Well here's a challenge for you.....

I filled the Freelander this evening and worked out that on the last tank full I got 41.2 mpg.

494 miles covered, which was 4 days back and for to work plus a run on Sunday up to Portmadog and back.

Now you have got to be able to better that!!

Another 1.8TSi owner here... now have just 450 miles on the clock and yesterday gave it its first longer run; MIlton Keynes and back so around 110 miles for me but sticking mainly to the speed limits on the M25 and M1 and managed a rather impressive 41.8mpg!!

These 1.8TSi's do feel extra 'tight' from the factory imo though so Im looking forward to it lossening up properly over the coming '000 miles.

How are you finding 6th? Gear change indicator keeps prompting for 6th but I find the engines tightness isn't allowing 6th on all but flat surfaces. Its like the gear is too high and the engines torque isn't enough yet to fully utilize the gearing.

How are you finding 6th? Gear change indicator keeps prompting for 6th but I find the engines tightness isn't allowing 6th on all but flat surfaces. Its like the gear is too high and the engines torque isn't enough yet to fully utilize the gearing.

Mine's now done near 10000km and I find 6th gear OK from 70km/h (43mph). I feel the power at low revs is now much better.

Great idea- I volunteer 1st time Skoda Owner!!!

He did a great poll with ages and made a super dooper graph :yes:

What do you think 1sty?

Best intentions :sun:

Lady Penelope

Oh flattery will get you everywhere

I'll get onto it first thing tomorrow if nobody else beats me to it.

Oh flattery will get you everywhere

I'll get onto it first thing tomorrow if nobody else beats me to it.

just looked at doing it but its beyond my limited computer skills. only just found how to post photos and that only works sometimes good luck. will be very interesting to see the results

Great idea- I volunteer 1st time Skoda Owner!!!

He did a great poll with ages and made a super dooper graph :yes:

What do you think 1sty?

Best intentions :sun:

Lady Penelope

Just had a think about this, and a poll wouldn't work that well, as we wouldn't be able to see what mileage people had selected for which engine type and so on, and people would only be able to vote once.

Now, as luck would have it I happen to be a web designer, programmer and database analyst. I could put together an online form that folks could fill in which I could then capture in a database and do loads of analysis on. Just for example, I could show best, worst and average mileages by model and/or terrain.

If there's enough interest expressed in this idea I'll put it together; it should only take me a day or so.

An online form would be great !

MPG is an important issue so the more information the better

:yes:

Just had a think about this, and a poll wouldn't work that well, as we wouldn't be able to see what mileage people had selected for which engine type and so on, and people would only be able to vote once.

Now, as luck would have it I happen to be a web designer, programmer and database analyst. I could put together an online form that folks could fill in which I could then capture in a database and do loads of analysis on. Just for example, I could show best, worst and average mileages by model and/or terrain.

If there's enough interest expressed in this idea I'll put it together; it should only take me a day or so.

This is a great idea but it does need to be updatable. There has been an improvement in the mpg of my 140TDI from 39-40 to 45-47 after 5500 miles. All engines and drive chains take time to loosen up and this will show in improved mpg.

The other thing I have noticed is that the engine is not using any oil. In the first 3000 miles it used a litre but the oil level has hardly changed in the last 2500 miles.

How are you finding 6th? Gear change indicator keeps prompting for 6th but I find the engines tightness isn't allowing 6th on all but flat surfaces. Its like the gear is too high and the engines torque isn't enough yet to fully utilize the gearing.

Ive only used sixth on the motorway really - it is pretty flat but its down to the tightness of the engine for sure. My preference is always to have sixth as tall as possible for cruising economy so once its loosened up it'll be perfect imo.

I ignore the gearchange indicator btw - its not intelligent in the least and especially whilst running in, I want to ensure the revs are being used, at least in the mid range and lower down.

The pull from low down is very good already, even with just under 500 miles on the clock - very diesel like but ultra smooth - infact it has the smoothest drivetrain of any car Ive owned.

Ive only used sixth on the motorway really - it is pretty flat but its down to the tightness of the engine for sure. My preference is always to have sixth as tall as possible for cruising economy so once its loosened up it'll be perfect imo.

I ignore the gearchange indicator btw - its not intelligent in the least and especially whilst running in, I want to ensure the revs are being used, at least in the mid range and lower down.

The pull from low down is very good already, even with just under 500 miles on the clock - very diesel like but ultra smooth - infact it has the smoothest drivetrain of any car Ive owned.

Oh yes, agreed there. Just starting to give mine some revs to assist the loosening process.....

Made a real effort to drive economically today, changing up by 2000 rpm and looking ahead to limit slowing down and speeding up and guess what, a trip from Birmingham city centre to Redditch (14 miles) including some inner city driving and I averaged 46 mpg.

The key to getting the mpg up on the 1.2 is to change up early and use the torque. Let the car slow down in as high a gear as you can without changing down early. I reckon that if I did the same journey without traffic then close on 50 mpg might be possible. Tell you what though; it's bloody boring driving like that. Would be lovely if I could get those figures changing up at 4000 rpm after a good blast of turbo

Made a real effort to drive economically today, changing up by 2000 rpm and looking ahead to limit slowing down and speeding up and guess what, a trip from Birmingham city centre to Redditch (14 miles) including some inner city driving and I averaged 46 mpg.

The key to getting the mpg up on the 1.2 is to change up early and use the torque. Let the car slow down in as high a gear as you can without changing down early. I reckon that if I did the same journey without traffic then close on 50 mpg might be possible. Tell you what though; it's bloody boring driving like that. Would be lovely if I could get those figures changing up at 4000 rpm after a good blast of turbo

that turbo is just to much fun to be economy minded all the time

Best milage around 54 on a particulary steady drive back from Bristol (to Nottingham), normally around 45 ish.

Worst milage, last weekend towing the caravan to and from Burford, 24.5mpg.

I seem to be settling down to a very pleasing 48.7mpg overall. This includes a 65 mile round trip to work over the Brecon Beacons main road, and through the town and the local mountain passes... ... ... and so on.

I have worked out as a rule of thumb for me that every large division on the fuel gauge represents a potential 75 mile distance.

Hi all,

I'm not so clued up on the mechanics of things, but has anyone else noticed their 1.2 TSI giving pretty poor mpg at motorway cruising speeds? It seems happiest at 50-60mph when I can consistently get 44ish out of it, but going faster gives me only ~35mpg. A recent round trip mpg on an A-road and Mway journey only nudged up to an overall of 38mpg when I hit the 50 zones! Is there a 'bedding in' period? I've only done about 250miles so far.

Cheers!

Hi all,

I'm not so clued up on the mechanics of things, but has anyone else noticed their 1.2 TSI giving pretty poor mpg at motorway cruising speeds? It seems happiest at 50-60mph when I can consistently get 44ish out of it, but going faster gives me only ~35mpg. A recent round trip mpg on an A-road and Mway journey only nudged up to an overall of 38mpg when I hit the 50 zones! Is there a 'bedding in' period? I've only done about 250miles so far.

Cheers!

Noticed exactly the same thing. We have a long stretch of motorway limited to 50 mpg locally and the best I've managed over 12 miles at 50mph is just over 40 mpg. A recent 240 mile round trip gave me 37 mpg going and 0n the way back I deliberately tried to maximise fuel economy (60-65 mph on the motorway / no cruise control / no AC) and managed 36.9 mpg! - both these figures were as per the OBC. I decided to refill the car on my return and calculated the trip at 35.5 mpg.

The worse I've seen was last Thursday (election night) when I was desperate to get to my polling station before closing time. Without going into too much detail I arrived just in time and the car was showing a trip average mpg of 25 mpg!

All in all I'd have to say the 1.2 TSi is not at its best at higher speeds or when extended. My old (160 bhp) 1.8 TSi Octavia would easily average over 40 mpg at 70 mph+, whereas the 1.2 is firmly is the 30's. As mentioned earlier I guess I may have a problem as the ECU flash didn't go well (EML on afterwards - see here: ECU flash / EML).

Edited 9 May, 201016 yr by pinkpanther

Any car range has a "sweet spot" where the engine is the smallest it can be for optimum fuel consumption. Thus you get the situation where a bigger engine can be more fuel efficient than a smaller one in a given body. With old normally aspirated petrol engines I always felt one should not get anything less than a 1,6 engine in a Golf sized car. The 1,2 TSI is claimed to be the new equivalent of an old fashioned 1,6, BUT the Yeti might have a Golf sized wheelbase but is does weigh quite a bit more. Thus I think the optimum Yeti petrol engine for best consumption will be the 1,4 TSI (not available yet I know). The 1,2 to my mind is working too hard (especially at motorway speeds) to pull around all the weight of the (pretty un-aerodynamic) Yeti.

No matter how I drive, whether I explore the wonderfully addictive kickdown or to quote my son "make it sound like a racing car" in sport mode I always seem to end up with a tankfull average of 34 mpg or thereabouts. Can't complain though as the engine is brilliantly revvy and the auto box lovely and smooth. I have tried to use the realtime fuel consumption readout on the maxidot but this is next to useless going between 30 mpg and 100 mpg in a few hundred yards with the cruise control set at 70.

Drove from Redditch to Gloucester and back today (50 miles each way) averaging 43mpg there and back. I find it quite easy to get good economy from the 1.2 but you do have to drive in a certain style. Make use of the turbo and revs and you will not see more than a 35mpg average.

Whilst we are talking about mpg, have many people compared trip computer mpg with actual mpg? I filled up today having averaged a calculated 39.74mpg since the last fuel stop. The trip computer told me that I had averaged 40.4mpg. I would say that that is pretty accurate over the 387 miles that I had covered. If the trip computer is optimistic by 0.5mpg then I can safely say that I am averaging over 40mpg overall in my first 1500 miles. I am going to go for economy on the latest tankful and will see how many miles I get.....

Best journey so far 46.3 mpg.

Edited 9 May, 201016 yr by shrub

No matter how I drive, whether I explore the wonderfully addictive kickdown or to quote my son "make it sound like a racing car" in sport mode I always seem to end up with a tankfull average of 34 mpg or thereabouts. Can't complain though as the engine is brilliantly revvy and the auto box lovely and smooth. I have tried to use the realtime fuel consumption readout on the maxidot but this is next to useless going between 30 mpg and 100 mpg in a few hundred yards with the cruise control set at 70.

The instantaneous read out is only of slight interest. My 140TDI goes from 200mpg (no throttle) to 20-30 mpg when pulling up hill, all on the Cruise Control. i.e. It does what your right foot would do if you were trying to keep a constant speed.

The cumulative mpg (1) does take a few miles to settle down as it starts from zero every day. (or after a 2 hour period) The cumulative mpg (2) is probably the most useful reading as it continues to total until one of the parameters is set to zero. (distance for example) but as it is additive it will only give the overall mpg and not discriminate between types of journey.

Came back, across country, from Swindon yesterday. Main roads and dual carriageway. Aircon off. Mixture of cruise control and me trying for good mpg. Most of the time didn't go much above 65mph.

Result:

With mixed driving so far with a a fair number of journeys under 5 miles my full to full average has been 46mpg.

50.9 litres of petrol and 466 miles (there about) - which equate to around 41.7 mpg, not bad considering it has only done 700 miles.

A combination of town, country lane and motorway.

I would say around 35 miles going up steep hill with 3rd gear, 240 miles on motorway at around 70 mph, the rest down hill or A road at around 60 mph.

Any car range has a "sweet spot" where the engine is the smallest it can be for optimum fuel consumption. Thus you get the situation where a bigger engine can be more fuel efficient than a smaller one in a given body. With old normally aspirated petrol engines I always felt one should not get anything less than a 1,6 engine in a Golf sized car. The 1,2 TSI is claimed to be the new equivalent of an old fashioned 1,6, BUT the Yeti might have a Golf sized wheelbase but is does weigh quite a bit more. Thus I think the optimum Yeti petrol engine for best consumption will be the 1,4 TSI (not available yet I know). The 1,2 to my mind is working too hard (especially at motorway speeds) to pull around all the weight of the (pretty un-aerodynamic) Yeti.

I believe in exactly the same theory, when I test drove a G-wagen a while back (230), I was under the impression that the 2.8 will actually be not worse because of the weight it need to pull.

Having said that the Yeti pulls quite well - I go up hill daily and its quite steep but it will happily pull on 4th, but I use 3rd and it feels effortless. especially around the 2700 rpm turbo band.

I would be interested in seeing how the 1.4 TSI fair in terms of emmission - one reason I chose the 1.2 is because of the relatively cheap tax (£125) and the higher driving position.

I always find it quite funny how the government seemingly forbid us to drive high up vehicle when it is absolutely neccessary with all those crazy potholes

Any car range has a "sweet spot" where the engine is the smallest it can be for optimum fuel consumption. Thus you get the situation where a bigger engine can be more fuel efficient than a smaller one in a given body. With old normally aspirated petrol engines I always felt one should not get anything less than a 1,6 engine in a Golf sized car. The 1,2 TSI is claimed to be the new equivalent of an old fashioned 1,6, BUT the Yeti might have a Golf sized wheelbase but is does weigh quite a bit more. Thus I think the optimum Yeti petrol engine for best consumption will be the 1,4 TSI (not available yet I know). The 1,2 to my mind is working too hard (especially at motorway speeds) to pull around all the weight of the (pretty un-aerodynamic) Yeti.

Hi had mine on the motorway and the 1.2tsi handles it well not working at all and will pickup to overtake from 70 without shifting down. its a lovely little engine all round urban or motorway

Daily commute to work: 30 miles of A-road, B-road, and urban roads at the end (or start, depending on which way!).

So far, best mpg is 52.3, with an average speed of 40mph (which isn't as slow as it sounds). Always getting at least 50mpg.

That's with the 170PS diesel, with less than 1k on the clock.