Official Fuel Economy Thread (formerly Highway economy).

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thanks Jim, that saves me hours!

[number 2]

That's OK then. I had a vibration rattle seemingly coming front passenger door. used to drive me crazy. Turns out it was the bloody iPod cable inside the glove box! (just another reason to remove everything in my life that has that little "i" at the start of it's name ).

My golf has a heat sheild rattle to but i usualy cant hear it. Service tech couldnt find it i decided not to push them into poking and proding my car. I also had another rattle driving me insane. Turned out to be the little button on the hand brake

[number 2]

Doing it manually is the only way. I generally go to the same servo and even to the same pump if l can. Fill it to the first click and reset the odometer straight away.

I do that as well. I write down car mileage, tank milage, liters cost and date. The l/100km on the computer is never accurate. Although, i fill it till fuel starts coming out the tank. Garunteed level. at best i get 5.0L/100km in my golf.

One time i filled up in Cobar, and i got 4.0l/ 100km. I thought it was strange, i had fuel at the top of the tank. turned out the only hose at that servo, only one open at night, was a hi flow one for trucks. I got 10 liters of air through the fuel frofing. I thought id never have to go through that PITA again. until yesterday...

[147Tig]

Sydney - Brisbane, 2 adults + 3 kids and filly loaded at the back, it did 9.09L/100km.

Brisbane - Sydney, I floored ... 9.5L/100km


The Tig only travelled 5500km

[Achtung Tiggy]

Sydney - Brisbane, 2 adults + 3 kids and filly loaded at the back, it did 9.09L/100km.

Brisbane - Sydney, I floored ... 9.5L/100km


The Tig only travelled 5500km

Those figures look good for a 147. Did you calculate it manually or get the reading off the MFD?

[147Tig]

Those figures look good for a 147. Did you calculate it manually or get the reading off the MFD?

That reading was manually done not from MFD reading. I was quite happy with the results

[tiguan125tsi]

Sydney to Gold Coast via the pacific highway, 2 adults, back fully loaded, 125TSI manual, averaged 7.4L per 100km. Aircon was on only 1/4 of the time. This was at night driving. Temperature under 20 degrees.

Gold Coast to Sydney via the pacific, same load on the car, half day time driving, half night time, with air con on 100% time, averaged 7.6L per 100km.

Very happy with it.

[147Tig]

Sydney to Gold Coast via the pacific highway, 2 adults, back fully loaded, 125TSI manual, averaged 7.4L per 100km. Aircon was on only 1/4 of the time. This was at night driving. Temperature under 20 degrees.

Gold Coast to Sydney via the pacific, same load on the car, half day time driving, half night time, with air con on 100% time, averaged 7.6L per 100km.

Very happy with it.

Wow, I though I had a good one but not. But I'm still happy with it

[tiguan125tsi]

Wow, I though I had a good one but not. But I'm still happy with it

the tiguan is awesome on fuel. your consumption is still very impressive considering the fully loaded car, the more powerful engine and the auto transmission. Well done mate

[jimbomort]

on a recent trip to moreton island return (off brisbane) from northern NSW we averaged 9.5l/100 actual, but that was with an average speed of 44klm/hr! Reason for that was 28% of driving distance was 4wdriving on deep sand. Our HWY consumption was 6.8/100 on way up and 7.1/100 on way back, that fully loaded 4 people in car, roofbox and towball mounted box. Trip up included about 30min of slow to stop start driving. Reason for diff despite that is no air con on way up and a slight tail wind. This based on the MFD, but from previous experience know those figs above are only 0.2-0.3 l/100 below actual, so close to 7.0 neat.

This also meant that our consumption on Moreton was about 16L/100. Appears high but that's quite reasonable for that type of driving. Always need to plan for much higher consumption (and therefore make sure tank is full) for that kind of driving.

This with a manual tranny and the APR remap