Upgrade/downgrade petrol to diesel

[Ciarian]

Yo people

I currently have a petrol Peugeot 208 on a finance scheme which I own it at the end. Due to new work circumstances I'm looking to get a diesel due to vastly increased mileage. I'm currently looking at 2 separate diesels and was wondering what would be best.

1. BMW 118d M sport 2009 with 37k miles on the clock. For £8k
2.audi a3 sportback 2013 with, 73k for £9500

They both seems to have pros and cons but I'm looking for some more opinions. I dont mind either brand it's just price vs mileage vs age etc. Cheers

[anonymous-user]

Yo dood.

How many miles a year will you be doing? What sort of MPG does your current car give?

How many miles will you have to do in those cars to offset the difference in price between your current car and their price?

[Ciarian]

I'll be hitting a good 15k a year for 3 years till I get my company car. I get about 44 odd from my current car and its worth about 5k atm but that don't bother me.



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[HustleRussell]

The Audi will be on 118k miles by the time your three years are up which will really limit your resale options. You'll be swallowing most of that £9.5k in depreciation. Not a cheap solution at all.

I'd go for an older car which you could essentially write off as scrap at the end. Price point less than £5k.

Alternatively you could lease a car for three years?

[Ciarian]

HustleRussell said:

The Audi will be on 118k miles by the time your three years are up which will really limit your resale options. You'll be swallowing most of that £9.5k in depreciation. Not a cheap solution at all.

I'd go for an older car which you could essentially write off as scrap at the end. Price point less than £5k.

Alternatively you could lease a car for three years?

Ide prefer to own the car in the end. My milage could go up so I wouldn't wanna be limited via some leasing agreements. My Peugeot is 2013 so I would miss some of the mid cons going older but the BMW does seem very nice but the audi would keep my mod cons but might be close to its dying day if it rack up the miles I guess

[HustleRussell]

Ciarian said:

the audi would keep my mod cons but might be close to its dying day if it rack up the miles I guess

It should be good for far more than 118k miles if it's looked after but you have to ask yourself who is going to pay good money for a 6 year old, 118k+ mile car? you might get £3.5k for it? That's £6k in depreciation to run a pretty ordinary used car for three years.

[Ciarian]

HustleRussell said:

Ciarian said:

the audi would keep my mod cons but might be close to its dying day if it rack up the miles I guess

It should be good for far more than 118k miles if it's looked after but you have to ask yourself who is going to pay good money for a 6 year old, 118k+ mile car? you might get £3.5k for it? That's £6k in depreciation to run a pretty ordinary used car for three years.

So would you day the BMW was the one to go for

[anonymous-user]

I'd probably keep your current car if it's working well and hasn't already got a ton of miles on it. If it's doing 40-odd MPG then the savings from moving to a diesel won't be that big, especially if you're only doing 15k miles a year.

If you go from 40mpg to 60mpg (which is optimistic) then you're saving £600 a year in fuel at 15k miles. Then you've got the question marks over the bills a leggy diesel can throw at you. Will changing your car actually save you money over the next three years?

Do the maths and then decide. If you want to change for other reasons that's fair enough, of course.

[Ciarian]

charltjr said:

I'd probably keep your current car if it's working well and hasn't already got a ton of miles on it. If it's doing 40-odd MPG then the savings from moving to a diesel won't be that big, especially if you're only doing 15k miles a year.

If you go from 40mpg to 60mpg (which is optimistic) then you're saving £600 a year in fuel at 15k miles. Then you've got the question marks over the bills a leggy diesel can throw at you. Will changing your car actually save you money over the next three years?

Do the maths and then decide. If you want to change for other reasons that's fair enough, of course.

My current car has to about 60k on it which I guess is a fair bit for something 3 years old that ones series only has 37k xD cheers for opinion I'll have to get all my figures together

[HustleRussell]

I have agree with charltjr, the cheapest way to do the next three years with all the mod cons to which you are accustomed and with the least hassle must surely be to keep the 208. Your fuel savings will never cancel out the thousands you will lose in depreciation on a £8k+ car.

[Ciarian]

HustleRussell said:

I have agree with charltjr, the cheapest way to do the next three years with all the mod cons to which you are accustomed and with the least hassle must surely be to keep the 208. Your fuel savings will never cancel out the thousands you will lose in depreciation on a £8k+ car.

the mod cons I think I could easily live with out I'll have to draw up a list of pros cons and stuff etc

[ZX10R NIN]

The answer is to sell the 208 & spend 5-6k on something with less than 40k on the clock which after 3 years will leave you with a car that has less than 80k on the clock & below average miles. The reason I say this that one of the bigger factors when doing miles is comfort.

Here are some options:

2007 Audi A3 SE FSH 36k
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

2012 308 Access 38k FSH Nav etc
http://eu.hlserve.com/Delivery/Delivery.aspx?hm_CI...

2008 Mini Cooper D 37k
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

2008 Honda Civic SE 4k FSH
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

2010 Civic EX 40k FSH
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

2011 Megane coupe Dynamique 37K FSH
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

Edited by ZX10R NIN on Tuesday 22 November 09:16

[TooMany2cvs]

Ciarian said:

I'll be hitting a good 15k a year for 3 years till I get my company car. I get about 44 odd from my current car and its worth about 5k atm but that don't bother me.

Only 15k/yr? I'd stick with the Pug, then.

I thought you meant you'd be doing big mileage... If that's "vastly increased", how little are you doing now?

[Ciarian]

TooMany2cvs said:

Ciarian said:

I'll be hitting a good 15k a year for 3 years till I get my company car. I get about 44 odd from my current car and its worth about 5k atm but that don't bother me.

Only 15k/yr? I'd stick with the Pug, then.

I thought you meant you'd be doing big mileage... If that's "vastly increased", how little are you doing now?

That's just a conservative estimate tbf probs will be way more

[Ciarian]

ZX10R NIN said:

The answer is to sell the 208 & spend 5-6k on something with less than 40k on the clock which after 3 years will leave you with a car that has less than 80k on the clock & below average miles. The reason I say this that one of the bigger factors when doing miles is comfort.

Here are some options:

2007 Audi A3 SE FSH 36k
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

2012 308 Access 38k FSH Nav etc
http://eu.hlserve.com/Delivery/Delivery.aspx?hm_CI...

2008 Mini Cooper D 37k
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

2008 Honda Civic SE 4k FSH
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

2010 Civic EX 40k FSH
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

2011 Megane coupe Dynamique 37K FSH
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

Edited by ZX10R NIN on Tuesday 22 November 09:16

Thank you ;D