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Best diesel Hatchback for around 5 grand

  • 11-05-2011 11:50pm
    #1
    ciarank.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Im looking to buy a car but have no idea what to get. has to be diesel preferably a hatchback 2004 up. looking to spend about 5000, any suggestions??


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  • #2
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    http://www.carzone.ie/search/Fiat/Grande-Punto/1.3-MULT/201113201802395/advert?channel=CARS


  • #3
    amandaf675
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭amandaf675


    A Corolla.. The New D4D Engines Are bullet Proof :)


  • #4
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    amandaf675 wrote: »
    A Corolla.. The New D4D Engines Are bullet Proof :)
    No they're not and he won't get a new one for €5k :D


  • #5
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    agree totallly with johnos


  • #6
    shawnee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭shawnee


    You'd probably buy a Mondeo tdci or a focus for under 5 grand. Trouble with many of the diesels sold secondhand they have a couple of hundred thousand miles and very few have service history. Modern diesel engines need to be serviced and looked after and if they go wrong they can prove expensive :p
    Suggest whatever you buy , that it has service history.


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  • #7
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,626 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Do you want a

    Small Hatch

    Medium Hatch

    Or a

    Large hatch


  • #8
    __Robinhood__
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭__Robinhood__


    you might pickup a nice golf for that kinda money, need to spend a bit more to get a good one though, most second hand golfs have heeps of miles racked up


  • #9
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    At that budget, petrol is better - there is less to go wrong and even when something does go wrong, it is far less expensive to fix a petrol engine than a diesel engine.


  • #10
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,434 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    i'm in the same op...Governent policy has made low millage diesel cars the new rolls royces!!


  • #11
    ciarank.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭ciarank.


    Dont want a petrol particularly higher fuel cost less effecient etc. In terms of reliability generally 100,000 miles on a diesel engine is nothing compared to a petrol another reason i dont really want one. thanks for the advice tho in no real hurry so ill just keep looking


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  • #12
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    vectra wrote: »
    Do you want a

    Small Hatch

    Medium Hatch

    Or a

    Large hatch

    It must be topsy turvy day as you didn't use a Octy in your examples.. :pac:


  • #13
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,626 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    TestTransmission wrote: »
    It must be topsy turvy day as you didn't use a Octy in your examples.. :pac:

    No point in me suggesting Octavia's on here anymore as you know well.The only replies I would get are a slating :pac:


  • #14
    fletch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭fletch


    This isn't within budget?

    There's another one on donedeal.ie


  • #15
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    ciarank. wrote: »
    Dont want a petrol particularly higher fuel cost less effecient etc. In terms of reliability generally 100,000 miles on a diesel engine is nothing compared to a petrol another reason i dont really want one. thanks for the advice tho in no real hurry so ill just keep looking

    Actually, it's the other way around these days, and has been for a long time now - diesels have turbos, injectors, DMFs, DPFs, ERG valves that can all go wrong, and almost all modern diesels get at least one of these expensive problems before 100,000 miles.

    Bar a few models that are prone to HG failure and coil pack failure (neither of which is that expensive to fix), petrol engines are by far and away the better of the two for reliability.


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