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What fuel will your vehicle be using

  • Diesel

    Votes: 21 55.3%
  • Petrol

    Votes: 3 7.9%
  • Electric

    Votes: 9 23.7%
  • Hybrid

    Votes: 3 7.9%
  • Other

    Votes: 2 5.3%

  • Total voters
    38
I'm sure I liked the same post yesterday - "back to the future again"!
 
5 years the same as now , I went on a ups training course the other week apparently battery technology is coming on leaps and bounds ,with a lot of money being invested in making a super battery ( will it ever happen ????)
10-20 years who knows
If the electric car does take over there would be a massive change in the industry
Petrol stations ???
Garages , would these electric only cars be pretty maintaince free ???
But for now I love our petrol and diesel vehicles
 
5 years the same as now , I went on a ups training course the other week apparently battery technology is coming on leaps and bounds ,with a lot of money being invested in making a super battery ( will it ever happen ????)
10-20 years who knows
If the electric car does take over there would be a massive change in the industry
Petrol stations ???
Garages , would these electric only cars be pretty maintaince free ???
But for now I love our petrol and diesel vehicles
 
The worlds concentration,will be on who has the water,food and oil (yes,it is not just for fuel) :) this will give little time or importance to issues such as animal cruelty,thus finally allowing me to place in to production,my guinea pigs-in-a wheel powered van,together with a 250GP powered generator,at home.

Brian May might well be cross...but he'll have to walk here,to tell me :D
 
As long as we still have the caravan, we will need a diesel car, although I'd prefer a petrol as diesels now are so complex with so many things to go wrong and short journeys don't do them any good.
 
As long as we still have the caravan, we will need a diesel car, although I'd prefer a petrol as diesels now are so complex with so many things to go wrong and short journeys don't do them any good.
try telling that to my toyota hiace. just passed yet another MOT @ 189,000 miles. in the 2½ years i've had it, i've spent a total of £60 ( oil & filter ) .
 
What year is it? You've been lucky with that then, I bought a 2006 vw Passat 1.9tdi with 140k about 2 years ago. All the internet forums said go for 1.9tdi, will last till 300k, run forever....mine lasted about a month then went into limp mode with black smoke billowing out...egr valve clogged, turbo on its way out, injectors failing. Drove lovely when 1st seen it, Guess I was unlucky.
 
You have , my mate has taxi's with that engine in and one was taken out of service last year with just under a million miles on the clock . The reason , it had reached it's time limit allowed .
One of the lads bought it and it is still going strong.
They all have a strict service routine though and decent oil used.
Non of the others of that model (Skoda) have less than 500,000 miles on them.
 
Yeah that's the thing....good and regular servicing, although mine had plenty of history with it....I'm now suspicious of high milers for sale....question is, why is it for sale?
 
High milers , if they have been looked after can be better than cars that have stood around corroding and run at cold temperatures on short runs .
Motorway vehicles do not use the clutch, brakes, gear changes or load the yaw on the steering as short run suburban cars do , and most run at an even all round temperature with little or no flogging. ( we have all seen the exceptions)
But as with anything it is the luck of the draw.
 
What year is it? You've been lucky with that then, I bought a 2006 vw Passat 1.9tdi with 140k about 2 years ago. All the internet forums said go for 1.9tdi, will last till 300k, run forever....mine lasted about a month then went into limp mode with black smoke billowing out...egr valve clogged, turbo on its way out, injectors failing. Drove lovely when 1st seen it, Guess I was unlucky.
2004. none of the crap they bung in newr models, like DPFs and such money pits.
 
2004.....that's when diesels were better, anything after 2009/10 isn't as good. I had a 2003 Peugeot 406 2l hdi, had it 9 years, only reason I had to part with it was loads of electrical faults, engine was sound.
 

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