Fuel Consumption ??

**Eddy** · 21-12-2006, 09:02 PM

Hoyhoy.
The 98 use to go in all my motors, but mowers were overheating, so now it's only the cars.

**Kai** · 22-12-2006, 10:45 PM

Just on a little side note.

I got 56L into mine the other day.

In where you put the fuel pump, there is this little black vent on the side, if you push it and let the gas come out, you can get lots more fuel in. Anyone know why it does this ?

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Kai

**shaneth** · 22-12-2006, 10:58 PM

dont the specs say its only a 45lt tank?

**Kai** · 22-12-2006, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by shaneth

dont the specs say its only a 45lt tank?

yep

which is why i was wondering,

The fuel thing said i only had 10k's to go aswell.

brackie · 23-12-2006, 08:15 AM

Welcome, Kai. Yeah.. red's the colour. I like the GTI red much better than the dark red metallic of my TDI but it isn't available

**nightphotographer** · 02-08-2011, 09:25 AM

For months my car was only getting 350ish to a full tank even though my long term l/100km was 7.6 (0.3 below what VW say). I then got the 105k service done (timing belt, water pump + everything else) and I just got 600km to a tank! I didn't think a service would make this much difference, but it really has. I remember before it would get to half a tank then the needle would just drop and the fuel light would be on straight away, but now it's fine...weird!

**csimpson** · 03-08-2011, 02:11 PM

I got 53.05L into mine the other week using the filler neck trick. It was north of $80 to do so, but still worth it! I got over 170KMs before the needle fell off the full mark. I always use Caltex Vortex 98, but for convenience's sake and Woolies fuel points rather than anything else.

**kaanage** · 03-08-2011, 02:32 PM

Also vent cheated to get 55 litres of diesel into the tank but its not bad for a tankful with no country mileage.
Now that I've fitted the skinny tyres, I should get a noticable increase on this.

**sssstew** · 04-08-2011, 01:21 PM

kaanage is cheating.. he has a diesel

I get a steady 7.8 - 8 l/100k in mine, thats mixed driving with some traffic as its peak hour.

**T Go** · 04-08-2011, 02:51 PM

I used to get between 7.2L and 7.5L per 100km in each 99hr cycle of the trip computer in my Polo GTI.
I didn't drive like a granny at all, but didn't burn around town all the time either.
I barely drove in stop/start traffic though.
That was with 98RON always as well.
I would get over 500km on a tank everytime too.