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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
13-02-2007, 04:28 PM
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
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
13-02-2007, 04:43 PM
i get 10l/100 :D
ran out of fuel on the freeway...603km's!
Wand Weaver
13-02-2007, 08:16 PM
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
13-02-2007, 08:45 PM
Wand, Im the same mate. But i dont hold back on mine. WHat fuel you running? HOw olds the car?
Wand Weaver
13-02-2007, 08:54 PM
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
13-02-2007, 09:42 PM
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
13-02-2007, 11:11 PM
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
17-02-2007, 12:22 AM
90% sydney traffic, I get 400 km with giac chip
up to brisbane got ~620 on a tank
Wand Weaver
17-02-2007, 04:18 PM
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
19-02-2007, 06:28 AM
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
19-02-2007, 01:17 PM
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
19-02-2007, 03:52 PM
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
19-02-2007, 08:42 PM
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
21-02-2007, 02:51 PM
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
21-02-2007, 08:48 PM
Er that's the expansion tank,and it ain't there to put more fuel in...
Ben_GTI
27-04-2007, 10:46 PM
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.
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