Im in the process of buying an economical car for the wife as she's a district nurse and obviously drives to her patients, i don't want to spend a huge amount as where she works the car will get battered.

So i was thinking of spending around 3.5k and so far these are the only cars that spring to mind.

Peugeot 307 1.4hdi
peugeot 307 2.0hdi
ford fusion 1.4 tdci
fiesta 1.4 tdci

does anyone have any other ideas or opinions on the above.

Thanks |Pete

 

polo tdi

 

golf tdi ,great all rounders that you wont mind driving yourself


cheers james

 

JUST bought my missus a 307 HDi 2.0L......superb car and mega economical...55mpg. Nice to drive and very nice inside, cant go wrong for 2kish

 

peugot diesals spring to mind for me, cant comment on any particualr models but 307 sounds a good choice as they look the nicest out of the range of that era imo

 

vectra dti i'm getting upto 60mpg after a remap

 

Vag derv or pug derv is the best choice

 

my wife is nurse an she bought the 90ps 2.0 HDI 307. its an ugly bastard but it gets 55ish mpg and it handles very well.
although its stupidly slow. it has a turbo lag and then never gets going. and it feels very sluggish. ours has been very reliable, the loom melted and needed replacing and the thermostat played up. but all in good car.

 

watch out for the peugeot engines in 307's and the like once they have a few miles on them the particulate filter system goes tits up on them sometimes lucky if it just needs cleaning and regenerating the filter but most times needs complete overhaul costing £1500-£2000grand most of the ones ive worked on have happened around 50,000 miles then every 50,000 after that too! shame because the engines themselves are really reliable, this goes for the small derv engined fords too as they are peugeot engines as well

personally i would go for golf or polo diesel

 

golf gt tdigreat cars had a fewcurrently have one for sale at the moment

 

? myn has done 200,000 and has never had this filter problem

 

someone else to give you a lift

 

golf gt tdi, audi a3, polo,

 

Thats only on 53 reg cars or newer..............

Go for an earlier one and you will be fine as they done have one to go wrong....

 

best cheap car i was thinking 500 quid peugeot 106 with nice miles or a clio, with a nice healthy budget of 3 and a half g's i would get a yaris diesel if she's doing miles.
them cars are fantasticly reliable and they do sell well even with big miles after you have finished with them,at least try one. verry nippy and don't go wrong,look on autotrader or ebay and theres 6 year old examples for still more than half what they cost

 

Focus 1.8 TDCi

 

206 HDi?

 

either Golf or Focus , nothing else even worth considering IMHO