The MK6 Fuel Consumption (Most / Least per Tank) Thread

[ctan]

I do about 100k return each day peak hour on the Sydney M5 motorway. The last 2 tanks have averaged 6.5l/100 km. I use BP ultimate.

[cameronp]

So I've just observed first hand the difference that altitude makes: went to dinner in the Perth hills tonight. Got 7.1 L/100km on the way up, and 5.1 L/100km on the way down (!). Even the up-hill figure is way better than I get around town.

[MariusGT]

So I've just observed first hand the difference that altitude makes: went to dinner in the Perth hills tonight. Got 7.1 L/100km on the way up, and 5.1 L/100km on the way down (!). Even the up-hill figure is way better than I get around town.

Really?

i did notice great economy when i drove to thredbo recently. that is a steady incline though..

when i visit my sister down near Bega i drive the monaro/snowy mountains highway.. great economy on way down (using manual to hold speed rather than brake the entire way down hill). On trip back to Sydney though i SMASH through the fuel on way up --> very steep.

[blanch0b]

LEAST and MOST km's from a full tank of petrol? (particularly for the GTI)

Thought id start this thread - there are other threads on fuel consumption (per100km) but nothing that i can find on the least amount of kms youve acheived....

Interested to hear peoples least, most and average kms they get out of a full tank of premium petrol for both the 118 and GTI.... particularly for the GTI

I have a gti and about to fill up for the first time, ive done around 490km for my first tank and i havent exactly been babying the car so im pretty happy with the economy thus far....

[pologti18t]

Stop using "kms per tank".... it's confusing and means nothing as we dont know what people mean by "a tank of petrol"

l/100km is the way to go.

[blanch0b]

my l/100km varies so much for each drive, i dont know how to set it so that it gives me an average for a full tank? sometimes its says 18l/100km, other times 10l/100km....

also not sure what u mean when u say 'a full tank of petrol' is confusing - at the end of the day a full tank of petrol will get you X far... i know theres many variables involved

[ozgti]

First full tank to the ding was 620.
My current reading/estimate is 720km Combined.
95 Ron tends to give me 50kms more per tank. Go figure!

[Corey_R]

also not sure what u mean when u say 'a full tank of petrol' is confusing - at the end of the day a full tank of petrol will get you X far... i know theres many variables involved

What IS a full tank though?
Is a "full tank" when the car puts its 'low fuel warning' message up? Or when the car says that it's "empty"? Or 50 to 100km after the car says its "empty" and stalls because it's actually empty?

Even after you define that, the next hurdle is "How large is your tank"? Even in the Golf series there are two tank sizes - 55L and 60L. These are also not comparable to any other car with other sized tanks, again making the "full tank of petrol" a very vague and pointless exercise.

Hence why, as pologti18t stated, the question should really be, what's the highest and lowest and average L/100km you've received. Only then do you have useful information...

my l/100km varies so much for each drive, i dont know how to set it so that it gives me an average for a full tank? sometimes its says 18l/100km, other times 10l/100km...

All modern VW's have TWO trip meters. They have the '1' trip meter which gives the figures for just that trip (or subsequent trips within 2 hours of the car being turned off). You then have the '2' trip meter which gives you the total for all trips until you reset it (there are some limits, but they're more than you'd need to worry about). So all you do is reset the '2' trip meter when you fill up, and it gives you the "L/100km" and distance travelled and all that for "each tank".

This is detailed in your owners manual

[ConR]

Sitting at 7.8 for me right now!! Was 10.1 for the first month of ownership. Getting better. 6500km on the clock.

[Maltopia]

I accidently reset my memory 2 after 400 Km

I look to be getting 600 Km till empty on the first tank assuming the dealer filled it to the brim with BP Ultimate, though it came with 23 Km on the clock and some of that would have been before the dealer filled her up.

[Flighter]

All modern VW's have TWO trip meters. They have the '1' trip meter which gives the figures for just that trip (or subsequent trips within 2 hours of the car being turned off). You then have the '2' trip meter which gives you the total for all trips until you reset it (there are some limits, but they're more than you'd need to worry about).

Although I understood that my No. 2 trip meter would reset itself at the 10,000 km mark, I found it would do so more often, and at seemingly random times (not that I'm saying it matters much).

[Guy_H]

101.2kms from a tank. 42 laps of Lakeside raceway (MK6 GTI) - the reserve light doesn't stay on long at that consumption.

That was also 3.5 litres of oil I should mention too (Damn TSI's )

[Corey_R]

101.2kms from a tank. 42 laps of Lakeside raceway (MK6 GTI) - the reserve light doesn't stay on long at that consumption.

That was also 3.5 litres of oil I should mention too (Damn TSI's )

Lol.... since no one is likely to have lesser KM per tank than that, and any TDI is going to beat a GTI for more, I think this thread can now be closed (or changed to something which makes sense, i.e. L/100km, and then merged with the existing threads!)

[Brian]

Good one Guy, hope you filled the sump halfway else you would have been close to a "dry sump" car otherwise.

[Tux]

It totally makes sense to me as to lowest and highest distance from a tank... If I was doing a trip to Queensland from Sydney I wouldn't sit down and work out that I would get 7.8Km/100l which would then enable me to travel X amount of km before filling up??? I would expect on that type of trip that I would be able to get over 600 Km from a tank before I need to fill. The other side of the coin is that most of my driving is in Sydney traffic so I only expect to get between 350 and 400 Km.. I'd expect even less if I spent a day at the track.