how many miles out of

[actionslax]

42 quid?

(sorry.... boring post......)

i filled my tank up (mk3 8v) when it was seriously empty the weekend before the weekend just gone.

i've done 1 round trip to glasgow(to see groove armada  )  100 miles (keeping about 90-100). a round trip of 45 to go mountain biking yesterday. the rest is town driving. grand total at the moment --> 290  and needing to refill this evenin. so will probably get 300 miles out of 42 quid .. is this about the norm, not so bad, or pretty sh*t?

(done my calculations and i reckon i've managed about 26.3mpg over this last 10 days)

i'm (really) wanting to buy a VR6 but kinda put off by the thought of my lead weighted right foot being the bain of my bank balance...  this kind of driving ^^^^  is about what i do on a regularly basis but i'm no wanting to be stopping off at esso every couple of days and filling up if you get my drift... if i cut off some of my right foot and go easy will my bank balance be able to afford it is my question...   

pretty undecided on this one..


slax

[mikereynolds]

I got a MK2 16V and i put ?43 of petrol in it and got bout 320miles out of it!
Not sure how good that is!!

[Blue MK2]

from 10 quid i can get 100 miles from my 8v mk2. thats from an empty tank (not that i run on an empty tank  )

[topher]

I get 280 - 290 miles from about that much, and I drive like a nutter. Compared to a mk3 8v my car has almost double the power and weighs a fair bit more too, I think you may have some fuelling issues there matey

[jte]

The most i've ever been able to squeeze into the VR6 is 37 pounds worth of normal unleaded.  The furthest i've ever driven on a tank full is 260.  But i've never tried to eek it out by driving economically, if i started doing that i'd buy a lupo diesel!

[Mixologist]

^^^thats cos you have a lardy mk4

for mine i get about 90miles from a tenner!! ?i do a blue and drive till the needle is just on the edge of the red

[Overseer]

^ ya mean mk3?


i have no idea how many miles i can get out a tank... on the motorway when cruising around the limit and being careful i can get 36 to 38... in town sub 20...

[Mixologist]

And that aswell

Its all those safety features you lot eat!!!  dont need those, nothing but a thin sheet if metel between me n the next car!! eeeeekkkkkk. . . . . . .

[actionslax]

I get 280 - 290 miles from about that much, and I drive like a nutter. Compared to a mk3 8v my car has almost double the power and weighs a fair bit more too, I think you may have some fuelling issues there matey

i think my high revving ((lack of power) and this is where the want for a vr6 comes in)  is probably the cause of the empty fuel tank (well i hope) if i did have a problem with fuel economy where would i start the elimnation.....

(i know its a gti so i shouldn't think about economy but.....)



 

[DubFan]

I used to get (according to the MFA) 35-40mpg on the motorway in my Mk3 16v, if I was very careful and stuck it just below 70mph.

I used to do Nottingham to London for a weekend, (round trip about 260miles) for about 30quid.
In my Mk2 16v the same trip cost just about the same. Although that includes driving during the weekend.