Fuel Consumption of Passat

[Swallowtail]

Model : R36 Passat Wagon
Year : 2009
Mods : Nil
Fuel : Shell V Power
Average : 410km to 60 litres of fuel.

Holy crap.... Must be all town running? I get about 550 out of a tank on mine.

[tryingavw]

Running on empty... testing the empty needle.

Not sure about the fuel consumption but i tested the Empty reading...

Sunday jumped in the passat to go from elsternwick to pakenham - about 110 return.

some way down the road i realized the gauge was near empty, and the range showed about 70. I hadnt grabbed the wallet and only had $5 in my pocket.

a quick calculation meant i could make it if i put the $5 in at pakenham. at my destination the range showed 40 before i stopped. needle on the empty line.

Trouble is after i filled up the car showed range = 30! And the needle hadnt moved much.

Anyway as i drove along the range kept building up - got to 70 and i made it home.

Lesson to learn- if you grab the wife's car, take money, phone and credit cards.

[Hypo]

Holy crap.... Must be all town running? I get about 550 out of a tank on mine.

Yeah I haven't been on th highway yet.

I also wait to rev past 3k until the oil temp hits 80.

It isn't any worse then my old Prado was so I am not really noticing a financial difference.

[sloutch]

Yeah I haven't been on th highway yet.

I also wait to rev past 3k until the oil temp hits 80.

It isn't any worse then my old Prado was so I am not really noticing a financial difference.

Around town i hardly have the chance to rev above 3k to be honest. Not even 2.5k revs at times.

[apom]

Have you tried changing fuels, either Ultimate it Vortex 98 to see if it makes any difference. B4 I had the R36 I had a Monaro and that used to drink Shell fuel and anything with ethanol in it like you would believe. There was almost a 25% difference with that car, it was amazing.

That said, my wifes Honda Jazz was the opposite, It used to get at least an extra litre / 100km when NOT using BP or Caltex fuel.

[Rocket36]

FWIW, weekend just gone I did the following trip...

Canberra to Kent Street, Sydney via Nowra (from Sutton Forrest through Exeter and the Kangaroo valley) and back the same way.

Average fuel consumption for the whol trip was 9.8 litres per 100km. And that includes a lot of spirited driving (LOVE the drive from Exeter to Nowra).

Average fuel consumpltion for just the dual lane Hume Hwy /Federal Hwy (Canberra to Sutton Forrest Shell/Mcdonalds and back) was 9.0 litres per 100km.

[Greggles]

FWIW, weekend just gone I did the following trip...

Canberra to Kent Street, Sydney via Nowra (from Sutton Forrest through Exeter and the Kangaroo valley) and back the same way.

Drool....now that's my kind of drive!

[Rocket36]

Drool....now that's my kind of drive!

Any time you want to go to....... Say Berry, for a pie, just let me know...

It's such a quiet piece of road too (from Sutton Forrest McDonalds to Nowra) and as long as there's some hair on ya balls, if you come to something slower you can usually get by pretty quick.

[Cro]

On my spirited drive day through NSW & VIC Snowies (see my road trip thread), I averaged 16.1L for the ~917km day.

[Lance B]

FWIW, weekend just gone I did the following trip...

Canberra to Kent Street, Sydney via Nowra (from Sutton Forrest through Exeter and the Kangaroo valley) and back the same way.

Average fuel consumption for the whol trip was 9.8 litres per 100km. And that includes a lot of spirited driving (LOVE the drive from Exeter to Nowra).

Yeah, that is one of the best drives in Australia. I went on it for the first time a few months ago and loved it.

Average fuel consumpltion for just the dual lane Hume Hwy /Federal Hwy (Canberra to Sutton Forrest Shell/Mcdonalds and back) was 9.0 litres per 100km.

[Lance B]

Any time you want to go to....... Say Berry, for a pie, just let me know...

It's such a quiet piece of road too (from Sutton Forrest McDonalds to Nowra) and as long as there's some hair on ya balls, if you come to something slower you can usually get by pretty quick.

If you guys don't mind, I might try to make it too, if I can.

[ACTR36Wagon]

Model : Passat R36 Wagon
Year : 2009
Mods: nil
Fuel : Mostly Shell and Caltex 98 variants
Air Conditioning: usually on (I reckon drivers foot makes more difference than having A/C on or off)
Consumption: computer 2 says 10.4 average after 90 hours of driving.
I expect 500km -ish between refills around town, often get better.
Can get under 10.0 driving home (25km) if late (not much traffic) and I'm chilled out. More like over 11 if out of D and in S or using tiptronic heaps.
Trip computer forecasts over 700km from tank on long highway runs but my destinations are usually not that far away, so never tested it.