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Originally posted by Water Boy
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shhhhh folks, diesels are still slow. all diesels.
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hey careful with saying that, james..... there are still lots of peeps out there who'll sing the praises of a falcodore N/A till the cows come home, who have only ever test-driven diesels [and dont have a frigging clue how to drive them properly], and who will insist time and time again that all tdi's are good for are truck and tractor engines. wouldnt want to upset them.
shhhhh folks, diesels are still slow. all diesels.
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well, Diesel Jettas are slow (picked one of the diesels ive driven as the example)... Bit of a difference comparing ANY diesel road car to a prototype purpose built race car!
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it's common knowledge that when transferring from a petrol car to a diesel car, in order to get the most out of the car, you have to re-educate yourself on how to drive/ accustomise to diesel power delivery etc etc. it's not a case of stepping out of a petrol car, into a diesel, driving it for 10 minutes, and expecting your number of days on the track to manifest themselves in some magical out-of-the-blue knowledge on how to drive a tdi.
for many tdi owners it takes a few weeks.
anyone who thinks that they automatically know how to drive a tdi simply because they like bouncing off the rev limiter in their N/A petrol, is kidding themselves [not you or anyone else specifically, but anyone who'll hilariously, and stubbornly try to dispute the simple fact that learning how to drive a tdi properly, takes time].
when driven properly, however, even a humble polo tdi will do a pretty arse-ridingly good job of sticking with mk5 golf gti's in the twisties.
p.s. it might look like an ''attack'' of sorts on you, rocket, but it's not. you've seen my posts- im not a very confrontational kinda guy. my point was that there IS a difference between driving petrol and driving diesel, it's easy enough to see that in dyno graphs, and learning this difference DOES take time. all persistence and logical reasoning and debate aside, it DOES take time.Last edited by Buller_Scott; 14-06-2010, 11:59 PM.Comment
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...unless it's DSG of course! I'd say it takes a while to get the clutch sorted in a manual diesel, but rev wise, well it's kinda obvious pretty quickly Scotty!2014 Skoda Yeti TDI Outdoor 4x4 | Audi Q3 CFGC repower | Darkside tune and Race Cams | Darkside dump pDPF | Wagner Comp IC | Snow Water Meth | Bilstein B6 H&R springs | Rays Homura 2x7 18 x 8" 255 Potenza Sports | Golf R subframe | Superpro sways and bushings | 034 engine mounts | MK6 GTI brakes |Comment
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