No like slow as I'm in flooring it in 3rd to keep up with a hybrid rav4 in normal traffic slow lol!

If I redline it in 1st and 2nd I'm only barely able to keep just ahead of common traffic haha

 

Will it roll the coal when you floor it? 😃

 

Nope, never smokes at all and I intend to keep it that way

 

Car is 2/3ds of its way to paying for itself. Zero issues have come up other than the antenna snapping off, new one cost $7.20

Wife has fully hi jacked it though, I've not driven it for 3 weeks now after she discovered the entertainment value of a turbo and manual trans. The woosh is very entertaining to her lol! She thankfully doesn't mind the lack of speed but is going to tune it anyway for more mpg and increases turbo noise

Monthly fuel savings vs the Jeep is totaling over $500 so I'm going to buy an extra car with the conserved fuel money lol!

 

Hey man, you should've never given her the keys.
Next she'll want a 911 with manual.

It's a slippery slope. Haha

 

Viper is far more likely haha! She greatly prefers large engines/the exotic sound

 

Tire time, ling longs have gotten iffy in wet.

Hit me with suggestions/specials lol! Will be driven in winter is the only restriction, size is 195/65R15

 

Lost a rear turn signal bulb, nothing else to really report on other than the wife has fully taken the car over and personally opted to pay for tint and tune.

All rear bulbs have been replaced now

 

She will want the keys to one of your V-12's next.

That's where my money is at. Haha 🫸🫷 💯

 

She fears them honestly, she knows I would not take kindly to her damaging them. Much more difficult to replace those

 

wow i somehow missed that you had an MK4 among your stable of power houses!

this gen VWs have a soft spot in my heart. i briefly owned a 2."slow" manual MK4 2-dr golf, no frills, but indeed it was super fun to drive!
at the same time my dad had a super short stint (3 days LOL) with the same gen jetta VR6...i can still recall the interior smell, crayon-like! he sold it before it broke!

now knowing you have one too, if i can find a cheap 4-dr golf TDI i would bite!

 

I told my brother not to buy a Jetta.
He did anyway and traded it in at 40k miles when the tranamission took a dump.

I'm not an, "I told you so" kind of person but I did warn him. Lol

 

Manual trans is the only trans to pick in a Jetta haha! Most of the autos really suck, the DSG is fine if maintained

 

With the advent of snow we have quickly discovered the major issue with this car and all older diesels first hand....the heat sucks.

The car never hits operating temp and the vents do like 65-70 at best and only when you are maintaining decent RPM, leave it idling and you get nearly nothing, this actually really sucks when the car isn't leaving from home where we have the block heater plugged in. I will attempt to shove some plastic poster board backer in front of the rad because this just sucks.

I have been using the Jeep to go back and worth between my friends new house that is 2.34 miles away door to door and it gets heat 1.3 miles into the trip. Jetta just doesn't get a thing at 3x that distance, I knew it wouldn't be nearly as good as a gas car but this actually sucks....

 

That's why Ford put an electric heating element in their system on the diesel trucks.