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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: ChuffGTI on 27 December 2013, 09:24
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Hello. A few months ago I bought an ex-Hertz rental (yes, silly idiot that I am) Mk6 GTI from a main VW dealership. It was 12 months old with 14.5K miles. It appeared to be in very good condition and, although it had obviously been checked over by the dealership I also had it inspected by the AA. No faults found. I have now done 3.5K miles and the car drives beautifully. The only problem is the fuel consumption. On a long motorway run, sticking to the 70 mph limit, I can achieve no better than about 34 mpg. Around town it is easily less than 25 mpg. Overall the consumption has been 29.9mpg, measured by me, or 31 mpg shown on the computer.
I have seen figures of over 40 mpg for motorway driving quoted by some people with the same model. As a result I got another VW dealership to check things, but they told me they could find no fault with fuel consumption and my figures are "about average" for the car.
I have to say that I drive smoothly and efficiently and certainly am not a "boy racer". If the car had been thrashed when hired out by Hertz, could this have had an effect longer term on fuel consumption?
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Its really how you drive when I pop round my gf's house its only 1.7miles the car doesn't warm up and my mpg is about 18, and that's driving like an oap. If when the engine is warm on a motorway you sit at 60 you can get about 45-47 I find when you get upto 70 it drops to high 30's, 80 low 30's.. from mine to Cheltenham there a bit of road that I do get my foot down and ill ave about 14mpg. I think for my tank average with a mix of short cold journeys, motorway and town I ave around about 28-32 so same sorta figure as you.
As I read before on here you never buy a GTI for its economy!
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My Edi used to return 40mpg just doing my commute, then it would drop to mid 30's around town. I let my wife take it for the day while I cleaned hers and it cam back with 17mpg, WTF!!!!!!
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1.Manual or Dsg?
2.Regular or Premium unleaded?
Between 50-60 mph on a steady cruise I would expect to hit 38 mpg, but more is possible.
Journey type (Town/Mixed/Motorway) and Temperature will influence economy figures. At this time of the year the car is taking longer to warm up.
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My average is never better than 30mpg.
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same here, im chuffed when i see 28mpg - Dont expect over 30mpg for day to day driving if not on long motorways drives
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As said in the other section, my average is 30mpg, mainly mix of town, rural driving, with a bit of motorway. About 25-27mpg round town and 34/35mpg on long motorway runs. DSG and Shell Nitro+
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My car is DSG. For the first 2.5K miles or so I used Esso Supreme Unleaded (or whatever it is called), but as I thought consumption was lousy anyway and it was costing about 6p a litre more, I decided to use ordinary unleaded. I don't seem to be suffering much more using the cheaper stuff. On the inside of the fuel filler flap it says 95 octane minimum, and that is what ordinary unleaded is.
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It's a GTi! Made for driving not fuel economy! :shocked:
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I've had my Mark 6 GTI DSG for 18 months now and doing 70 - 80mph on the motorway, the best I can achieve is 32 - 35 mpg.
To be honest, I don't think that's too bad. I remember the first car I had a trip computer on was a Renault Clio from about 2006 and, despite being a 1.2, it only averaged 35mpg on motorway journeys.
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If your on and off the throttle regular thats what kills it.
My commute can upset mine but if I get it right I get silly computer figures haveaseen in the 50s regular lol. Brim to brim tells another story though.
My brim to brim average is 30 to 34 it seems better in the summer. 30 in the winter is more common.
Motorway average was something like 36-38 iirc but I rarely use it for that as I have a tdi that will do 50-55 for those trips.
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these threads sh!t me. why buy a gti if you want 40+ mpg? get a gtd, or better go buy a prius. the gti is wasted on you, driving miss daisy!
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these threads sh!t me. why buy a gti if you want 40+ mpg? get a gtd, or better go buy a prius. the gti is wasted on you, driving miss daisy!
A lot of people including myself buy GTI's for it's all round ability including it's fuel efficiency, the GTI is no rocketship by any stretch of the imagination so if you want outright pace THEN the GTI is wasted, if you want something that will do 40+ mpg on a motorway run but can still make you smile when you kick it's head in then it's car for you.
People that say "why buy a GTI for fuel consumption?" Sh1t me also!
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I agree with Jimble some of us cant afford to have 2 cars so a compromise is the only way, when you want to have fun its nice to know you can get your foot down go fairly quick and have a lot of fun, but when you got a 250mile motorway journey its nice to know its also nice and comfortable with a reasonable fuel consumption.
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I agree with Jimble some of us cant afford to have 2 cars so a compromise is the only way, when you want to have fun its nice to know you can get your foot down go fairly quick and have a lot of fun, but when you got a 250mile motorway journey its nice to know its also nice and comfortable with a reasonable fuel consumption.
Get a GTD or a 325d then.
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Get a GTD or a 325d then.
Agree with RocketRoss. If you're looking for 40 plus mpg, surely the GTD would better fulfil this requirement.
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I personally don't often do long journeys but its nice to know when you do it isn't gonna cost you the earth. I was looking when I got my GTI at a 325d but didn't want something that sounds like a tank, IMO I don't like the sound of diesels.
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I personally don't often do long journeys but its nice to know when you do it isn't gonna cost you the earth. I was looking when I got my GTI at a 325d but didn't want something that sounds like a tank, IMO I don't like the sound of diesels.
I'm with you on that one.
A lot of people including myself buy GTI's for it's all round ability including it's fuel efficiency, the GTI is no rocketship by any stretch of the imagination so if you want outright pace THEN the GTI is wasted, if you want something that will do 40+ mpg on a motorway run but can still make you smile when you kick it's head in then it's car for you.
People that say "why buy a GTI for fuel consumption?" Sh1t me also!
Lol. Says the man that's getting an R. Hope you're not expecting a regular 40+ mpg with that, think you might be disappointed! :grin:
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I personally don't often do long journeys but its nice to know when you do it isn't gonna cost you the earth. I was looking when I got my GTI at a 325d but didn't want something that sounds like a tank, IMO I don't like the sound of diesels.
I'm with you on that one.
A lot of people including myself buy GTI's for it's all round ability including it's fuel efficiency, the GTI is no rocketship by any stretch of the imagination so if you want outright pace THEN the GTI is wasted, if you want something that will do 40+ mpg on a motorway run but can still make you smile when you kick it's head in then it's car for you.
People that say "why buy a GTI for fuel consumption?" Sh1t me also!
Lol. Says the man that's getting an R. Hope you're not expecting a regular 40+ mpg with that, think you might be disappointed! ;D
I reckon the manual R will still get more to the gallon than that feckin DSG GTI!! :D
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I reckon the manual R will still get more to the gallon than that feckin DSG GTI!! :D
Quality issues aside, you never really gave the DSG a chance did you :evil:
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I reckon the manual R will still get more to the gallon than that feckin DSG GTI!! :D
Quality issues aside, you never really gave the DSG a chance did you >:D
Not really tbh, i'll probably get one again someday but in a diesel Passat or similar, if it had been one or two minor annoyances then maybe i'd have gone for it in the R but it was literally driving me nuts! I know that in a manual anything that bothers me (mostly) will be down to me and i can change to put it right but with the DSG i just had to put up with it's foibles! Unless i was caning it in manual which is when i liked it the most i found it really boring, i know the DSG in the R is quicker and alledgedly more fuel efficient (which i'll believe when i see!) but i think i'll enjoy the manual drive more often than not, i know when i'm stuck in traffic on the M6 i'll miss the auto but thats few and far in between.
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I reckon the manual R will still get more to the gallon than that feckin DSG GTI!! :D
Quality issues aside, you never really gave the DSG a chance did you >:D
Not really tbh, i'll probably get one again someday but in a diesel Passat or similar, if it had been one or two minor annoyances then maybe i'd have gone for it in the R but it was literally driving me nuts! I know that in a manual anything that bothers me (mostly) will be down to me and i can change to put it right but with the DSG i just had to put up with it's foibles! Unless i was caning it in manual which is when i liked it the most i found it really boring, i know the DSG in the R is quicker and alledgedly more fuel efficient (which i'll believe when i see!) but i think i'll enjoy the manual drive more often than not, i know when i'm stuck in traffic on the M6 i'll miss the auto but thats few and far in between.
The R manual will be an awesome beast!
I hope you're going to give us a detailed review of it, as I'm looking at the R as my next car in 2015, but I'll be going DSG again. It took me a good few months to get used to it but I've had it now on last two GTI's and can't see me switching back. I spend most of my life stuck in traffic :angry:
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I reckon the manual R will still get more to the gallon than that feckin DSG GTI!! :D
Quality issues aside, you never really gave the DSG a chance did you >:D
Not really tbh, i'll probably get one again someday but in a diesel Passat or similar, if it had been one or two minor annoyances then maybe i'd have gone for it in the R but it was literally driving me nuts! I know that in a manual anything that bothers me (mostly) will be down to me and i can change to put it right but with the DSG i just had to put up with it's foibles! Unless i was caning it in manual which is when i liked it the most i found it really boring, i know the DSG in the R is quicker and alledgedly more fuel efficient (which i'll believe when i see!) but i think i'll enjoy the manual drive more often than not, i know when i'm stuck in traffic on the M6 i'll miss the auto but thats few and far in between.
The R manual will be an awesome beast!
I hope you're going to give us a detailed review of it, as I'm looking at the R as my next car in 2015, but I'll be going DSG again. It took me a good few months to get used to it but I've had it now on last two GTI's and can't see me switching back. I spend most of my life stuck in traffic >:(
Will do, hopefully i'll be beaming about it rather than whinging this time! ;D
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I had DSG for 6 months, I hated it. Main reason i sold it.....so god dam boring :grin:
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I dont like dsg either. Had the regular use of a mk5 for a few years with it. I got 10% better average mpg with the manual than the dsg version of the same car. I bet thats still the case with the newer ones.
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Not really tbh, i'll probably get one again someday but in a diesel Passat or similar,
There's no better combination in my opinion when the necessity calls for that sort of car. We did a 130 mile round trip to the coast in the Passat yesterday and it was effortless in every way.
Boring? Probably, but some journeys are just as enjoyable wafting along taking in the scenery.
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.........I must be boring then :grin:
If you just stick it in Drive the whole time then dsg can be boring, but if you mix it up with regular blasts in manual, you get he best of both worlds imo.
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When Auto mode is so good, there is little point in manual mode. The only time I use the paddles is to upshift when I want to, rather than it reving to the red line just because I've got my foot planted.
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When Auto mode is so good, there is little point in manual mode. The only time I use the paddles is to upshift when I want to, rather than it reving to the red line just because I've got my foot planted.
Auto is good and great for heavy traffic/motorway, but it's not perfect. It changes up too early (in Drive) and too late (in Sport). That's why I still want the manual option, so when out on the open road, I can drive as I would a manual, keeping my driving style. It's easy to lose that if it's just in auto all the time. It's a bit of a waste to have DSG and never use the paddles.
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I bought the DSG Passat because I wanted an Auto. I rarely drive the red Golf ant more, as three pedals and constant stick shifting just feels pointless now. Even my wife is converted after her initial "I'm not driving an automatic. I like being in control" rant.
If I ever feel the need for an interactive driving experience, I'll take the green car. Talking of which and going back to the original point of this thread, it does 32mpg all day long.
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If I ever feel the need for an interactive driving experience, I'll take the green car. Talking of which and going back to the original point of this thread, it does 32mpg all day long.
Im guessing its a 16v :wink: the slightly older 100kg+ lighter 8v in my stable does 36 :evil: