Just thinking aloud, as I am looking around for jobs and might have to go further afield.
Currently I have a Grand Espace, and I do a few good runs and never really had any problems with DPF. Wife has a small petrol car, and does about 1.5 miles to work and back/city driving.
If I do high mileage, it would probably make sense to take an efficient company car Golf/Focus, but it would probably not be big enough for our needs for the trailer tent and camping (we do take a lot of stuff). A large car would probably be out of my pay band.
Is there anything large that can cope with the smaller mileage, that will not clog a DPF etc? Wouldn't really like to go smaller than a Zafira/S-Max size, to be honest. Or is the DPF issue now not as releavant as it was with cars 05-11 or so?
Replies and thoughts welcome.
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If you only do a small mileage (is that in total or per journey?) then why not take a DPF issue out of the equation altogether and consider a petrol vehicle rather than diesel?
Find a late 2ltr tdi Skoda Octavia estate PD, no dpf loads of room for camping extras, even 4x4 versions that run in 2wd 99% of the time. return 50 plus mpg
your trailer tent is only 750 max
see auto trader
A Mondeo estate would fit the bill nicely, loads of space, and plenty to pick from. Personally if you are only ever going to pull a trailer tent and not doing over 12k miles a year I would pick a petrol version. I used to tow a trailer tent with a 1.2 clio and it managed fine.
All dpf needs is 10 miles on a dual carriageway at 50mph about once a month, I'm sure you can manage that. Agree about the Belingo, never any dpf problems either.
We would both like a higher driving position, and she has expressly forbidden an estate (I could ask why, but I still wouldn't understand and she'd be a lot crosser). Thanks for the suggestions (and keep them coming!)
To answer a few more Q's, it's about a 2-mile round trip, and I hadn't really thought of petrol, as I quite like my diesel. And I know a 2lt diesel is probably overkill, but it never struggles and is very refined. And it is unbraked.
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Theres probably loads of jeep styled cars that would fit the bill. There are a couple of things you haven't mentioned that will make a big difference, do you want a new car or used car and what is your price range.
One car that springs to mind is a Dacia Duster, jeep type car sits high, good diesel engine that will pull your trailer tent with ease.
The best place to start your research is arnoldclark.com
you also mention a 2.0l diesel, the trend for manufactures is smaller sized engines that can push put near equivalent power as their older models with bigger engines. Keeping emissions down therefore cheaper tax, more mpg. For what you are going to be doing a new 1.5 or 1.7 diesel engine will be more than adequate. Duster, Nissan Qashqai, Kuga, BMW X3, Kia Sportage, Hyundai Ix35. there are loads to pick from.
Estate cars do have plenty of load space, mine has a 600kg payload. Not forgetting the DPF, lots of short runs to work and back and no problems with it at all.
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Topic: Large Tow Car - Low Miles
