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followmeup

Just looking for some opinions, I'm currently driving an 05 diesel avensis and I'm heading back too college in the next few weeks.

My dilemma is I'm considering switching back to a smaller petrol car and selling the avensis. I bought the car when I was doing a fair bit of weekly mileage an don't really have a need for a car that size for anything else. I don't mind going down a year or two as any extra cash I make from selling the avensis would help pay my college fees, plus I'd cut my car tax bill in half. I'd be doing around 200 miles a week plus whatever pottering around at the weekend.

I was looking at maybe getting an 03 or 04 carolla or civic.

Just looking or opinions as whether people think it would just end up costingme in the long run?

Atlantic Dawn

Your probably looking at about a grand of a profit on the sale of the Avensis and the purchase of a Corolla/Civic which isn't much. If you have to put tyres or do any additional work to the new car you purchase this will eat in to the profit, you may also have done major jobs on the Avensis like timing belt change or added new tyres that will mean you have no big expenses besides the motor tax coming your way in the future.

fmcg_scribe

followmeup wrote: »

Just looking for some opinions, I'm currently driving an 05 diesel avensis and I'm heading back too college in the next few weeks.

My dilemma is I'm considering switching back to a smaller petrol car and selling the avensis. I bought the car when I was doing a fair bit of weekly mileage an don't really have a need for a car that size for anything else. I don't mind going down a year or two as any extra cash I make from selling the avensis would help pay my college fees, plus I'd cut my car tax bill in half. I'd be doing around 200 miles a week plus whatever pottering around at the weekend.

I was looking at maybe getting an 03 or 04 carolla or civic.

Just looking or opinions as whether people think it would just end up costingme in the long run?

If you're going to be driving less than 15,000 miles per year, the decision is straightforward - sell the diesel and buy a petrol.

Depending on your budget, a 2008 onwards petrol might be more fuel efficient and better for CO2 emissions and thus better for tax and overall running costs.

followmeup

fmcg_scribe wrote: »

If you're going to be driving less than 15,000 miles per year, the decision is straightforward - sell the diesel and buy a petrol.

Depending on your budget, a 2008 onwards petrol might be more fuel efficient and better for CO2 emissions and thus better for tax and overall running costs.

Unfortunatelyy budget won't stretch that far, the only reason I'd sell the avensis would be too have a bit of extra cash for college so I would be looking for a petrol car at around the 2000e to 2500e mark

quadrifoglio verde

fmcg_scribe wrote: »

If you're going to be driving less than 15,000 miles per year, the decision is straightforward - sell the diesel and buy a petrol.

Depending on your budget, a 2008 onwards petrol might be more fuel efficient and better for CO2 emissions and thus better for tax and overall running costs.

A 2008 petrol will not necessarily be cheaper to tax or be any more fuel efficient than the 2007.
Yes some models are, but there's a good chunk of petrols who aren't. Just because the basis for determining the rates changed doesn't mean the actual cars did.

visual

Hold on to your diesel
Down grading to petrol isnt going to save you at the pumps and older cars usually have little faults that will cost few hundred here and there then you will have saved little if anything.

pcardin

visual wrote: »

Hold on to your diesel
Down grading to petrol isnt going to save you at the pumps and older cars usually have little faults that will cost few hundred here and there then you will have saved little if anything.

Had to smile a bit on this comment. Nicely show how most of modern diesel user don't stretch their calculations further than pump price. I'll you a secret - all older cars may have faults regardless of type of fuel. Faults on diesel cars are usually more expensive thought, that is the time you blow all the cents you saved at pump away. :pac:

My advise is if you don't do any mega miles anymore change to cheap petrol car.