can anyone help me decide?

i have a 1995 4.0 petrol XJ Cherokee. I do about 180 miles a week in it just running about and spend about £35 in petrol a week.

It has just passed another years MOT, has 6 months tax and there are only minor things that need doing like a sticky ignition switch and the electric seats not working.
I am considering changing to a Grand Cherokee diesel around the same sort of age.
Would there be any benefit in terms of fuel useage?
Is it better the devil you know than the devil you dont?! lol. I am slightly scared I will sell it and then get a lemon and have to spend alot more money.

Any advice would be apreciated.

Many thanks

 

buy a pegout 106 as a dd use the jeep as a rec vehicle.

 

Hi

If your getting 180 miles on £35 of petrol your doing around 29 mpg (£1.26/L 4.54 L = 1 Imp Gallon) which is just as good as a diesel model!

Stick with the 4.0L much quieter and more power when you need it.

BTW welcome another UK member where abouts you from? I am in Worcestershire.

Stuart

 

thanks for your input guys!

i would kill myself if i had to drive a peugeot! hahaha. no offence to anyone. Im a german fan, my true love is old vws :-)
the jeep is the only car i have had that i like that isnt a vw!

im glad i am getting a good mpg out of it, i do drive like a granny! prob not worth swapping it then.

i am in kent, i have had trouble finding people to talk to who are in the uk so hiii!

 

"I would kill myself if I had to drive a Peugot"

Awesome... just awesome...

 

i love peugots. there ain't many cars out there like older 605s.

 

yea i forgot you guys don't like peugeots over there (for some reason i love crappy cars like the 106 even though id have to import one to own it) but vws are fun to (i love the late 80's polos the best) and im glad your keeping your petrol motor, engine swapping can be the biggest pain in the butt sometimes.

 

at the time a great driving vehicle....just couldnt hang in SO cal heat and traffic with the ac on...many of them melted on the freeways out here...but a car ahead of its time.....
bot ...I would build the heck out of your xj AND buy a diesel...but thats just me....who cant own just ONE car...I have 8 now
cameron
p.s.,,,,i was born here but my younger brother and older sister where born in Devon Cornwall....same parents they were visiting visiting over here and I came out early
cameron

 

My ex-girlfriend had an old Peugot 505. When I sat in it I had the seat all the way back and my knees were half way up the steering wheel and my ear sat comfortably on the ceiling from my head being forcibly tilted.

I hate that french garbage.

 

haha ive started a riot here! my friend has a pug 205 deisel and told me to drive it to mcdonalds once, it was like a roller skate, it felt so unsafe and the gear lever was like a stick in a bucket of ****, horrid horrid car!

 

how the hell are you doing 29 mpg??? my last tank i averaged 9. driving normal. driving like a granny i cant get higher than 11

 

I get 24mpg (IMP Gallon 4.54L) no problem 29 mpg possible on longer runs I have 4.0L HO Auto 50K miles.

Stuart

 

us mpg =\= imp mpg

 

No US is 4L which would give 25.9 MPG on £35 of fuel at £1.26/L because it will of used 6.9 US Gallons compared to 6.1 IMP Gallons.

Stuart

 

29 mpg or 24 mpg im still jealous as heck. at best im getting 15mpg