Avoid deisel unless you do a lot of annual miles with plenty of regular long journeys. Talking 20k plus per year and weekly long trips as a minimum. Otherwise the fuel savings will be destroyed in one repair bill.
Also the Dpf, does it really burn off the contaminants in an environmentally way? Or do they just burn them off when they get hot enough. I.e on motorways, so you’re just moving the location you dump them.
Dpfs cost a fortune to replace, that’s assuming it doesn’t take anything else out in the process. Our Toyota avensis 2.2 d4d died last year. Dpf blocked, the 5th injector that sits on the Dpf carried on injecting fuel to help burn off the blockage, this continued until it over heated so badly all the problems we upstream. I needed 4 injectors (£1600+), I gutted the blocked Dpf and mapped it out (not road legal), and I still couldn’t get it running, suspected fuel Injector pump, circa another £1500+. Scrapped the car in the end.
It was my wife’s car and our family weekend car. So it was getting a good run every few weeks, but her city miles for work killed it. Whereas my old Saab 9-5, 1.9tid has had no dpf issues in the 40k I’ve had it (3 years or so), but my daily commute is 50miles total, so not big, but seems to be enough to keep on top of the dpf.
I regret going diesel on both of our cars at the same time, I’ll never buy another, wife has a little petrol Jazz now and it’s perfect for her usage, once this Saab goes to the scrappy I’ll buy a petrol to replace it.
