Fuel Crisis - 500 miles to a tank.

[Ej1749]

I’m not here to teach people to suck eggs. However, I have managed 500 miles to a tank. I have a 22 miles A1/Motorwayish/highway road for the Americans to my place of work. 1 mile out to the A1 and 1 mile to my office from the A1.

I have managed 500 miles in my MK7 GTD at the hideous price of fuel. I have been trailing lorries in adaptive cruise control. I find it be best at level 3 on the distance thingy, as there is less heavy braking and accelerating when the lorries hit inclines etc. Too close and you’re slowing and accelerating too quickly.

Everyone says that eco mode is pointless. (I agree somewhat). I find that eco mode is not really about economy, it’s is more about  adjusting your driving style to not drive as intensely. In eco mode, the throttle and everything is very slow and dulled down as you know. This is great for driving like a granny. Which when I use adaptive Cruise Control it is great. I have found to get another 75-100 miles per tank by trailing behind lorries. This is the only time in my life where lorries haven’t pissed me off.

Average behind a lorry is 62-65mpg (UK mpg).
If anyone has any further advice please let me know - I would use vegetable oil, but my car is too new haha!

[Watts]

That's great and I too am impressed with the economy from these cars but (within reason dependant on how high the fuel price gets) I still want to enjoy driving so I'm prepared for my travel costs to be higher. If it was just about economy I'd have bought a different car.

[Rudedog]

Used to do this in my previous TDi but drafting behind really risks the rubbish from the road peppering your bonnet and screen, also obviously using ACC behind an HGV means you are driving at around 56 mph... even when I'm getting 51 mpg using petrol I'm going at 65 mph.

[Adam T7]

Just completed a 412 mile round trip with 85 mile range still showing. Mostly Motorway at c.70 mph

[Vwjap]

I used to get 700 miles from fill up to light on on a tdi on the motorway 🤷‍♂️ Bout a mile from a1, 600 if driving to Luton via the back roads

[Watts]

I filled up today in rural Dorset with BP Ultimate super unleaded, £2.08 a litre!

[Carbon VW]

Petrol (95 Ron) is €2.40 in Ireland so ye are still ok over there !!

[Adam T7]

Shell V-Power was £2.059 a litre yesterday in sunny South Manchester.
I’ve only ever used V-Power apart from one fill up last year during the silly shortage when I could only find E5.

[rwleigh]

I've been driving somewhat more carefully recently with the cost of fuel being so high, i can now get over 500 miles to a tank in my CS40 which i think is amazing really.

[Adam T7]

I've been driving somewhat more carefully recently with the cost of fuel being so high, i can now get over 500 miles to a tank in my CS40 which i think is amazing really.

Same here👍
Car before my GTI was a Discovery 4 with a 3 litre twin turbo Diesel that had an 80 litre tank. Best mileage I could ever get was very low 30’s on a long run driving at sub 70 mph. I thank God I don’t have it now.