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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Asbo Sovfinger on 23 April 2009, 21:52
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Just put my second full tank in and have only just crept over 300 miles. This is mainly short journeys with one motorway journey of about 140 miles. That sound ok??
Interestingly I only managed to get just over 40 litres into the tank and I thought the tank was 55 litres should I be concerned or have I been reading the wrong literature :laugh:
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confused. . .
so you've filled two tanks worth and only just got over 300 miles?
or one tank like the subject title says and got over 300?
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I never got anymore than 330 miles out of a tank on my 8v to be honest.
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Seem to get alot more on Super Unleaded from Tesco rather than the standard stuff.
Got 380 driving to Kettering! Well impressed.
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depends how you drive and how well your car/engine is maintained.
i got 360 out of a full tank of just normal unleaded with only a few foot down moments. :smiley: but then on the other hand did not much more than 200 on the same tank due to alot more foot downs!! :rolleyes: :grin: :smiley:
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Haha sh!t I got 160 if I was lucky in my valver!!!
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Haha sh!t I got 160 if I was lucky in my valver!!!
You should try my 5 series, £75 to fill the tank and lucky to see 400 miles.
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the pissats averaged 39.4mpg since i got her.....same as my gti really just not quite as much fun! :cry:
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i get around the same on my 8v. Maybe even less, 270-300. If i drive real carefully i get around 38mpg, but floor it and i see low 20s.
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Sorry, I should've said that it's my second full tank but I disconnected the battery between 1st and 2nd tank so couldn't really compare the two in terms of mileage etc.
Sounds like 300's a fair amount then seeing as 90% of the time I drive carefully, but I do have a couple of lovely routes that I drive frequently that I can't help but bring the noise. Will have to find some more slopes for a bit of free-wheeling perhaps :wink:
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I'm just approaching the red in my 8v and I'm up to 240!
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I did a steady 70-80 back from reading to Nottingham and got about 300 out of the tank.
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I can usually get 250 out of £30, so a full tank being about £50 - 60 (???) would get me 500+ :) I drive like a numpty at times as well so must be good.
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i get 250 out of £30 quids worth of petrol too so i would expect about in the region of 400 + from a tank full
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thing is a full tank is 55l, but whenever ive filled up, its about mid 30s....its really wierd....
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i get 250 out of £30 quids worth of petrol too so i would expect about in the region of 400 + from a tank full
not 400+ mate as if you put £30 in you wont get much more in.
yours a 16v too? how do you drive it? :shocked:
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I got 240 miles to my last tank. Drive it like you own a GTI.
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I have never worked it out, i didn't buy a vr6 for it's fuel consumption.
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I have never worked it out, i didn't buy a vr6 for it's fuel consumption.
Sometimes it is better to not work it out, I don't like working mine out.
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do i have a bigger tank than all of you or am i a really good driver
im getting 372 out of a tank
14.4 tank size
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lol @ really good driver :grin: :grin:
(Sunday driver more like)
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I worked it out that I got 400 miles to 38 ltrs...
Mostly motorway driving and yea, it's a diesel! (1.9TDI AHU)
Should I be getting more? (that's a steady 80mph methinks for most of it..)
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Just filled up £40 & 290miles longest journey is around 30miles but most between 2-15miles.
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lol yep good driver but mostly trying to figure out what i can get out of it
when im doing the high speeds of the interstate roads there is no saving fuel no matter what you do :evil:
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It's more the bendy roads in 2nd & 3rd that drain my fuel tank quickest!
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I drive carefully to save petrol and get good mileage but I agree with Mikester, it should be 'drive it like you stole it!'
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I got 240 miles to my last tank. Drive it like you own a GTI.
So sticking to the speed limits then yeah?
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I got 240 miles to my last tank. Drive it like you own a GTI.
So sticking to the speed limits then yeah?
Totally mate, but not poodling in 5th at 30mph, and accelerating so slow that you fall asleep, make the most of those gears and engine! lol
Its not a crime to drive your car, just dont go around redlining off each traffic light...
Let me guess, now your guna whine on about dangerous driving........ come on then
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I got 240 miles to my last tank. Drive it like you own a GTI.
So sticking to the speed limits then yeah?
Totally mate, but not poodling in 5th at 30mph, and accelerating so slow that you fall asleep, make the most of those gears and engine! lol
Its not a crime to drive your car, just dont go around redlining off each traffic light...
Let me guess, now your guna whine on about dangerous driving........ come on then
actually i wasnt :grin:
i was just gonna say i do the same most of the time, make full use of my engine within the speed limits.
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Its all about 2nd gear on the slip way to the motorway!
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Its all about 2nd gear on the slip way to the motorway!
oh yes :evil:
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
today i spent 3/4 of a tank with 250 miles, ofcourse, hardly touched below 70. :grin:
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I filled my tank up twice! :shocked:
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
That is good to be honest, more than a Gti would do.
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
That is good to be honest, more than a Gti would do.
I was well surprised, as usually my MPG is rubbish but this did it with ease :)
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
That is good to be honest, more than a Gti would do.
I was well surprised, as usually my MPG is rubbish but this did it with ease :)
Put it like this £100 in my Bmw gets me around 480 miles of mixed driving.
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
That is good to be honest, more than a Gti would do.
I was well surprised, as usually my MPG is rubbish but this did it with ease :)
Put it like this £100 in my Bmw gets me around 480 miles of mixed driving.
so you agree bmw's are rubbish???
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
That is good to be honest, more than a Gti would do.
I was well surprised, as usually my MPG is rubbish but this did it with ease :)
Put it like this £100 in my Bmw gets me around 480 miles of mixed driving.
so you agree bmw's are rubbish???
On petrol it's just silly, I would not like a car that got me just under 500 miles for £100, that's £1 for 4.80 miles!!! :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
That is good to be honest, more than a Gti would do.
I was well surprised, as usually my MPG is rubbish but this did it with ease :)
Put it like this £100 in my Bmw gets me around 480 miles of mixed driving.
so you agree bmw's are rubbish???
On petrol it's just silly, I would not like a car that got me just under 500 miles for £100, that's £1 for 4.80 miles!!! :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
...unless its something tasty like a lambo :evil:
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Or an R32 ;)
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I got 340 today from £40. That was with aircon on half the time and doing 80+ a lot of the time. Not bad going me thinks.
That is good to be honest, more than a Gti would do.
I was well surprised, as usually my MPG is rubbish but this did it with ease :)
Put it like this £100 in my Bmw gets me around 480 miles of mixed driving.
so you agree bmw's are rubbish???
Nope, I never expected my 5 series to be very good on petrol, it is a big heavy car with a 6 cylinder engine plus its an auto.
To be honest this month it has only had a few long runs, I never normally do that amount of miles, just a few friends have lent it for various reasons.
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i average 24mpg in the vr6 have had it down to average of 8mpg with my foot down
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130ish miles on £30 for me or about 245/260 on the full tank of 55ltrs.
ABF+HEAVY FOOT+HEAVILY TUNED= sh!t MPG lol :laugh:
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I got 70 miles the other day from £10. Hence the weight shredding.
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I got 70 miles the other day from £10. Hence the weight shredding.
Thats good, I got 89 from £20
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I got 70 miles the other day from £10. Hence the weight shredding.
Now my 1.6 8V Mk3 on a full tank of carefull driving on the M4, 80miles round trip works out to only get 350miles. I do 65 (70 for overtakes) and the damn thing just drinks. Is this normal for a 1.6. Reading posts im assuming you lot have mostly got GTI's. Seeing as i am getting a 2.0 16V Mk3 will i moan more :evil:
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I got 70 miles the other day from £10. Hence the weight shredding.
Now my 1.6 8V Mk3 on a full tank of carefull driving on the M4, 80miles round trip works out to only get 350miles. I do 65 (70 for overtakes) and the damn thing just drinks. Is this normal for a 1.6. Reading posts im assuming you lot have mostly got GTI's. Seeing as i am getting a 2.0 16V Mk3 will i moan more :evil:
To be honest you should find a 16v at least the same or better, yours will suffer as it is a small engine in a heavy car.
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I had a feeling it would or could be a bit better seeing as the engine wouldnt be pulling the car to much with the power. Like you say the car is heavy or as my mates have nicknames it, Panzerwagen :evil:
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i usualy get around 280 from a full tank, stop starting constantly and i do have a fairly heavy foot
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I drive a mk3 GTI 8v,
I average mid 30's to 40 out of town and mid 20's in town... low 20's if I feel the need to have a blast. :cool:
I generally get about 300 from a full tank, but Then I'm really startin to look for the petrol stations :smiley:
got 335 once but was mighty pleased when I pulled up at the pumps!
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okay just to ask again (as nobody answered :( )
I'm getting bout 100 miles to £10 in my TDI.
This right?
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okay just to ask again (as nobody answered :( )
I'm getting bout 100 miles to £10 in my TDI.
This right?
Yes sounds ok.
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snoogins, cheers buddy :)
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snoogins, cheers buddy :)
That's almost what I'm getting from my 1.8 petrol :P ;)
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Did a test lastnight, 67.5 miles on £10, and thats driving carefully :cry:. Roughly 14pence per miles (unless i worked that out badly wrong) :huh:
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Just driven from worcestershire to the lake district (i do it twice a week) and got a record 46.7 mpg from my gti colour concept. took me 2 hours and 40 mins. i was trying to keep it at 70ish (down to 65 over hills). My average for this journey is approx 43mpg. Not sure why this particular journey was so good although i was behind a large vehicle for about 80 miles inbetween birmingham and manchester; i guess the drag helped me along.
My mpg info on mfa 2 is 41.1mpg over the last 3094 miles. Not bad eh?
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I'm well feeling the V-power difference, I'm usually lucky to get 320 out of a tank of 95, but brimming it with V-power so far has given me 350, and I've got about half of the reserve left.
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I'm getting nowhere near 300 now as I'm only rarely doing journeys of more than 10 miles, most are only 3-4. Did a long motorway stint at the 1st fillup this month and was getting 45mpg but it's dropped drastically since then. The most difficult thing I find is that once the fuel gauge hits the top of the red reserve section it doesn't move so I've got no way of telling how much reserve there is, although I've never put more that 40 litres of fuel in. Makes it really hard to eke a tank out. Anyone else find the gauge doesn't move from the top of the red?
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after a lot of highway and one fuel additive i got a record 505 miles out of my 8v
only doing 65-70 at most and have few stops :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
so it went like this
95 octane + one lucas fuel additive + brand new air intake + not much stopping = 505 still with barely enough to get to the fuel station :smug: :grin: :grin: :cool:
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My valver is cheap compared to what i got used too, and i'm only 18 :grin:
My old saab, i was normally just over £80 to fill up (could only run premium because of tune), and got 250 miles.... eat that boys for poor mpg lol :shocked: On a topspeed run with it once, i managed to get an average of just over 4mpg over a 3 minute period lol. But then on the other hand i drove down and got to about london on one tank driving carefully (approx 550miles the tripometer was saying).
With my valver, i have been commuting from edinburgh to aberdeen every weekend. Last time i did it i got 43mpg for the whole journey :shocked: thats ace :smiley: and at uni now (in other words skint) i'm getting 45mpg wherever i go, although that involves no heater, no radio, heaps of free wheeling even about town, sticking to 60 on motorway, changing gear always at about 3000, but its doable. Oh, and the most important thing, making sure i don't hear induction sound. Then i know i'm accelerating too fast :wink: I'm gonna get over 500 on my next tank, i'll fill up to the top and take note of the mileage, then report back.
Tom
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how acurate is the computer on golfs ?? mines saying 52mpg
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Not very :smiley:
Mine shoots to 99.9 when I reset it, then slowly settles back down to the 30s/40s
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I thought it takes an average reading as of the moment you reset, so 99.9 is as you are probably going down hill, or in neutral, or not touching the accelerater, so you'll be getting much better than 99.9 but thats as high as it goes, then it averages out...
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bout 320-360 on my 8v, when im pushing 350 im really needing the fuel tho :grin:
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I was going about 20 last night in a que of traffic, and my computer was saying 26.8 mpg.. I really hope that isn't 100% accurate!
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on my commute it works itswefl upto 42 ish.. but i drive liek a grandad.. might be why my cars running so sluggish.. big build up of crap lol..
get about 400 miles to a tank, and normally put about 40 quid in to fill it
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I use my 8v for long commutes at present which over the week mount up to approximately 420 miles, and i always do this on 1 tank of fuel, been doing the same journey for 7 weeks, and it consists of a bit of motorway and A roads.. average speed over the run is around 50mph...and usually put in around 45-50litres..
The fuel gauge i think doesn't read right low down, as i always run into the reserve...the MFA generally reads around 40mpg over the tank (as i reset it every time i fill up), and the most i've seen on a individual run is 48mpg, but typically 40..
Around town before my long commutes cam along, i was getting around the 300miles to the tank.
DD
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Im currently doing this test, and have half a tank left and i have racked up 160miles so far :)
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I generally get about 130-150 miles out of 20 quid in the 8v but my comute to work us down the windiest of roads,I may try it on red diesel as I thought that's what ferrys are suppose to run on?! :grin:
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All this talk of over 30mpg... Mines averages about 23! (vr6)
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Since I put the new battery in about 3 months ago my valver is averaging 36.2mpg - which is a mix of conservative, and well... not so conservative driving. If I drive like my mum then it does 42mpg all day long. Lots of country roads and long sweeping bends that are too tempting not to attack on my way to and from work- albeit within the national speed limit though. Considering my mk2 16v only managed to averag 22mpg (although it was far from standard at 178bhp) then its quite good. No idea what I get from a tank as I've never measured it - but drive to work is 30 miles so 60 miles a day 5 times a week - 300 miles - and still 1/4 of a tank left most of the time.