Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Del Boy]

Just picked up a '58' plate Golf GT TDI 170, my god does this thing pull  it's quick even by petrol standards. Very very good car, I like it 

[feeutfo]

Mrs CG had one with a dsg box. Nippy I'd say.

[geoffr70]

I was a passenger in one of these a year back or so, and it had the manual box. I remember at the time thinking it was FQ, and 'uh oh, this will probably beat an omega!'. The gears seemed quite short though and it had a horrible diesel 'blah' noise, if that makes sense?

[Andy B]

YER WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR A THING ............... IS THAT A TAXI OUTSIDE?  Trouble with diseasals, is that everyone outside the car still knows it's diesel even if they are a lot faster etc than they used to be. 

[doz]

My little Ibiza is a 1600 Diesel. It's like a hot hatch from the 90's. Being a sport it goes as fast round the corners as it does in a straight line. I've had numerous VAG diesels and have to say I've liked them all. Also keep it south of 70 and I get a proven 67+MPG. However it's small and hard and that's why I've got the Mig. To remind me what comfort is all about.

[Del Boy]

YER WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR A THING ............... IS THAT A TAXI OUTSIDE?  Trouble with diseasals, is that everyone outside the car still knows it's diesel even if they are a lot faster etc than they used to be. 

A lot of modern 6 pot diesels are very quiet these days, and they make a good noise too 

Won't be long and they'll be nearly as quiet as a petrol I reckon. 4 pot diesels are still loud though, the Golf included, however the power makes up for the noise

[tunnie]

YER WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR A THING ............... IS THAT A TAXI OUTSIDE?  Trouble with diseasals, is that everyone outside the car still knows it's diesel even if they are a lot faster etc than they used to be. 

A lot of modern 6 pot diesels are very quiet these days, and they make a good noise too 

Won't be long and they'll be nearly as quiet as a petrol I reckon. 4 pot diesels are still loud though, the Golf included, however the power makes up for the noise

Thing is what does it matter if everyone outside knows its a diesel? 

Lets face it, if we were worried about what people thought of our car, none of us would be driving an Omega 

[feeutfo]

YER WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR A THING ............... IS THAT A TAXI OUTSIDE?  Trouble with diseasals, is that everyone outside the car still knows it's diesel even if they are a lot faster etc than they used to be. 

A lot of modern 6 pot diesels are very quiet these days, and they make a good noise too 

Won't be long and they'll be nearly as quiet as a petrol I reckon. 4 pot diesels are still loud though, the Golf included, however the power makes up for the noise

Thing is what does it matter if everyone outside knows its a diesel? 

Lets face it, if we were worried about what people thought of our car, none of us would be driving an Omega 

oh yes we would
Said before, the only diseasel worth having would be a BMW. ...never gona happen.

[tigers_gonads]

Just picked up a '58' plate Golf GT TDI 170, my god does this thing pull  it's quick even by petrol standards. Very very good car, I like it 

WARNING .............. Iirc, the 170 bhp 2.0 tdi's had injector pump issues 
Might be worth looking into 

[tigers_gonads]

My old man and lady have just blown 20 grand on a Citroen Zx with the 1.6 diesel and stop / start.
No road tax
Pretty nippy (110 bhp) and a 7 or 8 speed flappy box.
If the thing was anymore economical, it would be making the diesel 
Currently doing around 65 mpg with most of that in the town 
Bloody nice to drive too

Hate to say this about a modern Citroen but it is a very nice car 

[henryd]

My old man and lady have just blown 20 grand on a Citroen Zx with the 1.6 diesel and stop / start.
No road tax
Pretty nippy (110 bhp) and a 7 or 8 speed flappy box.
If the thing was anymore economical, it would be making the diesel 
Currently doing around 65 mpg with most of that in the town 
Bloody nice to drive too

Hate to say this about a modern Citroen but it is a very nice car 

Zx

[Del Boy]

Just picked up a '58' plate Golf GT TDI 170, my god does this thing pull  it's quick even by petrol standards. Very very good car, I like it 

WARNING .............. Iirc, the 170 bhp 2.0 tdi's had injector pump issues 
Might be worth looking into 

Have only bought it for a customer anyway, it'll be gone next week

[Brikhead]

Diesel engines are 'wrong' in passenger cars.
 

Plus anyone who buys a modern diesel and just uses it to pootle around town is throwing money away due to increased service costs and decreased engine life.

Also every time I've used 'Google maps' to plan a route the estimated fuel costs are always more in a diesel vehicle.

What are the actual advantages of a diesel engine? Any one care to enlighten me!

 

[doz]

Diesel no more to service than petrol these days. More MPG however some of those gains are being off set by the price difference between petrol and diesel. Far lazier drive than petrol having more torque where you need it. Price of new diesel cars isn't that much more than petrol version to buy these days. You do have to do a fair amount of miles to make the costs work but not the mega mileage it use to be.

[Brikhead]

Diesel no more to service than petrol these days.
Far lazier drive than petrol having more torque where you need it.

The parts and costs to do a service are roughly the same but diesels can require servicing twice as often as petrol cars.

I'd disagree on the second point too my petrol v6 manual only really needs two gears, 2nd and 4th seem to be able to do every thing required, or if laziness is your thing then 5th will pull (or maybe push?) from below 30 m.p.h. all the way round to speeds that are faster than I'm prepared to go...