New family car replaces fronty

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Well we take delivery of a new focus on the 20th of july (fingers crossed) which means the fronty is no longered need as a family car, the mot was up on 4th of july. Now i could scap it or sell it as spares and repair leave fog and join ford owners club . Luckly my wife is an understanding woman and agreed i should keep it and let the fog members lead me down the path of offroading. Now i have an unMOT`D frontera (taking it this week) that is bog standard that no longer needs to be kept clean and standard. Due to a wedding on the 17 july thats is hundred odd miles away then the recption another fifty miles. Depending what the nice mot guy says and how much it gonna cost i will be car less till 20th as the money we have will be spent on this wedding but after that the fronty will be repiared mind you not to sure if a petrol a good idea for offroading. I might sell it and buy a more pocket friendly diesel. Any opions (polite ones) or ideas please feel free to comment

[Sir-Doris]

Hmmm... The 2.0 sport is cheap to insure and tax. As a plaything for green laning or pay and play it probably wont cover more then 3000 miles a year. Weigh it up against what you would get for it if you sold/scrapped it versus the cost of a new vehicle.

The 2.0's arent fast but they are fairly reliable and you already have a wealth of knowledge here.

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Aye i suppose. Pre MOT nerves i guess. how do the petrol fair when off road though

[Sir-Doris]

Not much worse then the disesels for laning, remember the engine is probably doing about 1500/2000 RPM for hours at a time whether disiesel or petrol and you are covering fery few miles in that time.
Certainly not enough to justify the price difference between petrol and disiesel at the pumps I reckon.

I reckon an average days laning (not including travelling to get to the meeting point and home again) of say 60ish miles costs me just under £20 give or take a bit in my 2.2 Petrol.

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True

[Roo]

Hi Drinks
Seeing as I have a Sports will fill the tank up before I go out laining next, and can let you know if you like, will fill it up again after the day and how many miles and cost if that helps ya ??

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Using mine regular as road car it only does 22mpg is under powered, In the end only way to find out is to do it.