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quick question

  • 09-04-2009 3:01pm
    #1
    target assassin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭


    why are diesel cars cheeper to insure than petrol


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  • #2
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Are they? I wouldn't have thought that a diesel would be cheaper to insure than the same car in petrol with a similar power output.


  • #3
    Sean Quagmire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭Sean Quagmire


    For cars 2008+ the tax is low on them because they are measured by c02 emissions not engine size.

    New Diesel engines have fairly low emissions so its an incentive to buy them as the tax is so cheap. my dad has a 1.6 turbo diesel laguna and he pays 150 euro or something.. very tempting

    EDIT: Do'h thaught you said tax... yea not sure insurance wise if it is any cheaper??


  • #4
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    I could get insured on a 1.9 tdi for nearly the same money as a 1.4 petrol, both in a Golf. Pity I bought the petrol.


  • #5
    poreilly101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭poreilly101


    Are insurance companies not starting to look at the BHP of the car... Not the engine size.

    Engine size is not the driver any more, I heard one insurance underwriter review the emissions on the log book to ensure the car was standard... The day of having a starlet tubo and having it insured as a basic 1.3 is well and truely gone


  • #6
    Interceptor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    Its because diesels are rubbish. Regardless of turbos and injection mapping, they are still as slow as a wet weekend in Kinnegad.

    Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug... POOT POOT... chug, chug, chug...

    'cptr


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  • #7
    Delta Kilo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Delta Kilo


    Limerick man wrote: »
    I could get insured on a 1.9 tdi for nearly the same money as a 1.4 petrol, both in a Golf. Pity I bought the petrol.

    I was in the same situation and bought the diesel... there was a difference of €45 in the insurance quotes so I got the diesel... TAX is the killer though!


  • #8
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Delta Kilo wrote: »
    I was in the same situation and bought the diesel... there was a difference of €45 in the insurance quotes so I got the diesel... TAX is the killer though!

    I suppose. You can do so much more engine wise with the diesel than the petrol though... I think, lol. Ah I'll get the daayyyzzzill tee-diddly-eye next:D


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