Fuel consumption question

[Saint Steve]

im looking for a better figures with my cruise control installed to try and resist from being too heavy with the right boot.

Not easy when your in a MK5 GTi!

[DJGTi]

I get around 28mpg from shortish journeys and 34-36mpg on a long run.

When AutoExpress did a feature on how cars couldn't get near to the official published figures, the GTI was the only one that came close. (Within 1 mpg IIRC). The official figure is 35.3 (manual) and 35.8 (DSG).

[stealthwolf]

im looking for a better figures with my cruise control installed to try and resist from being too heavy with the right boot.

Not easy when your in a MK5 GTi!

So true! Regardless of whether I'm town driving or on the motorway, I've never travelled without booting it at least once! Completely wrecks the mpg but sooooo fun!

[mad man gti]

I often average 35+ mpg and have even hit over 40 on a good motorway run. Im always getting over 300 miles to a tank, I think its nearer 350 miles per tank!

that is spot on but have done 415 on a tank 55L 12 gallon on tescos 99ron thats all the gti nows.on a trip to wales sittin at 75 all the way

[R32UK]

SteveS I get better figures than you!!! I have averaged 26.2 over the last three tank fulls, yet only drive 8miles to and from work. I can even get over 30 on a round trip providing shes warmed up

Usually I only drive economically for about half the journy to build up my mpg.. then thrash it the other half. Keeps things consistent that way

[SteveS]

mi really let down by the mpg on this car

[topher]

How many miles have you done Steve? It also might be worth getting it looked over to make sure it's breathing properly.

[jackc]

Rather sadly I maintain a spreadsheet of my fuel economy for my ED 30 - I also kept figures for the previous Mk5 GTI I owned.

In the ED 30 over the last 6848.2 miles I've averaged 29.5 mpg.
In the previous GTI I averaged 29.1 mpg over 27322.7 miles.

All measurements were taken using full tank loads and only ever Shell V Power fuel. I commute about 80 miles a day - a mixture of dual carriageway, A roads, B roads and a bit of town roads.

The spreadsheet also calcs cost per mile (in petrol) and there are a couple of graphs. The graphs are quite interesting - they clearly show as a trend how fuel economy has improved as the car has gained more and more miles.

The range of mpg's per tank achieved is quite interesting - worst was 24.4  best was 38.6.

Anyway, anorak off now

Hopefully, spreadsheet can be viewed here.....

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pziXJrPF01oKyub_dqUuwMA

Graphs reproduced below...

[Saint Steve]

 

Those are some stats Jack, ive always thought that the ed30 is slightly better on fuel then my other Mk5 GTi's. Interesting that some say that even after a remap , it improves further still.

[neg]

Takes me back - previous car, a remapped Leon Cupra R I used to get as little MPG as possible, I had a fuel card and work paid for my private mileage so I wanted to make sure I got my monies worth