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  • 07-01-2016 6:13pm
    #1
    bubonicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    My head and heart are having a tug of war at the moment. I'm looking for advice or encouragement/discouragement from going up north to drop 15k inc VRT on a 2012 2l petrol Mazda 6 with 159g/km CO2. I can afford all this, but my head is saying I am mad, that I should be able to find something on carzone.

    I have been looking for a car since September and I'm kinda running out of patience. I don't do huge mileage, maybe about 8-10k a year. So I was leaning towards petrol and I wanted 1.6 or above. No older than 5 years with a budget of 15k.

    Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!


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  • #2
    George Dalton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭George Dalton


    What type of journeys do you do?

    Deciding whether petrol or diesel suit better is not simply about the total annual mileage. So if you do 15,000km per year comprised mostly of long journeys then a diesel is fine. However if you do 30,000km of mostly city driving then diesel would not be a good idea.


  • #3
    bubonicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭bubonicus


    George Dalton wrote: »
    What type of journeys do you do?

    Deciding whether petrol or diesel suit better is not simply about the total annual mileage. So if you do 15,000km per year comprised mostly of long journeys then a diesel is fine. However if you do 30,000km of mostly city driving then diesel would not be a good idea.

    I would do 50km trips 7 times a week, which actually works out at 18200km. So ehm, should I get a diesel?, I hate them though.

    And I do have use of my wife's 1.5 petrol.


  • #4
    George Dalton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭George Dalton


    What diesels have you driven that caused you to hate them?


  • #5
    bubonicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭bubonicus


    George Dalton wrote: »
    What diesels have you driven that caused you to hate them?

    I've owned only one but drove a few, and they always feel like tractors to me. Now I probably haven't driven anything newer than 2008. But the 2006 320d I had, I kept wishing I got a petrol version. I just bought it because everybody was buying diesel. Sold that, and now i kinda want to go back to petrol. Am I mad?


  • #6
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,899 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    You could buy such quality with 15k
    I personally would not spend it on a Mad Za


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