MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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hello stw..
please share your knowledge with me as i have many differing opinions from my colleauges..
if you dont do many km's is it still the case to 'not buy diesel' as it seemed to be in the past..
we're looking to change car and the consumation CO2 of the diesels are much more interesting..
its a hyundai i30 cw incase anyones wondering..
Buying new? IF you intend to keep for a long time I'd go diesel - sooner or later the VED and fuel savings will cover the initial purchase difference. Don't think service costs are really all that different in the real world, especially if you keep away from the dealer.
I buy small cars second hand just as transportation to work. It all gets a bit blurred there, and I tend to go for whatever is a decent deal on the initial purchase, as it's a bit of a lottery as to what will break and whether the fuel/ved saves it back.
petrol for the win!
make sure you drive the Hyundai - I was behind one on the red road coming back from camberley, which is a nice swoopy, curvy road.
the guy driving the Hyundia was driving very slowly - 30-35 miles an hour - sort of implied that the handling was terrible.
I wouldn't want to drive such a car any real distance as it would be very tiring.
Given that model it will be fairly new and is likely to have a diesel particulate filter (DPF), given that case it won't be happy on a life of short runs and will give trouble. If it's low milage over the year but in long runs at the time then you don't need to worry about this.
I only do about 5000 miles a year and switched from petrol to diesel last October.
It depends on what car you are switching from and to. I saved about £1000 a year on fuel, tax and insurance. The biggest chunk of my savings coming from the cheaper tax and insurance as i do a relatively small annual milage.
make sure you drive the Hyundai - I was behind one on the red road coming back from camberley, which is a nice swoopy, curvy road.the guy driving the Hyundia was driving very slowly - 30-35 miles an hour - sort of implied that the handling was terrible.
I wouldn't want to drive such a car any real distance as it would be very tiring.
Or that geriatrics buy Hyundai? They seem to be the new Honda.
I had to transport my parents and girlfirend all weekend on the Yorkshrie moors. so there's multiple reasons for beign slow. Got to be incredibly stressful with;
Dad - map reading, so bad to the point I had to stop and take the map off him to find the route.
Mum - sound effects everytime a corner was taken over walking pace
Vikki - Horse! Cyclist! Walker! Jogger! Gay Muslim Swan!
diesel particulate filter (DPF)
yep - don't they need a period of a good run, like a mway, to exhaust the particulates they have been storing up?
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lots of short runs are not very good for a diesel - even before the advent of the modern particulate filter.
They take longer to heat up and need more cranking anyways, for lots of short runs petrol is the way to go.
surely some of the petrol engines are around the same level of Co2 emmissions nowadays - like the twin air in the Fiats.
For a cheap reliable car it might be best to find a local trusted garage and see if they have anything going, i.e. not a franchise.
My missus runs a 1.6 TdCi Fiesta Zetec S and her work round trip is 18 miles of steady A road driving.
Her car returns 53mpg on average and has had no running issues since she got it new in Nov 2007.
Go for the diesel
you can always fit a heater to the diesel and plug it into the mains for a few minutes before you set off.
get the petrol.
Either way, drive the deal have 6 grand off hyundai i30s at the moment
http://www.drivethedeal.com/specialoffers06.asp?vans=false
based on that, get the 1.6 😀
It also depends how you drive a car. I most suit a diesel (I always beat official mpg) as I ride the torque whereas I seem to drive a petrol (badly)- probably trying to achieve torque? So always get below official mpg by a fair margin.
based on the hyundai figures, it costs £2.40 more per 100km to drive the petrol. if you're doing 10000 km per year (low milage??) that's £240/year more.
if you're doing short journeys, get the petrol as it'll warm up quicker. if you're doing long journeys, get which ever you prefer driving. If you're getting 5k off via drive the deal only on the petrol (auto), you'd have to do 130,000 miles for the diesel to work out cheaper.
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