Hi guys,

This may sound like a stupid question.......

I am thinking of having to get a second car as a 'work run' car.

Obviously the Fabia diesel comes to mind. I will be travelling on decent A roads (50-60mph) so will it be better for me to get a 100bhp TDi with more torque or settle with a 65bhp SDi and beat the hell out of it?

Your thoughts please!!

Steve

Tdi

SDI just run it till it dies you aint doing massive speeds

SDI, if that's purely for what your using it for, get it and run it till it dies

Matt

Get an SDi, If you bought a TDi you'll only end up remapping it and throwing stacks of cash at it!

Thanks guys

Did any of the SDi models come with air conditioning? I.e. Comfort/Elegance spec??

Steve

Like you say in your opening post if your ragging it you need the tdi

If you drive like miss daisy you need thr sdi

The SDI is going to be slow as hell... no turbo and only 65bhp!? No thanks lol. Try overtaking in that, takes 18 seconds to hit 60 and thats if your ragging it

But all the people who own them say they hustle along fairly well & have no issues keeping up with traffic. The question was which would be cheapest to run not what's fastest lol

Matt

Hi guys,

This may sound like a stupid question.......

I am thinking of having to get a second car as a 'work run' car.

Obviously the Fabia diesel comes to mind. I will be travelling on decent A roads (50-60mph) so will it be better for me to get a 100bhp TDi with more torque or settle with a 65bhp SDi and beat the hell out of it?

Your thoughts please!!

Steve

Ummm, you can get the same engine cheaper in an older Polo form. I haven't looked at Ibiza's but they probably have one too. Another advantage, maybe of the Ibiza and/or Polo is IMO they're likely to be a little smaller/lighter than the fabia.

J.

But all the people who own them say they hustle along fairly well & have no issues keeping up with traffic. The question was which would be cheapest to run not what's fastest lol

Matt

A bloke at work has an SDi combi, Trust me that thing can hustle!

Lower maintenance costs, And no turbo to worry about!

Running it on a Veg oil/diesel mix could also be an option!

You'll get 55-65 mpg with the SDi, I've averaged 59+ for 6 years, 130000 miles in an '03 combi. There are SDis with air con, even classics. Cheap motoring. My wife drives a 1.9TDi 100bhp, I'll only drive that if we really need to get somewhere quickly, the SDi is quite quick enough for normal motoring.

Would recommend the Sdi, i have air con on mine, drives sweet and can't rate it enough, the mpg is absolutely superb.

SDI all the way.

If mine died tomorrow (which it shouldn't), I would go straight out and buy another one.

SDI, Plus running a 60/40 mix, diesel/used filtered chip shop oil

Cheap as chips, smells like chips too Yum

National

My SDi has cost 16.9p/mile for all expenses except parking charges (which aren't much for me) - seems pretty good compared to average costs published by the AA.

If it's just bog basic diesel transport you're after, I'd go for the SDI.

They may be a bit slow but they're still quite enjoyable

I have the TDI, I figure you might just need the extra power to get out of a situation. They seem to do the same ecomomy so why not.

The SDI will be fine but I would be warry of the gearbox.....

Comfort spec has a/c, SDI fabia gearbox are fine arnt they thought it was the SDI Octavi athat had gearbox issues