Thread: 300TDI manual or auto?

i have an auto and i love it, only had it a 4days i went from a 4L petrol wranlger to a auto tdi and its better than sliced bread, i put a new air filter in it and injector cleaner and its going great wouldent go past it been off road and it was a dream as much as a manual is fun auto is good to sit back and cruise

Originally Posted by loanrangie

I dont know why you say that, my tdi auto will leave you at the lights trying to find 2nd gear.

Well yes i did own a Tdi manual and ive driven the auto versions , ill just say id rather the manual and i did state in my opinion
Id rather cross a busy highway with a Tdi manual and make it across safely
How many guy,s on this forum have complained that they have to put their Tdi autos in low range to get up steep driveways where as the manuals can get up with out having to go to low range
By the way i own a chipped Td5 now do you still want a drag from the lights

Originally Posted by rangieman

Well yes i did own a Tdi manual and ive driven the auto versions , ill just say id rather the manual and i did state in my opinion
Id rather cross a busy highway with a Tdi manual and make it across safely
How many guy,s on this forum have complained that they have to put their Tdi autos in low range to get up steep driveways where as the manuals can get up with out having to go to low range
By the way i own a chipped Td5 now do you still want a drag from the lights

I have to put my Tdi Man in Low range to drive out or reverse out of my drive way , it will struggle even then all I'm doing is burning the Clutch.

I have driven my father ex- tdi manual and I have 2 tdi autos. Depends on driving style and preference really. I noticed that in low range the manual in 1st gear is much better, but driving the auto in the bush over rocks etc is much smoother, easier on the drive train, dont have to worry about riding the clutch etc (thats why comp vehicles are autos).

So, I would like a manual because I like to play with the gears, but thats all. I am happy with the auto as well.

After driving manual range rovers for years I couldn't be happier with my auto tdi. No trouble leaving trafic at the lights and the fuel economy is great, 800+ km per tank. The only time I'd like a manual is off road going backwards down a steep hill. Going forwards down steep hills is a feet off the pedals affair.

I've had both, and while I love driving the manual, I would have preferred and would replace the current vehicle with an auto if I could. I think the auto was better off road, and definitely better on road. The auto allowed the turbo to stay on boost, where the manual is a slug until the turbo kicks in. Rangieman seemed to have a problem with the auto and acceleration, in my experience it has been the other way around!

The 300Tdi Auto Disco was our first LR, a 1995 model, we owned it from 1999 to 2002, when I sold it because I had purchased a Td5 Disco. I bought a 1997 300Tdi manual in the middle of this year (Replacing a V8i Disco I wrote off in a silly little accident which I had had for 4 years)

Originally Posted by loanrangie

I dont know why you say that, my tdi auto will leave you at the lights trying to find 2nd gear.

x2. I chucked a lethal U turn on Kings way, floored the auto and put the bastard sideways.

Though in hindsight I wished I'd kept both Discos, some days manual would take my fancy

I know the auto wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding but it sure is nicer to "tour" around in - go the slush box
johnd (I may be biased - I have one)