Best Diesel option

[Pug306atv]

Hello everyone

Newbie in the house!

Need some advice, got a 306 GTI at the moment, but need a diesel for work what would be best option for good speed but gives decent economy for around £3-£4K?

Cheers

[Ricky]

I'm guessing with that budget you aren't looking at a 306?

[Pug306atv]

I think I need something a bit newer, also needs to be 5 door. Still keeping the GTI for the weekends though.

[Sambarker]

Diesel civic

[Pug306atv]

one of mates has the type-r don't really like them.

[lolsteve]

fiesta tdci 1.6 £30 road tax and with some tuning go to ~120bhp or 307 1.6 hdi if you want to stay French/bigger car

[Pug306atv]

been looking at the 307's, 2.0 hdi looks good. If I go for slightly higher mileage is within my budget.

[Dum-Dum]

51 or 02 plate 306 HDi estate with a remap then spend the extra money on keeping the 6 as a weekend car.

[Pug306atv]

don't know much about remaps, can you point me in direction of any goods companies near surrey? How much can they add?

[mercfan]

If it was my money, I'd put it towards one of the newer Kia's. They nicked a load of top people from the big car makers. Decent cars nowadays and you can't go wrong with the 7 year warranty. They do even the same on some of their used cars.

[THE_Liam]

51 or 02 plate 306 HDi estate with a remap then spend the extra money on keeping the 6 as a weekend car.

Yeah this

[Pug306atv]

probably too much for my budget though

[Dum-Dum]

don't know much about remaps, can you point me in direction of any goods companies near surrey? How much can they add?

your best bet is to buy a remap from a reputable seller for about £80 and upload it yourself.

Either
Mr Whippy ( http://www.gowhippy.com )
Pro Steve ( http://www.hdi-tuning.co.uk )
or TB205GTi

Who are all members here. Personally id go with TB205GTi.

Anyway once youve got a map get a lap top and a KWP2000 from ebay for about £30 and use that to upload this to your car or someone here will upload for a few beer tokens. Poodle is probably the closest one I know has the correct bits.

A stage 1 remap will give you standard reliability better fuel economy and 120-130bhp

If you fit an intercooler then a stage 2 map will give you 150+ bhp

[mercfan]

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I think I need something a bit newer

Is that for image/company requirements?

Worth remembering that newer these days = more going wrong and more expensive to fix

Dead reliable and dirt cheap to run probably doesn't get any better than a 106 1.5D.
Surprisingly nippy for what is under the bonnet as well.

[puglove]

Im with chris (dum-dum)

Iv got a weekend gti6 and run a stage 1 hdi estate day today. Top spec, good fuel, quick when it needs to be. Looks good. Dosnt look to old. Comfortable. And nice inside. And as i already know my way around a 306 i can fix it myself for next to nothing

pick a real goodun up for £1500 then thats lots of extra monies for shinys on.the gti

[Pug306atv]

Thanks Dum-Dum I'll check them out.

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I was thinking newer more for reliability but reading on the forum it might be better to stick to older..

[kingsleysaywell]

Dturbo

[ADV_93]

XUD/HDi's are easily fast enough and economical enough for work horses. Spend the rest on the '6