€3000 diesel car

FrankC21

Hi

I am looking for a reliable diesel car

Max €3000
Min 1.6ltr engine
Mileage per month 3,500km

I am based in Drogheda.
My current car average mpg is 16.
€30 will last 4 trips 88km each way.

Idbatterim

16 MPG?! What are you driving?! do you go through many tolls? Id contemplate electric...

SmartinMartin

It's that lad with the fiesta again.

selectamatic

The OP of the fiesta maintenance saga!

Has she given up the ghost?

Mk2 105bhp 1.9tdi octavia (avoid the bxe engine code)
If you don't mind a dated appearance a cheap tax post 08 mk1 1.9tdi 100bhp octavia would be a solid option.

A 1.5 dci renault fluence or megane iii worth considering too.

1.4d4d corolla or auris also.

Still waters

Idbatterim wrote: »

16 MPG?! What are you driving?! do you go through many tolls? Id contemplate electric...

What kind of electric car would you buy for 3k

bazz26

Deja vu:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112356655

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111959164

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058032197

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058028853

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058025761

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111602465

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111006369

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=110872027

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=110822850

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057998375

California Dreamer

bazz26 wrote: »

Deja vu:

The endless tyre kicker!!!

grayzer75

FrankC21 wrote: »

Hi

I am looking for a reliable diesel car

Max €3000
Min 1.6ltr engine
Mileage per month 3,500km

I am based in Drogheda.
My current car average mpg is 16.
€30 will last 4 trips 88km each way.

Plenty of bargains to be had up north, maybe go for a 1.6tdi Golf?

California Dreamer

grayzer75 wrote: »

Plenty of bargains to be had up north, maybe go for a 1.6tdi Golf?

See post number 6........:rolleyes:

Odyssey 2005

Idbatterim wrote: »

16 MPG?! What are you driving?! do you go through many tolls? Id contemplate electric...

Ffs .

Odyssey 2005

bazz26 wrote: »

Deja vu:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112356655

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111959164

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058032197

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058028853

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058025761

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111602465

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111006369

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=110872027

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=110822850

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057998375

Walter Mitty of the motoring world

grayzer75

California Dreamer wrote: »

See post number 6........:rolleyes:

Just seen it now

Heres Johnny

FrankC21 wrote: »

Hi

I am looking for a reliable diesel car

Max €3000
Min 1.6ltr engine
Mileage per month 3,500km

I am based in Drogheda.
My current car average mpg is 16.
€30 will last 4 trips 88km each way.

Is that 8 x 88km? That's 704 km for 30 euro which is not true, its about 23/24 litres of fuel, let's call it 4 gallons. You're getting about 100 mpg there.

Even if I read it wrong and you're only doing 4 x 88 km trips for 30 euro you're still looking at 50 mpg.

How did you arrive at 16mpg?

shane b

Heres Johnny wrote: »

Is that 8 x 88km?
How did you arrive at 16mpg?

Think The OP has confused mpg with km/Litre. 16 km per litre is more realistic for a 1.2 Fiesta petrol.

FrankC21

Heres Johnny wrote: »

Is that 8 x 88km? That's 704 km for 30 euro which is not true, its about 23/24 litres of fuel, let's call it 4 gallons. You're getting about 100 mpg there.

Even if I read it wrong and you're only doing 4 x 88 km trips for 30 euro you're still looking at 50 mpg.

How did you arrive at 16mpg?

I used a mpg online calculator, perhaps I am wrong about reading it.

Windsor offered me 3k for the car as a trade-in deposit for skoda superb 2015 1.6ltr 3 years warranty

https://www.windsor.ie/used-cars/11291876-skoda-superb-ambition-1.6-tdi-105-hp-4/

Is it a good deal?

FrankC21

I've recently moved into drogheda and I only found out that I am doing 88km per trip. That's why my previous post have different details, those were only my estimations.

CoBo55

FrankC21 wrote: »

I used a mpg online calculator, perhaps I am wrong about reading it.

Windsor offered me 3k for the car as a trade-in deposit for skoda superb 2015 1.6ltr 3 years warranty

https://www.windsor.ie/used-cars/11291876-skoda-superb-ambition-1.6-tdi-105-hp-4/

Is it a good deal?

I can't stand that shape superb the 1.6 is very sluggish particularly in town driving.

Odyssey 2005

FrankC21 wrote: »

I used a mpg online calculator, perhaps I am wrong about reading it.

Windsor offered me 3k for the car as a trade-in deposit for skoda superb 2015 1.6ltr 3 years warranty

https://www.windsor.ie/used-cars/11291876-skoda-superb-ambition-1.6-tdi-105-hp-4/

Is it a good deal?

No.

Idbatterim

105 bhp :rolleyes:

Odyssey 2005

Idbatterim wrote: »

105 bhp :rolleyes:

Out n push.

bazz26

FrankC21 wrote: »

I used a mpg online calculator, perhaps I am wrong about reading it.

Windsor offered me 3k for the car as a trade-in deposit for skoda superb 2015 1.6ltr 3 years warranty

https://www.windsor.ie/used-cars/11291876-skoda-superb-ambition-1.6-tdi-105-hp-4/

Is it a good deal?

So how much did they actually want with your Fiesta for the Superb? A 2008 Fiesta isn't worth 3k.

FrankC21

bazz26 wrote: »

So how much did they actually want with your Fiesta for the Superb? A 2008 Fiesta isn't worth 3k.

They rang me and said I can trade it in for value of about 3k, with €258 monthly repayments over 5 years 3 years warranty.

I only enquired to see how much will the fiesta cost.

Odyssey 2005

I picked up a 10 superb, 140hp ,absolute beauty for just north of 3k

bazz26

FrankC21 wrote: »

They rang me and said I can trade it in for value of about 3k, with €258 monthly repayments over 5 years 3 years warranty.

I only enquired to see how much will the fiesta cost.

They are probably giving you an inflated scrappage discount value for the Fiesta especially when giving it over the phone. You need to figure out how much the Superb is actually costing you and compare against what a similar car would cost you from a different garage.

FrankC21

bazz26 wrote: »

They are probably giving you an inflated scrappage discount value for the Fiesta especially when giving it over the phone. You need to figure out how much the Superb is actually costing you and compare against what a similar car would cost you from a different garage.

Any other garage you suggests?

punisher5112

Buy a Renault Megane or fluence or Laguna....

1.5dCi.

FrankC21

The 12 years old ford fiesta is a good car no doubt but on the motorway it really isn't powerful enough, feels like the car would fall apart or something and when I drive it with my pregnant wife in passenger seat I don't feel safe enough especially driving beside big lorry trucks.

Idbatterim

140bhp etc is fine, if the issue with fiesta is feeling vulnerable and lack of power, I wouldnt be going into a 105 bhp car

punisher5112

FrankC21 wrote: »

The 12 years old ford fiesta is a good car no doubt but on the motorway it really isn't powerful enough, feels like the car would fall apart or something and when I drive it with my pregnant wife in passenger seat I don't feel safe enough especially driving beside big lorry trucks.

Well then go purchase a bigger car, how many threads do you need to work this out?

If you're doing serious kilometres then you need something comfortable.

FrankC21

punisher5112 wrote: »

Well then go purchase a bigger car, how many threads do you need to work this out?

If you're doing serious kilometres then you need something comfortable.

because I like to make sure I purchase something that is worth and will last me for 5 years, that's why I asked a lot of questions to rule out the most common answer.

From what I gather it's either renault or skoda?

punisher5112

FrankC21 wrote: »

because I like to make sure I purchase something that is worth and will last me for 5 years, that's why I asked a lot of questions to rule out the most common answer.

From what I gather it's either renault or skoda?

Why 5 years the way you go on you want a a new car..... Nobody can guarantee the car will last that.

The megane I have I've put 45k on it, it's 2011, diesel and there is nothing to say it won't pack up tomorrow.

You're buying cheap so rinse and repeat....

If something serious goes on it and it's too expensive get rid buy another....

FrankC21

punisher5112 wrote: »

Why 5 years the way you go on you want a a new car..... Nobody can guarantee the car will last that.

The megane I have I've put 45k on it, it's 2011, diesel and there is nothing to say it won't pack up tomorrow.

You're buying cheap so rinse and repeat....

If something serious goes on it and it's too expensive get rid buy another....

How much & when did you buy it?

punisher5112

FrankC21 wrote: »

How much & when did you buy it?

Just last March, €3,400 213k on it.

bazz26

OP, your going the same way as your previous threads, you start off by asking about a 3k car and then move on to looking a 14k one. You need to settle on a budget and stick with it. Not trying to have a go but each thread has the same theme of just going round in circles.

Idbatterim

3k will probably get him into a 2010-2011 chape tax daysul octavia or superb etc, thats where I would be going...

colm_mcm

I wouldn’t be buying a dieselgate TDI anyway.

SmartinMartin

It doesn't matter, the criteria will be different in next month's thread anyway.

California Dreamer

SmartinMartin wrote: »

It doesn't matter, the criteria will be different in next month's thread anyway.

11 threads later and there will be another question about a 3k car!:rolleyes:

FrankC21

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/skoda-octavia-2-0-tdi-elegance-6speed-taxd/24495519

How about that car?

I called them and planning to trade in my fiesta, they told me I have to let them know when best time to visit them, green hills motor near my place within 2km.

I mentioned about the mileage of the octavia being high, he said it is quite different with 2 ltr engine cars, I don't get what they meant? Is it different with 2litre engines?

terrydel

Idbatterim wrote: »

16 MPG?! What are you driving?! do you go through many tolls? Id contemplate electric...

For 3k, contemplating is all youd be doing.

bazz26

Jesus, there is a gap the width of a canal running down between the shut lines of that bonnet and wing. Front bumper near the passenger side wheel arch also has paint peeling off it. Passenger side doors look a different shade of paint to the rear quarter but could be the light in the photo. Driver's side panel near the rear light has a crease too and that's just a quick observation from the photos.

l couldn't think of a worse way to spend €3800. And btw OP, sellers will tell you anything if it helps close a sale.

FrankC21

bazz26 wrote: »

Jesus, there is a gap the width of a canal running down between the shut lines of that bonnet and wing. Front bumper near the passenger side wheel arch also has paint peeling off it. Passenger side doors look a different shade of paint to the rear quarter but could be the light in the photo. Driver's side panel near the rear light has a crease too and that's just a quick observation from the photos.

l couldn't think of a worse way to spend €3800. And btw OP, sellers will tell you anything if it helps close a sale.

Wow did not noticed that, Does it suggest it might got involved in a crash?
If not, maybe I can bargain with him to 2k

bazz26

Forget it, it's as rough as a bear's arse.

Have a look at this:


https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/renault-grand-megane-tomtom-nct-5-2021-tax-10-2020/24012468

Has 6 months tax on it and 12 months NCT. Seller has other cars for sale too so he is a trader and might take your Fiesta as a trade in.

colm_mcm

No. Just move on. Some other mug will pay.

CoBo55

bazz26 wrote: »

Forget it, it's as rough as a bear's arse.

Have a look at this:


https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/renault-grand-megane-tomtom-nct-5-2021-tax-10-2020/24012468

Has 6 months tax on it and 12 months NCT. Seller has other cars for sale too so he is a trader and might take your Fiesta as a trade in.

That's a bargain, ten times better than that Octavia.

FrankC21

bazz26 wrote: »

Forget it, it's as rough as a bear's arse.

Have a look at this:


https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/renault-grand-megane-tomtom-nct-5-2021-tax-10-2020/24012468

Has 6 months tax on it and 12 months NCT. Seller has other cars for sale too so he is a trader and might take your Fiesta as a trade in.

Thanks man, ill contact him and see how much will I get if I trade my fiesta.