Range & Fuel Capacity

[Rocket36]

Well... Yesterday I managed to get the Range to show 0km while I was still driving along. Albeit for about 3km further when I pulled into a petrol station.

I brimmed it and it took 65 litres exactly! The distance driven was 520km, all around town driving with some agressive squirts every now and then included. So that's a good 12.5 litres per 100km. Happy with that for city driving!

Good to know there's another 5 litres to go when cutting it that close too which is at least 25km more at that efficiency.

Just thought I'd share. That's all in my .:R36 by the way.

Cheers!

[nivek]

Thanks for the info. Always good to know the true limits of the car.

The lowest I've ever gone is 25km remaining.

[Highlander]

Range

At 520 km on the trip meter, my slowcoach tractor CC generally shows range between 500 to 600 km. Last tank was 1090... 64 litres.... range 65 km.

Have seen zero range and put in 66.2 litres. Impressed that I can get that into a 70 litre tank. Slightly off topic but My 70 litre Holden ute tank took 55.8 litres AFTER running out of fuel. Holden service excuse was 15 litres was "retained to cool the fuel pump".

Actually to stop bashing myself up to badly for cancelling the V6 and buying the TDI, I have consoled myself with the fact that, at legal speeds, the TDI is probably quicker from Sydney to Melbourne than the V6 - as long as bladder control is maintained.

Of course Rocket, this is only my opinion.

Well... Yesterday I managed to get the Range to show 0km while I was still driving along. Albeit for about 3km further when I pulled into a petrol station.

I brimmed it and it took 65 litres exactly! The distance driven was 520km, all around town driving with some agressive squirts every now and then included. So that's a good 12.5 litres per 100km. Happy with that for city driving!

Good to know there's another 5 litres to go when cutting it that close too which is at least 25km more at that efficiency.

Just thought I'd share. That's all in my .:R36 by the way.

Cheers!

[Pana]

out of curiosity, what was the fuel gauge sitting on Rocket?

[Cro]

The R36 has a 68L tank, not a 70.

I ran out comming into Jindabyne from Thredbo, rolled down the last hill into the Shell at the bottom.
68L of fuel went in clicking several times.

[Rocket36]

from memory the fuel guage was about half way in the red...

[apom]

The R36 has a 68L tank, not a 70.

I ran out comming into Jindabyne from Thredbo, rolled down the last hill into the Shell at the bottom.
68L of fuel went in clicking several times.

What did it say in the range box on MFD cro?

[richdave]

according to the WVA website the fuel tank on all Passat variants are 70lt

09 Passat brochure

[Rocket36]

according to the WVA website the fuel tank on all Passat variants are 70lt

09 Passat brochure

Correct...

The R36 has a 68L tank, not a 70.

I ran out comming into Jindabyne from Thredbo, rolled down the last hill into the Shell at the bottom.
68L of fuel went in clicking several times.

And the reason the bowser reads low is because service stations are very cautious about their calibrations. Safer to read slightly in favour of the customer than to have Wieghts and Measures get a complaint from a customer, go out and check the bowser and find out it is in fact ripping people off!

[mikinoz]

I brimmed it and it took 65 litres exactly! The distance driven was 520km, all around town driving with some agressive squirts every now and then included. So that's a good 12.5 litres per 100km. Happy with that for city driving!

I think that qualification that city driving in this instance is between sheep stations.

I don't think that Sydney city driving would probably net you the same economy based on the traffic alone.

[Rocket36]

I live in Canberra. Never claimed it to be Sydney driving. But Canberra is a city and the entire tank I drove around Canberra only. Hence it was all based on my city driving. I get less than 10 litres per 100km on the highway to Sydney or Melbourne.

Moving to Melbourne for 3 months on Monday the 24th so will take note of the amount of petrol used and post economy of that drive too.

[richdave]

the bowser reads low is because service stations are very cautious about their calibrations. Safer to read slightly in favour of the customer than to have Wieghts and Measures get a complaint from a customer, go out and check the bowser and find out it is in fact ripping people off!

quite possibly true but there is NO WAY that the bowsers would be 2.857% out.

That would equate to hundreds or even thousands of dollars lost each week in sales...

I could believe 0.2% maybe tried googling the actual Aust standard but I could not find it...

[Rocket36]

Well I know for sure the service station (the busiest Shell, or Coles Express, in Canberra) used to have its bowsers calibrated in favour of the customer rather than run the risk of massive fines... I don't know by exactly how much though.

[Cro]

What did it say in the range box on MFD cro?

From memory, it was on 0 for about 15km's before it conked out.
I managed to restart it once for about 5 seconds, with no luck for another restart.

[R36 Dreamer]

I get less than 10 litres per 100km on the highway to Sydney or Melbourne.

How do people get less than 10L/100km on the highway? I sit on around 120-125km/h (satnav speed), and best I have seen (after filling up just out of sydney and resetting the trip computer) was 10.2 on a drive to Canberra.

I set the cruise and didnt touch the pedals from Pheasants nest to Just outside the ACT.....

Is something wrong with my car....

Average on Menu 2 of the average consumption says 12.3L/100.... which I am happy with, but everone else seems to do better!