Diesel

[Lynch]

Thinking about a Diseasel to replace the ej9 beater to bring running costs down some more.

Price around £2000.

Gotta be super efficient and cheap to insure/tax.

If anyone has any recommendations, links, or whatever, please chime im.

Thanks.

 

[civiclife]

if you can find a good one then get a 306 hdi - remap and front mount and you have 150bhp and it will be quite decent in terms of speed .

 

[Lynch]

I am in no way interested in how fast it goes, It just needt to cost as little as possible to run. Remaps and fmic's are NOT an option. I will not be "tuning" it or anything like that.

Honest, reliable, cheap beater that I can get a good 60k miles out of.

 

[Jimbo]

I had a passat estate 1.9tdi as my run around! Super comfy, loads of room and used to get 64.9 mpg! Saved me a fortune whilst I had it! ;-)

 

[Hanford]

You could comfortably pick up a Mk1 focus diesel which are cheap to run, good on fuel, massively reliable and they're good fun to drive.

 

[wishy]

A already mentioned mate 306 d-turbo probably the thing to come out of French motoring

But cracking engines a few mate have had them , well over 100k on the clock no bother

 

[Lynch]

MY mate had a 306 a few years back. It was not a trouble free car, in fact, it was the most problematic car he ever had. So that is not happening. Any one know anything about the yaris diesel?

 

[mld22]

i don't imagine you would be saving a huge amount of money swapping from a ej9 to a diesel...unless you do a huge mileage in it. I'd think tax and insurance would be about the same on a reasonable diesel plus the money you'd spend on the car might loose money. What MPG do do get out the ej9??

 

[winston]

Ok I guess people will laugh but how about a Skoda Fabia 1,4tdi. If you can live with the Badge name then it is a cheap car, and it is really a VW.

 

[Lynch]

Yeah, a skoda might be an option. I have heard some really good things about them.

ej9 is currently returning about 44mpg,
insurance is about £700 a year and
tax is £130 per year.

By comparison, a yaris gives
65mpg
insurance group 9 vs the ej9's 12
and tax of £30 a year.

Some very rough calculations yield annual fuel costs at £875 for the diesel and £1240 for the petrol which funnily enough works out at an annual saving of £365. This was based on an annual mileage of 10,000, petrol @120/l and diesel @125/l.

A rough estimate of first year of ownership total savings is £665, which is in my book, a lot of cash.