Tim,
Well you've had a week to spend your £4500 since asking for ideas. Tell us what you ended up with so we can all say "you shouldn't have bought one of those".
David
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I ended up getting a Mk3 Golf TDI 95M. GL spec with 125,000 on the clock. Has fsh @ 6,000 mile intervals. So although above average mileage seems to be in good nick! Paid £3600 with the garage themselves stumping up an 1 yr unlimited warranty instead of a national company. Car has been sold by them previously.
Couple of concerns though.. always thought that the 90bhp had twin tailpipes on exhaust but apparently early ones didn't. Secondly it has a choke! Is this normal? Performance, handling and colour (red) are not the best but guess I'm going to have get used to that after the GTI!
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Tim
What do you mean, "choke"? Diesels have a permanently open throttle, and the fuel to air ratio is increased to make it go faster. Why on earth would it need a choke, since the injection system is used to make the mixture richer?
Confused.
Chris
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Tim,
You've ended up with a well regarded car. I'm not quite into worshiping at the temple of all things VW but agree they make for high levels of owner satisfaction.
Do remember the golden VW rule.....When it goes wrong keep it a secret but make sure you tell all your friends when that Citroen down the road has problems. Never have that trouble with my Golf you'll say!
David
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No way - can't have one.
Are u sure it's not the cup holder?
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I am really not sure about the vehicle in question, but some diesel engined cars do have a manual "choke" control, which is usually just a means of raising the idle speed fractionally whilst cold. Most (pre-electronic) diesels have an automatic thermostatic device (or waxstat) which pulls the throttle open when cold.
Regards,Adam
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Yup! I had one on my late lamented Mazda E2200 and on my new VW T4. Try starting either from cold without using it!!!Runs as rough as a badgers a**e for the first couple of minutes.
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The 'Choke' lever you're all on about is a manually-operated injection advance/retard control to aid cold start running and starting. It also ups the idle speed slightly. All modern diesels take care of this automatically but VW & a few still insist on manual control!
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