stevebootes
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Perhaps I'm being unreasonable, but I see other threads here with people mentioning 60-70 mpg from their TDIs. I've never seen more than low 50s.
I've got an 04 TDI 90 Sport now running on 15" pepperpots - partly for efficiency and partly for comfort. It's just had a full service - fuel filter, the lot. I use Tesco diesel fuel. I drive with the Climate Control on auto. I don't have any fault codes logged. Everything seems to work and it drives normally. I have rear disks rather than drums so don't think anything is binding there, nothing is getting hot. The only thing I've ever noticed with the car has been what I can only describe as a "chirping" noise under full-load in 2nd or 3rd gear. It's always done this, it may well be completely normal - i've always assumed it was some sort of boost noise from the turbo, or general induction noise. It lasts for a couple of seconds and then goes as the revs rise or the load decreases.
I've had several trips to the airport recently, which is generally a 150 or 200 mile round trip depending upon where I'm going. This is pretty much all motorway and even the link road to the motorway is all dual carriageway for me so there must be perhaps 5 miles at best of stop/start driving. The rest is cruising at an indicated 65mph which the satnav says is actually 60mph.
I've calculated my fuel consumption by noting my miles against every tank fillup and doing the maths. On the last long trip I calculated 51.5 mpg. I fill up when the fuel warning goes off and only fill the tank to the click on the pump, but I can't see that matters too much if I'm calculating the fuel use to refill the tank anyway. I terms of mileage, I'm getting around 375 miles from a tank until the warning sounds. This is all best-case - if I potter around town or whatever I'm getting less, though it's never so far dropped below 325 miles so it isn't making a huge amount of difference.
Am I being unreasonable expecting 60 or even 70mpg? I would think on a long motorway trip at 65mph I would get at least 60 mpg, but I'm not getting anywhere near that even being very careful.
It isn't the end of the world by any means, just wondered if it meant that something wasn't quite right somewhere that I needed to worry about. And lets face it, one of the reasons I drive around looking slightly ridiculous in this car (according to my wife) is because it's cheap to run..
I have full VCDS/VAG-COM so I can gather data if necessary, just need something to compare it to.
Thanks,
Steve
I've got an 04 TDI 90 Sport now running on 15" pepperpots - partly for efficiency and partly for comfort. It's just had a full service - fuel filter, the lot. I use Tesco diesel fuel. I drive with the Climate Control on auto. I don't have any fault codes logged. Everything seems to work and it drives normally. I have rear disks rather than drums so don't think anything is binding there, nothing is getting hot. The only thing I've ever noticed with the car has been what I can only describe as a "chirping" noise under full-load in 2nd or 3rd gear. It's always done this, it may well be completely normal - i've always assumed it was some sort of boost noise from the turbo, or general induction noise. It lasts for a couple of seconds and then goes as the revs rise or the load decreases.
I've had several trips to the airport recently, which is generally a 150 or 200 mile round trip depending upon where I'm going. This is pretty much all motorway and even the link road to the motorway is all dual carriageway for me so there must be perhaps 5 miles at best of stop/start driving. The rest is cruising at an indicated 65mph which the satnav says is actually 60mph.
I've calculated my fuel consumption by noting my miles against every tank fillup and doing the maths. On the last long trip I calculated 51.5 mpg. I fill up when the fuel warning goes off and only fill the tank to the click on the pump, but I can't see that matters too much if I'm calculating the fuel use to refill the tank anyway. I terms of mileage, I'm getting around 375 miles from a tank until the warning sounds. This is all best-case - if I potter around town or whatever I'm getting less, though it's never so far dropped below 325 miles so it isn't making a huge amount of difference.
Am I being unreasonable expecting 60 or even 70mpg? I would think on a long motorway trip at 65mph I would get at least 60 mpg, but I'm not getting anywhere near that even being very careful.
It isn't the end of the world by any means, just wondered if it meant that something wasn't quite right somewhere that I needed to worry about. And lets face it, one of the reasons I drive around looking slightly ridiculous in this car (according to my wife) is because it's cheap to run..
I have full VCDS/VAG-COM so I can gather data if necessary, just need something to compare it to.
Thanks,
Steve