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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: ub7rm on 22 September 2009, 20:38
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Yes yes I know its a well worn (and boring) subject but at the beginning of the week I was stuck in a convoy for about 60 miles on poor roads doing between 50-60 mph. No stop / start driving at all but it was pretty mountainous. The mountains averaged out though so started at sea level and finished at sea level. Managed to get 41.1 mpg. Pretty impressive I thought...
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Anyone seen any better? I think if it hadn't been for the mountains it could have been a bit better.
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Impressive, most impressive.
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lol @ Spaced :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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Well done!
I didn't think it was was possible, but I got 38.5 mpg in my mapped ed 30 - cruise on at 70mph for 250 miles non-stop (well, slowed down a bit on the long roadworks on the M1 around nottingham). Not sure how accurate these computers are, but it made me feel like I'd saved a fortune on fuel as I've just added 2k miles in 2 weeks!
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I get 43 mpg most mornings on my commute from Huddersfield to Leeds.
Bizzarely i ony get 35 mpg on the same journey home - must be more uphills.
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Not bad,never got mine near that yet !!!!! :laugh:.Time to re-set you'r trip counter ? :grin:
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Get around 37-38 to my drive into work most mornings. Sometimes I have seen 40mpg.
The same drive home only gets me around 33-34mpg though.
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Good work, nice MPG, must have been a boring drive tho :(
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Yes it was pretty boring, but maybe not as bad as you might think. The condition of the road made driving at that speed reasonably entertaining.
Once I got off that road, I had a 150 mile journey on a good road where I opened her up quite a bit. Overall average for the entire journey was 38.5. I thought the stints of 80+ (kph :rolleyes:) would muller the fuel consumption but it didn't.
I'm just excited to see anything over 30 mpg, normal commute gets me around 25-29mpg. Still, its not the reason I chose this car.
I also notice my MPG on the way home from work is always better than on the way in, going to work is uphill, going home is downhill :smiley:
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Get around 37-38 to my drive into work most mornings. Sometimes I have seen 40mpg.
The same drive home only gets me around 33-34mpg though.
Maybe the computer doesn't like been woken up early and tells porkies!
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always a bit more keen to get home from work instead of too work so mpg be damned! :evil:
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I suppose if you are able to get 40mpg+ it's a good sign that your engine is in good order and not losing power.
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I suppose if you are able to get 40mpg+ it's a good sign that your engine is in good order and not losing power.
can you link mpg with condition of engine in power sense?
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^^ I think what he means is that if it was running rich or lean you wouldn't get good mpg. Poor mpg is usually a good indicator of something wrong...
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most ive seen was 40.6 mpg on a 60miles commute from wakefield to accrington, was a fairly boring drive at 60-70mph all the way there but my fuel to pump went up this made it alot easier to drive at that speed lol
i average around 20-25 around town and normal motorway journey around 30-35mpg
quite happy with that bar the town figure lol
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I regularly get 42mpg on a light footed cruise on 250+ mile trips. Even if my food gets a little heavier, my mpg doesn't drop below 36ish. My car has a re-map only.