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  1. #611
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    Yeah but this was way before I hit the reset button. I noticed this within days of having the car, it's actually what made me think was there an issue?

    What I actually thought up was that if I was 8.8L with Polo with an alleged fuel consumption of 6.1L that's a 3L increase, now apply that to the Golf with a market reading of 7.6L + 3 = 11. I'm actually under that and given that I have been babying it ever since getting it high 9s is relative ok. I take it from that I don't have an issue and just have to suck up the fact my car uses a hell of a lot more fuel.

    I'm just amazed at what peoples readings are, I might go do it the old fashion way and see.

    Is a manual better then DSG? Or driving in manual mode?
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    But the "1" reading is reset each time you drive it, and say you move just enough for it to change from --l/100km to a real number, but then immediately get stuck at a light, it will increment rapidly as distance travelled is very low but litres used is going up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bassik View Post
    Only yesterday I thought I would reset the consumption levels (Golf) to see how "I" drive eliminating 3 yrs prior someone else was driving my car.
    avg fuel use [1] automatically resets after 2(? maybe 3 - it's in the manual) hours of vehicle inactivity

    avg fuel use [2] automatically resets after 99hrs59m (3,500km-6,000km depending on where you drive)

    If the MFD readout is inaccurate you can tweak it with VCDS.

    Fuel consumption over a short trip of 20km isn't really indicitive of overall fuel usage. What matters is your average over several thousand km.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brad View Post
    Fuel consumption over a short trip of 20km isn't really indicitive of overall fuel usage. What matters is your average over several thousand km.
    Yeah this is where I have to wait and see I guess, it's just that I'm am not used to literally seeing my fuel needle go down after only driving for maybe 10-20mins, it's usually so seamless and goes undetected.
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    I have a MK6 90TSI manual. The car is one and a half years old with 35000km on the clock. I have a round trip of around 100kms a day split 60% suburban/trafficlight controlled roads and 40% freeway. The freeways have had some form of construction works on them for almost two years now. My trip varies from 1 hour to 1&1/2 hours each way. Due to the construction there are bad days where I am sometimes stuck in first gear on the freeway for 20 to 30 minutes. My long term average is 6.1L/100Km. The best consumption I had on one trip was during the holiday season (light traffic, traffic light gods in my favour and schools closed) of 5L/100km and it took around 40 minutes.

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    On Sat night, with a slight wind chill, two on board and some luggage to the airport, got it down for a moment to 5.8L/100Km.

    This was lower than the factory claim of 6.1L

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    Just bringing this back as would be interested is the latest. My trip has me on 6.4l/100KM on a 118TSI over about 4,000KM. Mostly highway driving Melb -> Geelong every day so I think that is good.

    One question, I filled up today and put in 56.4L. It was showing a range of 0 so assume it was right on empty but wondering if anything has put in more before?

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    We are averaging about 720km to tank in the MK6 GTI, thats some freeway and stop start local runs, with a heavy foot and air con cranking, overall pretty happy
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    driving style, tyre pressures, loads....(mine is a variant Mk6 103 tdi dsg!) just brt it and seems very low on fuel use, love it @ 166,000kms i think its run in and still has grunt...
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