What Diesal? £10-15k
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i see, just be carefull if buying a bm, as you will have to pay extra for all the options so potentially there are a lot of "basic" specced cars out there. Dont buy a honda diesel, they are a disaster area! a big appetite for oil makes them throw the towel in if your not checking it all the time
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Have had a 320D M Sport and now a 330D M Sport. Fabulous cars. Just feel so nicer inside and to drive than say an Audi. Used to be a big VAG fan but now, It's BMW all the way.
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What's the Merc equivalent BTW? Not as good?
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I could never get a Civic for the dreadful 'wedge' looks, plus as mentioned the engines are rubbish (which must be true because someone said so on the internets).
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a good freind is a mobile engine management specialist, he is used by all the main dealers round my way. A very knowlegable chap, he is involved in lots of common rail, dpf, dmf, engine management and ecu faults, i can only go by his say so on the subaru diesels. But he has been to several with terminal engine problems (not old cars at all) they required new engines.
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a good freind is a mobile engine management specialist, he is used by all the main dealers round my way. A very knowlegable chap, he is involved in lots of common rail, dpf, dmf, engine management and ecu faults, i can only go by his say so on the subaru diesels. But he has been to several with terminal engine problems (not old cars at all) they required new engines.
I have an Impreza diesel and I love it
Very fast 49mpg and very smooth engine
Lots of bad press in telegraph etc about diesels and problems with them
I have ran in the last 15 years
Pug 106d
Then
Rover touring
Then
Skoda octavia L&K which ran to 72k 6 years before I swapped to the
WRXd
And never replaced anything on a diesel engine
Maybe they don't build them like they do
The octavia averaged 55mpg over 6 years and it was an estate and a massive load carrier too and good value for money
When I was a general manager I needed a car that I could load up with furniture and the A4 / BMW were too small and ultimately too expensive compared to the skoda which was great for money and service items cheap too
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dont get me wrong, im not scare mongering, lots of others go wrong too (mostly lucas delphi stuff!) and im sure there is a fair chance your subaru will be fine, just i have heard the evidence of some failures, but then it is still a new engine so there may well be early production niggles to sort out, and im sure yours is still under warranty?