[Gengar]

Hi,

Im getin pretty much 400 miles on a full tank of diesel (?40). Is this any good because i think its pretty poop considering what other people are achieving. I dont boot it from A to B, and do a lot of motorway driving at 80.

Im having a service tomorrow at 24k and was wondering if i should have a moan at VW? Thanks!

Hon

 

[scottyGTi]

put ?40 from just above the red in and im at 450miles and still got one bar distance to go till i hit the red mark from where if illed it up!!

what does your average trip mpg say when you finish your trip??? oh and try keeping below 80mph if you can as that will constantly eat fuel...

have you got 6 gears????

all adds up... but its how you drive it as well do you use the turbo alot to get up to speed to you use the full rev range??? etc etc

 

[mh]

i have the same engine and get about 480-500 to ?40 but i drive it hard so something might not be quite right

 

[hornetrider]

that sounds like around 40mpg? something like that? pretty poor!

I'm getting around 47 or 48 mpg on mostly motorway speeds of around 80. if i drop to a constant speed of around 77 or so then I'm looking at 50+

 

[scottyGTi]

further note ive had my car a week now.... and ive ntoiced as ive gotten more used to it my mpg is getting better... the first day i took it to work i got around 44mpg a week later my driving at 75-80mph to work is getting around 49-50mpg

also ive noticed my mpg would keep going up if i kept on going instead of stopping off for work!!! []

scott

 

[umrelt]

I get about 250-270 miles out of ?20 of diesel (about half a tank)

 

[NikB]

mpg will be worse at this time of year though. I get about 42mpg on motorway journeys and try to sit at about 90. Around town I tend to get 36-37.

 

[golfv64mo]

I'm getting 470-480 miles to ?40, which beats the living hell out of getting 280 to ?50 of petrol in the V6!

 

[Felix]

From about ?42 (light on - to full) If I do just motorway miles Ill get about 550. If I do mixed miles it comes down quite a bit to 450ish. I do quite a bit of town driving now due to where my new office is - and im now getting about 380-400 I reckon.

 

[nozmeister]

My 110 is getting about 560 before the light comes on. My MPG on a 90MPH thrash down the M40 is about 43MPG so even that means about 450 miles to the tank.

 

[craigGSI]

well my 110 with merc maf snd tuning box returns an avarage of 44mpg and i get just over 400 miles to a tank wich i also think is cack compaired to others

 

[spg]

usually get at least 500 from a full tank with my 110

to when the light comes on.

Thats pretty much all urban driving as well with a few blasts thrown in, i usually get the average mpg reading to 50mpg on virtually every

journey! unless its a quick 4-5 mile urban run.

Diesels rock! i cant imagine ever going back to a petrol!

 

[Gengar]

well my mpg usually says about 38/29 mpg when im driving on 150mile stint from london->bristol. I hardly go above 90, mostly about 80. How come im getin such poop I thought that 450-500 would sound like a more realistic figure from a PD100.

Oh and its only got 5 gears...

 

[RickyD]

500miles+ on average...MPG averages between 48 - 50 depending how hard I drive it..

It's a lot better than the 220-225miles I used to get out of the Scooby.

Cheers

 

[micky 32]

something aint right, as with my tuned 130 i can get on average 450 miles to a tank and thats driving fairly sweet, faulty MAF can cause bad MPG too.

 

[scottyGTi]

gengar.... theres got to be something wrong with it, according to those figures and the length of the trip your doing is mostly motorway miles you should be getting alot better MPG!!!

 

[Gengar]

in that case im gonna have a moan when i have it in for a service tomorrow! What should i mention? Should i jus say i want them to have a look at the MAF sensor?

 

[umrelt]

Your inlet body is more than likely gunked up and a dirty MAF possibly

 

[scottyGTi]

just explain the situation that you keep an eye on your mpg... and lately you are getting really bad mpg!

 

[craigGSI]

is there a "how too" on cleaning the inlet?