Diesel vs Petrol

iamashoppingaddict

Well the diesel version of the car I'm looking at is £11,200 2.1 engine whilst the petrol version is £13,200 1.8 engine. However the derv has done 74,000 whilst petrol has only done 19,000. Can't really stretch to £13,000. But looking on auto trader the price for derv is pretty much the same as petrol!

I don't know what to do.

Lagopus

There's only one way to find out......fight!!

Sorry, been watching too much TV Burp! A modern, well maintained diesel should be good for 150K + miles, petrol's won't be far behind.

iamashoppingaddict

Lagopus wrote: »

There's only one way to find out......fight!!

Sorry, been watching too much TV Burp! A modern, well maintained diesel should be good for 150K + miles, petrol's won't be far behind.

Lol my OH said that yesterday!

motorguy

Lagopus wrote: »

There's only one way to find out......fight!!

Sorry, been watching too much TV Burp! A modern, well maintained diesel should be good for 150K + miles, petrol's won't be far behind.

We're started to see cars coming through with over 200K miles, and quite a few with 170K+

All still going strong.

This one quite impressed me - 2002 2.0HDI with 172K miles. It had had money spent on it over the last few years, but still considerably less than the depreciation would have been on a newer one.

tinkl

I'm just wondering if anyone could answer my question, my oh works in the car industry but I just want some opinions. I have a diesel at the moment and I do about 80miles a day but it's country road driving mainly and main roads, no motorways. The dpf filter went on my car a while ago (this year but earlier on) and its gone on me again today! Looking at trading the car in. Oh says to go for petrol because of the driving I do.. Do you agree? Thanks

Ranger8

I would`ve thought your 80 mls a day journey definately warranted having a diesel and would also give the DPF ample time for the occasional regeneration.

Paperbird

tinkl wrote: »

I'm just wondering if anyone could answer my question, my oh works in the car industry but I just want some opinions. I have a diesel at the moment and I do about 80miles a day but it's country road driving mainly and main roads, no motorways. The dpf filter went on my car a while ago (this year but earlier on) and its gone on me again today! Looking at trading the car in. Oh says to go for petrol because of the driving I do.. Do you agree? Thanks

OH is right, most need up to 10 minutes at over about 2000rpm to regen.
Option 1 Buy a petrol.
Option 2 Have the DPF removed ( yes it's legal ) by someone like Sinspeed.

AbbieCadabra

does the under 10k mileage/longer trips required still apply to brand new diesels do you think? say Mercedes?

we only do about 7k with mostly urban driving day to day & perhaps a once a week blast down a dual carriageway, but we should be doing a long motorway trip every 3 months or so. the diesel is about £1k more to purchase at the moment.

i know someone who's had the car i'm interested in for just over a year & he's done 9k with similar use to ours & he's had no issues with the DPF.

pinkteapot

Paperbird wrote: »

OH is right, most need up to 10 minutes at over about 2000rpm to regen.
Option 1 Buy a petrol.
Option 2 Have the DPF removed ( yes it's legal ) by someone like Sinspeed.

Unless you get stuck in traffic regularly on the route, it's possible to drive at more than 2000RPM at any speed. Just drop down a gear for ten minutes...

My husband is shocking for changing up too early in our diesel car (never does it in the petrol). You can hear the engine grumble about it. I told him how much a new DPF would cost if we need one.

Lum

AbbieCadabra wrote: »

does the under 10k mileage/longer trips required still apply to brand new diesels do you think? say Mercedes?

Yes, the newer the car the more likely it is to be a problem.

i know someone who's had the car i'm interested in for just over a year & he's done 9k with similar use to ours & he's had no issues with the DPF.

If he's only done 9k then even if he has been abusing it with little short trips, it's not going to be clogged up... yet.
If some other poor sod buys that car and continues to use it for short trips, they're the ones going to be shelling out Mercedes prices for a new DPF. You say you only do 7k so, unless that includes a small number of big motorway trips done regularly, I would advise you to avoid a diesel in any case, and especially that one!