Official Fuel Economy Thread (formerly Highway economy).

[jimbomort]

We averaged 7.2 in our TSI yesterday, over about 400kays. I was very happy with this as included a fair bit of driving in Brisbane and some stop start on the freeway, plus air con about 1/3 of trip and 115-120 in 110 zones and 108-110 in 100 zones.

This was from the MFD, previous experience shows actual was probably more like 7.5.

[ChrisJ]

I got 4.8 coming down from the Blue Mountains from Mt Tomah Bells Line of Road, Richmond, M7, M4, to Lilyfield. And that was with roof racks on.

[team_v]

I got 4.8 coming down from the Blue Mountains from Mt Tomah Bells Line of Road, Richmond, M7, M4, to Lilyfield. And that was with roof racks on.

Now that is awesome!
Love the smooth downhill runs with limited traffic.

[Jamanta]

7.4 on the second tank (pump avg). 1st doesn't count as it was filled in by the dealer...

But I can feel the car is running looser now. MFD avg has already dropped to 7.5.

[BLKBORA]

My 125TSI DSG gets about 8ltr/100kms on average, very impressed with that.

[team_v]

My 125TSI DSG gets about 8ltr/100kms on average, very impressed with that.

Is that babying it?

I gave mine the beans on the way home this morning and maxed at 9 but the average was 8.

[BLKBORA]

Just normal driving, definitely not granny driving though, I reckon the car can do 7.5 if i really drive like a granny...

[team_v]

Just normal driving, definitely not granny driving though, I reckon the car can do 7.5 if i really drive like a granny...

Granny driving should be able to net you low 7's
The best average i have seen in mine was 6.6 but that was highway driving in 6th gear.

[donweather]

Well I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did 2 trips to the coast, and the remainder was city driving, and just calculated I did 626km with around 8 litres left in the tank (ie 56 litres of fuel used). So doing the numbers, that comes to around 8.9l/100km. So I'm still dumbfounded as to how some of you guys are achieving under 8l/100km in a TSI for city driving??

[team_v]

Babying it really helps.
If you have the cruise control on and make sure the needle hangs below the 2000RPM mark you can get great figures.

If you really want to get low figures pop it in neutral whenever you are going downhill (probably not safe or anything but the average fuel consumption then is 1.1L/100km lol.)