Refund entitlement on a 2nd hand diesel car bought yesterday

motorguy

maxmycardagain wrote: »

Id back a huge hike in Fuel duty on diesel making them dearer to run than petrols (when in fact they already are dearer, with higher purchase prices, costlier servicing and repair bills that have more zeros than Pearl Harbor).

Plus the UK is now 4 weeks short of diesel production due to the huge amount of folk who buy them for 100/miles a week.

Brexit might help.... 90% of the UK's diesels are European, stop them importing or add Import tax I say.

Never happening in a million years.

Our haulage network runs on diesel so a massive hike in fuel duty on diesels would impact them severely.

At worst we'll see increasing car tax (happening already) and wayyyy down the line increased costs of driving a (older) diesel car into cities.

Either way, not a short term or medium term problem for most people.

motorguy

maxmycardagain wrote: »

Ref the fuel duty hike............. transport (HGV/PSV) could be rebated, tractors already are exempt almost (red diesel)

(before the nay sayers jump in)

Far far too much hassle and would generate too much admin and would leave transport companies out a fortune until they got it reclaimed.

AdrianC

maxmycardagain wrote: »

Ref the fuel duty hike............. transport (HGV/PSV) could be rebated, tractors already are exempt almost (red diesel)

(before the nay sayers jump in)

To break even by removing VED and increasing fuel duty, it'd be roughly 12p/litre on fuel.
If you then exempted business users, to avoid a massive impact on inflation, private users would have a HUGE hit per litre. Smuggling and black-market importing would be rife, especially in NI and the SE.

Bear in mind it's not just HGVs that would need some kind of exemption to avoid the cost increases being passed through, and inflation going mad, but all business users - hauliers, owner-operated trucks and vans, high-mileage company cars...

z1a

"massively hiking diesel costs at the petrol pump."

I think you need to change stations if you get diesel from the petrol pump.

kmb500

"all this stuff about diesels" didn't just be revealed 24 hours after you bought your car. sounds like you didn't think very hard before you leapt into the purchase. That being said i'm sure it will be fine, if you like the car then I can't see you having a problem. Maybe in 15 years from now diesels will be banned but in 15 years time you will likely not have your meriva.

maxmycardagain

motorguy wrote: »

Never happening in a million years.

Our haulage network runs on diesel so a massive hike in fuel duty on diesels would impact them severely.

I did say.................haulage could be rebated

motorguy

maxmycardagain wrote: »

I did say.................haulage could be rebated

And I did say........... not a mission of that working.

ARandomMiser

AndyMc..... wrote: »

I bet the damage to the tractor was very minor.

Yes but he still had to buy a small bottle of T-Cut and a rag