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 Petrol V Diesel - Skip
Some advice please guys. My Ceed will be 2 years old in a couple of months time when it will be changed and i have started to think about it's replacement.

I have never owned a diesel car, but am wondering if it might be time to change. I drive about 14,000 miles a year, about 90% of which are on motorways/dual carriageways. Given that i will be looking a similar sized car the diesel option seems to be about a grand more than the petrol plus the extra 4/5p per litre difference in the cost of the fuel, am i going to recover this in the 2 years that i will keep the car ?

The only dissapointing aspect of the Ceed has been its overall fuel consumption, it has always covered 39mpg since it was new, i admit that i do drive "enthusiastically", but since the recent price increases in fuel prices i have tried sticking to 60MPH and changing gear at about 1000 fewer revs for the last 4 tanks of petrol and the comsumption has only improved by about 2MPG. I guess that i shouldn't have been so tight and paid the extra for the 1.6 engine rather than the 1.4 !

Andy
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