Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage?

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 02:20
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - CogitoBcn

I plan to upgrade my old 14 y.o. Citroen C3 for a car slightly bigger and more reliable and I've found two Hyundai Tucson for what it seems a good price.

Both are "Hyundai Tucson 2.0L CRTD CDX", both have had two previous owners, booth look in quite good conservation and both prices are around £2500, their main differences are:

1) 115.000 mi and 12 years (2007)
2) 65.000 mi and 14 years (2005)

The next week I will test them, but assuming that they "feel" similar, what is your advice?

Being totally a rocky it seemed obvious to me that the low mileage should be better, but after hours reading online it seems that sometimes older and annual mileage far below average can be also risky. So, now I'm doubting about what seems better.

If it helps, I drive less than 2000 miles a year, so what worries me is not as much its life expectancy but finding myself with an expensive reparation and the resale value in 2 or 3 years (yes, I'm optimistic :))

thanks in advance

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 08:03
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - badbusdriver

I plan to upgrade my old 14 y.o. Citroen C3 for a car slightly bigger and more reliable and I've found two Hyundai Tucson for what it seems a good price.

Both are "Hyundai Tucson 2.0L CRTD CDX", both have had two previous owners, booth look in quite good conservation and both prices are around £2500, their main differences are:

1) 115.000 mi and 12 years (2007)
2) 65.000 mi and 14 years (2005)

The next week I will test them, but assuming that they "feel" similar, what is your advice?

Being totally a rocky it seemed obvious to me that the low mileage should be better, but after hours reading online it seems that sometimes older and annual mileage far below average can be also risky. So, now I'm doubting about what seems better.

If it helps, I drive less than 2000 miles a year, so what worries me is not as much its life expectancy but finding myself with an expensive reparation and the resale value in 2 or 3 years (yes, I'm optimistic :))

thanks in advance

Given the extremely low miles you cover, why are you looking at diesel?. For £500 less you could get a 2.0 petrol Tuscon with under 80k miles, such as this,

www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/20190319604...1

Or indeed the Tuscons close cousin, the Kia Sportage, this one is the same price as your two diesels, but is a 2008,

www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/20190325625...1

Also, for that money, you could get into a petrol Toyota RAV-4 or Honda CR-V, and while they may be a year or two older, i'd sooner have either of those than a Tuscon/Sportage.

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 08:09
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - nellyjak

Agree...^^^...why diesel @ 2k miles p.a..?...go petrol and save yourself potential hassle...and money.

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 18:32
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - CogitoBcn

Given the extremely low miles you cover, why are you looking at diesel?. For £500 less you could get a 2.0 petrol Tuscon with under 80k miles, such as this,

Or indeed the Tuscons close cousin, the Kia Sportage, this one is the same price as your two diesels, but is a 2008,

Also, for that money, you could get into a petrol Toyota RAV-4 or Honda CR-V, and while they may be a year or two older, i'd sooner have either of those than a Tuscon/Sportage.

Thanks for your reply. I was not looking at diesel, I didn't even think about the fuel, they were the cars I liked in the near home dealers and it resulted to be diesel, but I didn't know that diesel cars were more expensive than petrol ones.

I didn't know the Kia Sportage, thanks, it's almost a clone of the Tuscon, so it makes less difficult to find one near home, I don't want to find a dealer more than 30 miles away from Caerphilly area, so my offer is limited.

I will add the Toyota RAV-4 or Honda CR-V to the list of candidates, thanks, as you can see I don't know a lot about car models... :)

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 09:52
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - SLO76
I wouldn’t buy an old diesel SUV if you’re looking for reliable, cost effective motoring. Unless you absolutely must have a 4wd I’d advise a rethink. Even a petrol version will substantially more expensive to run and be less reliable than an equivalent petrol hatchback.
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Fri 5 Apr 2019 13:07
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - concrete

Unless you tow regularly then a diesel is not for you. Good points already made about petrol and mileage. get the newest petrol model you can with the lowest mileage and service it correctly and you should be fine. if you buy from a reputable dealer then you get at least 6 months protection from faults deemed to be present when the vehicle was sold. Good luck.

Cheers Concrete

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 13:49
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - SLO76
“. if you buy from a reputable dealer then you get at least 6 months protection from faults deemed to be present when the vehicle was sold.”

In the eyes of the law that is true but to expect it on a 12- 14 year old car is wholly unrealistic and any dealer selling such cars will have ways around this nonsense legislation. It’s there to protect you when buying a new or much more valuable car but you cannot expect an old car to remain fault free for 6mths.
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Sat 6 Apr 2019 17:48
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - concrete
“. if you buy from a reputable dealer then you get at least 6 months protection from faults deemed to be present when the vehicle was sold.” In the eyes of the law that is true but to expect it on a 12- 14 year old car is wholly unrealistic and any dealer selling such cars will have ways around this nonsense legislation. It’s there to protect you when buying a new or much more valuable car but you cannot expect an old car to remain fault free for 6mths.

I take your point SLO, but the law is there and cannot be ignored. Usually if a case goes to court the court will apply a test of reason. Is it reasonable to expect a 12 year old car to be fault free? Clearly we all know that is unlikely. If the dealer proposes another form of warranty and the buyer agrees then the job is done.

Cheers Concrete

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 13:51
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - barney100
Diesel seems unsuitable for your low mileage. It’s interesting to go on a site like autotrader and put in how much you want to spend and see what’s around. You get some pretty diverse cars for the same money.
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Fri 5 Apr 2019 17:22
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - badbusdriver

Be aware that if you are looking at diesel for its pulling power or torque, the Hyundai Tuscon, Hundai Santa Fe and Kia Sportage are all available with a bigger 2.4 4 cyl petrol (143bhp), and an even bigger 2.7 V6 petrol (168bhp). Thirsty?, yes, but with your mileage it doesn't really matter.

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 18:48
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - CogitoBcn

I wouldn’t buy an old diesel SUV if you’re looking for reliable, cost effective motoring.Unless you absolutely must have a 4wd I’d advise a rethink. Even a petrol version will substantially more expensive to run and be less reliable than an equivalent petrol hatchback.

I clearly will, I didn't think that the diesel/petrol difference affected too much, precisely because of my low mileage I thought that it didn't care. So, an old 4wd is less reliable than a 2wd? I got it.

Unless you tow regularly then a diesel is not for you. Good points already made about petrol and mileage. get the newest petrol model you can with the lowest mileage and service it correctly and you should be fine.

I will try to follow your advice, but for some reason the offer of suv diesels in my area (center Wales) seems to be a lot bigger than suv petrols.

if you buy from a reputable dealer then you get at least 6 months protection from faults deemed to be present when the vehicle was sold. Good luck.

Good to know, the dealer of my first car (the C3) only offered me 1 month, so I didn't know what was the standard, 6 months is a lot of peace of mind.

It’s there to protect you when buying a new or much more valuable car but you cannot expect an old car to remain fault free for 6mths.

Then I was very lucky, my 2005 C3 remain fault free for 3 years (then the cludge broke) probably for not doing any maintenance during this time (I was clueless).

Diesel seems unsuitable for your low mileage. It’s interesting to go on a site like autotrader and put in how much you want to spend and see what’s around. You get some pretty diverse cars for the same money.

Yes, I went to cargurus, but the offer is so diverse, and I've no clue of what models are reliable and which not, that once I research one model (in this case the Tucson) and I got good results, I tend to lock with this model.

Be aware that if you are looking at diesel for its pulling power or torque, the Hyundai Tuscon, Hundai Santa Fe and Kia Sportage are all available with a bigger 2.4 4 cyl petrol (143bhp), and an even bigger 2.7 V6 petrol (168bhp). Thirsty?, yes, but with your mileage, it doesn't really matter.

More knowledge for my brain, if I've understood you correctly, I can get more power per buck with petrol than diesel, and as consumption is not important in my case I can forget about diesel, is this right?

thanks a lot for all this information, it's a kind of crash course!

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Fri 5 Apr 2019 19:59
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - badbusdriver

More knowledge for my brain, if I've understood you correctly, I can get more power per buck with petrol than diesel, and as consumption is not important in my case I can forget about diesel, is this right?

It's a bit more complicated than that, as it depends what you want to do with the car. I was asking about torque or 'pulling power', in case you were looking at diesel because you were planning to tow something heavy. HP or BHP is just one aspect of how much power a car has, the other, and possibly more important, is torque. It is much more important to have lots of torque at low revs if you are carrying or towing a heavy weight. To illustrate the point, here is how the 2.0 diesel Tuscon compares to the 2.0 petrol;

HP (horsepower)

Diesel-112 @ 4000RPM Petrol-140 @ 6000RPM

NM (newton metres of torque)

Diesel-255 @ 2000RPM Petrol-186 @ 4500RPM

If you are likely to be towing something heavy the 2.0 diesel would feel more relaxed than the petrol, otherwise the 2.0 petrol would be fine. The 2.7 V6 petrol is actually still down on torque compared to the diesel (245NM @ 4000RPM) although it has a lot more power (168 HP), but the larger capacity means it would be much stronger at lower revs than the 2.0 petrol and hence more able to deal with a heavy load.

Another thing, to open up your choice a little more, look at the Hyundai Santa Fe. it is essentially the same as the Tuscon, with the same engine options, but just a bit bigger (still just the 5 seats at this age though, later versions are 7 seaters).

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Sun 7 Apr 2019 23:14
Hyundai Tucson 2.0 Diesel - Advice used cars: 2 more years or double mileage? - CogitoBcn

Thanks for all the comments.

Finally, I've decided to forget about these two cars and discard any diesel one. So I will increase slightly my radius of search and I will wait for a petrol Tuscon or Sportage. Thanks for helping me to avoid the mistake oy buying a diesel/DPF car.

regards!

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