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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: ryushi on 27 March 2006, 08:46

Title: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: ryushi on 27 March 2006, 08:46

I got 38.9mpg for my 30 min drive to work this morning :)   that was through a mix of town driving and 50mph lanes, and I was trying to get the best mpg.

I used to have a passat 1.8T - it had done 135,000 miles and the best I could do on a drive to work was 32mpg, I think the golfs lighter weight and an
engine that has only done 29,000 miles makes a fair bit of difference, the golf is chipped too!

I know most chat is about the quickest and fastest cars but it's fun (and hard!) to try driving to get the best mpg too!

Whats your best?

Title: Re: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: Ivor Mk4 Turbo on 27 March 2006, 10:15

I remember trying for the 40 MPG once.  I just about got it, but that involved a little roll down a hill at the end, though! :grin:

It was very painful driving that slow, though..... I don't think I'll be trying that again! :laugh:

On a nice steady run to work (about 20 mins country roads/A road mix), I get about 32-33 MPG. :nerd:

I've had it down to 11 MPG when i've been a bit late! :evil:

Title: Re: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: >>Mart<< on 27 March 2006, 18:19

i managed 36.8 on a run to north wales one day and that was averaging about 80 ish lol
usually i only get about 25 going to and from work

Title: Re: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: GazB on 27 March 2006, 19:18

Went from newport to heathrow with my cruise set at 80mph, 1.5 hours each way and averaged 37.8mpg and that is the only time that I've been anywhere near that :grin:

Title: Re: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: Stu-1.8T on 27 March 2006, 20:21

managed the big 40 once or twice....but yeah, you have to drive like a pensioner. :smiley:

Title: Re: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: ryushi on 29 March 2006, 07:46

I got 42.1 mpg this morning!

not driving like a pensioner either, just being gentle with the throttle, using momentum and planning ahead! :)

Title: Re: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: xs2man on 25 July 2006, 03:06

I got my Golf GTi Turbo last week, and the guy even delivered it to me (80 miles) at no extra charge, bonus.

Anyway, he had tested the mpg on the way up (All dual carriageway) and got a VERY respectable 46 mpg.  I couldn't beleive it.  The way I drove it for the next couple hundred miles took that right down to 28 mind you, ;)

Title: Re: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: GOLF_STU on 25 July 2006, 23:08

got mine to do about 42mpg on a run but got as low as 8.4mpg on the strip  :embarassed: :cry:

Title: Re: Best MPG from 1.8T?
Post by: Flipmode on 26 July 2006, 19:23

41.4 (chipped engine) on way back from work, regularly high thirties