Stuck between petrol and diesel for a used car

[Mr Tidy]

My next door neighbour has a 1.0 litre Fiesta S and loves it but it needs a new cam belt this year and he has been quoted £800. Any saving on Road Tax can soon disappear when you get bills like that!

And I'm not sure a 1.0 litre would work too well in a Focus but petrol seems to be the way to go in cars like these, unless you do huge annual mileage.

Hope you decided on your dinner tonight OP!

[Bobupndown]

Do they not also do a 1.0l Mondeo as well?
£800 seems steep for a cambelt on a fiesta is that at a Ford dealer?

[tomrandall86]

Bobupndown said:

Do they not also do a 1.0l Mondeo as well?
£800 seems steep for a cambelt on a fiesta is that at a Ford dealer?

I think those Fiestas have a timing chain configuration; they’re harder wearing but more expensive to replace. Assuming because it’s a 1litre with a turbo put through it. To he honest I’ve heard nothing but good things about the later ones, thousands of people drive them but you only ever hear about the bad things on forums right?

[tomrandall86]

Mr Tidy said:

My next door neighbour has a 1.0 litre Fiesta S and loves it but it needs a new cam belt this year and he has been quoted £800. Any saving on Road Tax can soon disappear when you get bills like that!

And I'm not sure a 1.0 litre would work too well in a Focus but petrol seems to be the way to go in cars like these, unless you do huge annual mileage.

Hope you decided on your dinner tonight OP!

Haha thanks! I’m going to join the modern crew and jump on a 2020 Astra from a proper dealership. I want this thing to last a long time and will probably be the only time on my life I own a relatively “nice” car; that is, nice for my standards!

[LightningBlue]

tomrandall86 said:

Haha thanks! I’m going to join the modern crew and jump on a 2020 Astra from a proper dealership. I want this thing to last a long time and will probably be the only time on my life I own a relatively “nice” car; that is, nice for my standards!

There’s nothing wrong with an Astra but if you’re serious about the ‘nice car’ thing there’s so much more you could get for the price of it, although if it’s a VXR go for it. But life’s too short to be solely bothered about fuel economy and cheap tax, treat yourself to some performance

[jonwm]

If it adds anything I've got a big car (Peugeot 5008) with a 1.2, 3 cylinder petrol engine (130 BHP) with an 8 speed auto, when we went away last year (loaded, roof box, 3 kids) it did about 33MPG on a run from Midlands to Devon, round town now it gets about 34MPG with just me, it was doing about 38MPG before E10 and winter and on a run with me alone I can get it to 48mpg if you don't go over 70, I had the same car before but with a 1.5 diesel and I was seeing probably 10mpg more on both cycles.

I'm going to back to a diesel next time as it kills me filling up all the time

[Skyedriver]

Wife's got me musing about selling my old Volvo 940 Estate and getting something like a Ford Galaxy. Budget probably no more than £10K
Looking through the classifieds most seem to be TDCi (and auto). Deffo don't want an auto but think I'll kill a diesel when many of my runs are a couple of mile at a time plus some at 20mile round trip.
I'm right aren't I?