MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG

[Skinnee D]

Thanks for the input norbreck. It's annoying really that I'm getting petrol mpg around town. On a mway run I'll get the 50+ however it's the driving in and around town that's really shocked me as I said I was averaging just under 40mpg in my a3 tdi 

I'll wait for the reply from the dealership and see what I get from them

I'd definitely get it in for investigation ASAP.  I'd tell them about all these forum users who are getting "much... " better mpg.  My dealer did listen to me when I made it clear that numerous forum users were getting their front mounts replaced - despite a VW TSB that said do nothing...  Hope you get it sorted soon:smiley:

[Misterp]

Thanks mate. Appreciate it I have contacted the dealership and await their response.

[monkeyhanger]

Back to Benfield and waiting for them to open so they can fit the parts ordered yesterday, 51mpg on the 15 mile trip down, again looking like 47 mpg had I been going to work, not too bad. Just hope the twits don't take it out on their lunchbreak again. It apparently only went on diagnosis, yet went 8 miles and had every conceivable option changed and button pressed on the dash and in the MFD. It wasn't available until after lunch, despite me wanting it back for lunch because it was only ever going to be a diagnosis job. Some fecker is treating this as their runaround. Won't be coming back there. They had to find the car again, despite telling me that they'd parked it out front and giving me back the keys. It was locked in the back of the compound and blocked in.

[Sootchucker]

MisterP. just to prove I wasn't puling your leg, here's the readout from the journey home last night.


IMG_1180 by Sootchucker, on Flickr

Notice that average speed only 29mph, because I was sat in traffic outside work again for 15 minutes.

[monkeyhanger]

Norbreck:  Given your 15min wait, and the fact DSG is supposed to be 10% thirstier, does your car run on fairy dust or witchcraft? 

[Sootchucker]

Nah....pure skill as a driver 

Serious, don't know MH. I know the computer is about 0.5-1.5mpg optimistic from my checks, but that still equates to about 51.5 ish ? I think maybe part of my "success", is that my 10 miles on the Motorway each night (M62), whilst pretty much always moving steadily with few real hold ups, only travels between 55-65mph most nights due to the sheer volume of traffic, I guess that's the sweet spot for fuel efficiency.

As an aside, I had a stark reminder this morning of how much the colder weather affects it. All this week leaving for work (about 6.30am ish) it's been below freezing, so with the heaters on full (yes I'm a softie and like my comfort), which obviously means the PET heater is switched on as well, heated seats and heated rear window, I've only been getting about 41-42mpg going to work (which is though a major city - don't use the motorway in the morning). However today, exact same journey, but the ambient was now 10°C, I got 48.7 mpg !

[monkeyhanger]

Norbreck:

Set off at 7am and it’s 9.5C here today and I got 51mpg on the long Benfield run. Yesterday it was 2C at same time and I managed 50mpg. I would say it is the use of the heaters, heated seats and the rear heated window that has killed your mpg rather than the ambient temp itself. Must be quite a load on the battery/alternator. I don’t usually put the heaters on unless it is so cold that despite defrosting the windscreen, it is cold enough to start freezing back up and I have noticed very little difference between mpg in the cold (2-4C) and the not so cold (9-12C).


Can I assume that with today’s ambient temp you used much less heat assistance than yesterday? If so then your increase might be more for much less electrical load than the car having an 8-10C head start in warming up the engine quicker.


10 miles on the motorway at an average of 60mph is probably a huge help for you. For almost half of my journey I am between 70 and 80mph (usually nearer 70mph due to volume), but the rest of the time it is 30-50mph on the minor roads with almost no stoppages, but a few roundabouts to slow me down.

[Misterp]

Norbreck thanks for making me feel that much better. 

Not as cold in Brum this morning 11c got it up to 37mpg on my commute in. Shockingly driving around Brum yesterday I managed to get it up to 48mpg and that's not driving like miss daisy.

[monkeyhanger]

I just caned it back to work from Benfield and got 45mpg on the 6 mile trip. ½ a mile of flat 40mph road, then a mile of a wickedly steep sliproad up to the A1 (the road below is about 350 yards below the A1) and doing 80mph for the 4.5 mile along the A1 and a mile of 40mph.

Funnily enough, as I got my car back from the dealers before everyone’s lunch break, my car had been driven less than a mile – presumably they found some other mug’s car to do take out for a lunchtime jolly.

[KyleB]

What fuel you currently using MH? You switches to Asda a yet or still on Shell?