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Offline monkeyhanger

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #580 on: 08 February 2014, 19:46 »
Back on the Esso - never realised how laggy the car was on Shell until I pulled away from the Esso station after filling up. Getting tempted by the tuning boxes again.
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Offline AlanH

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #581 on: 09 February 2014, 12:57 »
Another trip up to the North-East yesterday - a little over 200 miles via M1, M18 and A1(M). Left it on Eco for the whole trip and ACC set at 68 (65 real world). Arrived at destination with Since Start at 60.1mpg. Temperature was around 7.5C. This is closer to what I could achieve on my Mk6 GTD.
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Offline sam67GTD

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #582 on: 10 February 2014, 11:13 »
Just over 2,500 miles on my GTD. Out on Saturday for 110 mile round trip and the average MPG was 56.4. Very happy with this after coming from a car which averaged 26MPG!  :laugh:
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Offline noobmonkey

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #583 on: 10 February 2014, 12:00 »
well i've just hit 2222 miles :)

Overall average is 37.7 (so creeping up from my disastrous start!)
The best i've met on a normal trip is 56.8 (250 mile trip), generally i get 37-41 now on my trips.  A 38 mil round trip on saturday managed 42.1 -.

I've tried BP Ultimate, Esso, Tesco and Sainsburys. BP seems the better from that poor selection! :P
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Offline AlanH

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #584 on: 10 February 2014, 13:02 »
For some reason, my Long Term figures reset themselves last week. Anyone else had this? Would an inadvertent press on the "OK" button have caused it?
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Offline jivemonkey

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #585 on: 10 February 2014, 13:08 »
I reset my accidentally the other week too. For one reason or another I had the MFD display on 'long term' for all the average readings (speed, MPG, journey time etc) and forgot about it. After refuelling, I went in to the MFD and reset the figures, thinking it was the 'since start' figures, with a prolonged press of the "OK" button - and they were gone! Damn! My since start weren't far of the long term so wasn't immediately obvious..

Oh well. I track the MPGs on Fuelly as well as a cracking little app called Road Trip (I've done this for every car I've owned, including my XJ6) so not a complete failure..annoying more than anything!
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Offline AlanH

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #586 on: 10 February 2014, 13:25 »
Annoying, yes! I suspect that it would have reset anyway when it reached 9,999 miles or similar. And one more question on Since Refuel. It cleverly resets on filling the tank - sensor in the tank or opening and closing the filler cap??
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Offline jivemonkey

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #587 on: 10 February 2014, 16:57 »
Quote from: AlanH on 10 February 2014, 13:25
Annoying, yes! I suspect that it would have reset anyway when it reached 9,999 miles or similar. And one more question on Since Refuel. It cleverly resets on filling the tank - sensor in the tank or opening and closing the filler cap??

I assume that there is just a threshold that the fuel level sensor has to increase by to then count as a refuel..
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Offline dippy_x

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #588 on: 11 February 2014, 07:23 »
Quote from: AlanH on 10 February 2014, 13:02
For some reason, my Long Term figures reset themselves last week. Anyone else had this? Would an inadvertent press on the "OK" button have caused it?

I think it resets automatically after 100 hours or a certain number of miles (can't remember exactly - maybe 3000?)
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Offline Skinnee D

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #589 on: 11 February 2014, 14:21 »
Sorry if you've already seen this article, but I thought it was interesting to see the range of differences between "official" and "real world" mpg reported across some other models/manufacturers.
http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/real-world-mpg-2013s-top-10-beat-58mpg/1226015
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