asif ive bought the wrong car

[jamie128]

i wanted 55mpg offered from the seat leon fr CR tdi 170bhp but ive bought an 07 reg fr leon with 170bhp tdi but it doesent seem to be common rAil? and its quoted mpg is 47 :/

[useyourdellusion]

It's called 'real world' mpg. HTH.

[Acheron]

[Fox-]

You wanted a commonrail Leon. You bought an older PD Leon.

HTH.

[jamie128]

useyourdellusion said:

It's called 'real world' mpg. HTH.

is the engine choice ive got not common rail? its an 07 i thought it would be

[Dan_1981]

and if you get 47 you'll be lucky.

I had the same car on a 57 plate. I very very rarely saw the top side of 43.

[jamie128]

Fox- said:

You wanted a commonrail Leon. You bought an older PD Leon.

HTH.

im absolutely devasted

what a dumbarse i am ahhh

[useyourdellusion]

Quoted mpg doesn't mean a bean. Good luck getting 42mpg from your 55mpg car and 37mpg from your 47mpg car during mixed use.

[jamie128]

useyourdellusion said:

Quoted mpg doesn't mean a bean. Good luck getting 42mpg from your 55mpg car and 37mpg from your 47mpg car during mixed use.

lol and i thought this was going to be cheap to run meh

[Acheron]

I cant stand mpg figures. They're all wrong imo. Its how you drive it.

I got 35mpg out of a 3.0 diesel vectra but it got driven fairly hard.

I get 30mpg out of the st220 and it gets driven like a granny.

[useyourdellusion]

I wouldn't have thought it will be exactly expensive to run though? If you want a real world 50ish mpg car, you'll have to look at far more tedious stuff. You'll manage it, where there's a will and all that....

[jamie128]

Fox- said:

You wanted a commonrail Leon. You bought an older PD Leon.

HTH.

i dont think its a pd, its the 170bhp model

[hobbiniho]

it will be cheap to run compared to the petrol version, the common rail only came in in 2009

[jamie128]

hobbiniho said:

it will be cheap to run compared to the petrol version, the common rail only came in in 2009

oh well im relieved then because i could only afford An 07 haha, it was 10000 with 30000 on the clock

[AndrewW-G]

IIRC the older PD motors can take a Veg oil / Diesel mix (my old 53 plate golf did for 90k) so you can make a little saving by running 1/3 veg oil and upto 50% in the summer (currently £0.94 a litre from Costco)

[pinchmeimdreamin]

jamie128 said:

hobbiniho said:

it will be cheap to run compared to the petrol version, the common rail only came in in 2009

oh well im relieved then because i could only afford An 07 haha, it was 10000 with 30000 on the clock

Or you could have had an 08 with only 14k

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2010...

[jamie128]

AndrewW-G said:

IIRC the older PD motors can take a Veg oil / Diesel mix (my old 53 plate golf did for 90k) so you can make a little saving by running 1/3 veg oil and upto 50% in the summer (currently £0.94 a litre from Costco)

oh that sounds good, are these engines still as reliable as the common rail version?

[jamie128]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

jamie128 said:

hobbiniho said:

it will be cheap to run compared to the petrol version, the common rail only came in in 2009

oh well im relieved then because i could only afford An 07 haha, it was 10000 with 30000 on the clock

an extra 4 grand for the same engine? lol

Or you could have had an 08 with only 14k

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2010...

[anonymous-user]

jamie128 said:

useyourdellusion said:

Quoted mpg doesn't mean a bean. Good luck getting 42mpg from your 55mpg car and 37mpg from your 47mpg car during mixed use.

lol and i thought this was going to be cheap to run meh

47 mpg is pretty cheap to run... just learn to drive more economically if you want to save the pennies.

[zollburgers]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

Or you could have had an 08 with only 14k

And only been crashed and repaired once. It's a Cat D.