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I love the car and the fuel economy. The seats are a little hard and the wife complains a little about the stiffer suspension.
1. Suspension is too soft. I keep hitting the bottom of the trailer hitch on speed bumps in parking lots so equipped. Hitch was installed as an after market option.
2. The interior of the car is too hot with panoramic sun roof. If I would have a second chance I would get the car without the panoramic sunroof. Definitely not a good choice for Florida climate.
3. A/C is very good but actually too good - with full blast it fogs windows from the outside in this humid FL climate. I know you could run a heater while A/C is on but then the car does not cool down quickly enough after being parked on the sun.
4. The manual transmission (6 speed) is excellent - I love it!
5. Seats are firm and well shaped but I am thinking (again) putting sheep skins on front seating areas that keep seats cool in summer and warm in winter. (I had those on my previous car - Subaru Forester). Actually, my fellow passenger always thinks that the seat heater is on although it is not.
6. Displays and on-board computer are simple and functional, once you get used to them. One has to read the user's manual (on-board computer) and practice (while parked) so that you get most out of it.
7. Cruise controls are simple and finctional and work well.
8. Radio/CD player/changer and Sirius (prepaid by VW for 6 months) are good although I admit I don't use those that often.
9. Fit and finish is OK.
10. Mileage is average but I hope it will get better although I am not sure that I will keep the car that long (to get the right compression ratio that comes at 30 or 60K from what I read on these pages).
Overall it is OK but, as mentioned earlier, once Subaru Forester comes out with their diesel I will trade this one in.
Don't think so. They bagged the plans to release the TDI Tiguan in the states. Must have been a Touareg which is a boat anchor in my book.
My personal best on a tank was 53.6, but that was a week of torture with slow driving and no airconditioning. I highly do not recommend that. I can't speak too much on city driving, I don't do that very often. What limited city I have done around Brooklyn/Queens I have seen around 29 - 30 MPG.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=155529
http://media.vw.com/index.php?s=43&item=488
The vehicles covered are the Jetta, Jetta SportWagen, GTI, and Eos built between September 2008 and August 2009.
I'd imagine any vehicle is prone to having issues regardless of make/model, hopefully all works out for everyone affected.
Supposedly by Dec 1st 2010 all stations will be required to sell ULSD. We shall see what happens next year as we get closer to that date.
It is said that just ONE LOAD of the LSD in a truck can contaminate the next 5 truckloads of ULSD in that same truck. That is why the trucks were "purged" somtime last year and no LSD has been in the trucks since then.... HOWEVER: The underground tanks at some of the stations may still be undergoing the "purge" process.
Keep in mind that even if ULSD is being put into the underground tanks at the station... they cannot automatically label the pumps as ULSD. It may take months of fill/drain cycles before the stuff coming from the pump can be labelled as ULSD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgEK17Ffslk
If you read the statement from VW it would seem that only the affected 07 to 09, 43,000 Volkswagens and 10,300 Audis with the problems would be getting this warranty and not all.
Hopefully the 2010's will be fault free.
Most folks (probably) would not know this, but the Jetta line does not offer the "slush box" automatic transmission. (huge hit in mpg over manual transmission)
The Jetta line does offer the 6 spd DSG OPTION (wet clutch) (and soon to be,rumored 7 spd & dry clutch DSG) and the STANDARD: 6 spd manual. One of the DSG marketing points: close to and in some applications better than manual transmission MPG.
I expect to buy my Jetta TDI in a few months so that just might be perfect timing.
There will be some very empty showrooms for a while, and "2 to 3 months" sounds about right for the car dealers to get real lonesome & come up with some serious incentives to get some traffic back on the lots.
3 complementary oil changes and free corn on the cob aren't going to 'git er done'.
Dropping the prices always brings out the bargain hunters.
1. first three 10,000 mile service intervals included in the price
2. $500 owner loyalty
3. TDI eligibility for $4,500 cash for clunkers program.
4. $1,300 IRS tax credit (50 state clean diesel)
5. Connecticut state tax on 50 state legal diesel car exemption
Some folks have even purchased below dealer cost.
So if you are able at that time in the future to string as many as the incentives as offered, you can really make out. All the best.
You are right about the Jetta clearance, it bottoms out at 4" beneath a fragile cast aluminum oil pan.
Check out the photos on the "Panzer Plate" site of a pile of shattered TDI oil pans that are waiting for the garbage truck. Around here there are lots of 5" chunks of ice on the road in the winter just waiting be run over.
The chunks fall off the undercarriage of transport trucks and trailers when they slam over bumps.
I have seen someone on a Jetta Forum that installed a set of 2" spacers under the front end components of his Jetta Wagon to get it up out of harms way.
The car looked much better too, not going down the road like the front springs are shot.
Perhaps the 2011 (Americanized) Jettas will have better clearance.
Another issue (not just VW Jetta TDI) are the bumpers are not even marginally up to the task of dealing with parallel parking. It almost seems that if you LQQK at a bumper sideways you are looking at a $300 bill.
Gary
Compared to a lot of other cars, your point continues to amaze me even after 133,000 miles with TDI's !!
It creates a couple of problems for the owner, first of all, the error racks up more miles on the speedo, making your warranty run out faster, and it skews the mpg's higher on the info center, than what you are actually getting.
Then there's your real ground speed thats off compared to others on the road,
(your speedo tells you you are doing 75 when actually your just doing 71) That 5% error eventually builds up a lot of extra miles you never drove.
I would believe your GPS, over the OEM system.
VW seems to know about this and says a 5% + or - error is "within specs".
As a practical matter, the literal explosion of tire/rim options make ZERO error an almost un -enforceable goal/ task.
On one model Honda Civic, a US regulatory agency took Honda to task for a similar infraction and extended warranties for affected models by 5%(?)
FWIW, in my pontiac vehicle, there is a mode that displays the actual speed which is indeed about 2% lower than the speedo-dial and big-speedo-numbers indicate. I asked the dealership to re-flash so the actual speed was displayed. They declined, stating that vehicle was operating within design specs. (Reportedly there's an aftermarket tune/program which can indeed eliminate that "intentional speedo over-read" at least on my Pontiac, fwiw.)
We put on 3827.7 miles according to the car's odometer. My GPS registered 3812.1 miles.
On most of the way out we had a nasty wind to drive into, and a bit of rush hour traffic in Chicago and Minneapolis on the way out and back. Overall we averaged 40.1 MPG according to the car cumulative average, based on GPS mileage/diesel pump receipts it came out to 40.0.
As Gary mentioned previously, we weren't concerned about mileage, but rather making great time