The house won yesterday, I lost at fuel light bingo leaving me with a good miles trek to the nearest petrol station!

eeked 400 ish miles out of the tank though.

400 miles! out of a vRS? :eek: I've never made it past 280 - even behaving and driving steady down the motorway! Congrats!

I usually get about 300 out of a tank before I fill up (330 to the warning light)!

I'm a little suspicious though, as it's about 200 miles to the half way mark, so

either my gauge is miscalibrated or there's a whole lot of fuel I'm not using!

Rob.

When the miles-left-on-the-tank idicator gets down to 0 - is that it? out of petrol? or does it go onto a reserve tank?

435m last week from the 4x4 (220bhp) mainly sensible (75-80mph) motorway = 34mpg from fuel brimmed.

Doubt I'll better that one again.... Worst is 25. Roll on the track day !

I have had 430 as well - running very economically just now on Optimax and recently serviced. Not sure which made the difference - could have been the new plugs. Only one way to find out - back on supermarket fuel for the next few tankfuls.

Rob - can't work out your numbers - 300 from tank but 330 to warning light? You saying you fill up well before the warning light comes on? For reference mine will do about 55 miles after the warning light comes on (and yes the house has beaten me too on occasion :p)

Yeah, I don't usually wait for the warning light to come on before filling up. Although it

depends, if I'm just doing a drive to work I'll usually leave it until the light comes on

(which for that mileage would be sometime on the way home). If I'm doing a trip to

Stockport/Manchester/a Briskoda meet then I'll fill up beforehand as it saves the hassle

of having to find a petrol station.

Also unleaded is a penny+ cheaper in Rochdale than Stockport...

Rob.

I recently let my miles to go get down to 5 miles, but I only managed to get 44 litres of diesel in the tank, and I believe its a 50 litre capacity one. Therefore there must have six litres sloshing around in the bottom when the computer was telling me I was about to run out. I guess thats a Skoda safety barrier feature. That would explain why the ex "Fix Or Repair Daily" owner managed to get 400 miles. I'd be interested to know at what mileage did the fuel light come on?

Cheers

Fuel gauges almost always read higher during the first half of the travel, partly because there is so much extra space for fuel in the pipes above the level of the sender in the tank.

Well, I usually get about 46 litres in mine at fill up...I think it's a 55 litre tank in the Octavia?

Rob.

Normal driving mainly A roads I get about 350 miles from a tank, but this week I had been experimenting with driving at the speed limits with a best consumption of 46 mpg (quite something from a vRS I think maybe there is a reason it sounds like a diesel), 43 with Aircon working.

The only thing is that it is so boring, 70 in the skud feels like 20 used to in my fiesta! I never speed of course:D

Originally posted by robmawer in this post

Also unleaded is a penny+ cheaper in Rochdale than Stockport...

Rob.

Ah....so that's why people live in Rochdale :D

Paul

There has to be at least one redeeming feature!

With all the boy racers the petrol stations probably get a good turnover anyway...

Rob.

Was that turnover or turning over, Rob??

TDi - 465 miles & still going!!

I used to get 465+ miles out of my TDI, but then I went and bought Fat wheels and tyres, and I'm lucky to get over 400 miles according the the odometer (not allowing for what effect bigger wheels may have on the range)

I don't appear to fill up the car more often than I used to, so I'm quite happy.

Originally posted by devonutopia in this post

I recently let my miles to go get down to 5 miles, but I only managed to get 44 litres of diesel in the tank, and I believe its a 50 litre capacity one. Therefore there must have six litres sloshing around in the bottom when the computer was telling me I was about to run out. I guess thats a Skoda safety barrier feature. That would explain why the ex "Fix Or Repair Daily" owner managed to get 400 miles. I'd be interested to know at what mileage did the fuel light come on?

Cheers

I think the Fabia only has a 45 litre tank, and the Octavia has a 55 litre tank. I think the furthest the Fabia has taken me was about 450 miles of easy driving and the best the Octavia ever managed was a trip to the south of England. It did an easy 600 miles before it was filled!

BLOODY HELL...! If its only a 45 litres tank, (please, someone confirm) then I was really driving on fumes. I think I actually got 44.6 litres in the tank. That means I had 400ml "sloshing" around in the tank, and not 6 litres. That's cutting it fine, eh... *phew

Originally posted by devonutopia in this post

BLOODY HELL...! If its only a 45 litres tank, (please, someone confirm) then I was really driving on fumes. I think I actually got 44.6 litres in the tank. That means I had 400ml "sloshing" around in the tank, and not 6 litres. That's cutting it fine, eh... *phew

It has a 45 litre tank of which 7.5 litres is a reserve according to the manual. Tecnical data page. Take the petrol readings with a pinch of salt. Cramming in fuel with a 16p a litre off thing at Safeway and using the air valve I got over 45 litres in. Hmm. Did I read it wrong and has it got a tank with 45 litres and a 7.5 litre reserve?

Probably 45 litres total, with half a litre in a small puddle on the ground under your rear driver's side wheel!

Rob.

I think it's a 55 litre tank in the Octavia?

8/10 for that, Rob! 55 litres including 7 litres reserve except for the 4X4 which has a 63 litre fuel tank including 8 litres reserve.

The furthest I have driven without refuelling is 352 miles on 49.04 litres. Had I run the tank dry whilst achieving the same mpg, the car would have covered 452 miles and the fuel warning light should have come on at 395 miles with 57 to go. All highly theoretical, of course.

So...what's the point of these reserve tanks? Surely you might as well just have one tank that

when it says it's full then it is, and when it says it's empty it is?!

Any idea why the 4x4 has a bigger tank?

Rob.

Any idea why the 4x4 has a bigger tank?

Completely different back end mechanicals necessitating a higher boot floor and giving more space for a bigger fuel tank. There isn't a reserve tank as such which you can select as in an aircraft. Rather, the manufacturer has built in some flex so that when the fuel guage reads empty there should be enough fuel left for you to drive a nominal distance to get to a filling station.

I've lost count of the number of times my son with the Peugeot 205 1.9GTI has told me that he hasn't got enough fuel left to get to a garage (all of 2 miles away) but somehow had enough fuel to get home. If he tried the same thing as a pilot he would be dead by now.

Originally posted by DGW in this post

Rather, the manufacturer has built in some flex so that when the fuel guage reads empty there should be enough fuel left for you to drive a nominal distance to get to a filling station.

Hmm...so rather than having an amount that's gauged so you

can tell when exactly it will be empty, it reads zero and you

have to guess after that?! At least if people knew where they

were with the gauge they would know not to let it run to zero!

Quite why this is bothering me so much I don't know...I guess I just don't like being lied to...

Rob.