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My Mrs is looking at getting a new car and has her heart set on a Mercedes C220. (around the 06 mark).

She only does around 3 or 4 thousand miles a year. Is there any major difference between a petrol and diesel engine apart from the 10 mpg and the 30 odd quid tax per year.

 

Advice please lads

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Diesel really only makes sense if you're doing a lot more miles per year than 3 or 4 thousand. A mate of mine owns a repair garage and advises anyone doing much less than 20k a year to stick with petrol, the fuel system repair costs for diesels can make your eyes water.

 

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Diesel will be effortless to drive better suited to the auto box with less hunting for gears at low speeds.

I do find my petrol cars a chore, always stiring the box, never the right gear...

 

 

 

Diesels are for lorries and vans and at a push a 4x4 if you intend to drown it constantly

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Diesel really only makes sense if you're doing a lot more miles per year than 3 or 4 thousand. A mate of mine owns a repair garage and advises anyone doing much less than 20k a year to stick with petrol, the fuel system repair costs for diesels can make your eyes water.

 

Mr Potter

 

I must agree with this, I recently bought a low mileage C220 Cdi, It is in for repair, it seems the previous owner only did very short journeys and possibly used cheap supermarket diesel allowing sooty build ups on the swirl flaps in the inlet manifold, any way long story short -- the plastic swirl flap thingies have decided to go wandering-- THROUGH THE ENGINE , its going to cost about a £1000 to sort this little mess out, and if it happens its always just after the dealers warranty runs out :sad1:

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Modern diesels give better mpg but the difference isn't as great as it used to be. If you only do local trips the DPF will not get burned down and that can be expensive. EGR valves clog and can take out the turbo and so it goes on. Diesels are fine as long as your driving conforms to suitable patterns, but if not start saving now!

 

I bought a diesel car 4 years ago and luckily I get some motorway time in but when I update it will be back to petrol and the simple life.

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Im Selling my oil burner in favour of a petrol engine, diesels generally run colder than petrol and the Mrs uses it to go to work and back which is 3 miles either way so the heater doesn't even get hot which is not good for Diesel engines, also the DPF filter never gets hot enough to regenerate. I had a Mercedes 220cdi estate which was a 55 plate and at 60,000 miles the turbo gave up. Mercedes wanted to charge me £1500 supply only for the new turbo which was a basic garret unit in a fancy box that I got for £800 a few miles down the road, I should also mention what a complete and utter embaressment it was in the snow being a RWD auto estate oil burner! She will feel a bit posh though driving a Benz if that's any compensation

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iv had a diesel for 10 years, and do less then 3.000 miles a years and had no trouble at all cost nothing to run.

This is fine give the age and complexity of your engine, the newer the powerplant the more complex the electronics and emissions hardware.

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