Hi people,

Due to an expanding family situation, I need to supplement my Honda Prelude with a nice family car. I was thinking of a Golf, but have now seen the light as I like to do things a little differently and don't want to spend shedloads of cash.

I'm looking at 2 cars, both Elegance hatchbacks - a 2002 1.8T Octavia @25,000 miles

Welcome to Briskoda.

Cheers dude.

Now I've put it in writing it's obvious I should go for the quicker, thirstier, more expensive, younger 1.8T.

Welcome.... what about octy estate.. better for family??

We also have a two car family.

The 'family' car is a 2001 Octavia estste TDI 110, yes it is silver!

The other one, her's, is a Scooby.

I trundle up and down the motorways all day for work getting between 55 and 65 MPG, and at 40p a mile from the company, its a nice little earner.

While the other half 'sprints' around the Peak District from tea room to tea room.

I guess I can have alittle fun at the weekends.

Anyway, my answer is, buy the TDI, mines done 80000 and still going strong.

P.S. Maybe I should start a new thread. My other car is.......?

We also have a two car family.

The 'family' car is a 2001 Octavia estste TDI 110' date=' yes it is silver!

The other one, her's, is a Scooby.

I trundle up and down the motorways all day for work getting between 55 and 65 MPG, and at 40p a mile from the company, its a nice little earner.

While the other half 'sprints' around the Peak District from tea room to tea room.

I guess I can have alittle fun at the weekends.

Anyway, my answer is, buy the TDI, mines done 80000 and still going strong.

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First off, yes I'd love an estate (or even a 4x4 estate) but they are rarer and I've already spent too much time fretting over what to buy. She "doesn't like the shape of estates" although I could overrule her. Quite easily.

Re: Diesel v Petrol. Are you really getting 55 to 60 mpg? Schweet!! The 40p a mile work mileage thing has crossed my mind, but I reckon I will do a max. of 4000 work miles a year. I'll do the math tomorrow. The wife is very pro the faster petrol car. Bizarrely she wants the fastest car possible although she rarely goes past 70 and if I am driving she over-dramatically holds on to the car interior and mutters "..you're going too fast....you're going too fast....you're going too fast...." Odd, but that's her perogative.

Given that I actually walk to work and her commute is around 15 miles a day mpg isn't that big a concern, however I am a tight-****.

Welcome :orb_wave:

I would have thought the torque in the diesel, would satisfy the need to get to 70 from 30

Hi jbp

My silver 4x4 hatch is currently for sale on autotrader. I'm asking 6,800, open to offers.

It's a 52 with 34,400 miles, it's also has a Jabba remap. Send me a PM if you're interested.

Martin

I have a diesel, I get between 45-60 mpg on a daily basis. Got it on long interval servicing so about 20-25k between services.

I have done 87,000 miles in 20 months in mine with no problems.

Before the diesel I had a 1.8T, if I'm honest I prefered the petrol one but with my mileage I can't justify it.

Podwin's 4x4 (a 1.8T, elegance spec) looks good to me

I think the diesel is the way to go. After a trip to Jabba, it will be no slower than the 1.8T in real world driving...

Atleast thats my understanding

To be honest there would not be a lot of advise i could give you as i have only had mine for one day now.

But from the amount of driving i did last night i can definetly say that you will have more fun in a VRS.

Obviously the more sensible option would be the diesel, family wise it would be a lot cheaper.

The Diesel should give you a good 50mpg easy, on longer runs it'll go up to around 55-58mpg. My best so far is 68mpg average over a 130mile journey @60mph around the country roads in Ireland.

the TDi will probably either be 90 or 110 bhp depending on the 'trim'

Ambientes tend to be 90 bhp and Elegance or L+K's tend to be 110bhp (and maybe even the odd 115bhp out there)

Just out of interest if you do 4000 miles a year max then at 55mpg you will use around 72 gallons of diesel( @94p/l costing about

Depending on how much miles you have to drive per year ....

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I think the diesel is the way to go. After a trip to Jabba' date=' it will be no slower than the 1.8T in real world driving...

Atleast thats my understanding [/quote']

I'd dispute that, but what do I know? I had a petrol Octy for 30 months and 148,000 miles and have, as I said above, had the diesel for 20 months and 87,000 miles.

Leaving the cars standard, for the moment, I'd go for the 1.8T rather than the diesel. The mileage you do doesn't justify a diesel.

Go for the 1.8T, fit either a Blueflame or Miltek exhaust system and enjoy

Tdi with a jabba remap will give 150+ bhp & loads of Torque. Ours actually went to 164 but that was as they said a rather good one, also the mpg actually improves slightly until you really thrash it. We cruise ours at about 85-90 & it regularly gives 55 mpg on a run. It was mapped at about 8000 miles & now has 93000 on the clock, no probs, even the clutch is still original. The 1.8T is 150 bhp (see where Im coming from)

If its a second car I would definately go for the Diesel purely on economy. If its on variable servicing costs are also less, ours does about 28000 between services but it does a lot of Motorway driving. if yours is a lot of local runs it will be less

The Diesel does sound a bargain, Check the service history carefully to ensure its not an ex lease or company car thats been clocked. If you have doubts talk to the previous owners, the dealer will have the details of where he bought it from & the owner before that will be in the log book. Most Diesels of that age will have many more miles on them but low mileage ones are around

We also have a 1.8T 4x4, if you want FUN get one of those, All 1.8T engines will remap to about 220 bhp

Thanks for the advice everyone. Popped down to the local dealers and got the price down to