Fuel consumption

[BlackSuperb]

The title of the thread is "Fuel Consumption", not "V6 Fuel Consumption". Perfectly legitimate to post "fuel consumption" figures of a Superb in a Superb thread.

[2009fsi]

Mine is a V6 sedan.
One country open road or motorway cruising at average 110kph, the car is surprisingly frugal at around 6-7 l/100k. On hillier twisting roads it blows out to around 10. If one wants set the DSG in sports mode & really get stuck into it, don't bother looking. The number will be frightening for the cost concerned.
In urban areas I'm able to average 12.4l/100k. I'm retired, so I'm not driving in peak hour city CBD traffic at all.
Overall, the consumption display indicates the car has averaged 9.1l/100k over its first 18000ks. That figure really reflects my mix is a lot more open road than city driving.
My observation is while the V6 is much more frugal on the open road than my previous XR8 & GT Fords, it is noticably hungrier than they were in the city. Particularly if you like to upset the odd SS holdon off the lights, courtesy of the better 4 motion traction.

[Albervin]

Mine is a V6 sedan.
One country open road or motorway cruising at average 110kph, the car is surprisingly frugal at around 6-7 l/100k. On hillier twisting roads it blows out to around 10. If one wants set the DSG in sports mode & really get stuck into it, don't bother looking. The number will be frightening for the cost concerned.
In urban areas I'm able to average 12.4l/100k. I'm retired, so I'm not driving in peak hour city CBD traffic at all.
Overall, the consumption display indicates the car has averaged 9.1l/100k over its first 18000ks. That figure really reflects my mix is a lot more open road than city driving.
My observation is while the V6 is much more frugal on the open road than my previous XR8 & GT Fords, it is noticably hungrier than they were in the city. Particularly if you like to upset the odd SS holdon off the lights, courtesy of the better 4 motion traction.

Thanks. They are better figures than I am getting at the moment but not by much. I use "manual" mode mainly and haven't used "sport" more than once or twice. I am not sure how you can say the display is showing 9.1l/100k over 18,000 ks. Does that mean you have never re-set the computer?

[2009fsi]

Thanks. They are better figures than I am getting at the moment but not by much. I use "manual" mode mainly and haven't used "sport" more than once or twice. I am not sure how you can say the display is showing 9.1l/100k over 18,000 ks. Does that mean you have never re-set the computer?

No Albervin, I have had no need to reset the computer. I've owned it just on 9 months. The car still has less than 20k on the clock, 3 services by Skoda who haven't needed to reset it either. (Only thing other than fluid changes done was to change the Bolero display because of dead pixels.)
The life of car consumption reading has never been reset during service by Skoda. I find it very interesting, to see the effect on the LT consumption of long distance cruising. I reckon when I sell the car privately eventually, it will be immediately after a long county run; when the figure looks its most impressive. I'd hate to see the figure on a city only driven car.

Re: your comment on using manual mode a lot. I also prefer it a lot of the time. Sports Mode lingers in lower gears too long into the peak before changing. No wonder it consumes so much juice. Drive mode works fine in urban areas, but I find it tends to linger around 4th when the car is quite comfortable in 5th & so on with 6th. I never put the DSG in Drive & just leave it like an auto. A DSG is in essence a dual clutch manual with an electronic clutch. I always put the car in neutral when it stops. I've been a life long manual driver anyway. I made a comment some months ago about the same thing effecting consumption in urban use. Since then I've tended to do it manually most of the time, short shifting to higher gears earlier than the Drive program allows. I think it does make a difference.

[Exar Kun]

Albervin, i have a near new V6 wagon. Around town, in Canberra, I am getting about 10.4 l/100km and on the freeway to Canberra from Sydney or down to Wagga at 120kmh or country road driving at around 100km/h etc I average about 8.1-9 l/100kms.

I basically only signed up at this point to check out the real world fuel consumption as we are seriously considering a V6 Superb. The above is good news - we currently own a Vectra V6 in Canberra and get basically the same figures. It's difficult to compare the official combined cycle of the Vectra to the Superb since the standard seems to have changed in the early 2000s sometime.

The diesel is the far more practical solution but coming from NA manuals all my life it would be too much of a shift for me into a turbo diesel so V6 with flappy paddles it is.

Does anyone else have anything to add on V6 consumption - perhaps now that they'll have a few more k's onboard?

[brad]

No Albervin, I have had no need to reset the computer. I've owned it just on 9 months. The car still has less than 20k on the clock, 3 services by Skoda who haven't needed to reset it either. (Only thing other than fluid changes done was to change the Bolero display because of dead pixels.)
The life of car consumption reading has never been reset during service by Skoda. I find it very interesting, to see the effect on the LT consumption of long distance cruising. I reckon when I sell the car privately eventually, it will be immediately after a long county run; when the figure looks its most impressive. I'd hate to see the figure on a city only driven car.

Re: your comment on using manual mode a lot. I also prefer it a lot of the time. Sports Mode lingers in lower gears too long into the peak before changing. No wonder it consumes so much juice. Drive mode works fine in urban areas, but I find it tends to linger around 4th when the car is quite comfortable in 5th & so on with 6th. I never put the DSG in Drive & just leave it like an auto. A DSG is in essence a dual clutch manual with an electronic clutch. I always put the car in neutral when it stops. I've been a life long manual driver anyway. I made a comment some months ago about the same thing effecting consumption in urban use. Since then I've tended to do it manually most of the time, short shifting to higher gears earlier than the Drive program allows. I think it does make a difference.

Unless the Superb is different to the Octavia then AVG Consumption (2) resets every 99hrs59m That's somewhere between 3500-5000km depending on how much traffic you get caught in. So it's probably reset itself about 3-5 times in 18,000km. If you drive around with the MFD on AVG(1) then you probably wouldn't notice the reset.

DSG in neutral at the lights isn't a good idea if other reports on this forum are anything to go by.

[Skodameup]

I basically only signed up at this point to check out the real world fuel consumption as we are seriously considering a V6 Superb. The above is good news - we currently own a Vectra V6 in Canberra and get basically the same figures. It's difficult to compare the official combined cycle of the Vectra to the Superb since the standard seems to have changed in the early 2000s sometime.

The diesel is the far more practical solution but coming from NA manuals all my life it would be too much of a shift for me into a turbo diesel so V6 with flappy paddles it is.

Does anyone else have anything to add on V6 consumption - perhaps now that they'll have a few more k's onboard?

Just be thankful you live in Canberra. It shouldn't be so bad. I average around 12.5L around Sydney. Combined.

[Twin_Dad]

I've got the V6 wagon and in Adelaide, within close metro I tend to get about 11.3L/100km. The best I've gotten it down to was 9.4(ish) on a purely highway drive.

Regarding D vs S vs Manuel modes, coming from a high revving Civic Type R I find the Drive software very frustrating (when I want to go, I want to go NOW not after the computer thinks about it) and don't even get me started on the pathetic software programming for below 20kph. I don't have the flappy paddles so I find the manual mode a bit underwhelming in its execution. The Sport mode hangs on far to long to be used in urban situations but is great through the hills.

If it wasn't under lease I'd have Transporter around to get a DSG tune.