To the guys who get 600ks

[poloplayer]

Out of one tank, when does the fuel warning light come on for you guys? A bit under 500ks? Or under 600ks? Theoretically I've calculated that I should be able to get 600ks on one tank, but the needle hits zero and the warning light comes on at about 470ks.

[silverdovegti]

heya,

i've got a 2004 golf gti and my warning light usually comes on around the 580-590km mark. i can usually push it to about 610km or a little more, depending how often you take it to the red line!

yeah so 470km doesn't sound right at all! am no expert so can't advice you on possible causes but would definately take it in to your workshop to have it checked out. let us know how it turns out! good luck!

[Rocket]

The pogo's have a small tank, about 45L off the top of my head, but when the needle is on zero, you actually have about 5L reserve left in the tank (if you fill up, it will take about another 40L to fill up), so that extra 5L could theoretically give you another 50 odd km's.

[natee]

I probably get about 450kms out of a tank my boyfriend isn't very nice to the car LOL

heya,

i've got a 2004 golf gti and my warning light usually comes on around the 580-590km mark. i can usually push it to about 610km or a little more, depending how often you take it to the red line!

yeah so 470km doesn't sound right at all! am no expert so can't advice you on possible causes but would definately take it in to your workshop to have it checked out. let us know how it turns out! good luck!

and if memory serves the golf has a 55L tank so thats 10L more to play with so getting 600ish sounds about right whilst the polo gets about 500ish

[Glide_GTI]

haha, I always need to fill up at around 410km

[pomme]

My first 2 fill ups i got 380 and 360, about 10.2 - 10.5 / 100 k's.

admittedly i was fanging around everywhere showing off the chip performance to everyone i could find.

120k's in and its running about 9.5 this fill up, with a little fanging... but i'm over the show off stage and i think 450 is going to be what i'll be hitting from now on.

[shaneth]

Yeah i get between 410 -450 km a tank around town. On the open road though i got from Brisbane to Tamworth in a tank. So around 600km.

[dodgeGTI]

geezz... I only get 400 if that....and that's driving like a nanna! Trouble is, is that it takes me around 10 or so days to use a tank... the longest tip I do in a week is 12kms.

[SoVeReIgN]

I found with a couple of mods (3" downpipe, chip, air intake) my fuel consumption actually went down!

I can easily get 650+ kms to a tank if I don't fang it around and my car is a little heavier than the polos! (Although my car has a 55L tank)

[VEEDUB69]

My first 2 full tanks I've squeezed 500+ k's out of it which i reckon is pretty good for a 1.8 ltr turbo in mainly city/freeway driving. Warning light always seems to come on about 70-80 k's from empty in mine..