Any reason for not wanting a DPF?

There is this one. Advertised as an Elegance but is definitely an L&K

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201606064660900

 

Nice looking in that colour - apart from the type (L&K or elegance), they don't know what colour the seats are - see the drop down info boxes. "onyx cloth or ivory cloth", alcantara in the intro, and no mention of the leather panels. They've just copied and pasted.

 

250 miles away from you, though.

2.5V6 wasn't that powerful, not very economical and the timing belt is a £1k job because the front of the car needs taken off to get to ancillary belts.

One of the higher powered 2.0 would make a lot more sense.

 

DPF shouldn't be too big an issue unless you're doing a lot of short journeys, in which case a petrol would probably be better suited anyway.

Any reason for not wanting a DPF?

 

The reason I dont want a DPF is the fact that I have had a car, OK a PD170, that gave me hell and all issues. Also they do have a finite lifetime,seem to have very few warranties on them and are extremely expensive to replace. And when (not if) you do replace them there are no controls or regulations on the quality of them. Been there, done that, never want to do that again.

 

I was reading up on all makes of diesels with DPF's. And there are huge quantities of scary stores of cars with 40k miles on them as 1-2 years old with DPF faliure, or them being full etc. OK many will be OK for 100k butits still a huge expense for something that isnt guaranteed.

 

The cost of a single DPF that has a good chance of failing at 40k far outweighs the cost of running a big petrol lump in a car now.

 

So choice for me is an old pre DPF diesel, or new petrol.