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Offline Saha

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How to read the average fuel consumption
« on: 01 November 2013, 16:36 »
Hello
Please can anybody tell me how to use the mfd display through the multi function steering wheel to read the average fuel cons.
Thanks

Offline Jimble

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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #1 on: 01 November 2013, 18:52 »
Using the buttons on the right hand side of the steering wheel, press the silver button left or right until you see "Driving Data", leave it for a second so it displays, then use the up-down arrow to go through the different info options until you see "AvgConsumption", then press ok to toggle through the options, either "long term" "from start" etc.


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Offline Darlo

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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #2 on: 01 November 2013, 18:59 »
I was wondering this myself.

Thanks for the post!

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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #3 on: 01 November 2013, 20:57 »
You might be better off not knowing, looked at mine today, 28mpg  :sad:
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Offline Mr Savage

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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #4 on: 01 November 2013, 22:28 »
Talking of which. What the hell is all this talk about 44-47mpg!? I'm driving mine gently and getting mid-high 20's at best.

The car drinks fuel. I put in a full tank last week and it's empty again already after just 240 miles :O
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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #5 on: 01 November 2013, 22:37 »
Talking of which. What the hell is all this talk about 44-47mpg!? I'm driving mine gently and getting mid-high 20's at best.

The car drinks fuel. I put in a full tank last week and it's empty again already after just 240 miles :O

There's some of us with GTDs not getting that, me included!
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Offline sam67GTD

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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #6 on: 01 November 2013, 23:38 »
Just picked up my GTD today and it's been averaging 47-48 mpg, so very happy with that so far after 140 miles on the clock  :smiley:
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Offline Mr Savage

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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #7 on: 01 November 2013, 23:52 »
I thought the figures were too good to be true. There's a guy that's covered over 4000 miles and is still averaging 28mpg. Quite irritating really, they shouldn't beable to advertise those figures at all.

What are others getting from a full tank?
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Offline 2014GTi

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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #8 on: 02 November 2013, 00:15 »
Mpg depends on so many variable. It will be around 15-20k miles before you'll notice big improvements as a guess.
Don't expect anything over 40mpg unless you do a lot of motorway miles.
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Offline Mr Savage

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Re: How to read the average fuel consumption
« Reply #9 on: 02 November 2013, 00:39 »
I'd be happy with seeing more near the 35 mark and that's still 10mpg below the stated figures.
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