2008 Volkswagen Jetta 2.0 TDI

Kenai · 22 Oct 2011 at 10:36

Lopéz said:
Boys...... as if I would personally choose and buy a diesel Jetta for myself! It's just a company car temporarily assigned to me while I'm on a project with work.

First I had a 58 A3 2.0 TDI which went okay, looked good, had a nice but uncomfortable interior (who designed the centre console with those ridiculous hard plastic grab handles that dig into your knee??)

Then I had an 11 plate C3 VTR+ Diesel which was comfortable, rattly, slow, unpredictable on the motorway, but had a panoramic windscreen which I loved.

Changed to the Jetta yesterday which feels gutsier than the others, but sounds like a van, doesn't stop, feels like sitting in a minicab, has horrendous wash out understeer and compared to the other two it generally drives like some kind of agricultural vehicle.

Well the Jetta should sound much like the A3 did, albeit perhaps not quite so 'deadened' from inside, being as it's the same engine. If the A3 sounded inoffensive but the Jetta sounds like a van in comparison, it's probably broken.

4T5 · 22 Oct 2011 at 10:44

flibbage0 said:
I have to say that out of all the diesel cars that I've heard from the outside, the one that sounds the least tractorish is the BMW.
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The BMW is one of the cars that turns my guts when it passes me with a Derv engine in it.

I'm no fan of BMW but there top end cars are Awesome, Buying one & driving it around with a Tractor sounding Derv lump in it is a Crime. :mad:

OP.
VW Dervs have & will always sounds like *****.

aproctor · 22 Oct 2011 at 10:56

4T5 said:
VW Dervs have & will always sounds like *****.

But it's an Audi, they made the best rally car don't you know.

Lopéz · 22 Oct 2011 at 11:01

Kenai said:
Well the Jetta should sound much like the A3 did, albeit perhaps not quite so 'deadened' from inside, being as it's the same engine. If the A3 sounded inoffensive but the Jetta sounds like a van in comparison, it's probably broken.

From the outside they sound pretty much the same. From the inside it's a different story.

Overlag · 22 Oct 2011 at 13:01

Had a Golf Mk7 2litre GT TDI as a hire car. From the inside it was ok, but as soon as you opened the windows it was like i was in a tractor. The smell was TERRIBLE too.

[TW]Fox · 22 Oct 2011 at 13:30

Overlag said:
Had a Golf Mk7 2litre GT TDI as a hire car. From the inside it was ok, but as soon as you opened the windows it was like i was in a tractor. The smell was TERRIBLE too.

Just makes it all the more perplexing that the owners are so desperate to convince themselves they didnt do it to save money on fuel that they'll lie to themselves about how refined it is

fadetoblack · 22 Oct 2011 at 18:50

I love my tractor sound tdi passat ;-)

MarkDavis · 22 Oct 2011 at 19:30

Howard said:
I dunno, I had an S-Max 2.0 TDCI hire car a while back and averaged 54MPG driving from Teddington to Southampton and back.

That's because you drive like a grandad. The TDCi is also hideously unrefined. Even in the Mk 4 Mondeo which is supposed to have improved refinement, you get tractor roar when you accelerate and constant 'clageddy clageddy' noises entering the cabin the rest of the time.

The VAG 2.0 TDi still has the 'clageddy clageddy' but mostly at idle and the noise disapates and becomes much less noticeable at speed, which really can't be said fo the TDCi - at least in Mondeo 4 incarnation anyway.

Howard · 22 Oct 2011 at 19:33

MarkDavis said:
That's because you drive like a grandad. The TDCi is also hideously unrefined. Even in the Mk 4 Mondeo which is supposed to have improved refinement, you get tractor roar when you accelerate and constant 'clageddy clageddy' noises entering the cabin the rest of the time.

The VAG 2.0 TDi still has the 'clageddy clageddy' but mostly at idle and the noise disapates and becomes much less noticeable at speed, which really be said fo the TDCi - at least in Mondeo 4 incarnation anyway.

Just what HAVE you got against me, exactly? Every time you quote one of my posts, you act like a petulant child :confused:

I also never said anything to the contrary of the above. I was simply stating my findings in terms of fuel economy for one vehicle.

And if by 'driving like a grandad' you mean sticking to the speed limit, then yes, I was.