What should I be looking at?

suki1964

i need a wee runaround

ATM we have a baby Beamer and a mr2

I'm now thinking the mr2 has to go ( lovely in the summer but a !!!!! in the winter)

I'm looking a diesel, up to £3k , preferably £2k

Five doors, not an estate. Decent boot

Low road tax, the car will only be used once or twice a week. Long motorway runs

Also, what is high mileage for a diesel?

Suggestions please

forgotmyname

High mileage for a diesel will depend on what diesel, Get an old Mercedes 300 and 500k+ miles will be acceptable. Get a renault and 120k maybe where i would say pick something else.

Why the obsession with low road tax? I bet i can get you a better deal on a car with a £200+ a year road tax compared to one with a sub £100 tax.

The overall running costs for the year could be less paying the higher road tax.

Ford Fiesta, Focus or a Mondeo which you may think expensive to run over the 2 smaller ones but they are cheaper to buy and running cost differences are neglible.

A weeks holiday recently averaged 54mpg in my Mondeo estate. It was close to 60mpg on the journey there and back but the shorter journeys during the week dropped it down.

foxy-stoat

I would normally default and say any 1.9tdi VAG engined manual car - Golf or Octavia but having just got into a '08 Civic 2.2 diesel, I will now say 8th gen Civic. Big boot, even bigger when the seats are folded down flat.....you also have a centre storage space by folding the rear seat bottoms up !

Just budget £1000 for a clutch if the need arises or buy one with that already done. Mine is on 140,000 and drives very well.

High mileage for a diesel is 250,000-300,000.

wba31

+1 for the civic, i just traded mine simply because we needed a bigger car (got an S-Max).

It had done £140, 000, I had the clutch and flywheel replaced in Feb for £700.

The 2.2 diesel has a lot of torque, great and really comfy on the motorway, good fun on A Roads.
plenty of room inside, could sit a 6 foot plus person behind my drivers seat (I am 6 foot 2)

decent boot size (biggest of all hatches - Golf, Focus etc) not sure how it compares to mondeo or octavia boots. magic seats are really useful!