scoobynutta555

Reached a mind boggling 65 MPG today in the mighty Golf GT TDI. Averaging 58 MPG now that I've had it chipped to 140 ish BHP.

pslewis

65MPG .............. WOWIE, I bet that was sooooooooo much FUN!!!

Pete

Fuzz

>>>>>>> Other Marques this way please >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

lightning101

Isn't that a bit like celebrating getting old ?

Do you enjoy a pipe, your wife heating your brown checked slippers by the fire, and talking about working down the mill.

scoobynutta555

More fun, and possibly a lot quicker than a 15 year old 1.6 mazda

Green_Scooby_Wagon

I had one good car, but mine blew a turbo, and also blew an engine.

Customer service was aweful.

Was off the road more than it was on!

mn_angrybeats

65MPG my ****.........sad Diesel drivers trying to justify their choice to buy a crap car. I never bettered 35mpg

FirebirdUK

They still give pipes and slippers as a dealer accessories with the Golf?

MTR

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthrea...ighlight=62mpg

62MPG .............. WOWIE, I bet that was sooooooooo much FUN!!!

Cheers
MTR

scoobynutta555

Yes 65 mpg, it's easily obtainable. And as for *aweful* customer service, I get a mate who's a vag mechanic who does it.

Mock all you like, but it's an unbeatable package for mile munching.

scoobynutta555

You slipped up 1.6 Mazda boy
Hear you're banned again from the mx5 owners club, this true? Bragging about your boggo wagon again? PMSL

ScoobyJawa

More fun than an MX5? Funny as they are regarded (by numerous car enthusiast mags) as one of the best and most fun drivers cars around, not something they say about a Golf TDi

scoobynutta555

In jest at Lewis. 1.8 mx5s are slow enough, but the 1.6 is woefully gutless (90 bhp?). Not much fun when you're overtaking on single carriageways, I know Ive been there.

dba

Scoobybutta

you have embarassed the clan,the hardcore owners don't go over 39mpg in the mighty GT TDi

Please try harder or face a ban

Steve Perriam

damn, i've done just over 50mpg in the one i'm testing !

i better give it a damn good thrashing later on the drive to give it back

ScoobyJawa

You got the wrong 1.6 then. The early cars were 105bhp, performance akin to that of a 1.6 205 GTi - so quite pokey. The later 1.6 cars were 80bhp and 0-60 in 11s, they were cack.

scoobynutta555

65 mpg was when I was doing part of the North Wales to luton run (GF now lives in Bodelwyddan Castle). Average MPG for the whole trip was 58 MPG averaging around 80 mph.

Pipe and slippers? Yes I really want to rack up thousands of miles motorway driving in a short space of time, spend at least £80 on Optimax a trip rather than £35 diesel in an already high mileage car.

And fun car, why not the Suzuki sj 413 with the doors, windscreen and roof off with a whole 45 bhp ish (cheap as chips!)

minor_threat

Snakes alive! Your girlfriend lives in a castle?! (Or am I being a muppet and is Bodelwyddan Castle a place?) If I was doing high mileage I'd rather do it in the golf TDi than shaft myself up the **** buying Optimax every day and putting the miles on the scooby.

scoobynutta555

Yes she's a singer/dancer in the shows at the castle, which is run by Warner.

Twohats

iTrader: (3)

I've just bought the missus a Golf GTTDI 150BHP and its a right animal as far as diesels go, quite surprised me when i first got in it how torquey it is



ive put leather recaros in it a set of 17 alloys and a xenon light(all from a local breaker) kit looks a treat and 50+mpg.fantastic!

Hol

iTrader: (1)

I have to say, that looks quite nice for a second car.

Twohats

iTrader: (3)

cheers. the missus werent sure at first she loved the clio and its 62mpg but after driving the golf for a week or so she can see how tinny the clio was. + i like driving the golf aswell nearly as much as the scoob. Nearly!!

mattvortex

yes, these tdis are impressive cars. my brother has a new tdi140 Golf and i was impressed with its relaxing drive- not much gearchanging just use that torque! wher i do much prefer my scoob though is when i really want to press on- like when i want to overtake 5-6 cars on quite a short straight often accelerating from 60-120mph . would not attempt that in the tdi!

dba

I would

mattvortex

then u would end up dead along with the occupents of the next oncoming car! on short straights at those speeds i know the tdi would be afew car lengths behind

Stax

Are they any good? Thinking of chopping in the Scooby (When I get it back from the garage) at some point, and I'm thinking diesel. Yes, its miserly, and won't be as good as the Scooby, etc. etc. but its something I'm thinking about. I've been driving a 106 1.4d for the last few weeks which is pretty damn awful, but wondered what a 'proper' TDi is like. Have heard that the Golfs are only good up to 3K revs?

s70rjw

iTrader: (2)

What happened to the grile ?

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

65MPG, really? I've seen all the stories of unbelievable consumption so I got myself a 1.8 N/A diesel. I then did a brim to brim and calculated that I had achieved 51MPG after driving like a nun for 2 weeks. Yawn, it was so boring but I was sorta pleased with the result. I just can't imagine how you would get anywhere near 60MPG let alone 65MPG. Did you do a brim to brim or are we talking built in trip computer 'guestimate'? I know I could get 999MPG on the Cav computer - lol.

I won't believe it until I've done it myself.
F

scoobynutta555

There's 2 trip displays, ones instant and can go up to 200 mpg, and changes every second. the other is an average of a journey taken from point to point. I have seen over 65 a few times. And did get around 60 mpg for a 200 mile journey door to door, all motorway and no stop/start and driving around 75-80 mph. Ive seen an improvement since the chip was fitted ( one of the claims is increased MPG)

It's true there is a fairly narrow band for power in the tdi Golf. But it is very torquey and the power is very usable.

dba

no I wouldn't and no it wouldn't,