[John Ireland]

new owner of a 2004 Golf tdi...124k miles...automatic trans...picked up the car in Seattle from Green Car Co., drove it down to Los Angeles, got average of 43 mpg with average speed of 65 to 74 mph. Here in Los Angeles my first milage check for city driving is about 31 mpg. Since I took delivery of car it has idled at 900 rpm, hot or cold. I am used to my prior Golf 1.8t having an 1100 rpm idle when cold and then droping to 750 rpm when warm.

Curious what is normal for the 2004 tdi. In all other ways the car seems to be working fine. Also...would like a driving tip. My instinct is to leave it in Drive and let the computer interact with how I am driving, rather than using 4th gear setting for around town.

My thoughts are that either my driving style or a fast idle are why my city milage wasn't better...I'd like to get it up to about 34 mpg.

Thanks all.

John Ireland

 

[John Ireland]

Thanks for the info...I'm enjoying the car

a lot...had to buy two extra keys and getting those programed tomorrow.

I'm curious when VW/Audi will bring a tdi to F-1...I remember when Renault brought in turbos. The weight savings of carrying less fuel would be interesting to the cars development.

I'm also curious how long before politics, manufactures and technology take diesels back to pure vegitable oil fuels.