Reply To: Car replacement ideas Hi all, So current car is up for replacement end of year/early next year depending when I decide. Car is on a PCP which ends early next year but I…

[kev2021]

Yes, that’s it albeit Mild-Hybrid (not plugin hybrid).  Yes, I believe the going theory seems to be it affects them about 8 years old although others say best to get it checked/replaced at 50k miles but I believe the cost was about £1k to do hence lots then appear up for sale as car not worth spending £1k on, i believe I’ve heard some people quoted £700 for it to be done but it wasn’t something I wanted to get involved in.  My last one had around 24.5k miles on it at 3 years old so not high mileage and I had the dilemma or do I keep it another year and sell but was bit concerned with the comments that it was burning fuel on the previous MOT plus the battery leakage – I wasn’t overly convinced it was a one off as Ford garage said they had seem a few with this issue but it wasn’t loads so i guess didn’t warrant a recall etc and coupled with the poor fuel economy, i just thought this car could cost me a pretty penny so decided to change it to current car, not exactly what I wanted but as Fords stopping a lot of the options due to them gearing it down due to them stop making the model i think possibly from Nov 2025, I decided to just go with it for now as although I miss some of the options, its predominantly a work car.  95% of the time it is used to go to and from work and that it, with the odd trip out to shops on a weekend or meeting up with a mate.  I’m limited to 9k a year, same as previous car and I was under the 29k mile limit when i traded it in at a little over 3.5years old it was then.

So far this one seems better overall and fuel economy certainly better and I don’t believe the tank is any bigger so hopefully this one will be ok, still planning to change at 3 or 4 years old as they due to stop petrol/diesel cars in 2030 (unless they change there minds yet again) so last option to get a petrol/diesel as certainly don’t want a elec car, not overly keen tbh.  Wouldn’t mind a plugin-hybrid but not rely solely on elec.

Kev

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