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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Golf mk4 TDI => Topic started by: alex160 on 13 April 2010, 22:32

Title: Options?
Post by: alex160 on 13 April 2010, 22:32

Been running my gt tdi for a couple of months now and still love it, and prefer it over my 1.8t motor. But im after a tad more power but don't want to go for remap as i dont want to have to touch the clutch. Ive still got my carbanoiro style induction kit from my octavia vrs. Is it worth fitting this on the tdi or will it just bog it down and make it sound awfull? Pipercross panel filter worth doing on the tdi? thanks

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: Ben Lessani on 14 April 2010, 06:35

Diesels like warm air - so doubt an induction kit will help, plus it would sound awful.

Remap a diesel for more power - do it/drive it sensibly, and you won't eat clutches.

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: asif on 23 April 2010, 14:28

Diesels like warm air, didn't know that, cheers.
That explains the sh*te mpg when it was -6 this winter.

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: Jay on 23 April 2010, 20:32

Yup, they do. Mines gone from 25-30mpg on the work run to 35mpg  :cool:

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: asif on 24 April 2010, 09:03

Quote from: Jay on 23 April 2010, 20:32

Yup, they do. Mines gone from 25-30mpg on the work run to 35mpg  :cool:

Same here mate, but isn;t that sh*te MPG for the both of us?

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: Jay on 24 April 2010, 09:23

Well mine's a 2 tonne people carrier and doing an average of 10mph this week in the crap Oxford traffic, and then when I'm on the dual carriage ways I don't hang about.

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: asif on 25 April 2010, 22:42

Oh I thought you had a mk4 tdi, sorry mate.

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: Jay on 25 April 2010, 23:00

I wish mate, got too many kiddo's to fit in the back with child/baby seats, but at least I kept it VAG engined :grin:

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: asif on 25 April 2010, 23:30

How many kids? And what do you drive?

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: Jay on 26 April 2010, 07:51

3 kiddo's. 1 in a baby seat, the other in an upright child seat and the eldest can't fit inbetween the two seats easily so we had to get something bigger. We even looked at the Golf Plus'.

I was looking at Sharan's and Alhambra's and found that Galaxy's were the same car with just Ford styling so that widened my search options a bit and they were generally a bit cheaper too. After looking at a local Alhambra and test driving one, I was dead set on them but the local one was way over priced.

Managed to get a bargainous MK2 Galaxy Ghia with all the toys (just missing the DVD player and screens in the headrests and heated seats, hardly bothered though).

So here I am with a 1.9TDI AUY FORD  :laugh:

Title: Re: Options?
Post by: asif on 28 April 2010, 09:48

Cool atleast you know there is alot of VW behind you in that car.
Isn;t the engine a VW one anyway right? Don;t know which VW uses the engine but know it's deffo used by VW