Do Londoners and city centre drivers buy diesels?

BeenThroughItAll

Londoner_1 wrote: »

...you will need to worry about dmf, turbos, injectors, egr valves, on top of the usual problems suffered by both petrol/diesel cars.

No reason you might not have to worry about EGR, injectors, DMFs and turbos on plenty of petrol cars, either.


I agree with the basic thrust of your sentiment, however.

bigjl

Strider590 wrote: »

Not when you have to buy a new DPF and/or the DMF fails.

"No brainer" is the operative word, the wise man looks at long term costs, the big picture, long term the VED means nothing, higher purchase price more than wastes any savings on consumption and when it goes wrong it's going to cost a small fortune.
Not to mention insurance, these days diesels tend to cost more to insure than their petrol counterparts, so how does that factor in against the VED saving?

Have never had to replace a DPF or a DMF.

Been driving diesels exclusively since 2008.

The petrol version of my car is several thousands more than the diesel version and is also more expensive as far as VED goes.

The diesel also holds it vaoue better than the diesel version

Three of the diesels have had a DMF, two have been automatic, two with a DPF and all have been Euro 4 except for my current car which is a Euro 5.

Looking for I intend to change for a Zero Emission capable vehicle.

The wife will likely end up in a small.petrol car, potentially a Fiat 500, not the twinair just the simpler 1.2 willl do.

smjxm09

Well that is the dilemma I face. I only drive around 6,000 miles per year now but keep my cars around 5 years. My existing Mondeo diesel is now now 4 years 5 months old and has done 33,000 miles but I expect my new car will cover maybe 32,000 in those 5 years but in mixed driving.


The big advantage of the Mondeo 2.0 automatic diesel is its claimed economy. I now just use the official worse urban figure of 53.3 mph and knock a further 10% off that so I think the true figure will be around 48 miles per gallon.

The Mondeo 1.5 petrol automatic has an official urban figure of only 32.5 mpg so knocking 10% off that figure takes me to around 29mpg.


The diesel is around £1300 more to buy but is worth more when it comes to selling it.

So with diesel at £5.45 per gallon and petrol at £5.10 per gallon 32,000 miles of driving would cost me £3633 in diesel and £5627 in petrol which is some £2000 more. Ford seem to charge the same price to service a Petrol or a diesel so even with only 32,000 miles of driving the winner is still the diesel.

Yolina

I have a ickle Yaris hybrid... I feed it petrol and get diesel (or better) mpg Works for me. And no, I don't just drive short trips on congested London roads.

Edit: my cars before the hybrid were petrol, never bothered with diesel.