Vauxhall Insignia 2.0 auto Petrol or Diesel?

motorguy

Marktheshark wrote: »

Diesel auto then Mercedes own that one with BMW not far behind.
Older car for the money but it will still be clocking up the hundreds of thousands when the vauxhall is in the scrap yard.

Or in the case of the merc, likely to have rusted away, or the BMW, needed a Turbo and a timing chain.

£5-6K buys you a lot of Insignia. Most likely one made this decade, likely to be SRI spec and 70K ish miles.

Also, its a current model car, not several generations old like the Merc or BMW would be.

Decent, solid enough cars for the money and theres loads around as taxis than have done starship miles.

Each to their own of course - no car is perfect

Marktheshark

Depends of you want to be chugging along at 0-60 in 10.5 seconds in the vauxhall or at 6.9 in the Merc c320 cdi, the rust issues were well behind them by 2004.
Until you have let that 3.2 Mercedes straight six cdi go, you aint drove a diesel.
You certainly never forget it.

motorguy

Marktheshark wrote: »

Depends of you want to be chugging along at 0-60 in 10.5 seconds in the vauxhall or at 6.9 in the Merc c320 cdi, the rust issues were well behind them by 2004.
Until you have let that 3.2 Mercedes straight six cdi go, you aint drove a diesel.
You certainly never forget it.

Just checked there - you'd get a 2006 / 2007 Merc C320CDI for £5-6K with maybe 80K miles on it - which isnt bad.

Probably a bit new than i expected.

dlm

Marktheshark wrote: »

Depends of you want to be chugging along at 0-60 in 10.5 seconds in the vauxhall or at 6.9 in the Merc c320 cdi, the rust issues were well behind them by 2004.
Until you have let that 3.2 Mercedes straight six cdi go, you aint drove a diesel.
You certainly never forget it.

Merc diesel was a good one, and came late in the day for a turbo. However, my money would go on an LPG Petrol version. As cheap to run as a small economy car, with all the power and comfort of a luxury.

In fact,. sold my old one as I was doing long distance from London to Cornwall (£25 fuel) and you didn't realise its' cruising speed crept up like it did, until you wondered wny everyone was driving so slow!! rofl! So sold it before I got points!

bigjl

Marktheshark wrote: »

Depends of you want to be chugging along at 0-60 in 10.5 seconds in the vauxhall or at 6.9 in the Merc c320 cdi, the rust issues were well behind them by 2004.
Until you have let that 3.2 Mercedes straight six cdi go, you aint drove a diesel.
You certainly never forget it.

How often do you actually drive from 0-60 flat out though?

When I had my XJL it had a 0-60 of just over 6 seconds, can't say I ever drove it that fast, maybe once or twice in 2 years.

The 320cdi is a costly engine to repair. And not exactly cheap to service unless you can do most of it yourself.

If maintained they do last well however, but like every car that was expensive new they don't get any cheaper to fix when the purchaser paid supermini money.

There is a huge risk that you will buy a money pit. Which is less likely with a four or five year old Insignia (or Mondeo/Passat/i40 etc)

A Chauffeur I know has had his S Class with the same engine for 6 years now (a late 58 plate) must be on well over 200k now, if not nearer to 300k as he lives between homes on the south coast and Putney.

JustAnotherSaver

Do all modern diesels have that DPF filter or only some?

I was warned off modern diesels because I don't do enough miles & these filters clogging up.
I've known a few folk with them to have issues because they didn't do enough miles.

Johnmcl7

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Do all modern diesels have that DPF filter or only some?

I was warned off modern diesels because I don't do enough miles & these filters clogging up.
I've known a few folk with them to have issues because they didn't do enough miles.

Yes, under the newer EU5 and 6 spec all diesels have DPF's to my knowledge whereas with EU4 engines, many of them didn't need DPF's.

John

motorguy

Johnmcl7 wrote: »

Yes, under the newer EU5 and 6 spec all diesels have DPF's to my knowledge whereas with EU4 engines, many of them didn't need DPF's.

John

Most of the bigger engines did. Jaguar fitted DPFs to their diesels in 2006, although i dont think they became law as such to 2007.

bigjl

Vauxhall was also an early adopter of the DPF, though in the case of some they were fitted to Autos a year or so before manuals.