MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG

[Buddy]

Nope, as it says top left, "comfort mode" I've only tried Eco mode for a few minutes and the "coasting" function freaked me out 

What is comfort mode though in terms of the engine? Normal plus soft suspension in ACC/DCC?

Yep that's right MH

[Misterp]

So a round trip to Luton for work with a mixture of driving and  traffic on the m6/m1 then driving in and around Luton then getting back to Brum and driving from Solihull to birmingham city centre (through the city) yesterday have me the following on 40 quid worth of vpower diesel

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This morning driving from home to work which is a 6 mile commute of city driving including some traffic, roundabouts and a large 40mph stretch gave me 32.8 mpg. That's less than what I got in my 2004 a3 2.0tdi sline. I know it's still running in but I've now got just shy of 500 miles on the clock. It seems to be some way away from the quoted 51mpg you find in the brochures. I understand that your looking at an 8-10% decrease from the quoted. However, a whole 12 mpg less is a joke that's manual gti economy. From the looks of it if it carries on this way I should of just paid the extra for the gti. I do about 100 miles a month minimum on the mway monthly.

Should I be worried or am I doing something wrong.

[monkeyhanger]

MisterP: That is poor. Mine is averaging about 46mpg on its first tank, although I haven't driven it for 10 days, having been on holiday. Your commute is short and sounds a little congested, which doesn't help. I have noticed that my car's water temp gets up quicker than my Scirocco, but the oil temp takes just as long IMO. The MK7 seems to take longer in the journey to be economical, so is less suited to short journeys in my experience. If you don't get an improvement on your next tank or are plagued with regular active regens then you might want to get the car checked out.

[Misterp]

MisterP: That is poor. Mine is averaging about 46mpg on its first tank, although I haven't driven it for 10 days, having been on holiday. Your commute is short and sounds a little congested, which doesn't help. I have noticed that my car's water temp gets up quicker than my Scirocco, but the oil temp takes just as long IMO. The MK7 seems to take longer in the journey to be economical, so is less suited to short journeys in my experience. If you don't get an improvement on your next tank or are plagued with regular active regens then you might want to get the car checked out.

Oil temp is slow going up. The prob is it's the same journey as my old tdi and that was hitting 40mpg. I know it's a short journey but still. My next tank I will put 30 quid of vpower diesel and see what happens. If no luck I will be dropping by the dealership. If it continues this way then it will be more expensive to run than a gti just out of curiosity the dsg may be changing up too soon. Do you manual drivers let it get to around 3000 revs before changing up.

[Sootchucker]

TBH, from cold, for that short Journey, I doubt a GTI would be more economical - I would think it would struggle to break 30 at best ?

[Misterp]

TBH, from cold, for that short Journey, I doubt a GTI would be more economical - I would think it would struggle to break 30 at best ?

There is that but fuel prive difference would mean they are not that fat off unless I'm being naive. Let's see how it goes. I don't know if it's me but this was my second  she'll fill up the first with normal diesel second with vpower and the first seemed to do better.

Or just leave home earlier so it's quiet lol and more time at 50

[Gordor]

Sainsbury's diesel used and the economy is fantastic to be fair. Clocked over 1000 miles today so opened her up a bit with a cheeky little push down the M5....55 mpg! Happy days

[Buddy]

Just over 500 miles in my GTD. Mixed miles, probably 70% motorway plus quite a lot of stop start in traffic.

Long term = 42mpg.
Since refuel = 45mpg. Used Vpower Nitro+ and have done 350 miles on it.

Like others have said, going anything over 70 seems to hit the mpg quite badly.

Sorry to quote myself but this was just as much for my interest as a marker before the tuning box affects the readings: -

Around 1,240 miles.
Long term = 44.6mpg.
Since refuel, around 200 miles = 47.6mpg.

Got 63mpg on a deliberately frugal 40 mile run last weekend. 90% A road but also included some town/traffic

[mike_f]

Finally took delivery of the car on Monday and been enjoying it. 5dr manual GTD.

Had it on a decent run yesterday - 130 miles, mostly motorway with some city in between.

Best I could get out of it was 49mpg and that was driving very conservatively. I did use the adaptive cruise, economy mode etc.

Any suggestions to improve this? I see some people on here are getting very good mpg.

Cheers

Mike

[monkeyhanger]

Mike f:

Unless you are trying to drive economically, eco is a massive waste of time, you will just end up frustrated with the throttle response and be pushing the car harder. Use any kind of cruise on any car and there will be a fuel penalty to be paid. If your economy is being hammered by active DPF regens then Shell V-Power may help get 5% or so improvement. Having been on a 130 mile motorway run, I doubt that is your problem right now. How many miles have you put on your car?

Most people's decent mpg has come about from 500+ miles, as the car loosens up (not just the engine needs to loosen). My long term mpg at about 450 miles in was about 44mpg, and since fill up on the first full tank is about 46mpg. I expext it to improve noticeably as more miles go on. If the mpg remains below expectations to 2000 miles then that's the time to start being concerned.