Small economical car

[Mursal]

Have a wee look on Gumtree.co uk and tap in your location. Nissan Micra or Suzuki Jimny

 

[Red Fred]

Skoda Fabia estate with the 1.9tdi here. We love it, only based on a Polo but lots of space inside, and goes like a bomb with the 1.9 engine. It has been totally reliable.

 

[kiwi pom]

My pickup will go and the small car will be instead of that, don't really need a pickup to be honest !

Ah right oh.
Petrol or diesel. Personally hate diesels especially small ones so if it was me probably a petrol fiesta or focus. Something that has good availability for the odd part that falls off etc.

School run is a pain mind. You sure he cant go to the local school?

 

[Joe S]

If your used to a pickup you might miss the fact you have a place to 'throw' things unless you need more than 3 seats a small van might be better. You would still have the 'family' car, our work van burns bugger all fuel wee berlingo brilliant thing 220k miles and just keeps on trucking...were not particularly good to it either!
Just a thought

 

[Landrover]

Ah right oh.
Petrol or diesel. Personally hate diesels especially small ones so if it was me probably a petrol fiesta or focus. Something that has good availability for the odd part that falls off etc.

School run is a pain mind. You sure he cant go to the local school?

It would be much better to go to the local school but all his current year group at school are going to the other one and as he has adhd and the further away school has a better provision for that we would rather he went there !

 

[Robt]

Passat estate or golf diesel. Failing that a petrol a3

 

[JeepJeep]

We've a 1.9 Golf here with the 105 PD. Does 1200 miles of mostly motorway a month sat at 70-80 and gives 48mpg every time it's filled. Needed a Spring and a clutch slave and obviously serviced on time and normal bits n bobs.

 

[Tomr10]

I'd go for a fiesta corsa or a pug will be cheap and lower mileage than the other cars people have suggested. Bear in mind your kids face if you pick them up in a right pos

 

[ollie989898]

How many miles is the school run. I might be inclined with a small petrol car.

 

[Tomr10]

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201912105207414?advertising-location=at_cars&annual-tax-cars=TO_30&maximum-mileage=100000&price-to=1500&postcode=sk25bz&seller-type=private&page=1&make=FORD&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used

My old man has one of these over 200k miles on it

 

[D14]

Golf circa 1998. 1.9tdi 110bhp will do near 60mpg if you are very careful. We’ve had 4 of them and as long as they are serviced the only repeated issue with all of them was a faulty relay which drops all power.

 

[bovrill]

I've got a 2007 Ford Fiesta, 1.4 diesel.
I paid £1700 for it nearly five years ago. It averages about 60mpg, and I measured 72mpg over the journey home from Edinburgh back in the summer.
Road tax is £30, and the MOT is I think the most expensive thing each year at £45.
Engine oil filters are about £6 every three or four months, and the oil comes straight from the same barrel as the tractors!
I use it as much as I can rather than the Ranger pick-up, and I reckon it saves me at least £2000 a year in fuel over the 20k-ish miles it does each year.
I wouldn't like to guess what it's saved me on tyres and servicing etc on the Ranger.

 

[ollie989898]

I've got a 2007 Ford Fiesta, 1.4 diesel.
I paid £1700 for it nearly five years ago. It averages about 60mpg, and I measured 72mpg over the journey home from Edinburgh back in the summer.
Road tax is £30, and the MOT is I think the most expensive thing each year at £45.
Engine oil filters are about £6 every three or four months, and the oil comes straight from the same barrel as the tractors!
I use it as much as I can rather than the Ranger pick-up, and I reckon it saves me at least £2000 a year in fuel over the 20k-ish miles it does each year.
I wouldn't like to guess what it's saved me on tyres and servicing etc on the Ranger.

Let me guess, goes like a stabbed rat on red as well? Good little cars. At least with Fords they have cheap and freely available parts.

 

[Farma Parma]

Golf tdi, you cant go wrong with the 130hp 1.9 pd engine.

The 2l engine can be a right heap of sh1t

the 150PD TDi was even better did 96,000 miles in one.
The Far more recent NON Dieselgate 2.0lt TDI is a good engine also just beats the PD 1.9 on mpg but is more refined & quieter.
Yes its got a DPF but i juet let it get on with its regens & so far all is ok.
how anyone can ever go back to Petrols is beyond me tho.
I just dont get it... everything is Diesel here apart from Grasscutter n chainsaw

 

[Farma Parma]

Passat estate or golf diesel. Failing that a petrol a3

we have a Rep that calls in here has a very underrated Car a Skoda Superb its a 4x4 estate.
Super reliable has Audi's Quattro drive line underneath, big comfy quiet car.
cheap as chips 5 yr old onwards. drives like its only done 25,000miles & i think its over 120,000 on it now its 8yr old

 

[Tomr10]

we have a Rep that calls in here has a very underrated Car a Skoda Superb its a 4x4 estate.
Super reliable has Audi's Quattro drive line underneath, big comfy quiet car.
cheap as chips 5 yr old onwards. drives like its only done 25,000miles & i think its over 120,000 on it now its 8yr old

Not £1500

 

[TripleSix]

I've just bought this because van is poorly, this was at the side of the road for sale
2003 Skoda Fabia estate, electric mirrors and windows, 1.4 16v petrol (100hp) 87,000 miles
MOT till July good tyres brakes etc, towbar.
£370!
It's doing 43mpg

 

[neilo]

Help please, theres a chance we may have to start doing the school run when the eldest changes school this year, as there is a good chance we won't be able to get school transport as our chosen middle school is not in the catchment area and all of his class who live slightly closer are going to go there and we feel sending him to a different school is a not good ! Anyhow if we do have to take him what small cheap economical car would be good ? Something around the £1500 bracket if possible ? Corsa ? Or any suggestions !

Our ‘school run’ amounts to 30k miles a year, and has done for several years now. Purely because of that, we bought a Honda Civic. It’s a 2.2l diesel and goes like sh*t off a shovel and goes round corners like it’s on rails, if it ever needs to. Tax is £20 a year and it happily returns 60mpg, unless it’s driven by a pillock (and I don’t get to very often?). The 1.6 diesel is free tax and slightly more economical again.
It has been the cheapest, and most reliable car we’ve ever run. It’s now done nearly 140k miles and nothing spent on it other than normal service items and a new battery.

 

[Lincsman]

Car derived van that is officially only used for the farm, as you have a car for private stuff

 

[forblue]

Thing's to consider, will most of it's journeys be short school run's or and local shopping, if so, only look at a diesel if it has no d.p.f. because if it has one it will get clogged up and it will cost you a lot of money to clean it, unless the car is thrashed for 20min plus at least once a month, so go for a small petrol.