Many Oct 2, and Oct 1, owners seem to get around their Urban fuel consumption rather than they extra urban ie 30 mpg or less for the larger petrols 1.8/2.0 EA113 or EA888 engines.

Also with the diesels seeing more like 40 mpg rather than 55 mpg plus.

Of course many owners live in the urban areas so therefore naturally get extra urban fuel consumption levels. I do live in suburban area with lots of A roads and Motorways too.

Everybody knows, or should, the effect carrying around loads of unnecessary luggage, roof racks, under-inflated tyres etc.

What I would add, and how I get the TSI VRS up to 570 mile range on a tankful and the 130 hp 1.9 litre diesel up to 740 miles range but do occasionally floor it, why buy a 200 hp car and drive it like it only has 80hp.

I believe the main methods are:

1.Predictive driving. I am fortunate to have been trained to drive to the conditions as far down the road as can be seen and displayed on the sat nav ie the road curves ahead,

2.Tyre pressures set to be between light and heavy load and by a digital pressure gauge on know accuracy. I have picked up cars supposedly garage prepared with pressure 5 or 10 psi below what they should be.

3. Use crusie control if you have it for part of longer journeys as engines best run at steady throttle/load.

4. Beware of older and basic Sat Navs that will happily send you 15 miles or so further on a Motorway when there is a A road short cut that might take one or 2 minutes longer but will use half a gallon less fuel and be 10 mpg better.

As Clarkson said he has never pressed the brake pedal on a Motorway, the brake pedal is waste. I have only got the VRS to 45 mpg ie Worcester to Canary Wharf and not the 48 mpg of the Extra Urban but it is do-able whilst still

flooring it occasionally. The 130 hp Oct diesel will also do well over 60 mpg whilst still loading and occasionally gunning it. I did not list free wheeling as I opinion is divided, predictive driving is most important factor IMHO.

Good eco driving, preserve your fuel for traffic lights jaunts and better things rather than wasting but not planning ahead I recommend!

Edited 18 August, 201015 yr by lol

All good advice. I think this is more suited to General Car Chat though, so that non-Octy2 people can benefit too

A timely thread too, as I've just got in from doing a 15 mile round trip in my PD140, in 30/40/50 limits and returned 57.4MPG :yes:

All good advice. I think this is more suited to General Car Chat though, so that non-Octy2 people can benefit too

A timely thread too, as I've just got in from doing a 15 mile round trip in my PD140, in 30/40/50 limits and returned 57.4MPG :yes:

Agreed. Perhaps a mod can move it. Get 50 mpg on my 140hp diesel SEAT but can get high 50s if I am not in a hurry, still get 10% better on the 130 hp 1.9D and it feels just a quick though not as smooth.

Edited 18 August, 201015 yr by lol

Key thing tonight was traffic conditions really. Handily I had next to nobody in the way, meaning the smoothest possible progress. Wasn't rushing, but by no means had Miss Daisy taken over either

When really trying on the motorway I can get 50mpg (60mph, cruise on) and pottering around town I get around 34mpg. Anything above 75mph and I can only manage 45mpg.

vRS TDI 2.0 PD

That's interesting. I know yours is the PD170, but I got 55MPG out of mine on the 2h trip back from buying it, uninterrupted at 80mph (indicated) cruise control.

Even I was surprised at that, even coming from a Fabia vRS. A useful comparison of how well a better aerodynamic shape can help things :yes:

My best MPG on my petrol vRS is 47MPG. I rarely rag it. I always look after the engine and ensure I use accelerator sense and advanced driving skills.

Never let me down yet.

I never better 37MPG from my vRS TFSi. I clearly don't have the level of patience for any more!

That was 70-75 on the run down to the National Meet last year in fact - how ironic

I agree that any use of the brakes are a waste of fuel, the number of people you see tearing down the outside lane and braking as they come across a slower moving car in front of them, where they could have quite easily adjusted their speed by easing back on the accelerator. Cruise control isn't the most economical when it regains the speed, as it will do it the quickest way rather than the most economical way.

As an experiment , recently I've left mine on the instant MPG reading ,and tried driving to get best MPG .I've now found that for a lesser throttle pressure ( and my usual MPG was 55 ,round town)-makes for more challenging driving - I'm doing 27, as opposed to 30 , but the MPG IS GETTING HIGHER .

As an experiment , recently I've left mine on the instant MPG reading ,and tried driving to get best MPG .I've now found that for a lesser throttle pressure ( and my usual MPG was 55 ,round town)-makes for more challenging driving - I'm doing 27, as opposed to 30 , but the MPG IS GETTING HIGHER .

I understand there is a third "REGISTER" ie memory which holds a fuel consumption figure which is invisible to the user. The estimated tank range is based on this one more than the register one or 2 so this can produce strange result in relation to instant and register 1 or 2.

In Japan where they get Toyota Prius to do 1,000 mpg they drive in bare feet with just there big toe moving the accelerator a millimeter or so to help get the extreme mpg!

Is there a case for makers to fit small-scale progressive water or water alcohol injection for non-performance purposes i.e. just to keep combustion temperatures down and octane and anti-knock up ? This might be particularly effective in congested town traffic in moving MPG up.

Perhaps you could then back-off the throttle and even employ effective throttle feathering as a hand-control and rely on the water injection system to supply sufficient extra power to get you up moderate hills without depressing the throttle from a partially feathered position ?

Who said you couldn't run your car on water (De-mineralised, or mineralised with the right additives) ?

Imagine the increase in output if water injection were combined with variable vane turbos !!!!

Nick

Edited 20 August, 201015 yr by Clunkclick

Yeh basically dont brake (ever!) and accelerate veryyy sloooowly and change up asap

Job done.

Edited 21 August, 201015 yr by Thirdtimeluck