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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Before you dig into the SDi frugality, don't forget they have a fragile gearbox - shared only with the 1.6 Petrol (and we know how popular they are) and not the same as the TDi. Plus the gearing is lower so as well as being very very very very slow they are also noisier and thirstier than they need to be.
A quick Autotrader search with 10 miles and £1k max price brings up quite a few. How about a Vectra DTi (the good one with an intercooller) or how about the minicabbers old fave the 406 - there's a 1999 facelift estate HDi with 110K miles on it near me.
If you want a bit of go and some reasonable modern-ness how about a late-ish 1.4 HDi 206 ? Or even a 2.0 ?
2001 PEUGEOT 206 DIESEL 3 DOOR
£675, although the ad doesn't give mileage so I suspect its been to Mars and back
EDIT - I would also skip LPG, adds weight and you need to do about 18K miles to get your money back. Plus your iS will be worth more kept in original condition. |
I’m gonna avoid the French Peugeot/Renault lot you’ve suggested, as I know too many folks that have had issues with HDi lumps.. and the 206 is a Hateful Hateful car!
If I go Diseasal, it’ll be German or Japanese..but as you say, probably avoiding the Sdi setup from VW
Depends what the LPG quotes are like
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Originally Posted by euromodder
Were there any good DTi's then ?
I've had a couple of Astra company cars.
The 1.7 DTi was a snail.
Didn't burn much, but didn't go either.
The 2.0 DTi was a two-stroke diesel.
Over the regular oil change interval, I added almost as much oil as was in it.
That was considered OK, as others burned even more oil.
In the beginning, we got 1L oil bottles to fill up. Later on, 5L bottles
Dunno if GM ever got that oil issue sorted.
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Herein lies the reason that the only Vauxhall I’d look at would be an Omega 2.5td..and even then it’s not that good a lump(and I know it’s a BMW lump)..but its RWD
