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Offline jaceyboy

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Fuel Economy GTi
« on: 18 January 2019, 16:26 »
Guys,

The wife is complaining about the Golf's fuel economy, we put £40 in and it as done just 180 miles, ok her driving is stop start around town, but the computer is saying 19mpg after start and 24.5 long term, just wondered if this is right? :embarrassed:
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Offline O2Doc

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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #1 on: 18 January 2019, 16:27 »
Nobody buys a GTi to watch the mpg... :smiley:
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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #2 on: 18 January 2019, 16:31 »
Quote from: O2Doc on 18 January 2019, 16:27
Nobody buys a GTi to watch the mpg... :smiley:

I understand that but would think I should get better than this?, my brothers wife has an R and he says she gets 340 miles to a tank, we are getting like 250 :lipsrsealed:
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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #3 on: 18 January 2019, 16:32 »
Quote from: jaceyboy on 18 January 2019, 16:26
The wife is complaining about the Golf's fuel economy, just wondered if this is right? :embarrassed:
Sounds about right from a woman, get rid of her.
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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #4 on: 18 January 2019, 16:39 »
It’s a 200 odd BHP 2.0 turbo car.
Around town in stop start driving it ain’t going to be good reading.
On a run it’ll do 40 plus if you hold back, mid thirties if you drive normally and around town it’ll do low to mid twenties. The R tends to be about 5mpg worse in my experience. 
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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #5 on: 18 January 2019, 16:42 »
Quote from: Exonian on 18 January 2019, 16:39
It’s a 200 odd BHP 2.0 turbo car.
Around town in stop start driving it ain’t going to be good reading.
On a run it’ll do 40 plus if you hold back, mid thirties if you drive normally and around town it’ll do low to mid twenties. The R tends to be about 5mpg worse in my experience.

TBF its 300bhp, it has stage 1 :rolleyes: :grin:
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Offline Jim_mk7.5

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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #6 on: 18 January 2019, 16:46 »
My last tank was abut 250 miles. Stuck around town kills it for me. Especially with this very cold weather.
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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #7 on: 18 January 2019, 17:00 »
Quote from: jaceyboy on 18 January 2019, 16:42
Quote from: Exonian on 18 January 2019, 16:39
It’s a 200 odd BHP 2.0 turbo car.
Around town in stop start driving it ain’t going to be good reading.
On a run it’ll do 40 plus if you hold back, mid thirties if you drive normally and around town it’ll do low to mid twenties. The R tends to be about 5mpg worse in my experience.

TBF its 300bhp, it has stage 1 :rolleyes: :grin:

Depends on which rolling road it was tested on!  :laugh:
The stage 1 cars I’ve had were actually better on fuel on a run (more flexible) but not much different around town unless using the performance a bit too much.
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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #8 on: 18 January 2019, 17:16 »
Turn on the think blue display and let her see how much her right foot needs training....

You can do it... you just need to learn not to push the pedal so hard and watch the gear suggestion indicator to always have the right gear.

There's quite a big gain to be had in driving economically.... obviously not if you are hooning, but the rest of the time.... save some cash!
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Re: Fuel Economy GTi
« Reply #9 on: 19 January 2019, 01:01 »
Quote from: fredgroves on 18 January 2019, 17:16

There's quite a big gain to be had in driving economically...

This. Some people's driving is awful - gunning it away from every set of lights, only to slam on the brakes 300 yards later at the next set of lights. If you're reading the road and anticipating the flow of traffic, there's seldom a need to use the brakes. Low 30s is possible in town and high 40s on the motorway.
Clarkson did a bit on Top Gear to demonstrate that driving style was far more important than choice of car.
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