V50, petrol or diesel?

[JABB]

Looking at a 2.0D sport, and thinking it would be the best option. Now, when comparing with the parkers running cost guide, although the fuel cost will be more, the servicing is a lot less on the petrol car.
Overall on 13k a year, the petrol 2.0 or 2.4 is cheaper to run than the 2.0D car.
Does this sound right, and should I look at petrol cars?

[F i F]

The mileage where it's cheaper to run petrol is increasing according to reports 19k has been mentioned. Of course it depends how many miles a year, how many years you are going to keep it, type of motoring, eg % of city vs open road and motorway shifts the balance tremendously.

For a laugh I enquired about the cost of the next service on mine, just for the DPF and additive at 72k, £1200. Good job it's going in two weeks.

[mondayo]

I had the 2.0D in a Mondeo and it was pretty economical, if a bit rattly and noisy. I then had the 2.4 petrol on the V50 and loved it....great noise, lovely and smooth and a very nice car. However, unless I drove at 70mph or less, I couldn't get it over 30mpg.
From memory the 2.0 petrol was nippy enough, and significantly more economical than the 2.4...it just didn't have the lovely 5 pot noise.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

I had a 2.0D s40, after destroying everything in it I bought an accident damaged 1.8 to make some money using body panels from my now dead 2.0D

I drove the 1.8 for a few months and wished I had just got a petrol all along, now running an S60 petrol and loving it!

Diesels are better on fuel, but servicing and parts is a massive cost people forget, especially on modern diesels!

having said that 13k isn't much so you wont be hitting the dreaded 72k mark mentioned above!