Yep folks that figure is correct and I got the photo to prove it( but camera lead at desk in work)

Achieved during the rush hour homeward trip after being parked in Ballymena for a wheen o hours on Friday ( erm 1st April??)the wife was shopping whilst I paretook of some fine ale as above.

Merely by going with the flow, distance..... between 20 & 25 miles with just over 7k on the clock.

Her be started to loosen up nicely then.

PS

I brimmed the tank at the last fill & zeroed the milage, so we will see how accurate the trip comp is, currently about a 1/2 tank used with 325 odd miles covered.

Cheers

M

pffft, i managed an average of 52.4mpg over 137miles in my 2.0PD vRS, with remap & DPF removal. Sitting at around 65-75mph, with a couple of good sprints away from the toll booths

In my excitement at achieving such good MPG I then hooned it around some of the country roads and utterly decimated it

Sniff!

Just back from a wee run out there, down to Broughshane via Clough, out over the top of Carnalbanagh to Glenarm and down the coast to Ballygally = 73mpg, then doubled back up the Antrim coast rd via the Seanic route, D2 required for quite a bit of the time & even holding D1 bytimes, did a bit of ducking & diving looking for sites for sale on the sceanic bits too, then right up past the Giants Causeway and onto Portstewart for a big Icecrean ( £1.95 in Morellies now....gulp)& back home.

So figs to check tomorrow when I brim the tank but got 65.2mpg over 125 miles driving , we were doing about 45/50 mostly and up to 60 bytimes on the boring bits, obviousley slower on the steep bits and through the villages.

So well pleased.

I figger at abs worst the trip comp should be 10% out, hoping nearer 5%.

I am also aware that I will need to keep a running total over a wheen o miles/refills to balance out any inacuraccy in "brimming" plus check the distance travelled against a GPS system ( on a straight road)

Heres hoping

Edited 3 April, 201115 yr by dieseldogg

I hope you called into Portrush for a Harbour Burger too?!

While we're on the topic of MPG boasting, I managed to hit an avergage of 81.4 in my 1.9 105.

In my excitement at achieving such good MPG I then hooned it around some of the country roads and utterly decimated it

What only reduced it by 10%?

Harbour burgers give my otherwise industrucible stomach indegestion....far too heavy.

I must be getting old...sigh.

My current love is the "beer & burger" deal from Weatherspoons....esp with their absolutly excellent range of rale ale, as best appreciated by a "beardie weirdie"

and Sniff!

Der 1.6CR Octavia sometimes gets a dammened good thrashing btw.

The odd "Italian tune up" works wonders when running in a diesel, imho.

Edited 4 April, 201115 yr by dieseldogg

The odd "Italian tune up" works wonders when running in a diesel, imho.

Here here, the best thing you can do for it!!

Ian

Harbour burgers give my otherwise industrucible stomach indegestion....far too heavy.

I must be getting old...sigh.

My current love is the "beer & burger" deal from Weatherspoons....esp with their absolutly excellent range of rale ale, as best appreciated by a "beardie weirdie"

and Sniff!

Der 1.6CR Octavia sometimes gets a dammened good thrashing btw.

The odd "Italian tune up" works wonders when running in a diesel, imho.

good grief mucker my wee fabia vrs from Ballymoney I had on its best average got me only 71.9mpg from Enniskillen to Antrim thought that was good until now :( have to see what the new Octy can do but at 356 miles on the clock shes a little tight yet! The old "Italian Tune Up" will be initiated in another 1000 miles or so keep up the good work your saving the environment one mile at a time and sticking it to the greedy tax man

So I filled her tonight, absolutly brimmed to get 50litre in, over 611 elapsed miles = 10.998 gall, call it 11 = 55.545 mpg compared to the trip reading of 57mpg = error of 2.5% (generous)only.

fair play to VW/Skoda.

Still need to calibrate the milage against a GPS but the best road for this locally is shut for repair, several miles dead straight & virtually level forby.

Cheers

M