fuel consumption - gti

[saba]

how many km's do ppl get roughly from 1 tank of fuel

my average this tank has been 7.7L per 100km and im at 598km.

Hope i dont run out of petrol b4 the 600km mark!

[Rocket]

Wow, thats fantastic! How do you drive? Do you give it some stick? or drive gently. I normally pull about 450km tank.

Edit: Although on long drive i can get about 7L/100km

[saba]

i usually average around 8.4-8.5 but i thort id not give it stick at all this tank just to see how many km's i can get...

[shaneth]

i get 10l/100 :D

[saba]

ran out of fuel on the freeway...603km's!

[Wand Weaver]

I don't believe running a car completely dry is particularly good for it.

I'm not sure what it is with you guys, or whether it's just driving in medium-density traffic for moderate distances...but I'm struggling to drop under 10L/100km. Also, does the consumption improve substantially as the car gets run in?

All in all - it's the only thing that irks me about the car. Everyone else is getting 8L/100km, and I'm struggling to break 10 driving like there's a bomb underneath the throttle.

On a long drive with no traffic, cruising at about 60-70km/h, the consumption did drop to 6.2L/100km for a half hour drive.

[shaneth]

Wand, Im the same mate. But i dont hold back on mine. WHat fuel you running? HOw olds the car?

[Wand Weaver]

The car's been running on BP Ultimate. It's a little under 2 months old - about 600km on the odo at the moment.

I don't drive it hard - but it does make short trips in medium density traffic. Oddly enough, it doesn't get much worse in peak hour?

[shaneth]

Mate its way to early to tell yet. thats roughly only 2 tanks of fuel if not less. By the time mine was 2 months i had around 3000km on it. Id give it a bit of time for the motor run in.

[silverMK1]

sorry not polo. my mk1 golf gets me $10-100k on premium unleaded not to sure of L/km its a 1.8 k-jet

[Glide_GTI]

90% sydney traffic, I get 400 km with giac chip

up to brisbane got ~620 on a tank

[Wand Weaver]

90% sydney traffic, I get 400 km with giac chip

That around 10L/100km, too - I think the consumption drops a LOT doing freeway work, perhaps more than most cars. I think the 1.8T might be a bit thirsty when you open up the throttle (ie if you're driving hard or accelerating in stop-start conditions).

[mdonohoe]

Mines got 1050kms on the clock...

Doing 35-37kms from Park Ridge(pretty out there) to Milton(Brisbane CBD) at 5am. Average 7.4L/100kms :-)

Sure beats a WRX!!!

[Rocket GTI]

I average close to 400km going by odo, using 31-33 liter's of 98 octane. my Polo GTI is APR'ed as well,and now has 12000+km and I do not drive for economy.

[Timbo]

I've said it before....and I'll say it again...no, I'll just link it (http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showpost.php?p=27924&postcount=3)

[mdonohoe]

I'll certainly say it here today after taking the APR/Oetteger chip for a 6 hour trial run.

I may not be able to drive it hard enough with a relatively new car however, I only managed approx 11L/100kms and I was giving a*seholes. Compare this to a WRX or similar and you'll know how awesome this is.

I shudder to think the amazing economy when being nice.

Matt

[clone_tk422]

I'm, using mostly vortex 98 from caltex. Mostly highway driving gold coast to robina and Im struggling to get 520 out of a tank and averaging about 8.5 per 100km.

I even did a straight trip gold coast to port macquarie when I first got it and it only got 520 out of the tank.

I cant get anywhere near 600 km's which people are quoting even when driving in a long stretch. Even my dealer said it was not right.

I dont drive it hard and its a brand new 07 model.

I tried different fuels and same result.

I am going to report it again as they reckon nothing is wrong with it when i reported it first time

Also this per tank thing I am going off is when the distance to empty tells me theres no km's left so maybe this faulty

Example, yesterday it said it had 0 km's left but when i filled up I got only 42 litres in there so there was still 3 litres left..

How well does everyone elses distance to empty work?

[MACCAA]

Er that's the expansion tank,and it ain't there to put more fuel in...

[Ben_GTI]

I got 6.6L/100km driving very gently along the freeway today. Driving through town it usually sits around 7.0L/100km. I find weight has a lot to do with it, if I have 4 people in the car the fuel consumption gets to 10+L/100km and performance really drops.