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Nidge2

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:35 pm

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Location: Braintree, Essex.

roythebus wrote:

Yep, I had a Toyota Auris hybrid car on lease for 2 year as a trial. It was an excellent car but failed to achieve the mpg the makers suggest, but then that may have been down to the terrain round here, rather flat and lots of long runs. It may have done better mpg on town work.

The servicing cost were rather higher than expected with an oil change every 10,000 miles, quite why I don't know as the engine was probably only working for 8,000 of the 10,000 miles!

Your licencing officer will probably licence it as it's eco-friendly and he wouldn't want to upset the local Greens would he? I'd suggest you get the vehicles on a 2-year lease just in case they don't work out as economic as you expect.

BTW the Auris had quite a remarkable 0-60 speed!

You won't get the MPG they claim when they do the tests, they test them on a rolling road in a factory.

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roythebus

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:43 am

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jman316 wrote:

I'm going to let common sense prevail...and go for a ford Mondeo diesel instead...I can always convert to LPG later if Iwanted to...a £4k bill scares me more .

I went over to leasing cars few years ago, that way I always have a car that's not more than 3 years old and don't have high repair bills or unreliability. They're always covered by warranty too.

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grandad

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:18 am

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roythebus wrote:

jman316 wrote:

I'm going to let common sense prevail...and go for a ford Mondeo diesel instead...I can always convert to LPG later if Iwanted to...a £4k bill scares me more .

I went over to leasing cars few years ago, that way I always have a car that's not more than 3 years old and don't have high repair bills or unreliability. They're always covered by warranty too.

We haven't leased a car yet but we have started buying brand new. We bought a Peugeot 5008 in December 2012 and so far, apart from normal servicing we have only needed tyres and front brake pads. The Zafira we bought last October has only needed servicing so far and we have just taken delivery of a diesel Toyota Auris Tourer this week.

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bloodnock

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:29 pm

Joined: Thu May 03, 2007 8:15 pm
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Whoops.........hitting all the wrong buttons t'day. #-o

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bloodnock

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:30 pm

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jman316 wrote:

I'm going to let common sense prevail...and go for a ford Mondeo diesel instead...I can always convert to LPG later if Iwanted to...a £4k bill scares me more .

You'd be better with a Petrol Mondeo if your going to convert to LPG at a later date as a LPG needs an Ignition source such as a spark plug to trigger off the combustion process, to convert and enable a diesel engine to do that would cost you more than the engines worth. #-o

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wannabeeahack

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:05 pm

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As Bloodnok said, a petrol on LPG (with valve oiling) will be cheaper than a hybrid round town unless you can afford an Ampera, when the engine ONLY powers a generator to charge the batteries, a petrol+LPG is probably cheaper to run than a diesel and certainly cheaper to fix

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jman316

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:30 am

Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:21 pm
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Hi guys, ive seen a Vauxhall 1.9 from cargiant. What is their reputation like? ive heard not many good things about them.
your opinions?

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wannabeeahack

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:44 am

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jman, what date did your badge start?...

avoid vauxhalls unless very cheap

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grandad

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:46 am

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jman316 wrote:

Hi guys, ive seen a Vauxhall 1.9 from cargiant. What is their reputation like? ive heard not many good things about them.
your opinions?

What model? What year? What price? What mileage? What fuel?
What is your budget?

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jman316

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:59 am

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grandad wrote:

jman316 wrote:

Hi guys, ive seen a Vauxhall 1.9 from cargiant. What is their reputation like? ive heard not many good things about them.
your opinions?

What model? What year? What price? What mileage? What fuel?
What is your budget?

The car in question is a vauxhall vextra 1.9 diesel automatic, 53,235 miles. £4299

See here..
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

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grandad

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:02 am

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Personally, I wouldn't touch it. If you are not doing all distance work the fuel consumption will kill you.

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jman316

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:06 am

Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:21 pm
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grandad wrote:

Personally, I wouldn't touch it. If you are not doing all distance work the fuel consumption will kill you.

Because its a 1.9?

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grandad

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:12 am

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jman316 wrote:

grandad wrote:

Personally, I wouldn't touch it. If you are not doing all distance work the fuel consumption will kill you.

Because its a 1.9?

No, because it is automatic and returns less than 30 mpg around town.

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jman316

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:13 am

Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:21 pm
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I would preferably like to go the automatic way! what are my other options.? my budget is about £5.5k

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jman316

Post subject: Re: Driving a hybrid

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:30 am

Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:21 pm
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or a kia soul even?
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

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