Passat TDis

[b0redom]

Hey All,
Does anyone know the physical difference between the 110BHP and 130BHP Passat 1.9TDi? Are they the same engine with just different turning? If so, is it possible to have the 110 chipped to be the same as the 130?

Cheers...

Tom

[Rack]

Originally Posted by b0redom

Hey All,
Are they the same engine with just different turning? If so, is it possible to have the 110 chipped to be the same as the 130?

Yup, same engine.
But you would want to look into the price difference vs price of chipping.

Also the higher BHP models might also have stiffer suspension and better brakes, which you won't get.

AFAIK they can do some serious chipping of this engine getting the BHP up to 180 peak, but more importantly even more Torque.

[Butuz]

Yep they are the same engine. Just different chip/boost settings.

My dads got a 115 and to be honest its not short of power - the big deisil torque makes the car much faster than the 115bhp sounds. The 130bhp one is a flyer.

I'll have to have a fiddle with his and up the boost a bit when he is not looking

Butuz

[b0redom]

Groovy, if it's got uprated brakes I might just look about for a 130Bhp one. I'm doing about 120 miles a day 99% of which is on the M3. I want something which will cruise at *ahem* the legal speed limit.. comfortably.

Tom

[dkmech]

You'd be wanting a "car" then

[ash_rm]

Originally Posted by b0redom

Hey All,
Does anyone know the physical difference between the 110BHP and 130BHP Passat 1.9TDi? Are they the same engine with just different turning? If so, is it possible to have the 110 chipped to be the same as the 130?

Cheers...

Tom

I thought its the same as the Golf Mk4 TDi's? Where the 90bhp and 110bhp TDi are the older non PD (Pumpe Düse) and the 100, 115, 130 & 150bhp TDi's are the newer PD engines?

Whatever the case they all give decent gains by either chipping/remap or tuning box if you want to save a bit of money. You can even upgrade the fuel injectors and then do a remap for a pretty big power increase.

[schmunk]

I recently had a couple of days' drive of the 110bhp latest shape Passat 1.9 TDi (around St Tropez, darling...) and it was the most gutless car I've ever driven, even worse than my wife's old KA.

I'd guess that the earlier generations are lighter than the latest, but even so, the 110 bhp model is not exactly sprightly.

[atrull]

tried a mondeo tdci ?

best in its class iirc - quite a gutsy diesel turbo - really pulls.. then you have to change gear

[b0redom]

Not looked at much tbh. I have a Peugeot 306 1.9 Xrdt, which surprisingly has plenty of grunt.

Unfortunately it also has over 110k miles on the clock and no aircon, and although it's going great guns at the moment, given it's doing 120 miles a day, I can see it starting to develop issues very soon......

I don't really want to blow loads of cash on a new car. A 3-4 grand is really the max I want to spend.

Tom

[kalniel]

4 grand is plenty for a nice car - just have a look at some big car supermarkets.

[99Flake]

How about an MG ZT/Rover 75 diesel. Well built car, drives very well, high equipment levels and the diesel engine is a BMW diesel from a 3 series. Fantastic bargains on those due to Rover's demise. Parts aren't a problem now that Chinese company is building them under a different badge. Very underrated car.

[jon bda]

Originally Posted by schmunk

I recently had a couple of days' drive of the 110bhp latest shape Passat 1.9 TDi (around St Tropez, darling...) and it was the most gutless car I've ever driven, even worse than my wife's old KA.

I'd guess that the earlier generations are lighter than the latest, but even so, the 110 bhp model is not exactly sprightly.

My boss has an X-reg 1.9TDi Audi A3 with 100k on the clock and loves it. A customer came down to see him in their brothers new (300mile on the clock) A3 with the PD TDi engine and he took it for a trash and told me he hated it...it was gutless but also the amount of road noise was worse than his etc...