Help with new car purchase.

[Gixxer88]

Morning everyone ,

over the last 4 years if been driving mk5 astra vxr, the time as now come I'm feed up of forking out £300 a year road tax and circa £120 a month petrol, I know what your thinking thats doesn't sound too bad for the juice, it is when I only 5 mile round trip to work everyday. I've being doing around 600 a month average over the last couple of years.

I've been looking the new mk7 GTD, what catches my eye is most are achiving 47mpg+ urban driving and the £20 a year RT sounds lovely

doing the 5 miles a day and odd 100 on a weekend trips to shopping centre and what not, would this car suit ?

I've looking into the GTI and its another petrol drinker and RT is £190 I believe so is a no go for me.

any thoughts would be great

Matt

[grahamm]

Gixxer88 said:

Morning everyone ,

over the last 4 years if been driving mk5 astra vxr, the time as now come I'm feed up of forking out £300 a year road tax and circa £120 a month petrol, I know what your thinking thats doesn't sound too bad for the juice, it is when I only 5 mile round trip to work everyday. I've being doing around 600 a month average over the last couple of years.

I've been looking the new mk7 GTD, what catches my eye is most are achiving 47mpg+ urban driving and the £20 a year RT sounds lovely

doing the 5 miles a day and odd 100 on a weekend trips to shopping centre and what not, would this car suit ?

I've looking into the GTI and its another petrol drinker and RT is £190 I believe so is a no go for me.

any thoughts would be great

Matt

I don't think a diesel will be suitable for 5 mile trips to work and back. If you want a Golf I suggest you look at the 1.5 petrol.

[Jazoli]

Do the maths, how much is the new car? are you spending thousands to save £300 a year in tax?

[Gixxer88]

why would I diesel not suit ? and the 1.5's are well what can I say a little basic. love the new interior on the GTD also. I've never owned a diesel by the way.

[Gixxer88]

Jazoli said:

Do the maths, how much is the new car? are you spending thousands to save £300 a year in tax?

the VXR is now 11YO done 118k so now me and partner are looking for a new family car which will last a fair few years.

[Matt-il77s]

Gixxer88 said:

why would I diesel not suit ? and the 1.5's are well what can I say a little basic. love the new interior on the GTD also. I've never owned a diesel by the way.

Diesels don't like short journeys especially with a DPF

[daemon]

Gixxer88 said:

Morning everyone ,

over the last 4 years if been driving mk5 astra vxr, the time as now come I'm feed up of forking out £300 a year road tax and circa £120 a month petrol, I know what your thinking thats doesn't sound too bad for the juice, it is when I only 5 mile round trip to work everyday. I've being doing around 600 a month average over the last couple of years.

I've been looking the new mk7 GTD, what catches my eye is most are achiving 47mpg+ urban driving and the £20 a year RT sounds lovely

doing the 5 miles a day and odd 100 on a weekend trips to shopping centre and what not, would this car suit ?

I've looking into the GTI and its another petrol drinker and RT is £190 I believe so is a no go for me.

any thoughts would be great

Matt

Whilst your fuel bill might drop from £120 a month to say, £70 a month and your RT will drop to £20 a year that will be more than lost with the depreciation on a new / newish car.

Also, just for a sense of perspective with diesels - i bought a 2016 Passat TDI with 16K miles on it 5 weeks ago. I've done 1100 miles in it - mostly long motorway runs - 40+ miles each way (four of those a week) and a few shortish runs.

Last night the EML came with a code P2002 which is a DPF regen failure related error - so thats the start of it. I'm going to try to do a couple of motorway runs today and keeping it in the right rev band so using extra fuel (on my own time, at a weekend when i wouldnt otherwise be doing it) hoping it will clear it, otherwise it'll be in to the dealers for a forced regen and being told how my driving pattern doesnt suit a diesel (although the salesman didnt ask about it or query it)

[Gixxer88]

daemon said:

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Last night the EML came with a code P2002 which is a DPF regen failure related error - so thats the start of it. I'm going to try to do a couple of motorway runs today and keeping it in the right rev band so using extra fuel (on my own time, at a weekend when i wouldnt otherwise be doing it) hoping it will clear it, otherwise it'll be in to the dealers for a forced regen and being told how my driving pattern doesnt suit a diesel (although the salesman didnt ask about it or query it)

This is what I was worried about