MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG

[Misterp]

Getting involved in the MPG debate again. I'm with virginvwman. I don't drive it like I stole it but around round is p!sspoor. In sport i seem to get better MPG. I just can't understand why it's so poor. I'm going to get it in to vw and get it looked at as I'm not happy with the mpg otherwise I love the motor but the poor economy is killings 50quid admittedly around town is returning 34mpg that's worse then my 2004 a3 tdi 140bhp. It's frustrating.

[monkeyhanger]

Well I managed to crack 50.3mpg on my journey to Benfield this morning (hoping they actually fix my dodgy electronic handbrake rather than just clearing the fault codes), loosely following my normal commute and then peeling onto the A1 for an extra 5 miles (17 miles total). Ambient temp was +2C. The way the journey went to the point I dropped the missus off (45mpg at that point), I’d have probably managed 47 if I had headed to my work normally, as the last few miles of the A1 leg is downhill and I saw my mpg go from about 45mpg to 51mpg before the last bit of journey on Scotswood Road brought it back down again. It was in Sport for most of it, while in Sport the mpg was creeping up nicely, switch over to Normal and the rate of increase slowed right up, so I switched back to Sport after around a mile. My mpg does seem to be bouncing between 45-47mpg without regens and 40-42mpg with active regens on my commute to give 44mpg ave.

MisterP: How short is your commute? Mine is about 12 miles and I am rarely stuck in traffic. My local dealership claim to take mpg concerns seriously if your long term mpg is less than 40. Do you fall into this category, or just have a few really bad (low mpg) journeys when you go through town?

[Misterp]

MH my commute is approx 7 miles admittedly there is a small section that it stop start but it's at a traffic light. All moving at an average 40mph. My long term mpg has today read 40 mpg which is p!ss poor. There is no two ways about it. Even if I reset the mpg during my commute I still won't get more than 36. Otherwise I'm loving the motor but it's a shame it's not living up to what vw suggested.

[broomthundle]

I must say I am getting fairly alarmed at some of the mpg claims some people are experiencing, whilst others seem to be ok.  Part of the reason I'm changing to a GTD, is to get away from my current 26mpg in the 2.5T mondeo.  I have a 30 mile round trip to work, 95% motorway, so i am expecting to get well into the 40's mpg, but from what i'm reading this is by no means assured.  It sounds to me that it could be to do with the nature of a brand new model, where the gremlins are quite worked out yet, but the level of inconsistency in reports on this site alone are certainly major cause for concern. 

[Misterp]

Broom you should be fine on the mway tbh. It's the city commute that is causing me concern.

Anyone else experiencing regens galore. In the first 1000 miles I think I had one. Since it's too many.

[monkeyhanger]

MisterP: I must admit, on a 7 mile commute, I’d be lucky to hit 40mpg for the journey in my car (my car is showing between 38 and 40mpg 7 miles in to my commute) and I’d expect to have an even more active DPF than my car already has, which would hammer the mpg even further. Do you do a few longer journeys in the week to clear the DPF (20+ miles)?

Broomthundle. On a 15mile each way commute on the motorway I would say you stand a decent chance of getting 50mpg every day if you stick to 70mph, or 45mpg if you stick to 80mph, assuming the roads aren’t clogged, and you should be driving with a pretty clear DPF too. It does seem to me that this generation of high output 2.0TDI engine does crucify mpg on the shorter journeys and I was expecting it to be a little better than my last car because this one is supposed to heat up quicker. DPF regens are far more prevalent on this car than my last one.

With the GTD engine it seems that there is a tighter band of conditions you must meet on your journey that will allow you decent mpg than was the case with previous gens and putting your foot down has far more repercussions for hitting your mpg than it did on the older engines. Any journey less than 15 miles seems to be killing mpg on the new engine.

[Sootchucker]

Bloody hell MisterP, must be something wrong with yours (or you feet are made of pure lead  ). I nipped out at lunchtime to the shops. Car was stone cold (having arrived at work at 7.15am this morning). Ambient was only 4°C, and the shop was ¾ mile away only. Just dove the car normally there and back (total 1.5 miles), the temperature gauge had only started to move off stone cold and my MPG was already 36.3 !

I really have to stand motionless for a good while (or worse still crawling at 5 mph for an extended time), or ragging the arse off it to see less than 40 mpg, which I have once only, when I had a real play with it and still got 37.8 !

Must really be something wrong with yours. Whilst it comes no where near to the advertised claims, mine at least, still isn't too bad.

[Misterp]

MH if be happy with a reading of 38-40. I'm not getting more than 34 ATM. P!ss take.

Norbreck no lead foot I'm on good behaviour with my licence so I'm a cruiser ATM. I have emailed the dealership today as I am still awaiting my mats that they cocked up when i took delivery. I'm really torn at the moment whether to see out the next month and see how I get on after or alternatively raise a grievance  with both the dealership and vw central. I can be stood still for  a small while and the mpg would decrease like a stop watch.

[Sootchucker]

Ha ha, I believe you....honest.

Deffo sounds like there's something wrong there. Obviously it's normal to see the MPG drop when stood still (although to be fair the start / stop should mitigate a lot of the losses providing you are not in the middle of a regen). When stood still mine obviously drops, but not like a stop watch like you say.

I can crack 50mpg pretty much every night on the way home, even with the cold temperatures. Also, it's important to understand that where I work is 100 yards from a roundabout, and that roundabout leads into another 200 yards further on. The whole of the business park and surrounding area where I work funnels through these 2 roundabouts as they are the only access to the nearby M62 motorway, and it's gridlock every night. What this means is that no matter if I leave work at 4.30 or 6.30 pm, that first quarter mile takes me anywhere from 10 mins to 30 mins to complete, and I can still crack 50mpg on my 15 mile journey home cruising at no more than 70-72 mph (can't really go any faster anyway). If I cruise at 80 (if conditions permit), this will drop to about 45-47 mpg (pretty much the same as MH said).

You may have seen the thread recently with I took 4 large adults down to Cardiff (with a fully laden boot) for a weekend, and still managed a respectable 56mpg for the whole weekend. With just the wife and I and no luggage, I think I might even have cracked 60mpg !

[Misterp]

Thanks for the input norbreck. It's annoying really that I'm getting petrol mpg around town. On a mway run I'll get the 50+ however it's the driving in and around town that's really shocked me as I said I was averaging just under 40mpg in my a3 tdi 

I'll wait for the reply from the dealership and see what I get from them