The wife drove me to an appointment today in her brand new 1.2 TSI (85) Fabia SE. I bought it for her mainly to run around the shops + other local trips.

Must say I was well impressed by the MPG. She got 46 MPG out of it (according to the trip) over mixed roads/traffic without too much difficulty at all.

This is much better than my 12 month old 2.0 TDi Octavia where I'm struggling to get 42mpg over similar roads. Not strictly comparing like for like I know, but its reinforced some serious doubts I am having about diesel technology.

With the title, I was expecting 85mpg.

With the title, I was expecting 85mpg.

I see what you mean, but even a TSI driven by my mum won't give you that sort of a mpg !!!!!!

I can get upto about 65 to 67 out of mine if I'm careful but generally 50-55 with little or no effort now

The 65 is on a decent run driving like my gran

Edited 24 August, 201015 yr by benwiddowson

My son's £150 Felly does 50mpg; bet ya feel sick now.

My son's £150 Felly does 50mpg; bet ya feel sick now.

Swings and roundabaouts.......my middle son has a 1967 848cc Mini which can do 50 mpg easily. But it costs me an extra £75 on my personal RAC membership to cover him when he breaks down. Which is often. So he has to pay to run a second car (an Astra Estate!!!!) so he can be sure of getting to work.

......Don't tell me the Felicia has done 1,000,000 miles and has never seen a spanner in its life !!!!!!!

turning the climate control off also adds a few extra miles but then i either arrive everywhere hot and sticky or freezing cold. My argument is if i have climate control and heated seats etc im sure as hell going to use them and happily lose possibly 2 or 3 mpg.

2000 miles in and we are getting about 46 mpg out of our 1.2 TSI 85bhp.

No 72,000 and the last owner (Shamefully a Briskodian) neglected it shamefully.

Happily, after fresh oil, filters and a timing belt change it feels like a (nearly) new car again.

It's his 2nd Felly and neither of them have broken down (yet)

I think his AA cover costs him £35, but so far he has not needed it.

This is much better than my 12 month old 2.0 TDi Octavia where I'm struggling to get 42mpg over similar roads. Not strictly comparing like for like I know, but its reinforced some serious doubts I am having about diesel technology.

Hi Mr Moke, it's difficult to know if your fuel consumption is roughly what you should be getting without knowing more about your driving style and the type of roads exactly the car is being used on. But it probably isn't anything wrong with the car even though on the face of it the mpg sounds maybe a tad low I guess, but maybe not. My brother-in-law has the new version VW Passat estate with the 2.0TDI 170bhp engine and auto box. He averages 45- 46mpg about town and on urban roads around where we live. When he travels around the country for his work he gets 54mpg all the time (he cruises at 70-80mph whenever possible). His best when he was really trying to save fuel was 60.9mpg. I know this as I was with him at the time. In contrast his 2.0ltr Petrol Passat he used to have and use for the same journeys gave 26mpg around town and on the urban roads, and at best 34mpg on his travels around the country. Both fuel and driving performance is unbelievably better in his new diesel. I would point out that it took about 15k for the engine to loosen up properly and achieve good mpg and even now with 22k on the clock it is getting better and better. In addition, I would mention that if you haven't had a diesel before, it does take time to learn to drive one. Most people either over rev them and drive them like a petrol car using much to much fuel, or plonk them around in too higher gear, again wasting fuel and straining the engine. Revving too low in too higher gear is like forcing the car to drive uphill all the time. This will use alot more fuel. Driving style is still one of, if not THE most important factors when it comes to fuel consumption. It may be resetting your auto box to learning mode may help. Perhaps it has remembered some bad driving habits you had when you first got the car, perhaps because you didn't know the best way to drive it and this is impacting on your fuel economy. Obviously, I'm just speculating here. You may already know this stuff. But try asking in the Octavia section, they should be able to help. Your wife's fuel consumption sound ok.

Edited 25 August, 201015 yr by Estate Man

I see what you mean, but even a TSI driven by my mum won't give you that sort of a mpg !!!!!!

It was only when I read the post I saw it was a TSI. Thought maybe you had got one of the Greenline II Estates. I've got one coming in a month or so... hope to beat 85mpg.