Volkswagen Golf TDI

[CHEETR]

i worked for volkswagen through 2006-2008, and those cars are great!

if i was you, i'd track down a Golf 2.0TDI pacific instead of the 2006 comfortline.

also, i would never ever own a 1.9 tdi, they are rediculously under powered and the gear changes are not all that great.

the DSG however in the comfortline carries a gear change of 4 one hundreths of a second.

could not recommend the 2.0tdi any higher, i had one as a company car for 6 mmonths followed by an R32 haha but in my first few months i had the 1.9tdi and that was so slow and rough

[eb2fairmont]

Got a 2005 TDI comfortline with DSG. Love it. Cloked up 103,000 km and feels like new.

Last set of tyres lasted 55,000 km and serevicing hasn't cost me more than 700 bucks since new.

[Spudz27]

Some good reading here. My boss is buying a 1.9ltr TDI auto caddy (the extended version) and I will be driving it on long trips. They are based around the golf aren't they?

[kircher]

Originally Posted by EDfutura25

Some good reading here. My boss is buying a 1.9ltr TDI auto caddy (the extended version) and I will be driving it on long trips. They are based around the golf aren't they?

yes, the front end is golf I believe with leaves in the rear.

[Mechan1k]

Work colleague has a 2L TDi in 6-sp manual form (Comfortline with Leather).

Found the leather actually not bad at all in it ... it 's a nice vehicle to drive .... he had an issue with gearbox bolt coming loose within warranty period.

And just had an issue fixed due to a bad batch of Diesel as well (claimed it through insurance against the service station) ... the Diesel had ULP in it for some stupid reason. As soon as ULP gets through the pump in the car ... the vehicle is screwed literally ... also need a new turbo from it is as well and part of the exhaust replaced too. I thought it was a bit weird .... did a bit of reading and found this has happened before with others.

It's a $10K fix too ... so just hope you don't get a bad batch of diesel is all i can say.

[eb2fairmont]

Yeah they have some pretty horrendous costs associated with them. But Volkswagen Australia actually give a and have been known to fix cars outside of the warranty period - so you have to be pretty unlucky to incur them. (If you have a full VW service history.) Consider:

Mine's 4 years old but they paid half the cost for a replacement starter motor.
Others have had the mechatronics in the DSG fail (a bad batch @ $4k ea) and got it fixed for nix.
Air conditioner comrpessors (faulty batch with Sanden type compressors) 2.5K fix most get this done for nothing.

I'd like to see a ford dealer match that! Then again my wallet doesn't get raped when going to VW (unlike ford) and I'm treated as a member of the human race.

Other random factoids:

Replacement DSG gearbox 18K
Replacement DSG clutches 700

the 2.0 TDi motor turbos fail if you chip them up over 170 horsepower (125Kw)

Turbos are a variable vane type - but the one of the 125Kw 2.0 TDi is straight fit and will support 220 hp...

Tuning the 1.9 TDi is easier as the yanks have more to do with them, they never got the 2.0 TDI

The DSG gearbox has a "official" input limit of 380Nm...but has been exceeded in many cases easily.

Cheers

David.

[kircher]

Originally Posted by eb2fairmont

The DSG gearbox has a "official" input limit of 380Nm...but has been exceeded in many cases easily

380 officially yes, but I've heard of them taking 500Nm without failure, so they are over engineered. They used a version of it in 24 Hours of Nurburgring I believe too