Time to change my car...or not?

LandyAndy

Lum wrote: »

You wont get anywhere near the advertised MPG on a modern diesel car.

My Mondeo is supposed to do 64MPG. I'm lucky if I get 42.

The official combined figure for our Mazda6 is 52.3. We get about 48. I don't think that's too bad for a real world comparison with the 'official' number.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

TBH, i could tell you that once a month 100 mile round trip would be fine, but it really does boil down to how tempermetal the prospective purchase wishes to be.

some have been lucky doing a long run monthly some havent been.

personally you could do 100.000 miles a year and still have DPF problems if its mostly short but often weekly trips.

jaydeeuk1

Keep the scenic imo if you can't afford outright.. Clutch is wear and tear, some last 50k (or less on some hyundais), some >150k

blue_haddock

The financial aspect just doesnt stack up - the fiesta is 6 years newer and it would take 6 years to break even but that is without anything going wrong and a modern diesel with a DPF, DMF and common rail injection has a fair bit more potential for serious expense than an older petrol car (especially one that has had the clutch replaced already - but £600 sounds steep for the clutch change)

so if nothing goes wrong you break even but you can bet your bottom dollar that something will go wrong during the period so you save nothing really.

sometimes its better the devil you know!