Petrol or Diesel

[brackie]

Other way around!

No, if you are sitting on 110 you are actually doing 100. VW say it's a "Built-in safety factor" apparently.

[acdcfan]

No, if you are sitting on 110 you are actually doing 100. VW say it's a "Built-in safety factor" apparently.

I got it wrong.

[phaeton]

My Mum will either be buying a 1.9 TDI or 2.0 FSI in Comfortline config.

Which is best for inner city driving ?

Just got some info from my friends inside VW:

125kw diesel Golfs due in April - its a 3rd model, sold for more than the 103kw & 1.9l

Golf GT 1.4 TSI is due in June (we are ready!)

http://www.oettinger.com/navi_e.php?motor_id=1028

The higher output diesel will arrive in the Jetta & Passat in the MY 08 models.

Yes yes yes GT TDI ::does happy dance:: lol
and in Jetta and Passat

How relaible is your source Guy ?

[Sportie]

There are a number of posts regarding the speedo error in Mk5s. My mrs checked our TDI with a hand-held navigator borrowed from gtimk5 and confirmed that it's about 10kph "fast" @ 100kph. The tacho reads 2000rpm @110kph on the speedo.

I was of the opinion that the speed calculated by the computer was accurate, ie. set display to show average kph and reset. Reading is current speed. Best to check with cruise on.

Do you know if this is correct?

[and133]

Diesel

I have 2.0 petrol and i would never change it for the LOUDER, more truckish sounding diesel. I am a bit of a leadfoot and have taken the diesel for a bit of a drive when servicing my car.. but i cant stand the diesel sound. I dont hate it any longer though, i appreciate it now. Either are fantastic though. But because of the louder engine the diesel isnt for me.

[TDI DSG]

With regards to the speedo error it is 10%. The odometer however is spot on - so fuel efficiency can be accurately calculated from the distance travelled/litres used. I have tested this as the dealers (several of them) couldnt tell me. If the ododmeter isnt correct economy would seem to be 10% better than it actually is.

[gldgti]

I have 2.0 petrol and i would never change it for the LOUDER, more truckish sounding diesel. I am a bit of a leadfoot and have taken the diesel for a bit of a drive when servicing my car.. but i cant stand the diesel sound. I dont hate it any longer though, i appreciate it now. Either are fantastic though. But because of the louder engine the diesel isnt for me.

i saw you today! driving up the pacific you followed me from Bobbin head road! sorry if i smoked you with my 30 year old diesel. i couldnt help noticing your sweet lookin mk5 with the foggies turned on.

if you didnt notice me, i was directly infront of you at the bobbin head rd intersection.

[brackie]

Odometer check

With regards to the speedo error it is 10%. The odometer however is spot on - so fuel efficiency can be accurately calculated from the distance travelled/litres used. I have tested this as the dealers (several of them) couldnt tell me. If the ododmeter isnt correct economy would seem to be 10% better than it actually is.

Yes, the speedo error is pretty much confirmed by the GPS.
How did you validate the odometer?

[Rod_H]

Adding to the speedo error, Mine is out by 9kph.
Have not been able to get below about 5.3L/100k on highways as yet.
6500k's on clock ... it's improving slowly..

[TDI DSG]

Yes, the speedo error is pretty much confirmed by the GPS.
How did you validate the odometer?

I have a car that has an accurate speedo - the odometer reads the same as the golf over a 100k round trip

[acdcfan]

Adding to the speedo error, Mine is out by 9kph.
Have not been able to get below about 5.3L/100k on highways as yet.
6500k's on clock ... it's improving slowly..

First day I took it out on the freeway I got 4.7l/100 km and even managed 4.3l/100
I don't accelerate hard when engine cold, instead I wait until warmed up and than go for it

[Jettinabout]

Get the diesel....ya grand critters will thank you for it.....I have a TDI Jetta with 16000 on the clock(drove a suby liberty before that-nice car but the J is better)...the stereo is amazing, yes I listen to opera with it and no problems with noise...they are aqiuet car even at low speed and revs.

Hands up all those that replied to this thread who don't drive both petrol and diesel......then don't comment. If you don't, then tell the guy. He is in all likelyhood going to base an expensive decision on the outcome. Not meaning to flame anyone but we have to be responsible in situations like this.

[shogun2]

Get the diesel....
Hands up all those that replied to this thread who don't drive both petrol and diesel......then don't comment. If you don't, then tell the guy. He is in all likelyhood going to base an expensive decision on the outcome. Not meaning to flame anyone but we have to be responsible in situations like this.

Before our Gof TDI I drove a Subie twin turbo Liberty - I would never go back.

[acdcfan]

Get the diesel....
Hands up all those that replied to this thread who don't drive both petrol and diesel......then don't comment. If you don't, then tell the guy. He is in all likelyhood going to base an expensive decision on the outcome. Not meaning to flame anyone but we have to be responsible in situations like this.

Before I got mine, I drove VS V6 commodore and will never go back to petrol engine

[JP-009]

After seeing all the diesel performance cars in Europe and Brittain, I promised myself a similar car at home (Oz).

After having spent bucket loads of cash doing up petrol engines, my MkV 2TDi just shames all my previous efforts - and it is standard

I could never go back to buying a new petrol car - just can't justify the higher fuel consumption and poorer performance of a petrol engine.

Diesel for me

(In saying that, just bought myself a '76 MkI to play with , as the MkV is the family car. I wonder how much effort it would be to fit a 1.9TDi into the MkI )