MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG

[monkeyhanger]

article in this months vw driver mag reckons you won't see the mpg's calm down until after first oil change!

That's about 20,000 miles right?

Good question...10k on fixed servicing, but I'm guessing maybe up to somewhere approaching 20k on long life/variable servicing for some long distance drivers?

When long life servicing was first rolled out on my 1st MK5 Golf (2005), mine was set up for it and it did 18k miles to the first service,that was doing 12k a year mixed driving. Assuming the regime parameters haven't changed, the motorway milers should see almost 20k miles between oil changes.

[Gordor]

article in this months vw driver mag reckons you won't see the mpg's calm down until after first oil change!

That's about 20,000 miles right?

Good question...10k on fixed servicing, but I'm guessing maybe up to somewhere approaching 20k on long life/variable servicing for some long distance drivers?

When long life servicing was first rolled out on my 1st MK5 Golf (2005), mine was set up for it and it did 18k miles to the first service,that was doing 12k a year mixed driving. Assuming the regime parameters haven't changed, the motorway milers should see almost 20k miles between oil changes.

That's a lot of miles before expected increase in consumption 

[Skinnee D]

article in this months vw driver mag reckons you won't see the mpg's calm down until after first oil change!

That's about 20,000 miles right?

Good question...10k on fixed servicing, but I'm guessing maybe up to somewhere approaching 20k on long life/variable servicing for some long distance drivers?

When long life servicing was first rolled out on my 1st MK5 Golf (2005), mine was set up for it and it did 18k miles to the first service,that was doing 12k a year mixed driving. Assuming the regime parameters haven't changed, the motorway milers should see almost 20k miles between oil changes.

Much the same for our old 2003 A4 TDI - consistently 17-18k for the variable service to flag up, same for all the three services while we had it.  Likewise 12k per year mixed use.

[KyleB]

MH you're seeing a lot more regens than Mr mate. I probably get one every 3-4 weeks. Mpg drops and stop start errr...stops. My long term MPG from the MFD is 50.3 and that's with 760 miles. I regularly see over that on my commute to work.

Might be worth asking VW to look at how many regens you're having?

Quick unrelated question. With the long term servicing (every 20k) still cover you for three services in the service plan or not?

[monkeyhanger]

MH you're seeing a lot more regens than Mr mate. I probably get one every 3-4 weeks. Mpg drops and stop start errr...stops. My long term MPG from the MFD is 50.3 and that's with 760 miles. I regularly see over that on my commute to work.

Might be worth asking VW to look at how many regens you're having?

Quick unrelated question. With the long term servicing (every 20k) still cover you for three services in the service plan or not?

They won't cover 3 x long life service plans, just 3 x fixed interval ones, otherwise you could get 5 years worth of servicing out of them. Yep the number of regens I have is a little disturbing.

[KyleB]

MH you're seeing a lot more regens than Mr mate. I probably get one every 3-4 weeks. Mpg drops and stop start errr...stops. My long term MPG from the MFD is 50.3 and that's with 760 miles. I regularly see over that on my commute to work.

Might be worth asking VW to look at how many regens you're having?

Quick unrelated question. With the long term servicing (every 20k) still cover you for three services in the service plan or not?

They won't cover 3 x long life service plans, just 3 x fixed interval ones, otherwise you could get 5 years worth of servicing out of them. Yep the number of regens I have is a little disturbing.

Ah right I guess that makes sense. Shame haha.

[Misterp]

MH you're seeing a lot more regens than Mr mate. I probably get one every 3-4 weeks. Mpg drops and stop start errr...stops. My long term MPG from the MFD is 50.3 and that's with 760 miles. I regularly see over that on my commute to work.

Might be worth asking VW to look at how many regens you're having?

Quick unrelated question. With the long term servicing (every 20k) still cover you for three services in the service plan or not?

There is no point in asking they will carry out all these tests and give you a print out saying if it's below this mpg wise it's  worrying if it's above then it's fine. In respect of the regen they said it all depends on the type of driving you do. That's how they fobbed me off lol. What more can I do other than wait for the first oil change as suggested above and take it from there. Useless some of these technicians.
My car went in on Friday and they said they can hear a sound rattle from my front driver side suspension but they can't trace what it is. But cos I took it on on a Friday it listed their ability to investigate further so they kept the car over the weekend to run some tests. My response was cough cough bo!!ocks... More like your too busy to look today so you will wait till Monday. I said when I collect I want to speak to the dealer principal. Not happy with the way I've been handled. They got the car at 8am and they telling me this at 5pm. They just haven't bothered.

[monkeyhanger]

MH you're seeing a lot more regens than Mr mate. I probably get one every 3-4 weeks. Mpg drops and stop start errr...stops. My long term MPG from the MFD is 50.3 and that's with 760 miles. I regularly see over that on my commute to work.

Might be worth asking VW to look at how many regens you're having?

Quick unrelated question. With the long term servicing (every 20k) still cover you for three services in the service plan or not?

There is no point in asking they will carry out all these tests and give you a print out saying if it's below this mpg wise it's  worrying if it's above then it's fine. In respect of the regen they said it all depends on the type of driving you do. That's how they fobbed me off lol. What more can I do other than wait for the first oil change as suggested above and take it from there. Useless some of these technicians.
My car went in on Friday and they said they can hear a sound rattle from my front driver side suspension but they can't trace what it is. But cos I took it on on a Friday it listed their ability to investigate further so they kept the car over the weekend to run some tests. My response was cough cough bo!!ocks... More like your too busy to look today so you will wait till Monday. I said when I collect I want to speak to the dealer principal. Not happy with the way I've been handled. They got the car at 8am and they telling me this at 5pm. They just haven't bothered.

Did you make note of your mileage when you dropped it off? There may have been someone off out in it as their personal runaround over the weekend. When my car went in for one day, it was supposed to be back to me by lunchtime (8am drop off). They told me at 11am it was ready, but I never got my lift back to the dealership until 2pm, even though I was expecting a 12pm pick-up. Someone had it out for their lunchtime and did 28 miles in it.

[2014GTi]

article in this months vw driver mag reckons you won't see the mpg's calm down until after first oil change!

That's about 20,000 miles right?

Good question...10k on fixed servicing, but I'm guessing maybe up to somewhere approaching 20k on long life/variable servicing for some long distance drivers?

When long life servicing was first rolled out on my 1st MK5 Golf (2005), mine was set up for it and it did 18k miles to the first service,that was doing 12k a year mixed driving. Assuming the regime parameters haven't changed, the motorway milers should see almost 20k miles between oil changes.

That's a lot of miles before expected increase in consumption 

I hate to say this but I've been saying this for a while on this forum... 10-20k miles is when your start to see better mpg.
My Polo was the same. 

[monkeyhanger]

I hate to say this but I've been saying this for a while on this forum... 10-20k miles is when your start to see better mpg.
My Polo was the same. 
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Never seen this with any previous TDI (6 bought new before this one), a small incremental increase from 0 – 2000 miles in output, but not really in mpg, and certainly no long term gains like that.

My Scirocco 170TDI was extremely tight from 0 – 320 miles/500Km then opened right up and didn’t incrementally improve after that to any great degree, it was as if a switch had been flicked.

 If it is the case to expect noticeable improvement with large mileages going on, then it would suggest to me that the increases seen as the miles go on are as a result of engine management programming – intentional retardation of efficiency/output by VW until the 1st service – perhaps to protect the engine with the oil filter probably collecting the most debris the engine will ever give out between services.