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Title: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: Godzilla on 24 July 2012, 11:48
How many miles to a full tank of petrol will a......

Golf GTI 8v

Golf GTI 16v

do?
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: forsh on 24 July 2012, 12:26
depends how you drive
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: dom on 24 July 2012, 12:28
depends how you drive

And the type of roads, motorway driving opposed to town driving will make a massive difference.

To answer your question...how long is a piece of string?
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: kodkod.84 on 24 July 2012, 12:49
I drive 130 miles from Norfolk to London and back every week for work.

Mixture of A/B and motorways, rarely above 80mph

Using Roadtrip App on iphone I am getting average of 37mpg in GTI 16v

City driving kills it though!
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: leigh_harty on 24 July 2012, 13:16
Aslong as your getting better than me - all motorway driving to inters and back

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p119/leigh_harty/IMG_0409.jpg)
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: AcidicDavey on 24 July 2012, 13:20
In my 8v I got just over 400 miles, mostly motorway, 100miles on a roads and a bit on back roads
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: Godzilla on 24 July 2012, 15:07
Hmmm, so the 8v's are not that good, I thought they would be very good. As for type of journey.......50 miles A roads 20 miles town per day. A Honda Accord can get 289 miles to £64 doing this and they are 210bhp and capable of 150mph.....Saying that an E36 BMW 328i 6 cylinder which gives 194bhp as standard can do 400 miles to £78, this is A roads and town driving.
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Post by: arran.concept on 24 July 2012, 15:32
I recently tried this for myself and it was 317 miles till i was in the Red bit.
This was with moterway driving and main roads, 2.0 8V Gti
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: r1c on 24 July 2012, 15:55
Aslong as your getting better than me - all motorway driving to inters and back

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p119/leigh_harty/IMG_0409.jpg)

My GTi 8v gets between 36 -38mpg average
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: leigh_harty on 24 July 2012, 17:10
Hmmm, so the 8v's are not that good, I thought they would be very good. As for type of journey.......50 miles A roads 20 miles town per day. A Honda Accord can get 289 miles to £64 doing this and they are 210bhp and capable of 150mph.....Saying that an E36 BMW 328i 6 cylinder which gives 194bhp as standard can do 400 miles to £78, this is A roads and town driving.

My old 328 would get 44mpg on a 65mph run.. tried and tested. And will leave a vr for dust when required
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Post by: tweed on 24 July 2012, 17:23
They use same amount of fuel.
16v just burns better because it turns it into vapour better than the 8v due to the extra valve.
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Post by: Wayne on 24 July 2012, 21:46
My 8v was crap on fuel, 8v has to be worked harder hence why they are not brill on fuel.
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: Godzilla on 24 July 2012, 22:01
Hmmm, so the 8v's are not that good, I thought they would be very good. As for type of journey.......50 miles A roads 20 miles town per day. A Honda Accord can get 289 miles to £64 doing this and they are 210bhp and capable of 150mph.....Saying that an E36 BMW 328i 6 cylinder which gives 194bhp as standard can do 400 miles to £78, this is A roads and town driving.

My old 328 would get 44mpg on a 65mph run.. tried and tested. And will leave a vr for dust when required

My 328i was good on petrol and was definitely faster than my VR6.  Although my 328i was a handful in the wet.....Some enjoy the back end stepping out, I didn't mind if I was in a large car park but on open busy roads the boxers had a few marks left in them  :grin:
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Post by: AcidicDavey on 24 July 2012, 22:12
I can get up to about 48mpg according to the trip if I really really try to be smooth, but that's averaging about 40mph!!!
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Post by: patryk92 on 24 July 2012, 23:38
i've done 400 miles on a full tank in my 16v, that was on motorway though
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: Ashy on 25 July 2012, 18:06
Just got under 39 mpg on my 8v with a car FULL to bursting with camping gear, roof rack full with about 50kg of stuff too, 2 adults & 2 kids. Motorway & a roads.
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: WadGTI on 26 July 2012, 08:50
200 miles to £30  :cool:
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Post by: luke on 26 July 2012, 12:40
full tank in my old 2.0 8v and I would get 320 miles  :shocked:
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Post by: VW BUSH on 26 July 2012, 12:57
150 :angry:
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: dom on 26 July 2012, 15:26
150 :angry:

I regularly saw 350+ miles from a tank in my old 8v.
Title: Re: How many miles to a full tank?
Post by: arran.concept on 26 July 2012, 22:22
200 miles to £30  :cool:

I wouldnt mind that!!!