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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Neaty on 08 June 2006, 14:28
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.....lasted 393.2 miles in my 8 valve!! Was rather impressed!
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My mk2 has done over 600 miles on a tank.
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What with a sail on the back?
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:sad: well that p!ssed on my bonfire! how did you manage that??!!
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Whilst covering the 600 miles the car sounded like a tractor and covered everyone in soot. Figured it out yet?
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Dirty oil burner?
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ah of course, i take its your valver with the TDI engine in?
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Yuppers.  Lightweight mk2 shell, no air con, staying off boost and 70mph around the 1800rpm mark.
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:shocked: cant be bad, about 200bhp isnt it?
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threads like this always make me wana cry...... :cry:
Think i get about 250!  :embarassed:
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ah but you have a turbo and about 160bho to play with! :wink:
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:shocked: cant be bad, about 200bhp isnt it?
Yeah, haven't rolling roaded it yet but other remapped PD 150s average around 200bhp/300lbs...so I'd guess mine is around the same.  If only it didn't sound like a tractor.
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ah but you have a turbo and about 160bho to play with! :wink:
usually, but its eaten its clutch again!! :angry: oh how i wish i had listened to everyone and fitted an uprated one rather than trying to be cheap!!! :sad:
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bloody hell that was quick, it likes clutches doesnt it!!
would a G60 clutch fit?
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I think thats pretty good mate getting that amount of miles out of a tank, I'll have to see what I can get out of mine. How far did you let the needle go down and how much did you get in it when you filled her back up ?
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yeah tell me about it mate, not best pleased!
would a G60 clutch fit?
dunno?? anyone?? :smiley:
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Mine has just done 320 miles on around 40 litres, which is almost a full tank! Thats around 36mpg, so happy enough. Thats mostly long journeys though, one 200 mile journey, so could be better. I tend to get a little under 30mpg on short trips :cry:
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i can never afford a full tank :(
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250 in my mk1 if I'm lucky! Not at the moment though... :cry:
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i know it costs me 58quid to fill it. about 300 miles to a tank. ISH if i stay off the go pedal long enough.
Oh and martin i don't think they will, something to do with the spline and size.
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didnt think it would, cheers slick.
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i only put in what i use usually
i reccon i get about 450 for a full tank though :rolleyes:
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:shocked: Wish i got that much outta my tank most i've done so far in my valver is about 200 miles! :cry: Done 600 miles in my tractor mk 2 though :smug:
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I very rarely put a full tank in but I had some money burning a hole on my pocket and only put a full tank in to see how much I could get. Might see if I can beat that when I get paid and go for 400 miles!
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i get about 250 to a tank.
anyone tried acetone yet? :laugh:
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How the hell are you getting 400 miles to a tank?? :shocked: I've recently changed my 5th gear cog to one from a driver for better motorway crusing but i'm still only getting around 370 miles. However, that is averaging 80-85 mph and thats compared to the 300 I was getting, so it is an improvement. :smiley:
Now I get
70 mph = 41 mph
85 mph = 36 mph
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i dunno, i tend to get anywhere between 30-38 mpg round town, depending how light I am with my right foot, and on the motorway I get 41-43mpg. but that full tank wasnt used on the motorway at all.
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put in a full tank today...will let you knwo how much i get...would tell you about the MGP but i havent got a clue what is up with my MFA
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You dont need the MFA to calculate the mpg! Simply fill the tank - right to the top. Drive around, and use up whatever fuel you want. Make of a note of the total mileage done on the full tank, then refill it to the same level - this is why it needs to be full, then you can see the fuel at the top of the filler neck. Make of the note of the litres you put in, then MPG is simply the miles you did divided by the litres x 0.2200. That will convert litres to gallons.
Easy as pie. Only difficult bit is filling it up to the same level, but its not too much of an issue, as a little bit wont make a lot of difference :)
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on that basis I got 38mpg as an average, not too bad I dnt think!
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I seem to get around 27 on a short 3mile trip in the cold winter mornings, mostly uphill, with foot on floor in third :rolleyes: On a 200 mile trip home, it tends to get around 36-39, which i think is fair.
Hopefully when i get my 8V, it will be similar to what i already have - i hope for better, but not sure of that is too optimistic?!
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of its a digifant it should be better, My MPG is poor in a morning according to the MFA anyway but I only tickle the throttle with it being cold still, up until about 70 degrees oil temp
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I'm not sure which it will be, did they change it with the 88spec golfs, or with the 90 spec golfs? The one i'm after is an 88 spec, Its an F reg 1989 i think.
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Digi came into play in mid-late 87 so if its an 88 or 89 then its digi.
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I thought as much...
Cheers :)
Have you driven both did and k-jet? If so, is there any real difference?!
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I have got a Digi 8 valve and a 16v Kjet, so in a way yes. The Kjet is more responsive, seems to be a bit of lag sometimes with digi, but its more efficient thus being better on fuel as its measured as apposed to being tap on tap off sort of thing. But in terms of the way they behave I cant notice a lot of difference really, both are good.
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Ok, cheers :)
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Just got 372 miles out of a tank but it did cost £48 to fill the old girl back up, I'll try and get more out of this one :grin:
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out of just less than 1/2 a tank i have got 188 miles :cool:
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Just filled up today, from just above reserves, cost £38. :cry: :cry:
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never nice when you a student slick, i know the feeling?
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MK2 8V GTi 408 miles to full tank
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the bar has been set, when i get paid I am going to try and beat you!
what sort of MPG do you get roughly, mines about 38 on average
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I'm on 340 odd at the moment with just quater of a tank left
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mfa shows 35.5 over last thousand miles
trip wise it shows usually between 35-40 on my daily commute and on a run
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similar to what mine says, i managed to get 45.5 mpg they other day was well impressed! :smiley:
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Mk3 GTI 16v....AmD remap chip thingy...K&N 57i...Powerflow centre, Sebring rear box....335 from a tank (well not all the way to the bottom)....38-42mpg at motorway speeds :smiley:
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Just got 393 miles, I just couldn't let it get any lower it was almost past the white line after the red. Whats the lowest anyones taken theres then ?
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From half a tank i got 220miles...dunno how much i get from a full tank, the car never made it :laugh:
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Just got 393 miles, I just couldn't let it get any lower it was almost past the white line after the red. Whats the lowest anyones taken theres then ?
I get tetchy around the red line, never lower.
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Unless I have got money which isnt usually very often mine is never out of the red, gets to the quarter way mark peak unless I am going somewhere far where I will put a lot of fuel in it!
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Usually let mine go to the end of the red depending how close to pay day
But have just got 412 to the last tank
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so
I'm gonna do this for the experiment, never let it get this low before - needle on the bad side of the white line - and tbh I don't like it.
Gonna go an fill completely - oh noes, I just see fillet steaks dissappearing down the tube -
and try, well I will, to drive at a steady revvage mebbe around 3300 rpm on motorway and just over tickover in town. No a/c running and no windows open - cause drag
It's been interesting reading your mpg's and I'm sorry but the male ego needs constantly to compare and I'm only a bloke after all!
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you have aircon in your mark 2??!?!
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nope, is why I can't turn it on
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ah i c, what do you reckon is worst having aircon on windows down to drain fuel? i have always wondered this!
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programme called mythbusters did this some time ago
they got two identical ' s.u.v.'s ' ( americana) drained em, weighed em then re filled em with exact amounts of jungle.
they went round a circuit - a nascar track I think - at exact same speeds for something like 7 hours, one had windows up and ac on, the other no ac and windows down.
any guess' which had the most legs
the windows down went furthest hands down!
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I thought that might be the case. My mate hired a car in tenerife last year (fiesta zetec 1.25 thingy) and said to overtake they had to turn the aircon off sometimes as it struggled!
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so exactly how / why does this happen, what is it a voltage thing?
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coz the aircon pump for it is like a power steering pump and is run off the main pulley like an alternator sort of thing ( i think) so drains the power as the car has to work twice as hard to generate enough power to run it. if you follow, so when the aircon is on it sacrificial to the power output. I am no mechanic by any means but I think thats how it works.
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so exactly how / why does this happen, what is it a voltage thing?
Basically, the engine produces all the power the car needs, most of which goes into moving the car down the road....But if you switch on an auxilary, some of the power from the engine is diverted to running the auxilary (in aircon case it is the compressor that is required to run) so you lose some of the car ability to move.
Basically, the more power you divert from the engine into runnign extras, the slower the car will become...
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thats what I meant! :laugh:
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427 miles and counting, still got a bit left :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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nerds!
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If you say so Joe :wink:
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I would try and beat my 393 miles but I am poor at the moment so can only put £5 in at a time! :laugh:
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220miles on 1/2 tank... :huh:
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468 Miles and just filled it back up with £53 worth of Optimax :smiley:
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From my last fill up i got 340miles...but seeing as it was the first tank of the car it got a good ragging...so i am going to see how much i can get out if i don't get heavy footed....
oh, and i got 36.7mpg :cool:
Even though my MFA still sasy 56.5 ( i have a photo to prove it....)
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i put a full tank in last thursday but forgot to reset the milometer thing and only realised when i was half way up the motorway, doh!!
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so did anyone watch the episode of top gear where jeremy clarkson drove from london to edinburgh and back on one tank of diesel :smiley: :grin:
cant remember what car it was but know it was a v8 :laugh:
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im shure it was a audi and he only just managed it the fuel light was on for quite a few miles before he got to his destination :grin:
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yea it was an Audi A8 3.7 TDI V8 Quattro, its always repeated on sky that episode
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I neva managed to get more than 325 out of my golf eva,i now get 600miles as i have a dirty old Pug 306 DIEsel lol,roll on Next year wen its payed off and my bank lets me afford Another Valver! On which doesnt go bang at 125mph lol
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the money u save on fuel now can go towards ur new valver next year :wink: look after the pennies
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yea dats y i got one,a diesel that is,i tell u wot tho,u dont know how much i miss the ride and the feel and the sound of the valver,hurts jus thinking about it!
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u dont need to tell me mate i know how you feel, i want my blue valver back, sick of that pink 5 door beast! :grin:
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh dont get me started,the Pug doest even polish up as nice as the Golf and its newer by 10years,and it as more dents in it,and its slower,and it sounds crap,and it handles poor,ohhhhh :cry: i want my golf bak,
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on the other hand its inconspicious and is unlikey that anyone is gonna want to nick it! :wink:
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on the other hand its inconspicious and is unlikey that anyone is gonna want to nick it! :wink:
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Yeah but you left the keys in the ignition didnt you mix? Come on tell the truth now!
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on the other hand its inconspicious and is unlikey that anyone is gonna want to nick it! :wink:
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a bit too soon was it lofty!? i should of known you would be lurking somewhere, will watch what i say next time :laugh: