Gra

thinking fo getting a Audi A4 TDI as a daily runabout, looking at a 1997/98 reg one with aobut 80k on the clock, any one got any experience of them?

wakeboardtom

Id get a golf personaly. Brilliant cars....

Gra

oh ok, will have a look at the Golfs

cheers

vroomtshh

Yeh good idea. Start off wanting an A4 - 4 door saloon with plenty of room and a big lazy diesel engine to a Golf - 3-5door hatchback with a smaller more potent engine.

The cars are in now way comparable.

All depends what you want in a car. I have an Ibiza TDi Cupra, but I'm lookjing for an A4.

The Ibiza is good, and I wont be getting rid, but I need the boot space of the bigger car.

Golf and A4 are worlds apart IMO

wayne thomas

I agree entirely, If you need an A4 sized car then have a look at a Passat you'll get either a newer or better spec'd car for the same coin.

Oranoco

Can't go wrong with an A4 mate. I got a petrol on ethe other year after the missus banned me from getting a Focus because I started muttering Focus RS bumpers .

Superb cars, very well built and carry a degree of prestige

Doh

wouldn't recommend a passat, iv'e got a TDI 130 sport and its the most boring car i've even driven.... great fuel economy though and 230lbft of torque so goes well

leeadams

I have a 99 Golf Gt tdi , with the 110 bhp engine (Which I believe is the same as some of the A4s)....it has done over 205K and all that has gone wrong was a £100 sensor!!! I would definately recommend ANY car with that engine in it.

Oh, and it still does 45-50 mpg

Lee

wakeboardtom

Nah i think Audi A4 And Golf are very similar apart from the slightly larger boot than the golf. Although the newer A4s are alot bigger but i was thinking of the older shape A4 (P reg?). My mum has a Golf GT Tdi which i have been using for the past week as my car is in the garage. I hope my car never comes back out of the garage because the Golf is so fun to drive. Its the higher spec Gt Tdi so its 150 bhp me thinks. Its very fast and still does 40-50 mpg easily! I would definetely recommend one of these. But the Audis are also quality cars!

Daveesaunders

We've got both Passets and A4 Estates at work most of them are on an 03 plate, the Passets nomally have something wrong with them whereas the A4's seem to keep going. My bosses A4 does about 400miles on one tank of diesel.

The A4's are very well built especially compared to my mates X reg Golf which seems to have bits of interior trim that randomly fall of.

andyescos

I've got an R reg A4 avante TDi Quattro, 120 000 miles , straight throught the MOT last week, Outhandles an Escort Cosworth, 55 mpg and only cost me £3000! Best car I've ever owned!(for the money)

GET THE QUATTRO MODEL THOUGH!

Andy