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

[Nath]

great little app for the iphone (and related apple stuff) called AccuFuel has been a help to me, best so far is in the high 8.xl/100km around Sydney commuting so pretty happy.

[flappa]

I've found very little difference , from new to now (8000k's), whether Its me or my wife driving , using auto or manual changes (DSG).

I certainly haven't babied the GTI since getting it, but I haven't just coasted around either.

The difference between say 80kph and say 115kph in fuel , I found to be marginal , maybe 0.2 - 0.4/100k's. Its about the same if my wife is driving against my driving , and whether I use straight auto or use the manual function.

Around Canberra I average about 9.5/100 , my wife averages about 9.3/100. I believe the Book says city average is about 10/100 so I'm OK with that.

I didn't buy the GTI with fuel economy in mind, but I'm also not in the habit of just chucking money away.

[blanch0b]

this is great stuff guys, really useful.. this can be an obsession if u start to take it analy, i mean, well, you know what i mean

im struggling to get 500km out of a tank (with about 5l to go) but it is a brand newie (only filled up twice now) so havnet even hit the 1k mark.... i take it fuel economy gets about 10-1%ish+ better after the first few thousand kms?

[flappa]

Started out approx 7.4/100 equates to about 700k's per tank.

recent trip from Canberra to Sunshine Coast averaged about 7.7/100.

Trips around Canberra day to day , averaging about 9.3/100

[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

[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!

[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 ?!

[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?

[hooba]

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

[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

[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.

[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]

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

[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.

[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.