Diesel vs Petrol

A question about : Diesel vs Petrol

Due to an accident I was forced to change from a 1.8 Auto using £3120 of petrol per year. My fuel costs alone have been reduced by a massive £2080 per year as I have changed to a Diesel vehicle.

If you do more than 6000 miles per year you should be looking at a Diesel to make substancial savings.

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• I have just changed back to diesel after having a petrol Primera 1.8 for the past 2 years. I'd always had diesel until then and have always loved it. The only downside is that parts are usually more expensive, but diesels are more reliable so this shouldn't be a big problem.
• I'm changing to Disel too. My C320 Merc does 27 mpg on motorways and 14 in city. The new one would do around 50 on motorway & 28 in city. Just can't wait to start that saving.
  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
• The cheapest fuel for motoring is LPG or vegetable oil.
  Buy a duel-fuel car or convert your own. Conversion
  costs from Ј1600, this money saved in 1-2 years depending on milage. 40p per litre.
  https://www.go-autogas.com/
• Thing is, diesel cars generally do cost more.
  If your buying 2nd hand though, it's easily justified anyway
  Also, if one is a true driver and just loves driving, a petrol car is generally more fun to drive.
• It's a no brainer if you have a company car.
  The last petrol car I had was three years ago - Galaxy 2.3 - 27 mpg no matter how lightly you drove it.
  Had Galaxy diesel's (130PS) since and they have averaged 46 mpg+ & on a steady run I have had 53 mpg + - amazing!
• We have 2 cars, a small petrol and a family turbo diesel estate.
  We get almost twice the mileage from the big diesel than we do the small petrol. :
  When small car is up for change, it will deffo be another diesel we get to replace.
• ...continuing on, why is Diesel about 6p a litre (in places) more than unleaded ?? Government don't miss a trick do they.
  In France, Diesel is a fraction of the cost of petrol, why can't that be so here !?
• I have decided to go for diesel for my new company car. I get a set amount for mileage (11p) and I am sure I can get more miles out of a diesel engine and therefore my private miles will be less expensive. I am extensively testing the BMW 1 series this weekend followed by a couple of others I fancy. I was under the impresssion that the company car tax was going to be increased on diesels but it doesn't come in till Jan 2006 and it is only on newly registered cars after that date.
• Unfortunately, this is one of the side-effects of diesel:
  https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/me...tes/233033.stm
  "The most likely culprit are PM10s, microscopically small particles given off by diesel engines, coal burning, mining, construction and quarrying."
• Itried to get hold of a diesel 550 maranello a couple of years ago.Couldn't get one for love nor money.So I had to settle for the petrol version .Aint life cruel.
• One thing to consider.. Diesel cars need servicing every 5-6000 miles where petrol can be 10-12000. Petrol is 28p a gallon cheaper than diesel in some garages. Saying that The extra MPG with a diesel seems worth the effort.
• I am well and truly converted to Diesal.
  I had my last diesal for about 4 years and changed last year to another diesal. We also changed wifes car to a diesal last year. The mpg makes a big difference to amount we have to spend on fuel, although I must admit its worrying the way that diesal is getting more and more expensive than petrol, from being cheaper a few years ago.
  The downside of diesal? well when start up from cold theres no mistaking its a diesal engine! and yes oil and filter is best changed every 5000 miles, theres the smellier fuel pumps too. The old arguments about performance are getting weaker with each new crop of diesal engines; I still prefer mpg to mph tho!
  Positives are more mpg, longer lasting engines (over 150 000 miles on my last one with no signs of it ) . And in true money saving style the Great feeling its costing less to get from A to B than it would have in a petrol vehicle the same size or smaller.
• more recent diesels have intervals of 12500 to 20000 miles. Mines in for Ј300 big service next week; 50000 miles so far, and all I've done so far is change the oil myself
• I have just changed my main car and the shopping list was very short. It had to be a 5 door diesel that could do 0-60 in under 12 seconds and cost less than Ј11K. I am on my 4th diesel car simply because I do over 20K miles per year.
  Overall the figures seem to show that diesel is actually a cleaner burning fuel than petrol with the exception of carbon particulates. My new car does however meet the new European standards for emissions - must have some form of carbon trap in the exhaust. CO2 emissions on my new car are about 125 whereas on my other (petrol) car they are about 165 (which is quite good for a petrol).
  I think GB is going to have to consider his taxation policy on diesel since it is having an effect on inflation with many hauliers getting up in arms over the cost. We might see another strike over the cost of fuel ........
  Ivan