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Originally Posted by graaja 1. I have been using a pressure of 33psi all around, with me and my wife in the front and 2 kids in the rear. I find this to give a balance between good grip and fuel economy. I haven't tried any other combination yet. |
Thanks for the pointer graaja. I stopped at a roadside puncture place today and used his gauge (a handheld analog one) to check the tyre pressures on my Jetta. To my dismay I found 50 and 45 on the rear and 40s on the front tyres. Did they really deliver my Jetta with such high tyre pressures? I actually distrusted his gauge and decided to try the digital pressure gauges on petrol pumps, will report what I find.
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Originally Posted by graaja 3. I too hear the thud sound while going on flyovers in the highways. Not sure if this is expected behavior. |
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Originally Posted by iliketurtles 3) This happens with me too. In fact, some days back I was following a Jetta and observing it as it too went over the flyover section joints and while I obviously couldn;t hear it thud, I could see the suspension work overtime to absorb the joint as it went over it. Don't think it's anything alarming and seems normal. |
Thanks guys. My problem is whenever I go to the Pune city I have to cross 3 flyovers, these are city flyovers not highway. And the joints on the flyovers are pretty much like potholes themselves, just stretching all across the width of the flyover, and I hate the fact that I have to be so careful, when cars in a lower segment just rush through them. When I read Jetta reviews I always heard terms like "glide over potholes" etc, which made me feel you wont feel a thing in the Jetta. Maybe I was wrong.
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Originally Posted by graaja 4. As far as I know, you cannot expect the same refinement from a diesel engine as from petrol. I usually find the cabin to be very silent when the upshift happens and the RPM is around 1000 to 1100. While driving sedately inside city, I try to keep the RPM in this band, and it is very relaxing (of course the lag is there). From 1100 to 1800RPM, the engine sounds a little rough, and after 1800RPM, once the turbo spools up, it is pure bliss! |
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Originally Posted by iliketurtles 4) It's just the way the car is. I too find that there isn't enough go at the bottom-end, and clearly it was a conscious decision to put the meat of the torque in a certain band while foregoing the lower end of the rev range. And yes, the smoothness of a petrol is simply not possible even for these moder-day, sophisticated diesels. Don't worry, nothing's wrong at your end. It's just how the car behaves. |
Thanks again guys, this totally mirrors what I experience. Yes when the turbo kicks in there is nothing like this car.
On a separate note, I think I may have hit my first few Jetta niggles within 3 months of purchase. Yesterday I took my kids to a park in the center of Pune, when we came out we hung around the car doing this and that, opened the boot, put the stuff in there, closed it and got ready to head off. Just then the wifey realised I forgot to take out my little ones water beaker from the boot, so I open the drivers door head to the boot, try to open it, it wont open, there was a hissing sound like it was trying to open. I came back tried from the button on the drivers door, no luck. Tried to open from the button on the car key, no luck. Eventually I had to fold down the rear seat by 40% to reach for my stuff in the boot.
This morning I called up my SA and narrated the problem to him, he called me in. When I arrived he got into the boot from the 40% folded seat and opened the boot manually from inside. After that he showed me the boot was opening and closing without any issues, I came back home a happy customer.
Alas, the happiness was shortlived, had to drop some house guests to the bus stand after lunch, put there luggages in the boot, reached the bus stand and my fears came true, the boot did not open. Gave them the luggage from the 40% folded down seat, now am going to take my car to the VW workshop tomorrow to get it looked at properly. But again, it would be hard to convince me now that it wont happen again, when I need whats inside the boot the most. Note that usually I have 2 car seats in the back, so its impossible for me to fold down the rear seat without taking at least one car seat out.
The other takeaway from this experience, you can only fold 40% of the seat from inside, to fold the rest of the 60% you need to get into the boot.
Now consider you were in an accident, locked-in the car due to malfunctioning electronics, and you needed to get out the boot way, unless you are a slim guy who can get into the boot from the 40% seat space, you are doomed. Not very happy with what I found there I am afraid.
Will post my experience at the workshop tomorrow when I am back.