Hello,
New here, I recently bought an 02 Jetta TDI GLS. It is in fairly good condition, only had 97K miles on it, but it is an automatic (the dreaded 01M Trans). As the title states, the vehicle is only getting 400 miles per tank (roughly 30mpg). Most of my daily commute is about 80% Hwy, 20% City.
I've had the car in the local VW Dealership to get it checked out. They replaced the accelerator assembly and the thermostat, those were codes it was sending out. Other than that they don't see anything wrong with it.
I've done some research and noticed that even with an automatic, this car should be reaching around 38-40 mpg. I would like to point out however, the car sometimes struggles to start, when it hits 40 MPH it bucks (Consistent, every time it hits 40mph) it's also kind of sluggish in accelerating.
Other than that, nothing really stands out, it doesn't soot, stall etc...just kind of wonder what should be my next approach to figuring out if the car has an underlying issue.
Thanks.
New here, I recently bought an 02 Jetta TDI GLS. It is in fairly good condition, only had 97K miles on it, but it is an automatic (the dreaded 01M Trans). As the title states, the vehicle is only getting 400 miles per tank (roughly 30mpg). Most of my daily commute is about 80% Hwy, 20% City.
I've had the car in the local VW Dealership to get it checked out. They replaced the accelerator assembly and the thermostat, those were codes it was sending out. Other than that they don't see anything wrong with it.
I've done some research and noticed that even with an automatic, this car should be reaching around 38-40 mpg. I would like to point out however, the car sometimes struggles to start, when it hits 40 MPH it bucks (Consistent, every time it hits 40mph) it's also kind of sluggish in accelerating.
Other than that, nothing really stands out, it doesn't soot, stall etc...just kind of wonder what should be my next approach to figuring out if the car has an underlying issue.
Thanks.
