Buying a new diesel ... should I ?

[Wish]

Looks like diesel has become enemy no.1

I’m looking to purschase a new car, a Tiguan to be precise, a diesel Tiguan.

Forget if you like or hate the model, should I be looking at petrol ?

[anonymous-user]

Jeez this st again?

[V88Dicky]

Maybe worth waiting until after the budget later this month.

See if the chancellor has any plans for dervs

[Bill]

It depends on your intended use, surely?

If you do lots of miles maybe, if you do lots in town maybe not.

[AllyBassman]

How are you buying it?

Cash? Lease? PCP?

This coupled with your intended use of the car should be a factor too.

If you're doing well over 10k a year and are just leasing it, fill your boots and just hand the car back at the end of the term even if it's worth £2 as it is now banned from entering every town, city, village and county in the UK.

[av185]

Average price of used diesels actually ROSE from August into September.

Doom and gloom overdone. Helps to sell the Daily Wail though.

[Wish]

It would be a cash purchase and my mileage is around 10k per year.

[Bill]

Have you considered a Morgan 3-wheeler?

[mikal83]

dme123 said:

Jeez this st again?

Agree..............again!

[Shore]

If that's the car you want buy it. There will always be a market for diesels. Nothing wrong with them.

[ZX10R NIN]

If you need a diesel then get one you'll be fine the car will be Euro6 so there will be no issues, as for the budget the government has already it will not target anyone fuel type.

[P700DEE]

Wish said:

It would be a cash purchase and my mileage is around 10k per year.

Why do you think this is the way to go?
10K miles a year is petrol mileage, read the threads

[Trailhead]

Yes I wouldn’t worry. Diesels being banned etc won’t be for a long time yet.

[Justin S]

P700DEE said:

Wish said:

It would be a cash purchase and my mileage is around 10k per year.

Why do you think this is the way to go?
10K miles a year is petrol mileage, read the threads

Believing the non diesel owners is your first mistake.........................my Volvo was sold to me with 8k per annum on a diesel and the volvo bloke wasnt waving his arms like a demented loon saying no, dont do it.............. and I give it back to them in 20 months time. Still not come to a grinding halt, just use it properly. Later DPF's dont have the same issues as earlier ones. Forget the Nissan thread, thats a Renault diesel.

[Willy Nilly]

Justin S said:

P700DEE said:

Wish said:

It would be a cash purchase and my mileage is around 10k per year.

Why do you think this is the way to go?
10K miles a year is petrol mileage, read the threads

Believing the non diesel owners is your first mistake.........................my Volvo was sold to me with 8k per annum on a diesel and the volvo bloke wasnt waving his arms like a demented loon saying no, dont do it.............. and I give it back to them in 20 months time. Still not come to a grinding halt, just use it properly. Later DPF's dont have the same issues as earlier ones. Forget the Nissan thread, thats a Renault diesel.

If the OP, or anyone else wants a diesel, then knock yourselves out,just buy one. But the whole point of diesels was that they were cheaper to run/own. So the OP needs to compare the price and running costs of the same model with similar powered petrol and diesel engines.

Diesel engines were always very simple and robust, but like it or not, to get them clean enough to pass current emissions regulations they have had to be fitted with rather complex and finicky systems to deal with emissions that can cost more than the base engine itself. Anyone that thinks that in some point in time these won't serve up some big bills is rather misguided in my eyes.

[PistonBroker]

As others have said, I'd be inclined towards a petrol at that mileage. My brother-in-law went out and bought a nearly-new Civic the other week and it's what I recommended he did. DPF is the obvious issue - the Tiguan I had on PCH up until September had the light come on near the end of its time with us. Only needed a regen but, nonetheless, I wouldn't want to risk issues if I was buying outright. We covered 25k over 2 years and I felt that was a bit low for it. It just happened to be a good PCH deal at the time.

Needless to say, BiL bought a DTEC because that was the one that had leather . . .

Not exactly a direct comparison, but when the Tig was in for warranty work we got a Mk7 Golf as a courtesy car with the 125ps 1.4 TSI in it. I wouldn't have any issue going for the 150ps version in the new Tig based on that experience.