GOOD MPG on Car under £2000 Petrol or Diesel?

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citykid5 wrote: »

not a very good daily commute.
if i had to do your journey 5 days a week [and thankfully i dont retired] i think i would be looking to buy a car with start stop technology. i believe the first and probably cheapest 1 being citroen c3 or punto's
or even better buy a pushbike with panniers

I went one better and bought a scooter instead. Journey times back to 10 minutes no matter what the traffic.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

TBH the renault megane 2003-2008 1.5DCI or 1.9 DCI are pretty good on MPG, i get 38MPG in my 1.4 petrol pottering about local 62MPG on a long run.

my friend has the 1.9dci 130 sport does 32-38 about local and high 60-70 on long runs. the down fall is that it is french, the 1.9 sufferes with injector fails and faulty fuel pumps. 1.5 is the less likely to fail (same as the clio 1.5 DCI).

the fiesta 1.4 TDI wont forgive you for local runs and rust will be a feature soon on 04 plates (have seen pretty bad rust on 06 and 07 plates in arches and fuel caps).

i would go for a 1.2 1.4 turbo petrol car with 6000-12000 miles per annum.

diz79

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

TBH the renault megane 2003-2008 1.5DCI or 1.9 DCI are pretty good on MPG, i get 38MPG in my 1.4 petrol pottering about local 62MPG on a long run.

my friend has the 1.9dci 130 sport does 32-38 about local and high 60-70 on long runs. the down fall is that it is french, the 1.9 sufferes with injector fails and faulty fuel pumps. 1.5 is the less likely to fail (same as the clio 1.5 DCI).

the fiesta 1.4 TDI wont forgive you for local runs and rust will be a feature soon on 04 plates (have seen pretty bad rust on 06 and 07 plates in arches and fuel caps).

i would go for a 1.2 1.4 turbo petrol car with 6000-12000 miles per annum.

Thanks mate as an overall package tho isnt the fiesta diesel tdci the best as low tax and insurance are they really that bad on rust? I have a 1999 Fiesta with no rust on it at all.

I do like the sound of the meganne as they have good boot space and all round space. MPG and overall keeping expense down is the top of my priority, as well as reliabillity which everyone is expressing here as well, I will look at the megannes and Fiestas im still tempted on VW polos because my parenst all have had many vws with hardly any probs.

Thanks again all.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

head over to passion ford, or fordstforums, theres a few on there that mention they have rust starting to form on the front and rear arches on their 55 to 06 to 56 plate fiesta's.

its fords fault really the line the arches with some poor liner stuff that reatin alot of water and hence the metal is almost consistantly damp in the british weather, most ford forum and ford owners clubs remove these and put a good coat of waxoil in the arches and under the skirts aswell as inner doors, and to the inner side of the fuel filler cap whilst the rear arch wells are out to be waxoiled.

a well looked after megane DCI FSH perhaps some reciepts for recently completed works 1 or 2 previous keepers i would go for regardless of what many on here would say about them all cars have faults and common problems not just french cars.
a mate picked his 1.9 dci sport 130 privilage on a 55 plate for £1500 at a garage with 12 months warranty, 1 previous keeper recent timing belt and water pump change, aux belts, filters and oil change, DE DPF'd and de egr valved and remapped (for the Engine management to forget they have the dpf and egr). the only thing to go wrong in the 12 months now he has owned it is the passenger electric window motor is starting to fail (goes up not down and only needs the wire greasing) and the 1st injector seal went and out of choice had renault code another keycard that has keyless entry to the car £80.00 at our local dealership at the time).

its funny how how alot of people will bash renault, but renault megs and clio's especially diesel ones hold their price well and the 1.5 dci extreme renault megane is the same insurance group rating as the 1.4 authentique petrol! at group 7 (other varients go to group 11) and the 1.9 dci go from group 11 to 19 (19 being the the tourer 1.9 sport estate) where as the polo 1.4 tdi start at group 7 for basic model upto 17! for an SE TDI or GT TDI i think is group 19 the ford 1.4 TDI start at group 9 upto group 13, and the clio 2005-2012 start from group 5 to group 15 (group 15 being the 1.5dci GT) and the 01-08 range clio start at group 7 to group 13 (13 being the high and mighty 106BHP sport extreme model).

renault megane 5 star NCAP sefety rating 2001-2006? 4 star rating on clio 2000 -2006?

the 1.9 dci 130 is cheaper to tax than my 1.4 petrol megane and gives my mate more MPG than mine.

CKhalvashi

6000p.a, high mileage? :eek:

My car's on a '62' and has 37,000 on it now :eek::cool:

I'm amazed that noone's mentioned either of these; Skoda Octavia can be picked up with a years MoT for sub-£700 now, and the Fabia for sun-£2000. These WILL last more than 400,000 miles in diesel form (that's the shortest lifespan I've seen on one, and a couple did 7 figures)

CK

diz79

Wow thanks guys, from what I can gather the Fiestas are good baring the cills and archers the meganes also look very good as well as the skodas.

Just to finish can anyone give any feed back on Ford Focus' and VW polos.

Thanks everyone for all their input.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

diz79 wrote: »

Wow thanks guys, from what I can gather the Fiestas are good baring the cills and archers the meganes also look very good as well as the skodas.

Just to finish can anyone give any feed back on Ford Focus' and VW polos.

Thanks everyone for all their input.

avoid 2005 1.6 TDI completely the engione units are poor for turbo failure due to other engine companant manufacturer defects a turbo will fail and will cost you and there will be no warranty with a turbo due to the problem.

vw polo' diesel unit is reliable and sturdy but power is lack luster.

diz79

Great thanks guys much appreciated all your help here!!!