I find myself looking at my old 2010 Volvo S40 2L diesel and wonder if it's time to move on to something newer with less miles. It has 112k on the clock now, but never towed anything until 89k. It tows our Eriba Pan with ease and has been well looked after (twice yearly services etc). On that, I would be interested to know what people's views are as regards continuing to tow with a 100k+ mileage diesel car. Are they really 'only just broke in at 100k'? Or do people here think a 100k+ diesel is heading fast to the scrap heap?

Sound advice re insurance breakdown cover. Finance is a limiting factor for us too, so It is heartening too hear that some are in the same boat as us.

Put your details into Autotrader "sell my car" and see what it's worth. You will probably find you may as well run yours into the ground and scrap it when it fails.

My car is 50 years old next month.

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Some are even older.

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My Audi is 12 years old with 58,000 miles on the clock and it still looks and drives like new.

I don't think the age or mileage of the car matters so long as it has been well maintained with regular oil, filter and timing belt (including tensioner and water pump & coolant) changes.

Modern cars are built to last with some having long bodywork and mechanical warranties so it makes no sense to change them every two or three years as was customary in the 1960s and 70s.

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The engine should be fine. The weak point with the S40 lies with the cheap Ford bits like the clutch slave cylinder which is made of plastic and is only accessible when the gearbox is removed, at which point you may as well change the whole clutch and dual mass flywheel. We passed our 2012 S40 1.6D to one of the kids with only 54k miles and this happened after about 6 months. Fortunately son in law is very handy and replaced all the bits himself, but would have been a couple of grand at at garage.

It was a lovely car though. Towed our triton back from AL, then one trip to Bath, but decided to upgrade our other car to a Kuga 2.0D

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Our Citroen C4 had done 160,000 when we had to move up, the only reason we moved on was we bought a heavier van and needed a bit more weight and power, otherwise we would still probably have her.

We run diesel cars as taxis ...we start scrapping around 320k - 400k depending if we have had problems. Full service every 8-9 weeks!!...so 100k, I would keep. Better the devil you know etc etc.....................

Quote: campnsnooze wrote in post #12

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We run diesel cars as taxis ...we start scrapping around 320k - 400k depending if we have had problems. Full service every 8-9 weeks!!...so 100k, I would keep. Better the devil you know etc etc.....................

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Quote: eribanaut wrote in post #11

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Our Citroen C4 had done 160,000 when we had to move up, the only reason we moved on was we bought a heavier van and needed a bit more weight and power, otherwise we would still probably have her.

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I pull my triton with a 11 year old skoda octavia estate,112000 miles on the clock. pulls like a dream 33 mpg and never had a problem .regular services plenty of oil filter changes.are the order of the day