Fuel Consumption of Passat

[sloutch]

Hi guys,

just thought if i can start a thread with regards to fuel consumption on your passats. Be it the R36, CC or normal passat, can everyone share with me their info? I'll start

Model : Passat R36
Year : 2009
Mods: Catback + Air Intake + ECU flash
Fuel : BP Ultimate
Consumption: I get 500kms to a full tank with 80% driving in the city.

Thanks

[richdave]

Model : Passat 125 TDI
Year : 2007
Mods: None
Fuel : Diesel
Consumption: I get between 850 and 1050 km per tank with a long term average of 7.38 lt/100km

[passatpout]

Model : Passat TDI
Year : 2008
Mods: Nil
Fuel : Diesel - usually BP, sometimes Mobil
Consumption: I'm disappointed if I don't get 1000km from a tank, with about 60/40 country/town driving. Long term average of 6.34l/100km.

[theplanner]

Model : Passat R36
Year : 2008
Mods: Nil
Fuel :BP Ultimate (Most of the time), Occasional Shell
Consumption: about 500kms to a full tank with 95% driving in the city. I think I average around 13litres/100kms

[drbass]

Model : Passat TDI (PD engine)
Year : 2008
Mods: Nil
Fuel : Diesel - usually Shell, sometimes BP
Consumption: I'm aiming to get 1000km from a tank (often successfully), with about 30/70 country/town driving. Long term average of 6.81 l/100km.

[Swallowtail]

Model : Passat R36
Year : 2009
Mods: Nil
Fuel :BP Ultimate
Consumption: about 550kms to a 60 ish L fill, so average about 11l/100km. 50/50 highway and city.

[vanDub]

Model : Passat TDI
Year : 2008
Mods: Nil
Fuel : Diesel - Shell
Consumption: 7.13L/100Km over 21K with 95% city driving. Usually get <6L/100Km on occasional highway run.

[apom]

Model : Passat R36 Wagon
Year : 2009
Mods: Nil
Fuel :BP Ultimate
Consumption: about 550kms to a 60 ish L fill, so average about 11l.5/100km. 70/30 highway and city.

[Steve]

Model: R36 wagon.
Year: 2008.
Modifications: None.
Fuel: BP Ultimate.
Consumption: ~400km between 60 litre fills. City and suburban driving.

[vwrallycar]

Model: Passat 125kw TDI
Year: 2009
Mods: none
Fuel: BP
Consumption: easy 850kms all town driving, have got 1200kms highway with about 10% of that city. car averages 5L/100km on the highway with 4 people, car fully loaded.

[sci_fianime]

Model : Passat B5.5 1.8T
Year : 2001 (Oldest in this thread... )
Mods: Too many to list
Fuel : Shell or Caltex
Consumption: I get around 450kms to a full tank with mostly city driving.

[Luminary]

Model: R36 sedan.
Year: 2009.
Modifications: None.
Fuel: Unknown 98.
Consumption: 10.6 L/100km

All city driving so far. Only 210 km on the clock though. Petrol gauge is a little above half way. When delivered the car had 29km on the clock - obviously someone had joyrided etc. and petrol wasn't totally full. Consumption at that point was showing 13.8 L/100km and has been steadily decreasing since I've been driving. Has been as low as 10.1 L/100km.

I think you need another parameter...

Aircon use: 10% of time in car. Mostly off.

[sloutch]

Model: R36 sedan.
Year: 2009.
Modifications: None.
Fuel: Unknown 98.
Consumption: 10.6 L/100km

All city driving so far. Only 210 km on the clock though. Petrol gauge is a little above half way. When delivered the car had 29km on the clock - obviously someone had joyrided etc. and petrol wasn't totally full. Consumption at that point was showing 13.8 L/100km and has been steadily decreasing since I've been driving. Has been as low as 10.1 L/100km.

I think you need another parameter...

Aircon use: 10% of time in car. Mostly off.

Aircon doesn't really use up much of your petrol. To be honest, i've driven at with air con switched on 99% of the time i had my car LOL.

Great write up guys, everyone else, please share with us your consumption.

Cheers

[Luminary]

Aircon doesn't really use up much of your petrol. To be honest, i've driven at with air con switched on 99% of the time i had my car LOL.

Great write up guys, everyone else, please share with us your consumption.

Cheers

My experience has been that aircon increases fuel consumption by at least 1L /100km.

Try driving a tank with it off and you can see for yourself.

[Caddyman]

aircon off or on? always on auto I say, you guys with TDI's may have bought for economy and may wish to improve it by switching it off, but I certainly didn't buy an R36 for economy

average for 22,000 km? 11.8 L/100km (as per the MFD - not always exact)pretty good for a car that can keep up with V8 Falcodores... most of that is round very hilly town near my place, the occasional freeway run etc.

how many Km per tank?? silly comparison if you ask me, all depends when you fill up, was there 4 litres left, 10 litres left? 1 litre??? did you fill it so you could see the fuel in the filler neck??? or did you stop after one click?? too many variables.

The only way to accurately measure fuel usage is over a long period of time (say 5000km) using total distance travelled and total fuel used. of all my cars that have an average fuel consumption readout, all have been inaccurate. the worst being a subaru outback(about 13% out). I have not checked the R36 for accuracy as once again I didn't buy it for its economy! but I did buy it for its performance

rant over...

Matthew