How many miles from 1 full tank?

[number_six]

Hello all

Just out of curiosity -

I'm really pushing my fuel tank guage to the red line to see how much I can get out of a full tank, and the needle is just about lining up with the red marker.  I've nearly done 300 miles so far and I've not really been flooring it. 170 of these miles were mainly done on long roads.  She is a 3 dr 1.8T GTi

Driving home from work is going to be a bit of a gamble but I'm going to try and get another twenty or so miles out of her yet.  I'll let you know the final milage.  Let's just call it petrol roulette.

How many miles have you done on one tank?

[S11EPS]

Well, I can get 500 ish out of mine, but then it IS a diesel!!

Aparently this is a bit pants (The diesel boys had a bit of a discussion a while ago and some guys were 650+!!!) but I blame my bad economy on high speed runs to work (95mph+) and very slow driving through London on the way home (Diesel economy is awful in town).

If I was running a petrol Gti Turbo I would be happy with about 350 per tank

[M6 VWW]

I managed to get 360 miles out of my 1.8T but ran out of petrol about 1/2 a mile form the petrol station which was pretty scary as the car just cut out and the power steering went off.

I found that when the light goes on you can squeeze about 50 miles out of it.

Have you tried Optimax? This increased my MPG by a couple of digits but it costs 5p a litre more. I could feel a difference though...

[lewis]

I seem to be getting about 550 miles out of my 130 PS diesel but I've only had it just over a month so that will probably very a bit.

[kniterider]

bowt 350 ish from a full tank but mines only a 1.8 20v (non turb) so you have to keep it wound up to keep rapid progress!! , to be honest the only gains ive had out of optimax is probably a veryslight performance gain and a bit smoother i wouldnt say my mpg increased!

[Veedubgt18v]

The most i ever got was 379 from my 8v mark 2, i was drivin in 5th everywhere and mosat of it was motorways. the petrol is well good if i keep it below 3k rpm, i averaged 33.6 mpg last tank tho.

[number_six]

OK, I was driving to work last night, going down some long dark quiet country road, and then all of a sudden the computer gives out that loud beep it does, scaring the sh*t out of me, and there was the warning fuel pump light saying 'Please refuel'.  Which was very polite of it.

Not risking any more miles now so I'm going to treat her to a nice tank of Optimax after 312.4 miles.

Have a good weekend.

[Franko180]

In my GTi T 180bhp I tend to do lots of motorway runs and due to already having 6 points I dont play licence roulette on the motorways anymore. I tend to stick the cruise control to 80mph or less (have a lot of miles to do, so need to have at least a little speed and plenty of repmobile vectras and mundanos still go past me)

Anyway on long runs at 80mph I've achieved about 370 from a tank. This involves the car been sat in 6th, cruise control set at 80, not much use of the pedals, no quick braking or 'show off' acceleration. The computer tends to show average economy of 37mpg on runs like those.

Interestingly in my previous 1.8t 150's I tended to get 330miles per tank. Those cars didn't have cruise control and rev'd higher at 80mph due to only having 5 gears.

I think 80mph in my 150 1.8t was about 3700 rpm 5th  (cant quite remember) but 80mph in the 180 1.8t is 3200 rpm 6th

[SunnyP]

My first week with the car and out of my first full tank it is currently at 320miles and the fuel light came on on the way to work. So I'm guessing about the 350 mark, thats using Sainsbury's Super Unleaded - pi55 water in other words. She's also due for a service so maybe that has something to do with it? I'm quite dissapointed as I have been driving 'carefully' and only managed this, I used to tear the crap out of my Nissan 200sx turbo and still get 300 miles to the gallon, and that car is in a different leage completely...I got out-paced by a bloody MR2 this morning for gods sake. Need to get it chipped. Anyone tried the REVO thing at WheelBase in Hersham, according to thier website they give you a free trial...anyone any experiences? how long does the 'free' trial last and is it completely free?

Thanks.

[gazzagtiT]

all these sound about the same as mine, bout 300 - 350 dependin on how much naughty drivin i do! bout ?40 a tank giv or take a few ?coins here an there!