I'm just going to pop down to the local dealers to see what they can offer me on a brand new 1.9 Elegance Estate. Seen one on one the brokers for about 14.5k, so wish me luck:-)

Main reason for the swap? My Touran (2.0TDi) is losing coolant at the moment, and has a nasty jerkiness on the clutch sometimes - apparently signs of an impending DMF failure...

Ben

Arm yourself with a price from "Drive the Deal" - there are dealers mentioned on here that are happy to match or get very close to (within a few hundred quid) those prices

That's not the suggestion on other VAG forums - the 2,0 engine seems to have a good number of problems in (for example) early Tourans (porous head, DMF failures etc) which don't seem to affect the 1.9's. Perhaps the DMF can't cope with the extr 35 BHP too well?

I know you probably have other examples in mind, but in this instance, doesn't the highlighted text indicate the issue here?

I'm sure the early 1.9s had issues too, that were resolved over time?

See my comments on todays date re merits o1.6TDI V 1.9PD TDI

I own a 1.6 cr tdi estate and have done about 8000 happy kilometers with it. These cold days make the mpg go about 45-47 mpg (during Autumn it was about 48-50 mpg). My daughter owns a fabia estate since a month (1.9 pd, 101 hp). There's a big difference in character. Her car accelerates with ease (briskly is the word, isn't it?) starting from very low revs (as did my old atmospheric 1.9 diesel). I can easily stall the 1.6 trying to do that. It's more like driving a petrol car. Accelerating after a roundabout in second at very low speed is looking for trouble: you'll have to switch back to first gear (which is very long!), otherwise the engine stalls. Clumsy! But the engine pulls longer than the 1.9, up untill very high revs for a diesel. It's a lot more quiet, too.

And yes, I hope the DPF won't cause (any) trouble. As the 1.6 is a downsized 2.0, I hope the same problems don't come out.

But it is euro5, 119g CO means a lot in some countries already (France and Germany punish high CO emissions already). If ever there comes a European regulation about emissions, I'll be on the safe side, I guess.

And I also hope my car wasn't made on a Monday or a Friday, and it will last for more than 350.000 km as my good old passat did and will prove to be as reliable.