Cheapish diesel wanted

[The Moog]

Stupidly I have offered to help my brother get a new car.

 

He has just got a job which means 90 min commute each way. His 190e isn't going to be up to the job.

 

So I want to buy it from someone on here if possible rather than risk Joe publics

 

Specs

 

Diesel

Decentish size as he has got kids

Budget £1k tops but the cheaper the better.

He is London, I am Accrington but can travel for right motor.

 

Anyone got anything suitable?

[Craig the Princess]

AS motor house to the rescue

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/21237-97-citroen-xantia-19-td-£500-london/?fromsearch=1

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190D? 40mpg on veg

[The Moog]

Cheers Craig.. Have forwarded it on

[jonathan_dyane]

You might get 40mpg in the (glacially slow) 2.0 manual 190D but I struggled to better a 37.5mpg average in my 190D 2.5 manual.

[forddeliveryboy]

Not sure you can bag a decent 190 2.5 Dr Diesel for under a grand anymore? I reckon you get most for your money buying a Xantia - those left seem to have been looked after and are they're bloody longlasting without too much attention. If your bro does little more than sit in traffic search out a tidy n/a ZX or Saxo 1.5.

 

j_d, that's not bad but my mate with 300 diesel coupe (manual box) does 45 as a minimum even though he goes everywhere at 90, or if not then revs the fook out of it. I've just had the car for a few days and he's not exaggerating, I've done that without trying, mix of foot down and revving in third on fast B-roads, steady 55-60 in 4/5th on main roads and clambering in and out of the hilly back lanes where I live. My autobox 300 estates do about 34 in the same use, a 250 manual estate about 43, stretching to high forties (low forties for the sixes) on a 75-80mph run.

[Pillock]

What size is decent? Focus or bigger? Do the kids fold up well or are they bulky?

[The Moog]

Yes focus or bigger, will be mostly m25 so needs to be motorway friendly otherwise 205 would be right answer

 

Two kids 11 and 3 not chunkers

[Pillock]

DrJ has just posted a £300 306 in the eBay fred.

[Stanky]

There is a 1996 Astra TDS estate for sale local to me for £500 - ad in shop window so no idea of condition, miles or anything.

 

If it appeals let me know and I'll grab the number for you/him.

[willswitchengage]

Honda C90

[The Moog]

Thanks for offer stanky but he muttered bad words about vauxhalls!

 

C90 sounds ideal. In Cambodia they can get a full family on one.

[beko1987]

1.9td or na zxs are peanuts, I do 32 miles a day on b and a roads and the m40, does fine, will happily batter up to illegal speeds just to show audi dickhead that he is a twat... I get about 500 miles from a brimup, driving in a typical 'cba to go to work' kind of way, plus weekends etc

[sierraman]

Could be a tall order... your choice is either a old type diesel which could be worn out or engine ok but body falling to bits or you could be looking at modern common rail stuff which may be either about to implode with DMF, injector, fuel pump, dpf grief or be suffering the intermitent faults which occasionally occur when the injectors are on their way out. I'd be inclined to find something cheap enough to throw away when one of the above goes.

 

Possibly older type Mondeo TDDI, Octavia Diesel or a 406 hdi. Must it be a diesel? I say that as with what you are wanting the market is saturated with knackered uneconomical to fix diesels. Its pure luck then on that front as to whether it lasts.

 

No doubt someone will say get an old 405 diesel or something but for a 90 min a day commute its likely to leave you waiting for the AA

[Lacquer Peel]

405 diesels are great and unlikely to break down, but you will spend a lot of time fixing the niggly things that go wrong on 20 year old cars.

[sierraman]

Age can ruin cars more than mileage. Seals dry up, gaiters and bushes perish, rust etc...

[MarvinsMom]

rover 75 cdti? or if you prefer the MG ZT?

 

engine, body etc are great but the clutch isn't the best.

 

40-50 mpg and not alot of monies to buy.

 

old diesel skoda octavia's without all the modern bullshit are great. 

 

crushingly dull to drive and dreary to look at, plus the germanic seats are far too bloody hard for my liking BUT they do keep chugging along.

[The Moog]

Well after all that I am going to offer him the use of the 214si for his commute, for a few months at least.