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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Golf mk6 GTD/TDI => Topic started by: flc1962 on 25 February 2011, 22:41
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Going down to Manchester tomorrow, this will be my longest journey todate, very interested to see what MPG i do get, will keep the cruise on 78/80 MPH all the way down unless I hit roadworks. Anyone guess what MPG i'll get ?
I wont reset just to show off when I'm going down hill or the engine warms up. :evil:
I'm hoping for a round trip of 50 MPG...
GT TDi with Bluefin
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If you don't get 55mpg i would be disapointed.
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You will be lucky to get 55mpg at 78/80 MPH it all depends on which way the wind is blowing. At 70mph you should get 53mpg well thats what I get from mine.
You can put your spec in your sig then it saves us guessing. You have standard cruise then you must have a GT. :wink:
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Shame if thats true as our older 1.9 TDI130 i use to use for long trips over the past 6 years avaraged ~55mpg for brim->brim calculations at ~80 speedo reading. I had hoped the newer engine would do similar or better as tech has improved. :sad:
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I was on a privat road this week and was doing 140mph and getting 36 to the gallon , if that was my old ED30 it would be about 10mpg :wink:
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I was on a privat road this week and was doing 140mph
:wink: :grin: :laugh: :grin:
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Shame if thats true as our older 1.9 TDI130 i use to use for long trips over the past 6 years avaraged ~55mpg for brim->brim calculations at ~80 speedo reading. I had hoped the newer engine would do similar or better as tech has improved. :sad:
Those 1.9 pds are very hard to beat on mpg...........
On a trip from coventry in my revo'd gtd to Cheltenham I got 58 mpg 75-80 all the way but no cruise control so would expect similar
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Here u go,
On the down trip 53.8 Mpg on the trip just a shade over 3.5 hours and 213 miles, the crusie was either 78 or 80 all the way with an exception of 5 miles on the M74 and when we got go the M602 then into Manchester
On the up leg 48 Mpg same cruise setting's with even less slow traffic. the round trip was 51 mpg... average speed down was 61 up was 67. In total 445 clock read 90 miles left in the tank
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Here u go,
On the down trip 53.8 Mpg on the trip just a shade over 3.5 hours and 213 miles, the crusie was either 78 or 80 all the way with an exception of 5 miles on the M74 and when we got go the M602 then into Manchester
On the up leg 48 Mpg same cruise setting's with even less slow traffic. the round trip was 51 mpg... average speed down was 61 up was 67. In total 445 clock read 90 miles left in the tank
Its a shame you did not fill back up after the trip to work out the exact amount of fuel used and so work out the real MPG rather than the MFA one.
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Maybe it was the remap that made mine more economical : )
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Blueifn for me, lots of hills comming up the M6-M74?
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Here u go,
On the down trip 53.8 Mpg on the trip just a shade over 3.5 hours and 213 miles, the crusie was either 78 or 80 all the way with an exception of 5 miles on the M74 and when we got go the M602 then into Manchester
On the up leg 48 Mpg same cruise setting's with even less slow traffic. the round trip was 51 mpg... average speed down was 61 up was 67. In total 445 clock read 90 miles left in the tank
If you use the figures you quote then 535 miles to a full tank and 55 litre fill it only works out as 44.26mpg
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Wish I had brimmed the tank before leaving i could have been at least half a gallon short , can't think why I did not not.
Could the MDF be that far out ?
I'm driving like miss Daisy on this tank with the map on full to the brim, will keep this going, on the next fill up I'll remove the map and drive like miss daisy again just to see...Will take a wee while though as no trips planned and work is a 20 ish mile round trip...
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I must have been about 3/4 of a gallon off full, as I thought it was strange for the needle to move after only 50 miles on the down journey. I'm doing my normal work run done 70 miles so far and the needle is still full...
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My fuel needle doesn't start dropping until I get to at least 80 miles.
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Well by way of comparison the most I have ever had out my remapped GTI (petrol) is 485 miles with the 55 miles left on the range. That was on a run from Motherwell (Scotland) to Dover. My average speed on the run was mid 50's due to a combination of regular motorway driving at 65mph and then the lovely average speed areas. I completed the journey at night so there was very little traffic.
I've worked this out on the basis of a 55 litre tank (which I assume the petrol has) as an average of 44.6 mpg which...
If you use the figures you quote then 535 miles to a full tank and 55 litre fill it only works out as 44.26mpg
... if we compare to the OP is actually better in a "GTI more fuel efficient than GTD" shocker. :grin:
(Ok so I was driving slower :grin:)