Hi all,

Does anyone out there do a run to work each day that is mainly Motorway work, at 75 mph in a VRS?

I only ask cos I'm getting my Vrs on Saturday, and I'm wondering what to expect. My Citroen C2 1.4 HDI is struggling to get 52mpg, even though the brochure combined figure is 69mpg!!!

I do 70 miles a day, 67 of which are motorway miles. I travel around the 70- 75mph mark.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Fabia should get more than 55mpg at that speed in 6th gear. My PD100 is slightly higher geared but normally got this too.

I get 55-57.. and I do 108 miles a day... Chipped at 180bhp you will get about 52-53

Just for comparison, i get around 42mpg to and from work, 28 miles round trip about half motorway although rarely see the top side of 40 (ave mph 23ish). Its up and down hills alot M62/M606.

Fabia PD100

Mine is bogstandard fab vrs, i do 120 mile round trip, all except about 2 miles on the M/Way.

I average around 70 and get over 55mpg every journey!

I've had my vRS 2 weeks and have done around 600 miles, at lot of that has been on motorways but i'm only getting 44mpg or thereabouts. :confused:

Should be better than that right? Will it improve as the engine loosens up?

Also, the 'miles left in the tank' indicater seems to vary between 200 miles and 350 miles right from when the tanks full, and reads similar figures even when i'm down to less than half a tank. It doesn't seem very accurate until the tank is almost empty. I was expecting to see it reading 600 odd miles when the tank is full. :confused:

You could easily see 60+ on a quiet motorway - I use the M69 (very quiet - even at rush hour) and cruising it gives consistently good miles - you'll probably find that cruise helps though if you've got it - try to maintain a speed rather than speed up, slow down.

I do a 45 mile each way drive. First 9 miles are windey A road, rest is up the M5 Bridgwater to Bristol. Cruise just under an indicated 80 (74 true) and my average for the trip is usually about 55mpg.

Not a Fabia, it's an Octy.

I've had my vRS 2 weeks and have done around 600 miles' date=' at lot of that has been on motorways but i'm only getting 44mpg or thereabouts. :confused:

Should be better than that right? Will it improve as the engine loosens up?

Also, the 'miles left in the tank' indicater seems to vary between 200 miles and 350 miles right from when the tanks full, and reads similar figures even when i'm down to less than half a tank. It doesn't seem very accurate until the tank is almost empty. I was expecting to see it reading 600 odd miles when the tank is full. :confused:[/quote']

Your engine is definately still tight, wait 'til you have run it in (yes you need to do this, check the manual) and you will be pleasantly surprised.

To give you some idea my Fabia vRS has now covered 6,800miles and over the last 3,000 miles it has averaged 55.2mpg (if you press and release the button that resets the computer upwards quickly it switches between journey[1] and cumulative information[2]). This total has included a run up from near Limoge in France when I averaged 68mph (keeping to the 130kmph speed limits on the Autoroutes) over 8 hours of driving and the car returned 58mpg, not bad.

Re the range figure changing, this is a result of the 'journey' mpg figure changing probably over a relatively short trip (on longer trips it will settle down). It is accurate IMHO but its trying to give you its best guest based on how you are driving, if your driving is varied then its estimate will change.

Given a tank of 45litres, you will likely only see a range on a full tank of just over 500miles IMHO.

Thanx for all the replies Guys. So, I'm gonna get better mileage out of a bigger, more powerful and faster car....yeah...makes sense buying a small Citroen then?????

Wish I'd bought a Fabia in the first place!!

Regards

My daily commute is about 70 miles with about 80% motorway driving. Averaging a speed of 58 ish, i'm only managing a MPG of (at best) 48. Seems a bit on the low side to me, anyone? Only done 1800 miles mind, shall I expect it to increase? Oh, and its a Fab vRS.

Oh and I dont get anywhere near 500 miles per tank as mention in post #9, more like 400 (ish)!

My daily commute is about 70 miles with about 80% motorway driving. Averaging a speed of 58 ish' date=' i'm only managing a MPG of (at best) 48. Seems a bit on the low side to me, anyone? Only done 1800 miles mind, shall I expect it to increase? Oh, and its a Fab vRS.

Oh and I dont get anywhere near 500 miles per tank as mention in post #9, more like 400 (ish)![/quote']

The fuel economy should start improving after about 10k when the engine is nicely bedded in. Another thing that might be affecting it is that the '04 onwards vRS's had a shorter final drive gear which reduces mpg....

Chris

Average speed means nothing in itself...

If you got 58 mph average but you reached it by racing up to 90mph then screeching to a halt and go between those a lot, you'll hit very, very low mpg. If you had an average speed of 58 mph and you did that at a constant speed you'd probably get a LOT more mpg

Also you get through a fair bit of fuel doing those enjoyable traffic jam queuing sessions :(

It will loosen up and use a bit less over time

I filled up last weekend before heading to the NEC, i actually got

In the words of Mr J.C 'were'e all a bunch of tight ar**s' that is for driving a diesel. But hey, i don't care cos if anybody watched Top Gear a couple of weeks ago the Furby on their test track smoked a Mini Cooper. Now i can't wait for the Jabba touch :jedi:

Mine has done 32k and the fuel economy has probably got worse. It may be that I am using too much right foot!!?? I do a 64 mile round trip from home to work. All main roads, A2, M25 and A21. As long as the traffic permits I'm normally doing 75-80 (according to the speedo, less on the Road Angel) and I am getting around 47mpg.

My average was higher in the early days (around 52-53mpg) but I have to work really hard to get the car above 50mpg these days.

But I mustn't grumble really. It is by far the best car I've ever had. My previous cars (all being petrol) came no where near 440miles to a tank and struggled to move in comparison with the Fabia.

I'm unsure if I should keep hold of it, or part exchange for a new one.

Over the 3000 miles I've now done, I just can't quite reach 60mpg, but 58mpg is easily achievable. This is on a mixture of roads, and involves staying at 80mph on dual carriageways

A warning to everyone!

Just like you can't trust the official Skoda figures to be the ones you'll get in reality, neither can you trust the computer readout to tell you the correct fuel economy being achieved.

I was waiting on posting this information till shortly before the car needs a service in the hope that other know whether the dealer can make the computer more accurate.

However here's the story to date:

Mileage - MPG actual - computer readout - difference:

335 - 45.9 - 48.5 - +2.6

704 - 49.9 - 52.2 - +2.3

1043 - 42.8 - 46.8 - +4.0

1401 - 48.0 - 50.0 - +2.0

1728 - 47.8 - 51.1 - +3.3

Is anyone else carrying out a similar analysis?

Can anyone explain the consistent over-reading?

Is anyone else carrying out a similar analysis?

Can anyone explain the consistent over-reading?

I've noticed similar on mine, but just put it down to not doing a complete journey on a tank so my mpg is just an indicator per journey. Just out of interest, how are you measuring actual mpg?

Chris

Just for comparison' date=' i get around 42mpg to and from work, 28 miles round trip about half motorway although rarely see the top side of 40 (ave mph 23ish). Its up and down hills alot M62/M606.

Fabia PD100[/quote']

That's interesting, my journey is similar and I'm seeing 50+ mpg pretty reliably, and I don't hang about Usually is reading about 45-47mpg by the time I leave the motorway to nip through town and then onto the country lanes. Interestingly, since the 70k service yesterday, the readings have been even better and I think it was on 57mpg when I parked up at work this morning.

Chris

In Autocar's long term test there best MPG was 51.9, the worst was 24.4 (this they achieved during a day of performance tests) and the test average over 15,000 mles was 42.1.

They also reckoned about 400-450 miles a realistic tank range.

They also reckoned about 400-450 miles a realistic tank range.

with a mixture of spirited drives and easy driving it sounds about right TBH.

Is anyone else carrying out a similar analysis?

Can anyone explain the consistent over-reading?

I've found my car's computer pretty much agrees with mpg calculated by looking at fuel receipts and mileage on the odometer.

However I do usually fill up at the same petrol station (?diesel station?) - so my "actual mpg" calculation is reliant on the accuracy of the pumps measuring how much fuel I put in.

However I do usually fill up at the same petrol station (?diesel station?) - so my "actual mpg" calculation is reliant on the accuracy of the pumps measuring how much fuel I put in.

I think that should be regulated by Weights and Measures, so there shouldn't be any error there.

I think that should be regulated by Weights and Measures, so there shouldn't be any error there.

Do Weights and Measures regulate over-reading pumps as well as under-reading ones?

If it says 30 litres on the pump but it only actually delivered 28 I imagine they'd be concerned.

If it says 30 litres on the pump but it delivers 32 then the consumer wins - do Weights & Measures catch that case as well?