Post ONLY Your Fuel Economy Figures

[dazag]

Ha ha ha, us "oilers" arent scared of the track, in fact I'd love to bring the RS for a spin just to compare. And from what i believe the TDI's have some real potential with "tuning options" at relatively cheap cost. Have been doing a little research and reading in the "diesel" forum on here and you guys might be a little shocked.
DPF Delete (with asscoiated ECU re-map) plus small exhaust upgrade and the Oiler RS becomes more efficient and steps it up in the KW / Torque department. In saying that, does anyone know if the DSG gearbox is torque limited/rated. I know it's good for 350nm, but I think I've heard it can handle up to 650nm??
Anyway, the Beauty is if we did go to the track, at least we wouldn't have to refuel to drive home, ha ha ha.

[Frufru]

I have averaged 5.0 l, according to trip comp for last cca 4000km. Measured consumption manually myself once and the trip comp appears to be underestimating it, but not much (cca 5%).

The best: 3.8 l for a 30km trip along the West Coast Hwy.

The worst: a friend of mine borrowed it, she is a petrol driver and averaged 7.5 l.

Usually between 4.5 and 5.5 l around town. It takes more on freeway: 120 kph with aircon is less than 6 l but not by much.

[brad]

1.8tsi M6 hatch

long term (37,000km) average (calculated) 6.7L/100km.

Since Bluefin remap: ~7.0L/100km

Trip today Sydney-Ulladulla 200km 4 people/luggage 6.2 (mfd); return 2 people 5.3 (mfd) including numerous visits to $1.40. MFD is about 0.2 wrong.

[Jake02]

2008 Octavia RS TSI Manual Liftback

Trip upto Urunga (25km south of Coffs Harbour) and back (500km one-way) and on the trip up my Vladimir (what my dad calls the RS - he thinks it's a Czech name :L) used approx 29 litres to travel 500km and on the way back it was pretty much the same. 4 people, a boot FULL of luggage and a cat and that equates to 5.8L/100km and the trip gage even went upto 770km at one stage (on top of 174km already travelled on the tank...bit optimistic if I'm honest) so I'm very happy, especially for what the RS can do

Over the life of the car I'd say it's done an average of around 10-11L/100km in mostly city/sporty driving, which is actually 1L/100km less than my old MY00 Subaru Liberty (which had 92kW and 184Nm...)

[K1W1]

Third fill of diesel today. vRS manual.

709km
47.1 L
= 6.6 l / 100km

More like normal driving for me with a mix of Freeway and outer suburban. Total distance on the car at the time of fill was only 2030km and the fuel consumption seems to be reducing a little on each fill. Seeing as I get around 5.8l/100km from my motorcycle and that doesn't have A/C, heated seats, a great stereo or a MFD to keep me amused and it only weighs around 200kg I think the consumption of the Skoda is very acceptable.

[TuNeS]

Ok, this thread is a good place for my maths I have a Turbo Petrol vRS Manual Wagon and my dad has a Turbo Diesel vRS DSG Wagon. Anyway, Taking the cost of diesel vs BP Ultimate I produced the following figures. I couldn't get the columns from Excel to display correctly.

Essentially based on how much petrol and diesel cost, multiplied by the consumption we have been getting per 100km gives you a figure. Then multiply that by 10000km intervals and you can see how the diesel starts to cost significantly less.

Turbo Petrol Turbo Diesel Price Difference
l/100km 8.8 6.6
Cost per litre 1.41 1.24
Cost per 100km $12.41 $8.18

10000km $1,240.80 $818.40 $422.40

20000km $2,481.60 $1,636.80 $844.80

30000km $3,722.40 $2,455.20 $1,267.20

40000km $4,963.20 $3,273.60 $1,689.60

50000km $6,204.00 $4,092.00 $2,112.00

60000km $7,444.80 $4,910.40 $2,534.40

The diesel models are $2000 more expensive than the equivalent petrol. So it takes around 50,000km until you break even from the $2k premium, but after 100,000km, you have saved a fair bit. However, if you keep a car for 2-3 years like I do and only do around 75000km in that time, I would much rather have the petrol version which has a much nicer power curve and really gets up and goes when required. When my hair goes grey like my dads, then I may change my mind

[Frufru]

Ok, this thread is a good place for my maths I have a Turbo Petrol vRS Manual Wagon and my dad has a Turbo Diesel vRS DSG Wagon. Anyway, Taking the cost of diesel vs BP Ultimate I produced the following figures. I couldn't get the columns from Excel to display correctly.

Essentially based on how much petrol and diesel cost, multiplied by the consumption we have been getting per 100km gives you a figure. Then multiply that by 10000km intervals and you can see how the diesel starts to cost significantly less.

Turbo Petrol Turbo Diesel Price Difference
l/100km 8.8 6.6
Cost per litre 1.41 1.24
Cost per 100km $12.41 $8.18

Fair enough. However, for example 6 months ago, diesel was less expensive than petrol. How do you account for that? Myself for example do not understand why petrol is cheaper than diesel. I reckon it is insatiable demand from mining industry increases price of diesel here in WA.

[TuNeS]

How do you account for that? (

Umm, I did account for that.

BP Ultimate: $1.41
BP Diesel: $1.24

[backdoc]

Umm, I did account for that.

BP Ultimate: $1.41
BP Diesel: $1.24

Exactly what I was thinking as I read his post

[dazag]

Fair enough. However, for example 6 months ago, diesel was less expensive than petrol. How do you account for that? Myself for example do not understand why petrol is cheaper than diesel. I reckon it is insatiable demand from mining industry increases price of diesel here in WA.

Maybe FruFru is getting his hands on the BP Ultimate diesel that's not available in NSW or VIC as yet. It's a few cents more, but gives the Diesels better milage and cleaner running. Plus depending on the price cycle, you can get BP Ultimate petrol for cheaper then $1.41

But the other thing that needs to be taken into account to split the difference between petrol & diesel even more is that loading up a petrol wagon with people and luggage or even putting a trailer behind it, the diesel will leave the petrol both in economy and at the lights. The diesel has 350nm of torque where as the Petrol only has 280nm. That torque split makes a big difference to loaded up acceleration and cruising, and that's where the diesel will win out even more.
So Tunes, dont go dragging you old man away from the lights or up hills if your loaded up with mates in your petrol RS, otherwise you might be a little embarrassed.