65000 miles a year

scaredofdebt

A few years back I used to do 30-50k miles a year and bought a CAT C Mondeo 2.0 TDCi with 90k on the clock. Paid £3k for it (including the work to get it on the road again) it was a 5 year old at that time.

Ran it until it got to 205k miles and then scrapped it, MPG was around 55 MPG - you probably want a slightly newer one than my example with slightly lower mileage to get three years out of it, I believe the newer models (mine was an '04 plater) will do higher MPG.

The only issue with diesels is they cost a lot to fix, mine need a new DMF and a couple of new injectors during the 2-3 years I owned it, total cost was around £1500 for those major jobs but the fuel savings over the time I owned the car paid for the repairs.

I would opt for the cheaper car option and run it into the ground, £5k or so should do it.

VW Passat would be another option, but more expensive to buy but I believe the Bluemotion models will return higher MPG.

Skoda Octavia also worth looking at.

loskie

bigjl wrote: »

If that was the case then almost every lease car in the UK would be unwarranted.

Which is not the case.

I didnt mean business use like that. More like taxi use or if the car is in company ownership rather than privately owned and used for business miles as well as private.

AdrianC

loskie wrote: »

or if the car is in company ownership rather than privately owned

Like he said, every single lease car...

and used for business miles as well as private.

Which is a VERY sizable %age of new cars in the UK. Not as high as it used to be, with the reduction of company cars and the rise of personal leases, but still very high.

rev_henry

motorguy wrote: »

A mate of mine ran a 406 2.0HDI to 380,000 miles with no major issues.

I'd expect it from the old XUD engines but not an HDi!

vinefc

I would like to thank everyone for the replies i havent been online for a few days and apologise for not replying. I am not a taxi/private hire driver i get paid an hourly wage and mileage to drive persons to various places but im employed by a company. Thanks again and ill consider some of the ideas put forward

AdrianC

rev_henry wrote: »

I'd expect it from the old XUD engines but not an HDi!

Yet the Duratorq in Mondeos is the exact same engine as the DW10/DW12 HDi.

bigjl

AdrianC wrote: »

Yet the Duratorq in Mondeos is the exact same engine as the DW10/DW12 HDi.

Not exactly the same.

The Ford and Volvo versions don't have the bleeding bit on the injection system but the PSA engines do.

And there is no lift pump in the tank.

In other words don't run out of diesel!

And be very careful when changing the fuel filter.

A very good engine though with a nice long cambelt interval of 150k of memory serves.

And if you go for a bottom of the range V50 they had no DPF until at least the early part of 2008 as my 08plater 2.0d had no DPF:beer:

wba31

bigjl wrote: »

A very good engine though with a nice long cambelt interval of 150k of memory serves.

And if you go for a bottom of the range V50 they had no DPF until at least the early part of 2008 as my 08plater 2.0d had no DPF:beer:

On this, Honda diesels have a chain, not a belt, and certainly some diesels do not have a DPF (my 58 2.2 diesel civic doesnt). Honda aren't the only ones like this, just the only ones i know of!

wiltsguy_2

so long as you look after the car, regular oil changes, don't thrash it you should get high miles.

Once saw a volvo 850 go through an auction house with 400,000+ miles on it, drove through and sounded sweet, body work was tidy too!

bigjl

All of my high milers have sounded the same when sold as when bought years earlier.

I put over a 100k on my mk3 Mondeo and about 60k odd on the V50.

In fact the only car that ran and sounded any different was the Clio Dci on which the wife put about about 120k give or take (can remember exact miles when we got rid) and it had injector rattle and smoked like a dog when you booted it, hardly pushed any soot when we bought it at 3yrs old and under 30k.

Of course the fact it was almost exclusively run on Tesco diesel and mine weren't obviously made no difference whatsoever as all diesel is exactly the same according to some.......