MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG

[corgi]

Is the GTD longer geared?

[monkeyhanger]

Is the GTD longer geared?

The gear change prompts when driving economically seem to occur around the same point as on my Scirocco e.g 3rd from 20-25mph, 4th from 25-30mph, 5th from 30-40mph and 40+ for 6th. 80mph is 2200rpm, same as on the Scirocco. If there are any gearing differences, they are tiny.

I actually had my best run ever today - 49.7mpg on a 37 mile run on moderately busy roads with ave speed of 27mph. It just refused to crack 50mpg. The last few days have been good on the juice (apart from the 8 miles Benfield ran with the car).

My dad is up for a visit next weekend - i'll have a go in his car and see if his is quicker than mine. With the GTD it seems far more important to be hitting the torque band just right to get anything out of 5th and 6th.

Hoping the VW tech will have uncovered something to try tomorrow when I get my suspension mount bearing sorted out.

[KyleB]

MH you should give Tesco fuel a try mate. I'm loving my MPG on it with a big difference to normal shell fuel. This morning it was a little colder but still managed to hit 48mpg. On mg way home tonight with a lot of traffic and 8 degrees temp, hit 50mpg.

[monkeyhanger]

MH you should give Tesco fuel a try mate. I'm loving my MPG on it with a big difference to normal shell fuel. This morning it was a little colder but still managed to hit 48mpg. On mg way home tonight with a lot of traffic and 8 degrees temp, hit 50mpg.

Is Tesco fuel Esso fuel? There are a lot of Tesco Express/Esso garages around me, but nearest proper Tesco garage is Kingston Park (not too far from work, but usually 3p/L dearer than my local Esso).

How long is your commute?

[KyleB]

MH you should give Tesco fuel a try mate. I'm loving my MPG on it with a big difference to normal shell fuel. This morning it was a little colder but still managed to hit 48mpg. On mg way home tonight with a lot of traffic and 8 degrees temp, hit 50mpg.

Is Tesco fuel Esso fuel? There are a lot of Tesco Express/Esso garages around me, but nearest proper Tesco garage is Kingston Park (not too far from work, but usually 3p/L dearer than my local Esso).

How long is your commute?

Commute is 35 miles each way mate. A182 (30/40/60) and then A19 (65-75). I'd say I'm fairly aggressive in acceleration too. Addicted to the torque haha.

Not sure if Tesco does use Esso or not but I'm very impressed.

[dippy_x]

Got my best MPG so far yesterday.  Heading back from Glasgow to Edin.  About 59 miles.  Trip computer showed 53.3 mpg.  On the way home from work today which is an 11 mile trip I also hit 52mpg.  Think the warmer weather maybe helping.  Yesterday car reported it as 7 degrees and today was 10.5.  Just using bog standard Tesco fuel at the moment but happy with these results.  Coming up to 700 miles in total so far so hopefully things will just get better.

[Skinnee D]

Right it's time to dust off the Clubcard then .

My long term is 54 (indicated) at 1800m having used Sainsbury, Shell then Esso.  The Shell tank dropped a couple or so mpg that I put down (maybe wrongly) to more short journies.  Last refil on Esso gave 52.5 actual.

I anticipate a drop now with the colder weather as my regular commute is only 6m each way - currently it indicates around 48 in the early morning and 50 going home pm (a bit less if any crawling traffic though).  Also starting to get some VFM (remember Patrick Mower? ) out of the torque now which must come at a price.

Will definitely give Tesco a go though - hopefully their variety down south isn't inferior... 

(Sorry, couldn't resist...quality in perspective  )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwBpBerLCCs

[monkeyhanger]

Well my hopes for something getting changed while my car was in for other warranty work were dashed this morning. Drove my wife to work as she's doing some overtime. 8am, 9C ambient temp, empty roads. It's 9 miles each way, with miles 2 to 7 having the opportunity to cruise at 80mph. 40mph the rest of it. 42mpg there and I did 70 on the way back. 18 mile overall journey, 45.5mpg indicated. An easy 52mpg in the Scirocco. Doing 60+mpg seems to kill mpg in my GTD.

Will try my next tank on Tesco.

[dippy_x]

All my journeys have been done with cruise set at 75mph.  At 60mph you would expect better.  The odd thing is I am not driving like daisy and am putting the foot down on occasion.  This is when I would expect a poor MPG but get a pleasant surprise when I check at end of trip.  Maybe we are looking into this in too much detail at the moment as the cars have hardly been broken in yet.

[Skinnee D]

Well my hopes for something getting changed while my car was in for other warranty work were dashed this morning. Drove my wife to work as she's doing some overtime. 8am, 9C ambient temp, empty roads. It's 9 miles each way, with miles 2 to 7 having the opportunity to cruise at 80mph. 40mph the rest of it. 42mpg there and I did 70 on the way back. 18 mile overall journey, 45.5mpg indicated. An easy 52mpg in the Scirocco. Doing 60+mpg seems to kill mpg in my GTD.

Will try my next tank on Tesco.

Sorry to the hear that MH (but good to see you got your susp noise fixed at least ).

Just wondering - when you're on a steady stretch of 40 mph are you generally using 6th where possible?  I usually do and the specific mpg readout easily runs into high numbers (60+).  I'm now thinking maybe this is no longer such a good idea on modern diesels in case it gives rise to more frequent regens, which I'm guessing it might.

I should have added that the max speed usually reached on my commute is only 60, to put it in perspective.