The MK6 Fuel Consumption (Most / Least per Tank) Thread

[hooba]

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I'm almost ashamed that I haven't had a ticket since owning the GTI and she just had her second birthday!

Keep trying Mav!

[MkVIGTI]

I get between 550-650kms per tank so I guess that's not too bad consideing the amounts of fun I get behind the wheels!

[elephino]

I haven't gotten even 500 out of a tank...then again, I'm still on the first tank

[Super]

My best has been 6.8l/100km. my worst was about 9.6-10

This is whats great about the GTI - its versatility. If you want to do economy runs, the fuel consumption does go down quite a bit, but then you've got the option to drive it enthusiastically if you want. Sure you use a bit of extra fuel, but its still fairly low versus other cars.

When I drove my boss' V8 Clubsport for a while, driving it normally meant 20L/100km consumption.. and coasting/short shifting only dropped it to 18L/100kms. Im sure the GTI will be more fun to drive than that too.

[MariusGT]

GT Sport TSI - city 550 - 650.

had a couple down at 500 - but 550-650 is close to regular figures

freeway up to 850

[Hail]

My GTI - City driving including short trips I get 570-610 every week (owned the car for 7 months now).

My best was 670 which included approx 1/3 of hwy driving.

[cameronp]

Not such a long time ago in a galaxy far away (the TSI engine failure thread) a couple of people posted their fuel consumption and I was surprised at how much better mileage some people were getting than me. I'm curious to hear from other owners in an attempt to find out whether my car is atypical or whether I'm lead-footed / driving in very different circumstances to them.

I did some experiments on mostly-flat sections of highway on a still day, air conditioner off, setting the cruise control, resetting the trip computer and seeing what the average consumption over 20-25km was:

Cruise at 100 km/h: 5.4 L/100km.
Cruise at 110 km/h: 5.6 L/100km.

This seems somewhat at odds with a recent long weekend roadtrip around Margaret River and Pemberton where I averaged 7.5 L/100km over 1300km in three days.

Driving around Perth and suburbs I'm usually seeing 8-10 L/100km depending on traffic and lead-footedness. On long mostly-freeway trips I can get that down to 7 L/100km or maybe high 6's. These are figures off the "trip computer 1" display that resets automatically after not driving for a while.

I've been using 98RON fuel almost exclusively. I'm on a tank of Caltex Vortex 95 at the moment and can't tell any difference in fuel consumption or performance compared to 98. Car has around 5000km on it at the moment.

Any other owners care to comment what kind of mileage they're getting, whether the above sounds abnormal or about as expected?

[bmck]

I use the AccuFuel app on my iPhone to log every fill-up since the car was new. I have done 12,000 km since December and am currently sitting on an average of 7.2 l/100km since new.

Fuel consumption has been getting slightly better as expected.

I usually do a one-hour each way commute from one side of the city to the other three times per week - a mix of 80 km/h and stop/start. I also spend about 10% of my time in Sport mode.

As can be seen here, I occassionally venture into the low 6s on a long trip....

[Corey_R]

I'm curious to hear from other owners in an attempt to find out whether my car is atypical or whether I'm lead-footed / driving in very different circumstances to them

I did a search on consumption and found two other threads on this exact same topic (even had 'consumption' in their title!). So I merged all three into one and gave it a good name. You'll find more responses to your question by reading back through these pages.

[clubbie]

Just filled up today 43 litres driven 493kms. So that equates to 8.7l/100kms all city driving. Not bad comprared to the Mazda SP23 which used 11+l/100km. Reckon I squeezed about a litre more in this fill. I keep records so short fills and overfills will sort itself out over time.

I know someone will say RTFM (but I am lazy) but how can you pull up litres used on the MFD so I can compare to actual litres put into the tank.

Cheers