Had to go to the dealership to pick up my tax disc today. For some inexplicable reason the DVLA send them to the dealerships and not the registered keeper (although that is probably registered keeper to be when the disc gets applied for). VW also strongly insist that the dealerships do not post them out to customers, as a way of getting the customer back in for feedback on the car.
Anyway, on the 15 miles there on the most direct route from work, most of the roads are 40-60mph with lots of stops and starts around the Felling bypass. Had a few chances to pull away quickly from the lights to get straight up to 40mph and stay there, in Sport all the way and I got to the dealership…52.8mpg for the journey, much better. Saw my p/x Roc up for £17995, collected my tax disc, had a quick word with the salesman after he asked how the car was a week in. He says his Tiguan improved considerably on 4k miles. All done, I set off back to work on the same route. Round trip was up to 53.6mpg, not too bad all things considered. On the short bit of central motorway I managed to get up to 75mph, the mpg for the trip was falling rapidly from a high of 56mpg.
Right now this car seems to make you pay a harsh fuel penalty for exceeding a cruising speed of 60mph. The stop start was unavailable for the whole journey, maybe it was doing a passive regen (although gear change recommendations didn’t seem to change from the norm and it wasn’t idling at 1000rpm). I thought that maybe stop-start was disabled in Sport mode, but flicking over to eco didn’t instigate a stop at a junction either. So I lost stop-start and gained mpg…..win-win!
It still seems flat as a fart in 5th and 6th next to the Scirocco – maybe that is my reluctance to get into the “clicky zone” of accelerator travel while the car is running in, or maybe I will see a noticeable difference in the car’s performance at 310 miles/500km like I did with the Scirocco.
