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

[Pepe]

Wasn't a full tank, but did 4 laps of the Nurburgring 2 years ago in a Mk5 GTI DSG and that was over 30L of fuel...

[stealthfalcon]

5 days of urban driving, 2 days of countryside cruising, about 550 km to 620 km per tank ... or about 8.5l/100km. I think it is not bad for my car, considering that the urban driving route is full of red lights.

Recently, I was stuck in a jam on a 9km stretch along M5, and I got 9.1l/100km. Couldn't believe it, but of course, with MT, there's certain stretch where you do not need to press on the accelerator.

[Corey_R]

The other night from Goulburn St in Sydney, out to the Ettamogah pub at Rouse Hill, I got 5.5L/100km in my Polo GTI !!
Not bad for a car with a combined rating of 7.9L/100km. Oh, and I've got the APR Stage I running on it too.

Of course, I still probably average 8.2L/100km for a complete tank... I just can't resist mashing the pedal from time to time

[alebonau]

spend too much time in trafic for relevance !

a few questions, what have people found to be a tank ? ie whats the most petrol you got into a gti. last fill I got 52L in and most I have is 55L ! hehe I sort of forgot after the ding went to fill up. lucky didnt run out !

I am little confused re resetting the '2' L/100 trip meter. the 1 trip I find pretty useless as a lot of my trips can be pretty short. I'd rather know my L/100 from a tank so being able to reset '2' would be handy. any one can let me know how would be appreciated. and no I havent RTFM. Its in the car and usually when get in the car want to go for a ride hehe

[elisiX]

My daily commute is 20KM to work in Ultimo from Rhodes via Wynard (to drop the girl off), and 15KM from Ultimo to Rhodes.

Including the weekend driving I am doing about 350KM a week and I tend to fill up every Saturday with 1/4 or so left in the tank.

This week I did a trip to Terrigal with the normal weekly commute and got to 520KM with the MFD giving me 20KM warning to empty.

I tend to do a fair bit of driving in S so I don't think it's all that bad really. Always running highest rated 98ron.

[elephino]

I get between 7.1L/100 and 7.7L/100 on my 25km drive to work, and a slightly worse by up to 0.5L/100 return journey. Both are an improvement of around 0.5 over the old MkV GTI.

[brad]

best consumption was 6.1l/100. Have done that 4 times: 495km, 531, 568, 667.
worst 7.9l/100 (3 times).
average to date 6.8L/100 but that would be better without the remap & the wide tyres.
I regularly clock more than 700km between fills (and the fuel warning doesn't come on). Most was a few km over 800 for 51L.

edit: the most I ever filled was 56L

[ozgti]

best consumption was 6.1l/100. Have done that 4 times: 495km, 531, 568, 667.
worst 7.9l/100 (3 times).
average to date 6.8L/100 but that would be better without the remap & the wide tyres.
I regularly clock more than 700km between fills (and the fuel warning doesn't come on). Most was a few km over 800 for 51L.

edit: the most I ever filled was 56L

Petrol or diesel? I'm struggling to break 610, (Although I probably will this tank). City - hornsby at 8am, not the most free flowing of traffic out there!

[brad]

Petrol or diesel? I'm struggling to break 610, (Although I probably will this tank). City - hornsby at 8am, not the most free flowing of traffic out there!

Petrol. Running 98RON helps. My regular run is Blakehurst to Campbelltown against the traffic so I'm in 6 and cruising. The remap hasn't totally killed it - drove home the other day and traffic was heavy but flowing so I was sitting on 80kph So after 40km at the M5/KGR junction was sitting on 5.3L/100 - 5km later at home it was 5.8L/100.

This is in a 1.8TSI Skoda - so same family of engine as GTI but MkV chassis - probably heavier than a Golf too. It's also fully run in - 54,000km. I'm not sure why Guy H had a bitch about oil consumption - mine uses maybe 200ml every 15,000km. Never had to top up.

This probably sounds stupid but I get the best economy if the ambient temp is around 22-28 degrees. I have no idea why.

[Coaster]

This probably sounds stupid but I get the best economy if the ambient temp is around 22-28 degrees. I have no idea why.

Not stupid at all. My 118TSI has had the best fuel consumption during the month of May, when the mean air temp was 21.7ºC.

My highest consumption was unsurprisingly in end of Feb/start of March, when the temp was around 40ºC. I averaged 7.27l/100km for that tank, but I only just got the car then.

My lowest consumption is 5.95l/100km over a combined 1106km trip. So if you equate that to a 50l tank refill, that is 840km

[hooba]

This thread should be renamed to "Spot the accountant!".

[brad]

This thread should be renamed to "Spot the accountant!".

I'm an engineer & work with spreadsheets all day. Seemed kind of natural to graph my consumption to the Nth degree You aren't implying I'm a bit anal retentive are you?

[Corey_R]

You aren't implying I'm a bit anal retentive are you?

Nothing wrong with being anally retentive... I mean, who wants to be the opposite and wear nappies ?!

[hooba]

I'm an engineer & work with spreadsheets all day. Seemed kind of natural to graph my consumption to the Nth degree You aren't implying I'm a bit anal retentive are you?

No, just observing that there appears to be plenty of spreadsheet action going on.

I am however a bit disturbed by Coreying offering you some encouragement when it comes to anal!

[alebonau]

spend too much time in trafic for relevance !

a few questions, what have people found to be a tank ? ie whats the most petrol you got into a gti. last fill I got 52L in and most I have is 55L ! hehe I sort of forgot after the ding went to fill up. lucky didnt run out !

I am little confused re resetting the '2' L/100 trip meter. the 1 trip I find pretty useless as a lot of my trips can be pretty short. I'd rather know my L/100 from a tank so being able to reset '2' would be handy. any one can let me know how would be appreciated. and no I havent RTFM. Its in the car and usually when get in the car want to go for a ride hehe

Ok holding down the ok button while on the '2' trip resets it