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Diesel Cars now that the price has dropped - Thehoss

With the drop in diesel prices at the pumps, does a diesel car make sense now in low mileage situations if a long drive once or twice per week is achieved to enable the DPF to work correctly?

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Diesel Cars now that the price has dropped - RT

No - you don't think diesel price is going to stay low do you ?

Diesel Cars now that the price has dropped - Thehoss

Possibly not this low but the increased refinery capacity etc may make the prices more competitive than at any other time.

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Diesel Cars now that the price has dropped - daveyjp
You need to do the sums between the diesel and petrol equivalent of the same car using owners mpg figures and see what you actually save.

With low mileage it may be a few hundred a year, but this could easily wiped out if the low mileage causes problems after a couple of years. It is still the case that diesels thrive on high miles.
Diesel Cars now that the price has dropped - diddy1234

Diesels don't thrive on high mileage when it comes to part exchange time according to my experiences

Diesel Cars now that the price has dropped - Sofa Spud

Diesels don't thrive on high mileage when it comes to part exchange time according to my experiences

I can't imagine high mileage being a plus factor in any part-exchange, diesel, petrol or even electric !

Diesel Cars now that the price has dropped - Andrew-T

The price of petrol has dropped too. If you are thinking of swopping one fuel for another, all that matters is how much you use, the difference per litre (not a lot in UK) and the relative mpg. Compared with the cost of changing a car, those don't add up to much unless you run an airport taxi service or something.

Diesel Cars now that the price has dropped - gordonbennet

Low mileage isn't the biggest problem, its regular short journeys especially in traffic.

If you only covered 100 miles a week but that was two journeys on the open road of 50 miles apiece Diesel would be perfect.

Diesel looks attractive now, but if you have to drive nowhere regularly by extending a regular 10 mile journey to 60 miles once a week just to keep the DPF happy then the pro's take a dive, some cars appear able to cope with short journeys but those we hear of arn't usually that old, be interesting to see how these fare as time goes by, the cost of a new DPF would buy a lot of petrol that wouldn't (yet, give it time) need to be driven nowhere to keep it happy.

LPG varying around the 50/56p mark if you keep away from motorway type sites is another possibility, again only if it works for you (it does for us), but you have to buy cars with suitable engines and allow space for the extra tank...this can work in your favour if you don't mind older cars, as you can buy older larger petrol engined cars for silly money, then convert them and enjoy Diesel running costs...the downside being you really have to keep the car a good while to make conversion worth it so not a good pure bangernomics solution.