Multivan Fuel Economy

**thevwbug** · 14-03-2009, 03:00 PM

Hey Vanners,

Just like to know what economy you are getting on you vans.

On my 2008 Auto 128kw TDI with 8,000 kms i am getting around 15L/100 around town.

I think that this is excessive ??

Thanks the bug

**BobD** · 14-03-2009, 03:48 PM

I seem to get around 11l/100km around town calculated from the fuel purchased. The longer the time spent driving, the better the consumption becomes so very short trips seem to leave you with much higher consumption. The trip computer also seems to tell you that the fuel consumption is slightly lower than it really is. If I manage to get a run on a highway as well as town running I get as low as 8.9 on the computer.

When towing my 18 foot, 1700kg loaded Geist caravan, the computer tells me I am getting as low as 13.5l/100km if I stay below about 90 or 14.5 if I stay on 100 to 110 kph by the GPS. This is pretty good but the real consupmtion is slightly worse.

**shogun2** · 14-03-2009, 04:43 PM

I'm around the 10l/100Km on trips, and about 11 around town, but ours is a 4Motion, which is a bit thirstier.

**4wheels** · 14-03-2009, 04:49 PM

Hey Bug,

I don't think I've ever seen worse than 12.5L/100Km (calculated on a tank to tank basis), even on my trip to Cape Yorke. Generally it is just under 10 for mixed urban/ highway use. This is in a nice heavy Trakkadu camper (128Kw with DPF, LWB, 6speed manual 4 Motion), and I generally don't hang about. The notoriously optomistic trip computer has been known to drift into the 6's (average) on slow convoys with the VW club.

Yours may be still freeing up, but 15 sounds pretty excessive.

Brian

**Floorshow** · 14-03-2009, 05:44 PM

I carry around about 700kg of tools and supplies all day everyday, drive it hard around town, 7000ks on the clock, 4motion, uses 13L per 100Km

**Transporter** · 15-03-2009, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Floorshow

I carry around about 700kg of tools and supplies all day everyday, drive it hard around town, 7000ks on the clock, 4motion, uses 13L per 100Km

Are you using 4th and 5th gear at all? It seems to high to me.
I do very short trips in my and am fully loaded and I get under 10L/100km almost always (calculated from the fuel docket).
I drive it hard too, after the engine is warmed up to 80deg.

**Ivo** · 15-03-2009, 01:59 PM

I get about 0.6-0.9 liter actual economy worse than the trip computer says when I fill the tank up and do my calculations.

On a recent trip from Newcastle to Wentworth falls in the Blue mountains I had 8.1 on the trip computer sitting on 118km/h (GPS) 2 adults, 2 kids, 2 mountain bikes and enough junk for a few days at the inlaws.

My weekly average urban driving with an hour or so of 90-100 km/h driving mixed in gets me an actual consumption figure of about 10.2/100.

Shorter trips around home to the local shops, with some small hills in between and it blows out to 12-14lts/100 on the trip computer. But my overall average lowers that down for the week. I think if you live in a hilly area you will get worse figures and if you do short trips you will as well.

**Floorshow** · 15-03-2009, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by Transporter

Are you using 4th and 5th gear at all? It seems to high to me.
I do very short trips in my and am fully loaded and I get under 10L/100km almost always (calculated from the fuel docket).
I drive it hard too, after the engine is warmed up to 80deg.

Nah, mine only came with a 3 speed box, maybe you should have suggested I release the handbrake and take my foot off the brake too

**Transporter** · 16-03-2009, 06:48 AM

Originally Posted by Floorshow

Nah, mine only came with a 3 speed box, maybe you should have suggested I release the handbrake and take my foot off the brake too

I wouldn't suggest that. VW knew that one day you would buy the T5 and they put the beeper on the handbrake lever, so if you don't release it it will beep on you.

Have a nice day.