118 TSI Fuel Range

[Cannavaro]

Hi all,

My Passat 118TSI arrives in January (woohoo!).

Question, with the 70 litre tank what is the average km's you would travel before having to re-fuel?

I am hoping that it is much better than my 400km's in my current Honda Prelude.

Cheers.

[brad]

It totally depends on how & where you drive.

I assume the Passat 118TSI is the 1.8 litre?

I have the same engine in my Skoda Octavia M6. The Skoda weighs about 1400kg & has a 55L fuel tank and it has 108,000km on the odo. It was run-in "with vigour" but not thrashed. It doesn't burn oil. I've had a bluefin ECU remap & I run Shell 98ron because I'm addicted to shopper-dockets.

The worst I've ever got out of an individual tank is 7.9L/100; the best is 6.0L/100. I average 6.7L/100km. The most I've ever got out of it is 850km from 54L.

Assuming that the extra weight of the Passat gives you ~8L/100km you can count on getting a regular 800km+ after the vehicle is run-in.

Don'y try for good fuel economy in the first few thousand km. Concentrate on getting some pressure behind the rings so that it beds-in nicely. You'll also find that the fuel economy improves after 10,000km.

[Cannavaro]

Concentrate on getting some pressure behind the rings so that it beds-in nicely.

Thanks for the reply..looks very promising indeed!

What do you mean by the line above?

[brad]

Use 1/3-2/3 throttle & get the turbo boosting a bit. Don't rev the bejeesus out of it but don't let it lug either. Accelerate briskly up to speed & then take foot totally off throttle & let it over-run as it slows. Don't use cruise control for the first 2000-3000km. Don't let it drop into 6th for the first 1000km.

I don't believe in "drive it like you stole it" but I also don't believe in babying the engine either.

[guthrie]

I get around 10l/100km in bad stop/start traffic.
On the open road it quickly drops to about 6.5l/100km.

These figures are using 98RON fuel

[bruster]

Hi, I have a 118tsi and regularly get 650-700 kms per tank on normal traffic.
My current economy is 9.2l/100 and on trips down to Canberra I have reached 5.7l/100.
For the size of the car it's economy is fantastic you can't go wrong.
I don't drive like a granny either..