Our First VW

[Mr_frangutz]

Hi All!

SA Based Newbie.

So we have recently gotten a VW (second hand) 2008 JETTA TDi.

It's my son's first car but I've driven it a fair amount I must say that in many ways I'm really impressed. 240K on the clock, 1.9 TDi, Manual, it's mostly in good condition for the age. It drives nice (better than I expected actually) and I'm hoping we still have a few k's of life in it (its been regularly serviced, had belts done a while back but nothing more than that). In some aspects I actually enjoy driving it as I do my N I own. I'm impressed with the build quality and I have to say, there are some great redundancy features in the car... which blew me away - I now understand what people mean by German Engineering. I'm used to driving Alfas and Peugeot's, so this is definitely the other side of Europe now lol.

Its got a couple of issues (I'll save the questions for my next post - hope you can at least direct me to which forum to post to as I couldn't see something specific for older Jetta's). Other than that, look forward to being a part of this community - which I stumbled on from searching for help.

Hello to all!

[Lucas_R]

Hi and welcome. Those 1.9TDi's can run forever if you keep the basic maintenance up on them. This model car is known as a Mk5 (5th generation Golf). And the Jetta is essentially a Golf sedan.

Here is the correct Golf/Jetta forum: https://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/f15/

[Mr_frangutz]

Thankyou!