2k Budget - 30,000 Miles A Year

manfromthesham

Well the Clio has had a couple of issues lately, I've had to replace the coils, spark plugs and battery of late. Don't want to keep throwing money at it, if I can sell it and get a reasonable price I'd rather try and put that towards another motor. In an ideal world work would have a store closer for me to work in

citykid5

You'll be amazed at the fuel savings you will make a vag 1.4 tdi
I ran a seat arosa for a couple of years and on motorway runs always returned a genuine 70+ mpg
YouTube top gears lupo tdi test against it petrol equivalent

PierremontQuaker03

Personally I would go with an Octavia - for under 3k you can get an Octavia with under 100,000 miles on the clock which potentially could do another 100,000. Lovely size cars as well, safe and good mpg.
All the taxi's in my area are Octavia's.
Once you get past the badge issue, which might be an issue for some, you will be OK.

daveyjp

jimjames wrote: »

I don't agree. You could get a worse lemon at £4k and have wasted £4k not £2k. Price doesn't guarantee anything at these sorts of amounts, the car and history means far more.

Choose wisely and you'll find main dealer cars with a couple of years of warranty left for £4,000. You won't for 2k.

wba31

A pre-2005 Honda Civic with 1.7 Diesel engine is worth a look. I stuck a load of miles on mine and got an average of 55mpg out of it. It was such a good motor my old man bought it off me when I bought a 2008 2.2 diesel civic. I kinda wish I'd kept my savings and stuck with my old one now as it is such a great car...

londonTiger

daveyjp wrote: »

Choose wisely and you'll find main dealer cars with a couple of years of warranty left for £4,000. You won't for 2k.

Warranty only a concern for new cars, with the age of a £4K car, it would be around long enough for all common faults to be known about.

If it has a rubbish engine issue like the audi tsfi oil burn or the renault trafic injector hole corrosion issue then you just research the car and engine model you're after and see what owners say. Incidently renault & audi were not forced to do a recall or fix these manufacturing faults under warranty. So that tells you what warranties stand for these days.

bigjl

londonTiger wrote: »

Warranty only a concern for new cars, with the age of a £4K car, it would be around long enough for all common faults to be known about.

If it has a rubbish engine issue like the audi tsfi oil burn or the renault trafic injector hole corrosion issue then you just research the car and engine model you're after and see what owners say. Incidently renault & audi were not forced to do a recall or fix these manufacturing faults under warranty. So that tells you what warranties stand for these days.

Do you just use Google to find out random points and then post them?

The OP is not in the market for a TFsi engines Audi, nor should anybody really, and he doesn't want a van.

Who cares if they did or didn't fix them.

It has no relevance to the thread.

Though the injector problem was often fixed under goodwill and is not usually a huge issue if you use the correct tools.

And Renault/Vauxhall/Opel/Nissan are not the only company to have injector issues.

motorguy

My thinking would be :-

Anything VAG with a 1.9TDI engine. Try to buy privately and from someone who has owned it several years and maintained it well (watch for traders masquerading as private sellers though)

Peugeot 2.0HDI or 1.4 HDI. Avoid the troublesome 1.6HDI. As above RE ownership history. Probably a 307. Good cars and cheap.

I wouldnt stray much wider than that net.

custardy

For 30K a year,I would personally be looking at a car with cruise and comfort.
Its all well and good listing VAG this,diesel that.
As someone who clocks up plenty miles. Factors such as seating position,cruise,climate etc matter just as much to me. The likes of a Golf just wouldnt do it for me.

andygb

Octavia 1.9 TDi PD model - can't go wrong IMO.