Thinking of getting a diesel car

event

Have a query here, im thinking of changing from Pertol to Diesel.
I currently have a 1.4 VVTi T3 Corolla.

I've moved jobs which means ill be doing more miles. I've worked it out and in a year, I'll be roughly doing an extra 3.5K miles.

Would it be worth to see about getting a diesel car?

I'd be trading in my own, which i reckon could get around €2500 on a trade in (03, NCT till 2013, 117k miles, 3 door, Air con, Sunroof, electrics etc) and i could probably get about €6k. So thats potentially €8.5k or so to buy a new vehicle (taking into account it would have to be a dealer willing to take a trde in)
Now the tax on my own is €330 a year, if i move to a diesel pre 08 it could be around €620 a year.

Basically I'm wondering, would it be sensible to make the change?

I know the price of diesel and petrol are pretty much the same now but should i get more mpg on a diesel, which would outweigh the change in tax over a year?

If so, any ideas on what cars would suit?

Any advise or help greatly appreciated.

EPM

How many miles are you doing a year as it is?

event

im not sure exactly, i just know for work.

like exclusively travelling to work, i do about 6200 miles a year.

the change, ill be doing 9800 miles a year to work.

id say i could do about 7-9k a year outside of work

so potentially 18k miles a year

Tea 1000

You forgot to consider the €6000 you'll be spending to buy the car. How many miles do you think you'll need to drive to offset that?
Probably well over a million!

conzy

What kind of mileage do you do?

Your current car costs 358 to tax and does 42mpg (according to parkers)

So lets say you changed to a 320D or something, tax would be 660 and they do 49mpg (according to parkers)

So if you do 20,000 the petrol will cost €3608 and the diesel will cost €3445.

If you only do 15,000 the petrol will cost €2795 and the diesel €2749

So unless you do well over 20,000 miles its not worth changing to diesel, because your car is quite economical for a petrol.

166man

Wouldn't bother changing OP. At that mileage keep your reliable Toyota rather than change to a diesel to get a few more mpg. You won't make a great saving on the tax either..

event

event wrote: »

im not sure exactly, i just know for work.

like exclusively travelling to work, i do about 6200 miles a year.

the change, ill be doing 9800 miles a year to work.

id say i could do about 7-9k a year outside of work

so potentially 18k miles a year

Get an old nct certificate to work out your mileage.

murphyebass

166man wrote: »

Wouldn't bother changing OP. At that mileage keep your reliable Toyota rather than change to a diesel to get a few more mpg. You won't make a great saving on the tax either..

+1

There really should be a thread for this.

There must be 2/3 posts a week on this sort of thing.

I have a petrol but thinkin of goin diesel.

What milage do you do?
Do you know the risks of modern diesels? ERG Valves etc....

etc.... etc... etc....

event

Cheers for all the replies lads