Dear Friends:In the next few days, it looks likd I will be blessed with a 2007 Jetta TDI. This is a 5-speed standard tranny, 1.9-liter turbo diesel. Anybody.have experience towing a Jetta TDI behind their bus?
My 2000 Jetta TDI averages 44 mpg in the winter, 48 when it's warmer out. It has 410k miles on it. (snip)
I'm about to turn over 300K on my '03. It has averaged ~ 55 MPG over that 300K; best tank ever 1021 miles (approx .8 of a gallon still in it), 62 MPG for that tank. I let the people at Michelin talk me into "Primacy" tires instead of "Energie" tires; took a 2-3 MPG hit, about the same with ULSD fuel. We're about to go over to "summer" fuel in NC - can't happen quick enough for me.
it's a 5speed manual...so it should be ok...but I think after 2004 they changed the manual tranny on that car...not sure the details on that...