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Offline Jthgti

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #650 on: 11 March 2014, 23:49 »
Picked up my GTD today - first longish drive in normal mode along A roads and dual carriageways, a little city driving (not driven hard as still running in but not trying to hyper mile or anything).

76 miles, ave 41 mph, 56.4 mpg. Well happy with that!

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #651 on: 12 March 2014, 00:06 »
Picked up mine on March 1st. Love the car, its a big step up from the mk6. But my long term fuel consumption is 39MPG and ive not been driving it any differently to my mk6 and that did around 48MPG. Not very happy with that to be honest, i was hoping it would do at least 45MPG. But it is brand new so hopefully it will improve once its done more miles.
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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #652 on: 12 March 2014, 07:31 »
MPG has taken a real hammering for me coming into work. Has been an easy 47mpg (indicated) over most of the last week (7-12C), today was -2C and I managed 41.7, driving like a saint.

This GTD seems very sensitive to temp changes on the fuel economy front.
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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #653 on: 12 March 2014, 07:38 »
Seems to be quite a variation lately, and it's almost certainly due to ambients (Edit: Monkeyhanger got in there before me). I use mine a lot in town in the mornings to drop off the mrs so my long term isn't great, but did 55 miles of b road and some a road driving last night for the hell of it and achieved 49.2 which seems ok, although the car has only done 450 miles so i'm yet to drive it enthusiastically - it seems thirsty when you go for the throttle.

As soon as there is talk of a DPF delete I shall be partaking in that. I am intrigued by the long term tuning box findings tbh, as the subsequent hotter engine temps seem to defer the DPF regens well enough which is ultimately what's raping us all of MPG.

I'll see what figures she throws up on the drive back to Peterborough tomorrow as my 270K 306 happily achieved 50 on that run with past their use-by date injectors. My colleague at work is achieving 57 on his 36mile round trip work run with his Mk6 GTD (30k on the clock) with a mix of roads and spirited/cruise/overtakes so i'm feeling a little cheated atm. Hopefully it will settle in as the miles increase a bit.
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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #654 on: 12 March 2014, 08:13 »
It's now an mot fail if you remove the dpf so beware. If it's meant to be on the car it has to remain on the car.
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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #655 on: 12 March 2014, 08:22 »
Yes it is, but it is also not within the remit of the tester to remove any undertrays to gain access to perform the visual inspection!

I've never taken my Cat off all my petrol cars, honest...
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Offline stuart.cameron

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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #656 on: 12 March 2014, 15:12 »
MPG is definitely getting hammered due to the cold weather. Morning commute this morning at 2 degrees 41mpg.

Last tank averaged at 41.4mpg which is bang on with the computer!
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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #657 on: 12 March 2014, 18:43 »
Visual inspection is probably just the beginning. It won't be hard to look up at the rear of the engine on a ramp.


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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #658 on: 12 March 2014, 19:04 »
My first GTD drive (10 mins after taking delivery)

South Wales to Manchester 54.9 mpg
Manchester to South Wales 60.1 mpg

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Driver in Running in mode (cruise set to 70 - 75)
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Re: MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG
« Reply #659 on: 12 March 2014, 19:24 »
My long term averages hovers around 48mpg.  Today was nice and sunny with temps between 12/13 degrees.  A trip from Edin to Glasgow got me a 58.9mpg which is record for me.
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