Help me make up my mind 😵

 

My Superb (2013 L&K Estate) has become our second car since buying a LEAF. We recently bought a caravan and I dropped a wedge on fitting a very nice removable tow bar to the Superb.

 

Since it's going to be used mostly for long distance drives and towing (plus maybe some local journeys too) I'm looking at the £600+ tax and ~25MPG and thinking, should I get rid? I love the car, 4x4 is great in Aberdeenshire winters and for towing. 

 

I'm looking at another Superb II or a Passat B8, ranging from the 1.6 ~100HP to the CR170, 2 and 4 wheel drive. The 1.6 MPG seems very tempting and I think I can live without the grunt.

 

Am I mad to consider this? I also know I've serviced my V6 like a baby and it's been faultless.

If you go for a 1.6td you will be missed off every time you hitch up the caravan. I wish I had kept looking for a 2.0 td rather than buying a 1.6. The car is OK on its own, but very underpowered towing 

29 minutes ago, daviemck2006 said:

If you go for a 1.6td you will be missed off every time you hitch up the caravan. I wish I had kept looking for a 2.0 td rather than buying a 1.6. The car is OK on its own, but very underpowered towing 

This is helpful, thanks!!

 

There's a CR170 manual 4x4 2010 with 120k on the clock near me listed for £2k, bit tatty but I reckon it'd go for £1500, seems like a good deal to me. £300 tax so not a massive saving and MPG might not be a lot better...

I actually think if your present car is a good, well looked after example and little used but needed for towing you should keep it. Yes it's road tax is expensive but I would put up with it considering your new daily is free. I wouldn't sell it and buy  an elderly diesel 4x4 one which won't really be much cheaper to run and have the chance of being an unknown example with possible big repair costs totally negating any small savings made.

3 hours ago, daviemck2006 said:

I actually think if your present car is a good, well looked after example and little used but needed for towing you should keep it. Yes it's road tax is expensive but I would put up with it considering your new daily is free. I wouldn't sell it and buy  an elderly diesel 4x4 one which won't really be much cheaper to run and have the chance of being an unknown example with possible big repair costs totally negating any small savings made.

Thanks Davie, the angel on my shoulder. 

 

I think you're right. I've also got a Panda 169 Cross which the daily replaced and I can't bear to get rid of it, no room on the drive though 😢

It won't tow the caravan either though. If it's a lack of room that the problem is it would look likely to me that you need a caravan tug, the v6 skoda and as you have recently bought the leaf then those two are keepers making the panda kind of redundant. I'm doing a dilemma just now too. My karoq is brilliant solo but struggles with the caravan. I have a mk4 golf for a project car that I love and also have a Citroën dispatch which I got cheap, it's a 2.0 130hp with towbar. It can pull the caravan no probs but not enough seats for me, daughter and grandkids.  Do I put seats in the back and keep for caravan tug and keep the karoq and golf? Do I sell the karoq and dispatch and get a better van/ people carrier to replace both? I want to keep the golf, at 22 years old and cracking condition with no rust but a wee running problem just now and I love it. I don't want to be paying two road tax, insurance etc. I would struggle to sell the karoq dropping 6 grand in a year and a half which is the trade in prices I'm being quoted. I dislike the dispatch van, it's sitting no mot tax or insurance in the garden just now. The heart wants to sell karoq and dispatch and buy a caravelle and pay thousand along with them to get a mch higher mileage motor due to the vw camper tax r lose te golf and do a bit of converting the dispatch into a window van with seats. Who knows lol

I’ve a 170 bhp superb manual box front wheel drive 

Doesn’t know the caravans on.

i came from a 2.5ltr 20v Volvo 850 and that guzzled petrol, the car had no torque so had to keep the revs up.

it used to be well in the minus 20mm at times 

Edited 28 October, 20241 yr by Snapper1725

On 26/10/2024 at 20:10, daviemck2006 said:

It won't tow the caravan either though. If it's a lack of room that the problem is it would look likely to me that you need a caravan tug, the v6 skoda and as you have recently bought the leaf then those two are keepers making the panda kind of redundant. I'm doing a dilemma just now too. My karoq is brilliant solo but struggles with the caravan. I have a mk4 golf for a project car that I love and also have a Citroën dispatch which I got cheap, it's a 2.0 130hp with towbar. It can pull the caravan no probs but not enough seats for me, daughter and grandkids.  Do I put seats in the back and keep for caravan tug and keep the karoq and golf? Do I sell the karoq and dispatch and get a better van/ people carrier to replace both? I want to keep the golf, at 22 years old and cracking condition with no rust but a wee running problem just now and I love it. I don't want to be paying two road tax, insurance etc. I would struggle to sell the karoq dropping 6 grand in a year and a half which is the trade in prices I'm being quoted. I dislike the dispatch van, it's sitting no mot tax or insurance in the garden just now. The heart wants to sell karoq and dispatch and buy a caravelle and pay thousand along with them to get a mch higher mileage motor due to the vw camper tax r lose te golf and do a bit of converting the dispatch into a window van with seats. Who knows lol

Yeah the Panda is redundant other than the MPG (and fun factor in the snow).

 

I reckon keep the Golf and flog the Karoq and Dispatch and get a passenger van or MPV. Maybe a nice Vito splitter? I think eventually we'll get a van, for taking the Grandparents with us on trips etc,