Gotta love Tdi economy

[transporterq]

Just completed the trip to Melbourne and back for the VW show, was a great show. Used just over half a tank of diesel there and about the same to get back. Did not record anything on the way over, but just filled up, taken 40 litres and covered 727.1 Km's, that’s around 5.5 L per 100 Km's, if my sums are correct. It has taken a few more days to gat back, but I will post that reason in the "103kW/125kw TDI PD Piezo Siemens injector failure thread" soon.

[kaanage]

Lost my nerve at 1201km today coming home from the Melbourne monthly cruise and poured in the 10 litre carry can of diesel I was carrying. Then filled up at a servo at 1277km with a total of 60.74 litres of fuel.

Based on the 4.76 / 100km average mileage (about 75% suburban, 25% cruising), the car had used 57.1 litres of fuel when I chickened out - pretty good for a car with a 45 litre fuel tank!!

[gldgti]

holy cow.... assuming you can squeeze about 48-49 L in there, your looking at 4l/100km... thats incredible for the real world.

Hang on now I'm really confused.... you put in 10l from your jerry can, and you put in 60.74 at the pump.....minus about 4l for your 77km.... so your fuel tank is holding 66 odd litres?

Somethings gone astray (perhaps in my head)

[ian]

I'm just happy that i can fill in Sydney and drive to Brisbane and still have enought fuel to drive around before i have to fill up .in my GT sports

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holy cow.... assuming you can squeeze about 48-49 L in there, your looking at 4l/100km... thats incredible for the real world.

Hang on now I'm really confused.... you put in 10l from your jerry can, and you put in 60.74 at the pump.....minus about 4l for your 77km.... so your fuel tank is holding 66 odd litres?

Somethings gone astray (perhaps in my head)

The tank holds 55 litres but you can squeze in a couple of extra litres/

[gldgti]

pretty good for a car with a 45 litre fuel tank!!

^^^this is whats confused me^^^

my octavia is supposed to be 55l but I can often put in 55-57l.... assuming theres some fuel left, it must hold a little more.

[kaanage]

Hang on now I'm really confused.... you put in 10l from your jerry can, and you put in 60.74 at the pump.....minus about 4l for your 77km.... so your fuel tank is holding 66 odd litres?

Somethings gone astray (perhaps in my head)

Sorry, the 60.74 litres includes the 10 that I added from the can at 1201km. At the servo when I was at 1277 km, I put in 50.74 litres.
From the average mileage (60.74 / 1277 * 100 = 4.76 l / 100km), I reckon that I had used 57.1 litres at the 1201 km point (60.74 / 1277 * 1201).

Still pretty happy with the mileage, given it's real world use - I do work it hard for economy so it's nice to see it work.

^^^this is whats confused me^^^

my octavia is supposed to be 55l but I can often put in 55-57l.... assuming theres some fuel left, it must hold a little more.

The Polo is supposed to hold 45 litres in the tank but if I vent it (you can do this in the MkIV Golf and 9N Polo while filling up) then you can put in about 10 extra litres. Obviously the Polo holds a bit more than 45 litres even when filled normally

[ohammond]

Hey all,

Picking up my Mk VI 103TDI DSG tomorrow hopefully - so it will be interesting to see how it compares to my Mk V 103TDI 6sp Manual - especially given that the VI has the sports pack fitted.

Having rattled off 380K+ in less than 6 years in the MkV i've had the chance to see a lot of 1000km+ tanks (adjusted for GPS) with a best run of 6 consecutive tanks with the last one being 1112km. Regularly saw it into the low 4's/high 3' per 100km over 100+km distances (Coffs to Newcastle @4.0 at the bowser)- with a best of display value 2.6L/100 from Moss Vale to the start of the F3.

[gldgti]

wow, those are great numbers.

almost makes me consider trying to sell my octy 1.9 to get a 2.0l..... nah.

[jazd]

All I can say is that you must drive extremely slow...

[jamie88]

My lowest was 3.9. Newcastle to Sydney. With mum in the car lol