Not another what car - 20k miles in a shed

[RCD24]

Think this may have been done before, still I'm here to ask the experts.

Having started a new job with a 49 mile motorway commute, I bought a Volvo S60 D5, which was great right up until the moment the belt snapped. Volvo now departed to the car park in the sky, I'm commuting in a 2009 Mazda 2 with the 1.4 Diesel lump.

This would be fine but it's suffering from an intermittent injector fault casuing the car to go into limp mode so I'm considering chopping it in.

I'm looking for reliability and economy on a budget of perhaps 2k.
Considerations:
Astra GTC/ Insignia CDTi
Any 1.9/2.0 TDi

Suggestions would be much appreciated

[Gastons_Revenge]

Toyota Avensis? We passed a diesel one around the family for about 240k miles, only fault IIRC was the A/C compressor which Dad replaced with one from a scrapped car.

[7 5 7]

Insignia petrol 1.8VVT - much more reliable/robust than diesel, and it can be a false economy especially with cheaper fuel at the pumps.

or, a Mazda 6 petrol, or as mentioned a Toyota Avensis 1.8.

I wouldn't personally touch a diesel at this price point.

Edit - its probably cheaper to fix our injector issue (if it is that) on your current car tbh, better devil you know etc....

Edited by 7 5 7 on Thursday 5th December 10:59

[anonymous-user]

It's the usual advice at this end of the market I think... petrol, non turbo and preferably Korean or Japanese.

Accord:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202411266...

Mazda 6:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202412036...

Avensis:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202410064...

Mondeo: (Obviously not Japanese or Korean!)
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202411146...

[RCD24]

7 5 7 said:

Insignia petrol 1.8VVT - much more reliable/robust than diesel, and it can be a false economy especially with cheaper fuel at the pumps.

or, a Mazda 6 petrol, or as mentioned a Toyota Avensis 1.8.

I wouldn't personally touch a diesel at this price point.

Edit - its probably cheaper to fix our injector issue (if it is that) on your current car tbh, better devil you know etc....

Edited by 7 5 7 on Thursday 5th December 10:59

Thanks for your reply, believe it was your thread I was reading on the vectra really enjoyable read.

Sounds good advice actually after struggling with the last two diesel cars I've had. I have considered fixing it but every garage I've contacted seem to be booked up until the new year or uninterested in the job.

An opportunity may have come up to buy a fairly new Transit Connect from my work at a more than fair price so I am considering running that for a while as all I really need is reliable transportation at the moment.