Thinking of buying tiguan. Diesel or petrol

[Bambazonke]

My DSG diesel gets around 800km in town and a 1000km on the open road my best was in my old manual Tig I did Mackay to Goondawindi (1071km) on one tank at an average true (GPS) speed of 95kmph.
BTW my other car is a 320d and I will never go back to a BMW petrol....the torque that is avaliable for the in gear acceleration when overtaking is like have a V6 under the bonnet prooving you can still have some fun without the fuel bill believe me!

[shoey85]

I ordered a TSI but decided to go for the TDI, due to fuel economy, I drew up a spread sheet with all the figures from standard fuel usage tests and the TDI is between 6k and 3k cheaper after 100'000km, this cost also factored servicing cost.

[revhead1016]

This is diffinetly good info for me. I was looking at 08 passat 2.0 tdi as well and I just come across in this forum that hey have lts of problem, so I will cross that of my list. By the sound of it looks like I will be heading toward diesel.

This is the passat. Looks soooo good and tempting.

VOLKSWAGEN Passat 2.0 Tdi - Cars - Spence ACT | allclassifieds

[tigger73]

Be mindful that there's generally 2 types of people on forums - enthusiasts and people with problems. Now I haven't spent much time in the Passat threads but it may be that there are less enthusiasts that buy these types of cars (apart from the R36 of course!).

I would talk to a good independent workshop about the issues with the model(s) you're looking at and get any car you're seriously considering checked over. It looks like that '08 Passat has recently had a few $ spent on it and may be a reasonable buy if there's no other major issues (average km for its age).

[revhead1016]

I've got a good vw mechanic here in act and they are happy to check the car for me and give me the good and bad info about the car I'm after. So far all they said about tiguan is all positive and they hardly see tiguan in the workshop. I'm still considering the passat. I will check the car this weekend and take it for a drive and get it check. Will keep you guys posted. It's going to be a hard one for me as. I don't want this to happen to my wife with two toddler in the car.

http://www.vwwatercooled.com/forums/f27/should-i-keep-my-passat-what-commonly-goes-wrong-them-87891.html

[Sharkie]

You will have to decide which is more important before going any further .... performance or fuel economy.

The diesel Tiguans is positively lethargic compared to the petrol Tiguans, but delivers excellent economy. That said a fuel economy for a petrol Tiguan is actually pretty good considering its a 1600kg AWD petrol turbo vehicle.

There is a massive difference in performance though, over 3 seconds 0-100km/h and more importantly again over 3 seconds 80-120km/h which reflects poorly on the diesel's overtaking abilities should you need it.

Otherwise, both excellent cars. Drive and decide, easy.

Should you be an actual revhead, the tuneability of the petrol delivers genuine sub 6s 0-100km/h easily which is half the time it will take the diesel without a real penalty in fuel consumption. Still your call and no amount advice from us matters, drive it and make your own decision

[revhead1016]

Thanks sharkie, I've been researching last night and I think for the missus car and school run, we are going for deisel. The wife is not worried about performance, she drives like a granny. (Test driving both car this weekend)

Any way I have my owned V6 Bora to give me some performance driving pleasure.

[Dr freedom]

Im loving my diesel.. I used to look for BP every few days or so, now its once every 2- 3 weeks.

[Jay100]

I bought a Tiguan TDI recently.

Main reason - don't want to visit the pump every week.

Added bonus: The diesel prices don't fluctuate much from one day to another and from pump to pump.

Diesels are a bit sluggish when compared with petrols but I can live with it.

[Dr freedom]

petrol is so 1990's..

[coastvw]

Hi

We have the Diesel, with the 7 speed DSG, typically with a mix of freeway and Regional driving (i.e not heavy city traffic, but stop start), we have a long term average of 6.5 l/100 (as per DIS), typically when we fill the trip meter is 850-900 kms, have had exceptional >1,000 but not common.

Like the other posters, yes sacrifice acceleration, but agree the Diesel price doesn't move nearly as much as ULP.

[Transporter]

Re: Thinking of buying tiguan. Diesel or petrol

....and the diesel engine will last you much longer, if you do a lot of driving per year.

Sent from my GT-N8000

[Sanman]

The reason I bought diesel was not the economy, but the lazy huge torque from idle which was similar to the V6 petrol territory I was matching

[team_v]

The reason I bought diesel was not the economy, but the lazy huge torque from idle which was similar to the V6 petrol territory I was matching

That's the same reason i got the 2.0TSI and tuned it

[Drift]

Took delivery of the better halfs TDI DSG yesterday. Still much prefer the power mine has although after driving both back to back, the lag in mine became noticable. The diesels power delivery is incredibly linear in standard driving in 'D', and more than adequate for most peoples needs. (Says he who's looking towards stage 2... which will now go unnoticed given she's got her own Tig to drive.)