200 miles to a tank!

[vwprime]

200 does seem very low. I get about 300 from a  fall tank to just hiting the red ( no light on thow) and i thort that was bad.

[mikemk4gti]

that works out at around 17 mpg. When I've done the school run in mine which is about 1 mile, plus idling for a few minutes the journey average is only 8mpg, so if you're doing that sort of thing then its probably about right.

[Rhyso]

If your doing town driving then surly you would better off with a tdi 

not really

Diesels take much longer to warm up than a petrol car thus if you're tootling around town there's not as big a gap between diesel and petrol in terms of fuel economy compared to doing a longish journey

[hobbiniho]

If your doing town driving then surly you would better off with a tdi 

nah he would be better off with a 1.4 petrol for short journeys like that although it would be even better in a polo or similar 

[mikemk4gti]

or for short journeys you could walk

[luize]

he is a SHE    hehe

she had a major service and cambelt done 3k ago.  i do 40 mins town driving from cold each morning then same in the evening.  weekends proberbly local tootling.
winter i dont tend to do much but in the summer i like going everywhere! haha.  im addicted to turbo's so cant get a car without one    lol

[Dan_GTI]

awaits the mass of replys now you've come out as a SHE 

[eznugud]

I have noticed a massive difference between the Golf and Passat Tdi with regards to fuel consumption, the Golf eats it.......my TD5 Discovery is better and I thought that was heavy... 
Not sure what it will do on a tank I top it up when it gets to just over half a tank, I will leave it this week and check..... funny thing is I only decided to keep this for a second car for myself and use it for a bit of fun at the weekends, I haven't been near the Discovery since I got this....... 

[Steve_PD]

I get 600++ miles from a tank this week I done 530 miles to £49 = 54 mpg average

[richw911]

As said should be at least 300 miles to a tank TBH.