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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Rolfe on 13 October 2009, 00:12
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When I fill the GTi up, the range display seems to think I've got about 420 miles there. After 100 miles or so it starts to reconsider, until by 200 miles it's more like 380. I might actually get 360 before I have to visit the petrol station. Does my driving continually disappoint, or what?
When I picked the car up the clock was 4 minutes fast. Soon, it was more like 5 minutes. I set it bang on to the second with the Radio 4 pips. It's already a minute fast again.
Not impressed, VW. :sad:
Rolfe.
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Just as time slows the further away from the Earth you travel, petrol gauges become less accurate as you move north of the border :smiley:
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Your computer is constantly re-calculating the range based on your driving style.
You will have a long term average computer which resets after 99 hours and 59 minutes of driving. It monitors average speed, distance, time spent travelling and average MPG
Its these figures your fuel range is calculated from :nerd:
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My old car used to tell me 350 mile range everytime i filled up.... lucky to get 250! :laugh:
Been driving now for 10miles and my range says "-". Wonder how far I can get before im really out of juice :lipsrsealed: :laugh:
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What makes me smile is how the Instant Fuel Consumption setting switches from miles per gallon to gallons per hour as you pull up to a dead stop - typical German efficiency :grin:
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When I fill the GTi up, the range display seems to think I've got about 420 miles there. After 100 miles or so it starts to reconsider, until by 200 miles it's more like 380. I might actually get 360 before I have to visit the petrol station. Does my driving continually disappoint, or what?
When I picked the car up the clock was 4 minutes fast. Soon, it was more like 5 minutes. I set it bang on to the second with the Radio 4 pips. It's already a minute fast again.
Not impressed, VW. :sad:
Rolfe.
the mk5 instrument wasn't very good either - if you're driving conservatively it goes up, as soon as you put your foot down you lose 30 miles! i'm v impressed you've got it over 400 though, best i've managed is 350! for about 5 mins :grin:
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It seems to think I'm going to get over 400 miles when I first fill up, and it holds this prediction for close to half the tank, then it gradually gets more and more pessimistic.
I wonder if, initially, it's programmed with this unrealistic 38mpg average that's advertised for the car, and only gradually realises this isn't happening?
Anybody out there think they can get 38mpg average over a tankful of petrol?
Rolfe.
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not as yet after 1500 miles - best i can get is 31!! :angry: :laugh:
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What makes me smile is how the Instant Fuel Consumption setting switches from miles per gallon to gallons per hour as you pull up to a dead stop - typical German efficiency :grin:
the first vauxhall vectras do this - it's nothing fancy.
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Anybody out there think they can get 38mpg average over a tankful...?
No, unless your route, driving style, maintenence and traffic conditions are all perfect it's a load of tosh... in my humble opinion.
Over the last three years, I'm always about 5-6mpg down on the official combined figure.
FIAT GPS - Official 49.8; Actual 43.2
Golf GTi - Official 35.5; Actual 29.7
Don't flame me over a couple of tenths MPG, can't be ar$ed looking it up, but you get the jist.
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It seems to think I'm going to get over 400 miles when I first fill up, and it holds this prediction for close to half the tank, then it gradually gets more and more pessimistic.
I wonder if, initially, it's programmed with this unrealistic 38mpg average that's advertised for the car, and only gradually realises this isn't happening?
Anybody out there think they can get 38mpg average over a tankful of petrol?
Rolfe.
2 things:
1. The official combined figure was never intended for a full tank of petrol! As the name says it's a test combining 4 urban cycles and 1 extra-urban over 1200 secs. It's only used for comparison and vehicle approval.
2. I can get 39.8 mpg driving to work when I stick to the speed limits on the A road and don't overtake too many times... That's 21 miles trip with a little bit of everything - country roads, the mentioned A-road, a couple of towns with 30-miles limit. Rather boring but still possible.
The combined figure from new including some more lively parts is 31 mpg.
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What makes me smile is how the Instant Fuel Consumption setting switches from miles per gallon to gallons per hour as you pull up to a dead stop - typical German efficiency :grin:
Mine doesn't do this. Max is 200mpg then '---'.
Highest mpg so far is 44mpg on a 12 mile 40/50mph run with few stops. Most i got from the mk5 on the same route was 40mpg(on 99 RON) so this confirms the advertised 10% increase in fuel economy.
Average after 600 miles is 32mpg.
Oh and the clock is spot on after 3 weeks.
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Mine doesn't do this. Max is 200mpg then '---'.
Maybe it only does it when you have it on the Continental display like I do (litres per 100km >> litres per hour)?
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i had 41mpg over a long distance journey.
450miles from a full tank... approx :wink:
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i had 41mpg over a long distance journey.
450miles from a full tank... approx :wink:
Hope you made up for that by giving it a good throttle-wide-open thrashing for a few hours.
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i had 41mpg over a long distance journey.
450miles from a full tank... approx :wink:
Hope you made up for that by giving it a good throttle-wide-open thrashing for a few hours.
That was a running in period :wink:
gets a good spanking everytime now :evil: although no more 30+mpg :undecided:
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It seems to think I'm going to get over 400 miles when I first fill up, and it holds this prediction for close to half the tank, then it gradually gets more and more pessimistic.
Rolfe - that'll be because you're using up the fuel in the tank.... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Get with the programme! I reset the trip meter to zero when I fill up, and add up.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Rolfe.
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When I picked the car up the clock was 4 minutes fast. Soon, it was more like 5 minutes. I set it bang on to the second with the Radio 4 pips. It's already a minute fast again.
This seems to happen in the Yaris I drive at the moment. It seems to be about a minute every couple of months or something. I don't mind it too much because with any timepiece there is always a slight inaccuracy
I'm thankful that the clock goes *faster* than actual time rather than *slower* - at least if I'm driving somewhere for an appointment or to meet somebody and I imagine the car's clock to be the real time, there is always a minute or so spare.
I have a bad habit with time keeping; most journeys i never follow the good advice to set off in good time in case of bad traffic.
perhaps an interesting sidenote to this is that i wear a Casio Wave Ceptor watch.
http://www.casio.co.uk/products/Watches/Wave%20Ceptor/
http://waveceptor.casio.com/
my particular one is also solar powered (charges an internal battery so i can use it when i'm a vampire) - i've had it for about 3 years, i've not had to change the battery or ever correct the time, it updates from GMT to BST by itself.
I understand timepieces that update themselves in this fashion are deemed 'radio-controlled'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock
http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/rctime.html
it would be a nice touch if manufacturers started adding this to cars (assuming they don't do this already) meaning that a clock would never be more than a second inaccurate in a 24hr period.
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Its surprising the VW's don't have this feature. Vauxhalls for one have had radio controlled clocks for a long time, I believe they use the RDS radio data to determine the correct time :undecided:
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Its surprising the VW's don't have this feature. Vauxhalls for one have had radio controlled clocks for a long time, I believe they use the RDS radio data to determine the correct time :undecided:
interesting.... i've never seen this feature applied to car clocks until now, then again i haven't owned many cars, not really have talked much about clock accuracy to people on the topic of cars, it's probably like many other people, how big the engine is, turbo/supercharged etc etc
it doesn't sound that expensive to install either, if you can get a clock from Argos that's radio controlled for £20 or something, surely the circuitry could be integrated to car electronics easily?
or perhaps it is not that easy, maybe it's super difficult and that's why not all cars have it? :undecided:
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This forums getting more and more like the american ones everyday, people just looking for faults. :embarassed:
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we have to nit pick since there is so little wrong with the car :)
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we have to nit pick since there is so little wrong with the car :)
If I found nits in my GTI I would do this - sure as hell would get rid of the f*kking nits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYcieaYGkg
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lol - thats one way of doing it!!
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Its surprising the VW's don't have this feature. Vauxhalls for one have had radio controlled clocks for a long time, I believe they use the RDS radio data to determine the correct time :undecided:
Even my Vauxhall Vivaro van has this RDS clock update to keep the time spot on!!
The clock in my Mk4 is spot on too... :grin:
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Vauxhalls have the RDS time on the display as I believe it is part of the stereo and with most if not all stereos being equipped with RDS it must be really simple to implement.
I can't believe the golf doesn't have the time on the stereo or have I just not noticed it!?!?