I'm looking to buy a 115PD GT TDi, however after a conversation with the seller she informed me that on her drive from Burmingham to London the other day she got an average MPG of 43! Now being the smallest BHP model I was thinking it would be better than that - is this normal for a good motorway run... Maybe that was the average MPG of the whole tank? What MPG is everyone else getting on there 115/ 130GT TDI's?Or could there be something wrong... Like the handbrake maybe!
i have a 115 bora , when im going to work i get sometimes as little as 32 but that is hard driving, on average i am getting 45- 50 mpg and on a run around 56-57,i have taken the cat off i think that made it a little better.
Got Golf TDI 150 and can get 55-63 mpg when doing mostley motterway/A roads doing 70mph, obviously this drops if a put my foot down but still get approx 50 mpg. A lot depends on how u drive it.
My overall average since owning the car is 44mpg...when looking at journey figures ...can see as low as 38 to over 55. Remember these computers are only a gauge.
My overall average since owning the car is 44mpg...when looking at journey figures ...can see as low as 38 to over 55. Remember these computers are only a gauge.
I got a 4 year old GT TDI 130 last week. So far I have done 200 miles
and am averaging 49MPG. That said thathas been a lot of town
driving and very little motorway miles. Going on a wee jaunt to
England for a few days next week and would imagine to be looking at 55+
My overall average since owning the car is 44mpg...when looking at journey figures ...can see as low as 38 to over 55. Remember these computers are only a gauge.
Heavy right foot aint always a bad thing with diesels..along as your on an open road... i regulary do a 135mile trip from Wolves to London...around 90 on the motorway and seem to get about 43+....id say its fine...at the end of the day all it needs is a traffic jam where its idleing for a bit to rapidly bring your mpg figures down.
How do you lot drive lol.. as i can never ever get above 40mpg in my 90bhp lol im get more like 28mpg avg but its all town driving.. but i am quite heavy footed.. ive even seen 15mpg once somehow lol..
I am now getting ~50 mpg from my Golf (1.9 TDI) so 600 miles a tank, a big improvement over my old Golf (1.9 D) which used to only get about 40mpg. I think once in a while these like the heavy foot (in my case most days []) I mainly do short journeys in it so thats not bad at all. It improves when I go to Leeds or something.
since i got my hybrid turbo fitted cant get over 42mpg at the moment but thats because im do drive it hard but im going away so im going to take it easy to see what i can get
My mpg can vary quite a bit, usually on average im getting high 40's but with sensible driving low to mid 50's. Driving steady at 60 once came back with mid 60's. However i have lost some mpg since adding my bigger wheels.
On my way into work usually last minute so 85+ all the way over a 26 mile journey I get 46-48 mpg
On the way home in no rush I normally cruise at 70 and get 54-56 mpg
Also diesels are just as rubbish as any other car if your doing short journeys all the time, you'll get no real benefit from having a diesel if these are the types of journeys you do.
As stated above the larger powered engines tend to be more economical when crusiing as they dont have to try as hard, same principle with remapping giving better mpg.
My average mpg over the last 26k (with remap) is 52mpg according to the computer that is. Generally getting just over 500 miles to a tank before the light comes on.
Well the 90/115 bhp diesels are less efficient than the PD 130/150's, so although you'd think less power means using less fuel then in this case you'd be wrong. The lowest so far on my 130 I've done is 46 and best being 56 mpg so far. I don't rely on the guage but instead I compare the fuel I put in to the miles I've done, so at least you can get a more accurate measurement of what you'd down.
I have a pre-made excel sheet I just put the mile and litres in and it tells me the MPG and I also put how much it cost and it tells me the running costs!! []
If some one wants a copy then I'll post a link on here later so you can download it.
"if u got a spare 5mins u'll fnid that if u work out the fuel/miles ration it will equal what the computer says so there quite accurate"
not so for me, the computer is usually optimistic by about 3-4mpg
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