DPF risk?

senordingdong

She and I have decided what our next car will be but can not decided on fuel type.
What little I know suggested petrol because we do not cover alot of miles, and the miles that we do cover, are typically short distance and low speed.
The current car is a diesel which is what we were all encouraged to buy at the time but then I began to hear and learn about expensive dpf failures.

But I've also learned that more modern cars are better equipped to minimise the risk of dpf failures and there are the obvious lower running costs.
Should I stick with the petrol and endure higher tax and fuel costs, or get a diesel and sit pretty that the dpf is safe?

The new car will be an s-max, no older than 2016. It only has two petrol options, a 1.5l w/158bhp which on paper looks sluggish for an mpv, and a 2.0l w/237bhp which seems excessive.
It has three diesel variants, all 2.0l, ranging from 114bhp, 148bhp and the highest is only 178bhp.

bazz26

senordingdong wrote: »

She and I have decided what our next car will be but can not decided on fuel type.
What little I know suggested petrol because we do not cover alot of miles, and the miles that we do cover, are typically short distance and low speed.
The current car is a diesel which is what we were all encouraged to buy at the time but then I began to hear and learn about expensive dpf failures.

But I've also learned that more modern cars are better equipped to minimise the risk of dpf failures and there are the obvious lower running costs.
Should I stick with the petrol and endure higher tax and fuel costs, or get a diesel and sit pretty that the dpf is safe?

The new car will be an s-max, no older than 2016. It only has two petrol options, a 1.5l w/158bhp which on paper looks sluggish for an mpv, and a 2.0l w/237bhp which seems excessive.
It has three diesel variants, all 2.0l, ranging from 114bhp, 148bhp and the highest is only 178bhp.

I've highlighted the bits of your post there just to point out that it sounds like fuel costs are not a major factor in your usage so should not be a deciding factor when buying. Same with motor tax, there are very few newish petrol cars about now that have substantially higher motor tax rates to diesel cars. So really your letting factors that won't actually change much from now become deciding factors in your next purchase.

Belfast

The petrol sounds like the better option for the mileage and length of trips you are doing.

senordingdong

bazz26 wrote: »

I've highlighted the bits of your post there just to point out that it sounds like fuel costs are not a major factor in your usage so should not be a deciding factor when buying. Same with motor tax, there are very few newish petrol cars about now that have substantially higher motor tax rates to diesel cars. So really your letting factors that won't actually change much from now become deciding factors in your next purchase.

Thanks for that.
I just wasn't sure if mileage was still the single deciding factor.