Advice please

Ultrasonic

Richard53 wrote: »

Assuming the website you used is accurate, that's saving you £3 a day in fuel, or £15 a week, or nearly £700 a year.

Not that this makes a big difference, but the OP's husband drives to work six days a week, so it's actually more like £3*6*48=£864 per year. Not that that changes the rest of your argument!

The real saving will be likely be larger, depending on the non-commuting mileage that the car does. But this is assuming a reliable replacement can be bought that does something like 55 mpg.

Ultrasonic

espresso wrote: »

The 306 is currently returning only 35 MPG if paying a typical 137p per litre, which is much less than it should be.

I was thinking it's a diesel, so more like 36 mpg? But that depends how accurate the £9 per day is, and if there is any other mileage than the 50 mile round-trip commute included...

Repairing the 306 to get it back up to 50 mpg might make most financial sense, if this is doable.

alwaysbrassic

The car is only used for work, my car is used for any other runs.
Thank you for your advice, I will stop getting on at DH.
We would be better saving the money for when the car eventually dies.

Ultrasonic

alwaysbrassic wrote: »

The car is only used for work, my car is used for any other runs.

Is your car more economical? I'm sure there are a whole range of reasons not to, including what mileage you do in your car, but from a purely financial point of view it might make sense to swap cars... Just a thought!

Richard53

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Not that this makes a big difference, but the OP's husband drives to work six days a week

Oops! Thanks for spotting that.

alwaysbrassic

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Is your car more economical? I'm sure there are a whole range of reasons not to, including what mileage you do in your car, but from a purely financial point of view it might make sense to swap cars... Just a thought!

Yep my car is much more economical, but I use it for driving the kiddiewinks around etc, so DH says he would prefer us to have the more reliable car. I had suggested that.
My other thought was for him to have my car, and I get a petrol runabout, but I suppose the issues are the same with petrol and diesel.