Considering V70, so many variants...
Discussion
Evening all,
I am looking at these to replace my other halfs ageing Ford Focus TDCI 130 which has been brilliant but I'm not sure it will see another winter again due to a cold start problem.
This would be her car to commute in, approx 22 miles round trip and take the role of family duties. My family is all around the country so it would probably do the occasional long trip. I'm undecided on petrol or diesel. The must haves include rear parking sensors, front would be a bonus but not essential, heated seats, leather and xenons. We live out in the sticks so decent lights for night time driving is important. I'm aware some of these came with tasty sound systems and as I like my music, one of the uprated systems would be great but not essential. I don't like the older pre 1999 shape.
Budget is £5k but ideally less. A T5 would be nice but I've heard they suffer problems with cylinder linings or is that just the ford ST 5 pots? My other car is a golf R32 so having 2 cars with awful consumption isn't ideal.
I've heard auto boxes are quite unreliable, is this true? The main thing above everything is it needs to be reliable. I know they can take big miles but is there anything which I should specifically check? What are the big cost items which are weak?
So, back to the original question, which variants should I be looking at based on the above?
Many thanks
I am looking at these to replace my other halfs ageing Ford Focus TDCI 130 which has been brilliant but I'm not sure it will see another winter again due to a cold start problem.
This would be her car to commute in, approx 22 miles round trip and take the role of family duties. My family is all around the country so it would probably do the occasional long trip. I'm undecided on petrol or diesel. The must haves include rear parking sensors, front would be a bonus but not essential, heated seats, leather and xenons. We live out in the sticks so decent lights for night time driving is important. I'm aware some of these came with tasty sound systems and as I like my music, one of the uprated systems would be great but not essential. I don't like the older pre 1999 shape.
Budget is £5k but ideally less. A T5 would be nice but I've heard they suffer problems with cylinder linings or is that just the ford ST 5 pots? My other car is a golf R32 so having 2 cars with awful consumption isn't ideal.
I've heard auto boxes are quite unreliable, is this true? The main thing above everything is it needs to be reliable. I know they can take big miles but is there anything which I should specifically check? What are the big cost items which are weak?
So, back to the original question, which variants should I be looking at based on the above?
Many thanks
Thanks Sturdy HSV and others for your pointers. I will continue to research and take a look at the classifieds and come back with some questions if I need to. So consensus is not to go for the slightly more pokey 185bhp version of the D5 as its less reliable? And the facelift is from 2004 onwards?
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