ones, its having issues with its adblue system. Its going to be the best part of £1200 to replace and the garage says that they are still a bit of a crapshoot even when you replace them. Could last 3 years, could last 5-10. Either way we are nervous about getting another diesel with adblue.
We do between 8-10,000 miles a year so with the current price difference between petrol and diesel I don't even know if diesel makes much sense from a cost to run point of view. We don't need any of the things diesels do particularly well either like towing.
So...the cars I am looking at are the 5 series estates around 2019/20 as that sits within our budget of £20k. Is there anything I need to know about this generation of 5 series. Looking mainly at the 520i but these seem quite rare compared to their diesel counterpart. Are there issues that pop up at certain mileage? Are they reliable? Is there an issue going for a higher mileage but higher spec model?
