MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG

[noobmonkey]

Back on Esso and my mpg is about 7% down on standard BP (getting about 41mpg for my commute vs 44 with the BP at about 2C ambient temp on the way to work, without regens going on. It has been a cold 2 weeks around the North East (and everywhere else), colder than it’s been for a while, and yet the BP managed to maintain the 44mpg average I was seeing with everything else used when the weather was a bit warmer. Standard BP definitely seems to be the winner for me right now.

My MPG has been down too these past weeks. Struggling to break 50mpg. Think a longer commute helps but my car still seems to love ASDA diesel.

lol i'm struggling to break 35! count yourself lucky

[jivemonkey]

Back on Esso and my mpg is about 7% down on standard BP (getting about 41mpg for my commute vs 44 with the BP at about 2C ambient temp on the way to work, without regens going on. It has been a cold 2 weeks around the North East (and everywhere else), colder than it’s been for a while, and yet the BP managed to maintain the 44mpg average I was seeing with everything else used when the weather was a bit warmer. Standard BP definitely seems to be the winner for me right now.

My MPG has been down too these past weeks. Struggling to break 50mpg. Think a longer commute helps but my car still seems to love ASDA diesel.

lol i'm struggling to break 35! count yourself lucky

You must be driving to it's full potential!

[noobmonkey]

lol i wish

Just back to the 2-5 commutes again...  (2k trip round europe soon, yay!!!)

got about 46mpg on my 600mile round trip

[Robbo]

I had been struggling to crack 45, but the last few trips, mpg has been pretty good. Had a run back from Heathrow last week, around 100 miles, and managed to get just over 50, sat with cruise on around 75 for the majority of the way and was really pleasantly surprised. Yesterday reached the heady heights of 58mpg on a 50 mile journey M11/A14/A1. Mostly sat at 65mph because of traffic, 70 on the A1.

I know it's stating the bleeding obvious, but as I've been much more gentle with the acceleration, it makes a massive difference, give it the beans and the mpg falls off a cliff.  I have been as low as 31mpg on short journeys and giving it plenty it's trying to find that happy balance between enjoying the performance and not having to fill up more than once during the week.

Car is 6 weeks old now and just on 3300 miles

[monkeyhanger]

I was forced to use a standard shell diesel as apparently there was no stock of their usual fuelsave version.

Are there 3 Shell diesel variants? I thought fuelsave was the standard Shell, I have only ever been able to get fuelsave or V-Power for the last few years.

[dippy_x]

I was working in Manchester earlier this week.  My trip back to Edin netted me a record 53.1mpg.  My 11 mile drive home from the office today  got me a 51.2mpg.  My drive in this morning got me  39mpg.  Don't know what it is but the journey home always seems to give me good mpg.

[monkeyhanger]

Back up to 45mpg today. It's no warmer than yesterday, but it's not raining and oil temp monitoring didn't indicate a hint of regenning.

[Sootchucker]

I've been trialling the adaptive cruise all this week to see if it much worse or better than me driving manually. Usual trip home from work i.e.

Distance 16.3 miles - Cold start. Car set to Comfort mode in the driving profile (i.e have DCC dampers) and of course the car is DSG.

10-15 minutes from start of crawling at <5mph for the first ½ mile

Onto motorway for 10 miles (cruise set to 70mph) - normally the Motorway is really busy and typically average speeds are around the 55-65mph range, so the ACC manages this speed differential perfectly..

5 miles of 50mph single carriageway followed by the last 0.8 miles of urban 30mph (roundabouts - traffic lights etc).

In the current weather (circa <7°C) I typically get (driving manually) about 50-52mpg.

This week with the cruise set, I've been achieving exactly the same. So whilst it's no better on economy, it doesn't seem to penalise as much as the manual cruise used to on the Scirocco, and with the speeds on the motorways up and down every 500 yards it seems, it does make the journey home much more relaxed and safer.

The only thing I would change is the minimum distance to the car in front, which even set to minimum, leaves a huge gap and invites other cars to keep cutting in meaning the ACC keeps having to slow down and speed up. I appreciate the distance is probably set to a distance that the car is able to brake from without hitting the car in front should an emergency situation arise, but if driving manually, I would normally be at least a third closer and still well behind the car in front and not tailgating (which is a pet hate of mine), but I do feel is a tad on the "safe" side.

[mcmaddy]

I've said the same about the acc Andrew and was shot down in flames by the know alls who know best. I've used it quite a lot on journeys and mpg is really good with it.

[Sootchucker]

TBH Chris, I wasn't sure myself until I tried it. Must admit, when I first got the car, it did take a leap of faith to trust that the car would brake when approaching a slower moving car (and my foot did hover over the brake pedal on more than one occasion), but I've now learned to trust it completely.

One thing I should have added to the above, is that last night, I change the "individual" driving profile setting to "Comfort" on all settings except, ACC which I set to sport. This meant that when a car slowed me down, when it moved (or I moved out of the way), it resumed it's set speed much quicker than before and felt more natural and didn't impact MPG at all.