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Model specific boards => Golf mk1 => Topic started by: richard ellison on 20 May 2004, 08:58
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is around 150-200 ok???
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i get 350+
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i reckon i get 300 plus as well :)
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I filled up sunday (polo) and so far have done 130 miles, and the needle is just inder 3/4 tank 8)
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If it's a GTI then 150 is a liitle poor, but i've never seen 300 miles out of a tank but always get way over 200. Your's seems a little thirsty! How much money is a full tank ?28?
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its an early gti cab (gli)- havent actually filled it up yet, as it came with a full tank of fuel.
Its looking to get 150-200 though.
Maybe i should keep the revs lower?
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It takes a couple of tank fulls and monitoring to get an accurate figure, i wouldn't go by the first tank. I found that with a full tank, the needle will drop quite quickly but slow down, its not consistant. With each tank full my driving varies from cruise about to rag the **** out of the old girl. Keep the revs down if you're skint, but otherwise, enjoy. Let me know how it goes after a couple of tanks. Fill her up, reset the trip and drive it how you want. if it takes ?30 and you get 250 miles out of her thats like 12p a mile. In my opinion, thats good for a gti, especially a cab. People who get over 300 miles can't be driving their cars that hard. It also helps to keep the revs low untill the oil has reached a good operating temp.
shaun
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i got 300 miles out of my last full tank and i do drive it hard - richard ellison has seen my driving i believe ;) :D
i have no fuel gauge at the moment so i chose to run it til 300 miles which it did no problems. i never broke down so i reckon i must have a very fuel economical GTI cab :)
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Mine's a Mk3, so bigger fuel tank, but it is also a bigger engine... Tend to get 300 or so from a tank. Last refuel was 330miles for just over ?40 of optimax (47 litres).
Definitely vote for keeping revs low until the engine's warm though!
As my friends will definitely testify - I drive it hard enough.... I can't wait to get the Koni/Eibach's done so I can slide around roundabouts without that wallowy Mk3 suspension cramping me though... guess my fuel consuption might just climb a bit more once I can really floor it out of corners without the car rolling around... also gonna get the Schrick high-lift cams done at the same time, so I won't know what'll push it up...
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i drive mine a lot and usually very hard!!!
Its a Mk1 GTI cab with a 16V mk2 engine.
Theres not a day passes when i dont get the needle in the red!!
My fuel consumption is 30-35mpg, usually aorounf 31mpg though.
If you need to work out the fuel consumption fill it up and reset the trip counter...... when its almost empty fill righ t up again and note the litres you put in and miles on the trip counter.....
My last one was 358 miles on 50.12 litres. 358/50.12 = 7.14miles per litre.... then divide by 0.22 to get gallons. = 32.5Mpg.
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I reckon I get about 280 - 300 miles per tank but I don't let it get right down to the red as it then pulls in all the sh1te from the bottom of the tank. It costs me around ?37 to fill it up with unleaded, but this is about to change as I'm moving to the dark side after reading some threads on here and going to try Shell Optimax the next time I fill up. I also reckon I get about 33mpg. Sometimes I drive steady, sometimes I whip her a s s !
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Whipin is the way to do it! I reckon the only reason i get lower is that my motor isn't standard and I average 18mpg! Crack a whip central! ye ha! well not at the mo. :-[