12-11-2011, 10:05 AM | #91 |
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ya, you're right. it's just so ugly. It'll be nice when I'm through the break-in period. Although, that just means I don't do long highway drones. I'm going to have 8+ hours in the car Tuesday, we'll see how I feel about the Golf then.
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12-16-2011, 03:33 PM | #92 |
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not to curse you but keep ear open for rattles. seems to be the number one complaint on vwvortex, here is a example thread
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...-review./page1 |
01-18-2012, 08:37 PM | #93 |
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so how is your TDI treating you?
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01-18-2012, 11:56 PM | #94 |
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Great; been meaning to do a write up , but I've been swamped. 3300 miles so far. Not fast off the line, but plenty of power once you're above 5 mph for my needs. I also think it has plenty of room on the inside for just about anything I need. The ride is good, steering wheel is nice, seats are good, stereo is good. Really nothing to complain about, its exactly what I was looking for.
My driving is 50-100 miles in the city, then a couple hundred miles on the highway. I generally drive fast and took it on a back roads blast early on. 200 miles regularly over 100 mph, with lots of 20 mph corners thrown in. Returned 37 mpg; I wouldn't have gotten 17 mpg in our e90 on the same drive. My only complaint has been the shifter; I hang 3rd from time to time and it's not as smooth as it could be. There's a short shift kit that is cheap and I'll probably install. Another thing that has taken me a bit to get used to is the "Regen" cycle which is some pretty neat engineering, but involves burning diesel in the exhaust. When this is going on, the car runs rough at idle, and if you're in the middle of a regen cycle when you shut the car down the fans will run and it'll feel like there's a small fire under the car. I'm still convinced you can't find a better daily driver at that price point.
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01-19-2012, 12:49 AM | #95 |
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Sounds good, thanks for the writeup
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01-25-2012, 03:41 PM | #96 | |
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05-04-2012, 07:08 PM | #97 |
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I've got 11000+ miles on the Golf now and it's not disappointing. It's a perfect mile muncher and a really good city car. Stereo is nice, multiple media types, very good controls, etc. Seats are the best seats I've had in a car (never owned BMW sport seats, FYI)
Just got the second Blackstone labs report and the break-in is going well. I regularly get 40+ mpg tankfuls with 50/50 highway/town*. My worst was 36 mpg all in-town driving. Best was 45 mpg with 75/25 highway/town driving. I regularly see 50+ mpg stretches on the highway. Today I had an hour where the instant analysis was consistently in the 54-55 range. There onboard computer has indicated a tank range of 700+ miles for the 14 gallon tank more than a few times. I usually fill it at 3/8 of a tank with 400+ miles on it. The one negative is still the slightly odd clutch. 90% of the time it feels great but out of nowhere it will either stall really easy or you'll slip the hell out of it. I think it has to do with the filter regen, when that is happening the engine runs very loppy, and I think it's easy to catch it in an off peak and stall it.
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