Is my GTi consumption normal?

[RickS]

Hi,

I have had the car about a 2 weeks. i filled up with petrol & have taken the car down to near empty. It has done roughly 320 miles with a mix of mostly town driving & a few 30 mile trips inbetween.

is this about right or is it excessive?

I have taken it pretty easy in the car with the occasional blasts here and there, not used aircon or anything else like that.

What do you think?
N

I do mostly shortish journeys, some in moderate traffic [town] and according to my MFD I am averaging 25.7MPG [had it up to 26 but it's crept back], which isn't bad. Don't go mad on the throttle usually because traffic doesn't allow, but do have few burns from time to time.

[Snoopy]

I was tempted to get a jerry can and fill it up - then drive until the car ran out of petrol!!

I've been informed that a 4wd Golf has a 60L tank as opposed to a GTI which has a 55L tank.  Seems odd if my red light is coming on and I can only SQUEEZE 50L in at the petrol pump!  Surely my red light doesn't give me 10L?!

Have a look in your hand book it lists the reserve amount in there. The GTI is listed at 7 Ltrs. So it would not suprise me if the R is near 10.

[gizzywizzy]

Hi,

I have had the car about a 2 weeks. i filled up with petrol & have taken the car down to near empty. It has done roughly 320 miles with a mix of mostly town driving & a few 30 mile trips inbetween.

is this about right or is it excessive?

I have taken it pretty easy in the car with the occasional blasts here and there, not used aircon or anything else like that.

What do you think?
N

Seen your car on e-bay, what you selling for don't you like the car?

Gizzy

[Snoopy]

Just for the record using the brim to brim method, my overall average was 30mpg for the first tank full and 29.69mpg for the second tank full. Thats commuting only work as im still running it in.

[Captain Sensible]

Hi,

I have had the car about a 2 weeks. i filled up with petrol & have taken the car down to near empty. It has done roughly 320 miles with a mix of mostly town driving & a few 30 mile trips inbetween.

is this about right or is it excessive?

I have taken it pretty easy in the car with the occasional blasts here and there, not used aircon or anything else like that.

What do you think?
N

The car has covered 1,500 mls and it's averaging 33 to 34mpg. My experiance with past VW's is better fuel consumption after 5,000mls.

[Keithuk]

Have a read here 

[Hartside]

or here:

http://www.fuelly.com/car/volkswagen/gti

[am1w]

1100 miles so far, 25 mpg average, all in stop-start traffic 16 miles a day.

[neg]

I've been informed that a 4wd Golf has a 60L tank as opposed to a GTI which has a 55L tank

I wondered this when I read the figures as it stated the range somewhere (being the same or more or less), I though how could they be similar - then noticed the tank was bigger.