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On my 90 TSI manual I reckon it is around 70km/h in 6th at around 1500rpm, just after it's reached peak torque. It would bring in an average well below 4L/100km (even 3.5 maybe) but where would you have the patience to try it? It would certainly piss off most other road users.
Sounds like a perfectly normal speed for a Sydney urban Motorway.
Somedays I dream of being able to motor along doing a heady 70kph.
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Yeah I seem to be getting the best around 70km/h as well in 7th around 1500RPM. The road surface and gradient obviously changes it but I do seem to hover around 3.6-4.2. My car's done around 2500KM.
Yeah I seem to be getting the best around 70km/h as well in 7th around 1500RPM. The road surface and gradient obviously changes it but I do seem to hover around 3.6-4.2. My car's done around 2500KM.
The engine is still bedding in. You should be keeping it spinning above 2000rpm. Use the manual feature. What you spend on fuel now you'll save later.
carandimage The place where Off-Topic is On-Topic I used to think I was anal-retentive until I started getting involved in car forums
The engine is still bedding in. You should be keeping it spinning above 2000rpm. Use the manual feature. What you spend on fuel now you'll save later.
Oh really? I've never heard of that. I've absolutely bashed my engine if I'm honest. Took it to some mountain roads. But ill leave it in 5th or somethkng
So I decided to start tracking my fuel usage accurately via fuelly: Black Mk7 Golf (Volkswagen Golf) | Fuelly. Currently only 3 fill ups and ~2000km recorded, but my average is 5.7L/100km which is bang on with the rated mixed mode figure. I actually do a 50/50 mix of driving too. The current long term average is according the car computer is 5.3L/100km and the car is at ~9000km now.
Perth peak-hour/shoulder driving Mitchell Freeway, in a diesel wagon, my average when I try to watch it is about 6 l/100km. There's a hill at the end/start of the trip in East Perth that stuffs the figures every time. By the refill-at-pump figures (still only 3200 km on the car) it's 6 to 6.5/100km. It seems best when set to Eco mode and Coast whenever possible - accelerate modestly to a speed then coast until I need to catch up again. Pisses off the tailgaters tho. Better than the previous petrol Mk6 118TSI tho - it was about 7 to 7.5, no difference between 1st and 2nd engines (lemon alert).
When I was going long distance (112km round trip) for work I never averaged more than 5.2l/100km on the trip - was getting minimum 900km from a tank.
Now I travel <5km to work and I am averaging about 9-10l/100km.
Recently went on a 1900km road-trip with some mates and fully loaded with some very enthusiastic driving on some nice twisty roads, I averaged 7.4l/100km. Mates MkV R32, on the same trip, averaged 8.5l/100km.
Just for interest's sake. I was getting round 6 l/100 km from our TDI wagon, sometimes down to 5 l/100km if I tried hard, before it broke a week back (see other thread). This at less than 4500 km. The replacement hire Passat, a 118TSI sedan 2013 build, is returning round 7 to 9 l/100 km. Quite a bit thirstier for the same driving conditions. And the Golf's a nicer drive, tho noticeably slightly narrower seat-wise.
Done about 5500k's, really hasn't improved that dramatically from the start, although it is still being broken in, I've driven it very hard. Averaging about 5.9 I'd say.
Most of my driving has averaged around 8.5-9L/100km as I have never tried to drive economically during run-in and usually can't resist giving it a bit of a boot whenever it looks safe.
I made an effort to drive 'normally' and had a reasonably good run home from soccer (still plenty of lights though): 6.7L/100kms in normal mode, not that it makes much of a difference with a manual. Very happy with that, particularly as I've only put 2,000kms on it! It should be into the 5s once I add in some highway driving.
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