I've just had to pay Ā£260 to tax my wee van. I only did 1,500 miles in the last year. grrr
Same mileage here, Iām thinking of getting an eco diesel car, Ā£20.00 per year tax. 76 mpg. Ā Mine goes out once a month.
Just watch out for the emissions filter. Low mileage diesels clog the particulate filter very quickly and it negates all your savings if you have to replace it. You need to be doing a high mileage trip fairly regularly for the system to burn off the particles.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I can't understand how this particulate filter thing ever passed regulations. It's designed to trap particulates around town and then discharge them on motorways which is fine in principal but you see cars belching out black smoke as it burns off. And then there's the replacement of the expensive filter which can be every 75k miles. Maybe it's improving with more modern diesels but small engine petrol seems like a better option for short trips.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Re diesel cars I could have told anyone who asked that diesel was a filthy fuel 40 years ago. I used to commute by motorcycle & had to scrub the black gooĀ off my over suit every month or so.Ā Diesel only makes sense on HGV public transport & other very high mileage vehicles when the engine runs almost all day, gets up to high temperature & stays there. In domestic cars when the journey is less than 5 miles and or at low speed they are much more polluting, always have been always will whatever they say.Ā
I don't pay any tax at all on my second hand petrol Ford Fiesta. About 5 years old, average mpg 49. Mostly very short journeys across town but much longer ones about once a month or so.
IMHO car tax should be scrapped and VAT on fuel ammended so the more you drive the more you pay, the less you drive , the less you pay, that extra percentage on that VATĀ could just be sent from Revenue and Customs to the relevant dept.Ā Pay as you go, impossible to dodge and a lot cheaperĀ to track and collect.
It's really hard to find second hand petrol cars for a lot of models now. Everyone bought into the diesel hype that hardly anyone stuck with petrol and if they did the models seem to have been pretty poor compared to the diesels. It's a shame that car dealers can't get stung for mis-selling cars the way the banks did for PPI but the manufacturers had to show they were selling a greater proprtion of their their 'eco-friendly' models.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Mostly very short journeys across town but much longer ones about once a month or so.
Pay as you go, impossible to dodge and a lot cheaperĀ to track and collect.