An Apology to all GTI owners

[Phil mcavity]

symonkey, i know whats wrong, its called heaviuos rightfootyous, ive found what helps is, driving with no air con running and also using paddles in manual mode if you have a dsg version, and not letting it get up into 6th gear which mine trys to do as soon as it can causing it to labour alittle.ive gone from average  town mpg from 26 mpg to the sultry heights of 31.5 mpg!!, My £30 of fuel from recent and regular fuel stops might get me 230 mile range from it!

[maxamus]

im getting 30.2mpg around the town at the moment 
using v-power. Who said sports cars are not economical 

[PabloGTI]

I once did a steadty run from birmingham to manchester-shire.

The estimated range of the full tank went up to 550 miles.

[wantmygti]

Wow I was impressed with my 450 mile range. Never actually managed it though.

[PabloGTI]

The return trip was less steady and returned to about 300 miles.

[Phil mcavity]

yes seems to be average of 300 to 310 mile range for town driving on £50 worth of 99 octane. havent done long journeys yet more then 50 miles but will be on my honeymoon going down to the southwest from here so expect to get a good result from it then

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Oh well if its confession time....I havn't even used the flippy paddles yet...not quite sure how to drive with them as flooring the auto seems to be good enough for me !!

Shocked . . .

Don't you find the delay in kick down irritating.  OK, if you are crawling along in 6th and kickdown could say send the box directly to 2nd - then fairy-nuff - but like that - the turbo won't have spooled, and so you will still have turbo lag.

Did you know you can still use the flappy paddles whilst in normal auto "D" or sport auto "S" modes.  Try and play with the paddles - you can't fcuk anything up - and when you have finished playing "tunes", the 'box will default back to auto mode after about 3 minutes of no paddle use - or if you want to immediately go back to auto, pull and HOLD the right + paddle for two seconds.

[sharpie]

According to the 7th GTI Commandment...

#7.  Thou shalt thrash thy GTI like a ginger step-child.

lol 

[Pintman]

After getting a shock when I worked out what mpg I was getting around town on a full tank, approx 22mpg,  I tried to 'behave' on the motorway. 

After a steady 160 mile run with approx 80% motorway miles, this was what my car read.......



I just had to take a piccie of it.  (Cr@p picture I know)

[illyun]

I once did a steadty run from birmingham to manchester-shire.

The estimated range of the full tank went up to 550 miles.

my record is 480 miles - what speed where you driving at? 30mph