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Considering buying a golf - 1.9tdi

  • 25-04-2012 4:26pm
    #1
    dillo2k10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm thinking about buying a 2005ish 1.9 tdi golf.

    I drive about 25k km a year about 40% motorway. Someone was telling me that because I do about 60% stop/start driving it might cause problems with a dpf (think thats what they said) Would this be true? And is it a major problem?

    Also what is the acceleration like on the golf? I have a 2001 1.6 petrol 3 door focus now. I find it has decent acceleration (enough for me) would the golf be similar or better?
    I wanted a gti but insurance is too expensive for me :(

    P.S. Im not just looking for a diesel car, the golf just happens to be diesel.


Comments

  • #2
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    You should stop listening to 'somebodies' as 'they' rarely know what they are on about regarding cars.

    An 05 golf doesn't have a DPF. It does have a Dual mass flywheel though but that should be of any undue worry for your type of driving.


    With regards to acceleration, they are not bad, but the VAG diesels have a very narrow power band so hard acceleration consists mostly of gear changes.


  • #3
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    It will be noticeably nippier than your focus too


  • #4
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    At 25000 km/year it makes financial sense for you to buy a diesel (unlike a lot of people who buy them for the wrong reasons). People who buy diesels will occasionally have expensive issues such as DPMs (not on a car that old), DMFs and injection pumps but it's worth it in your case. Doing that distance in the GTi would probably cost you over €1500 extra per year in fuel (compared to the TDi) on top of the insurance loading.


  • #5
    dillo2k10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭dillo2k10


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    You should stop listening to 'somebodies' as 'they' rarely know what they are on about regarding cars.

    An 05 golf doesn't have a DPF. It does have a Dual mass flywheel though but that should be of any undue worry for your type of driving.


    With regards to acceleration, they are not bad, but the VAG diesels have a very narrow power band so hard acceleration consists mostly of gear changes.

    I wont really be doing hard acceleration, but I just need to know that it moves. Drive my friends 1.6 S40 and I felt like I was giving it a push start!
    leeroybrown wrote: »
    At 25000 km/year it makes financial sense for you to buy a diesel (unlike a lot of people who buy them for the wrong reasons). People who buy diesels will occasionally have expensive issues such as DPMs (not on a car that old), DMFs and injection pumps but it's worth it in your case. Doing that distance in the GTi would probably cost you over €1500 extra per year in fuel (compared to the TDi) on top of the insurance loading.

    Wow, didnt think it would use that much more fuel! Better staying with the tdi so. :)


  • #6
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    dillo2k10 wrote: »
    Wow, didnt think it would use that much more fuel! Better staying with the tdi so. :)
    With a relatively light boot on a long motorway trip you'd probably get ~35mpg. Your Focus was probably at least 5-10mpg better in the same situation. With an enthusiastic boot on back roads and around the edges of town you could easily drop that down to ~20mpg. Plus, if you're happy with the acceleration of a 100BHP 1.6 then a 200BHP GTi really isn't what you're in the market for.


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