Ok, I'm sure you all have been through this a thousand times but for the life of me I cannot find a thread that gives real world MPG figures for the PD170 vRS.

What are people actually getting from their PD170's? I'm finding it very hard to break 40MPG and to be honest isn't the end of the world but it does kind of take from the car a little for me. I suppose I expected better, too much maybe...:rotz:

Next question, I've heard that a remap can get more power and better economy? Sort of hard to believe...Opinions?

Thanks

Cian

ETA: can a mod please change the tittle - from I've to I'm. Thanks

I would say I get 42-44mpg on a tank. I only use the car for SDP and hence a mixture of (mostly) hustling the car down back roads etc and the rest moochong around and some high speed cruises on the m-way.

I have seen the car average 60+ mpg on a 50/56mph cruise over 30+ miles (note: I do not mean instantaneous, which frankly is a pointless metric)

I have repeatedly managed 52+ "Door to door" from one town to another along single and dual carriageways (total distance 25 miles).

I have also seen 22 mpg whilst pure hooning, but a very little sensible driving for similar length of time or distance to hoonage brings average comfortably into late 30s (37/38)

PS - my car is SuperChipped to 204 bhp and 315 lbft. Just remember, no turbo/light turbo = (almost) no fuel in TD engines.

As soon as you use the power then the MPG drops dramatically - not surprising really. But when driving gently the MPG improves very quickly too.

I easily get 42-43 mpg commuting to work - mixture of short bursts of wheel-spinning acceleration pulling into busy traffic and cruising along at 50.

Surely all your MPG figures are good for a 170 aren,t they?

Seems very good to me

To the OP, how many miles has your car covered? I have just cleared 16K and the car is getting progressively smoother and is returning improved MPG. I have now also installed the Superchips Bluefin which is a great bit of kit - gives loads more power and on two identical 300 mile motorway runs the MPG improved from 42 to 46.5 with the Bluefin = 10% improvement. If I drive it like a saint I can get 50 - 55 MPG on A & B road driving.

Do you do a lot of town driving? This is not good for your fuel economy and it is also not so good for the DPF, the car should have a good blow-out every now and again (according to my local Skoda service manager) Remember that if the car is doing a lot of town miles then the discrete DPF regen cycle will be using more fuel.

I have done 25000 in my standard PD170 VRS, and the lifetime average is 43mpg

same here-I'm standard but average 43 and that's a mxture of country backroads, town and the odd motorway cruise. I can get it up to 45 if i'm driving like a saint, but that's not the point in of the car:)

same here-I'm standard but average 43 and that's a mxture of country backroads, town and the odd motorway cruise. I can get it up to 45 if i'm driving like a saint, but that's not the point in of the car:)

Exactly.

If I drive mine like a saint on my 18 mile A Road commute to work, I can get just over 50mpg. But by the time it clicks up to 50 on the computer, I am asleep

Unmodified car, long term average of 42 mpg.

For any reasonable length journey, never normally less than 35 mpg.

Best run was around 27 miles of mixed A-roads were I got 52 mpg. I was running in tandem with a petrol 1.2 Micra, and I bet I got around 10 mpg more.

Motorway cruise indicating above 70 mph, 46 - 47 mpg.

Not bad at all for a 170 bhp car, with 258 torques

My long term average from the 2.0T is around 30mpg, on a run 38ish and I have another 100hp on you lot!!

Mmm... kitty taste good!

I had my last car from new, a Seat Leon II FR PD170 and I was really disappointed with 32-40 MPG on mainly mixed A-roads and motorway driving. At 10K miles I decided to remap it and the performance and economy were transformed IMO. With the 'Fast Road' map I was getting 44-54 MPG.

Thanks for all the replies so far, looks like the figures aren't as bad as I thought.

To answer a few questions:

42,500KM's or 26,500 miles

Mix bag of town, b-roads and motorway since I got it

Correct, driving saintly isn't the point :P

Looks like a map is a good idea, but, and now for the 1 millionth time, which one? :Yikes:

Only semi-scientific way to get a feel for the average economy is to look at the spritmonitor figures.

Sprit Monitor link for manual diesel Octavia VRSs

As ever, you have to register to get imperial figures. Mean is 41.8MPG.

Looks like a map is a good idea, but, and now for the 1 millionth time, which one? :Yikes:

BLUEFIN

Looks like a map is a good idea, but, and now for the 1 millionth time, which one? :Yikes:

ChippedUK / Viezu ST3 gets my vote

Will @ P-Torque is worth a visit, someone I can recommend first hand for sure!

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