turbo and supercharged no?
Turbo vs N/A
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Turbo vs N/A
the 1.4 tsi is yes, think Audi use a 1.8 one aswell.
had a look at the car more closely by the way, engine cover says TSi
Rock solid build quality, reliability, practicality, residual costs and an excellent dealer network is worth paying for - the GTi is the benchmark to which all hot hatches must strive to compete against.
The Stilo was good but let me down and I needed all of the above things from a car - Fiat/Alfa don't have anything of interest currently and there was nothing to rival the GTi at the time of purchase.
Style and passion mean very little on the back of an AA truck tbh.
Now back on topicTFSi :slayer:
Different car but my work colleague just scraped (using scrapage scheme) a 02 plate Golf TDi that suffered terminal turbo and engine failure and could barely get to 50mph.
My neighbours 06 plate Golf 1.6 has been back to the dealers about 10 times now and has left her stranded on 6 occasions by breaking down, she bought it new and does few miles, said it was her dream to buy a Golf would never do it again.
A good friend had a new 03 plate Polo 1.6, which from off suffered numerous problems which she continued to return to VW Milton Keynes (VW head office so happens to be MK as well), 2 weeks after the 3 year warranty ran out even though VW had the car 6 weeks previously to rectify yet another problem it suffered terminal engine failure, my friend after getting no where with VW who wanted over £3K for a new engine promptly got the car towed to MK VW sat it in middle of the forecourt locked it up with large signs placed inside saying how VW had riped her off and do not buy VW which caused enough fuss to get local media interested, she now drives a BMW and though again its had faults BMW have been very courteous and prompt in repairing any issues.
The GTi has never been bench mark since MK2 16V, MK3 rubbish and VERY slow, MK4, decent engines but they forgot how to build a chassis, MK5 they got it right handling wise and driver involvement again only after poaching the chassis engineers from Ford who did the Focus, but quality down as it cost so much to make the chassis, MK6 never been in but meant to be a return to quality.
All makes of cars have issues its often the way the dealers network sort them out that makes the difference, Fiat have been poor at this in past, but are improving, VW have been good, but sometimes can be accused of resting on there laurels and this breads complacency.
BUT this is massively off topic
how did he scrap a 7 year old car? thought it needed to be 10 year old?
Its at dealers discrection, Honda have openly said they will take any car from 8 years old and his car was 8 years old as I thought it was 02 but in fact it was a late 51plate.
Though it was against a new Audi A3, but as car was in effect scrap they gave him £2K off the Audi for it, now its a mute point as to if they are actually doing scrappage or just used it a trade in even though it wasn't worth £2K in its present state. Over and above the engine/turbo failure, the rear wiper didn't work, the front wipers intermitet didn't work, the dash lights didn't work, the lights on the mirrors on the sun visosrs didn't work, and there were variuos other things that had gone wrong with it. When I pointed out the Audi was same company he didn't realise, amazning what folk who are not really into cars don't know what we often find as obviuos.
Of course if it doesn't meet goverment criteria the dealers don't get there £1K from them, but for a sale I don't think some of them care.
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fair enough!
oh, and cleared up the whole TSi / TFSi thing... apparently the Golf was rear ended last year and may have had the wrong badges put on when it was repaired!
oh, and cleared up the whole TSi / TFSi thing... apparently the Golf was rear ended last year and may have had the wrong badges put on when it was repaired!
supercharger whine FTW
its all about vrooooom tishhhh though init
its all about vrooooom tishhhh though init
