How big is the fuel tank - really??

[jphealy]

I picked up my new (to me) '06 GTI last Saturday.  Fuel warning came on yesterday, and I went and filled it up today.  The needle had been in the red (although not quite at the bottom) and I had probably driven about 20 miles since the warning light came on.

When I went to fill up today, the pump put in 53.6 litres of fuel before it stopped.  The tank is supposedly 55l, right?  Does that mean that all I had left in the tank was 1.4l?  That seems very little to me.

In my last car, when the fuel guage was right at the bottom and the warning light was flashing at me for a while, I used to fill up and rarely be able to put in any more than about 45l, and the tank was 52l.  So the reserve, after driving for a while with the warning on, was about 7l.  In my GTI, I only had 1.4l left, and that's filling up quite soon after the warning came on!

Is it possible the tank is maybe closer to 60l in reality?  What's the max amount of fuel you were ever able to put in?

[AlanD]

The warning light will come on when you have about 30 miles left of fuel give or take. That about as much input as I can give, never really noted how much I stick in, just fill her up and be done with it tbh.

[jphealy]

I guess I must have been close to empty if the warning light comes on with about 30 miles left.

Anybody else know the max amount they've ever put in?

[bobotheclown]

around 43/44 litres when v-power was £1.20

[jphealy]

around 43/44 litres when v-power was £1.20

That's the kind of figure I was expecting.  I still can't believe I just put almost 54 litres of petrol in my car!  I've only been averaging 27.4mpg so far (mainly city driving), so hopefully that'll improve.  I have 99 RON in it now, and I'm assuming that it had 95 RON in it when I got it, so hopefully that'll make a difference.

[corgi]

FWIW - the tank will be 55 litres as described but that will not include the neck and the filler pipe...

[Bolle]

I once managed to get 58 liters in the tank. Company fuel card only allows Shell stations, and it was a bit further than expected...

[jphealy]

Wow!  Could there be more than three litres in the neck and filler pipe?

[ilovedsg]

When the computer range said 15 miles it took me 53 litres to fill it.

[No Golf Clubs at all]

I've put in 55 and point something more before :-)) tight jock LOL nah just trying to see what I could get out of it...... Before I learned to lurve the dsg in a mode and petrol came down from 127.9p per litre !!!!!!