Folks,

We picked up a new Petrol Scout about six weeks ago. The car is great and I _love_ the four wheel drive (coming from a Diesel vRS which could spin it's wheels when you breathe on the pedal) BUT the fuel consumption seems pretty poor so far. I thought it might be a running in issue but we're now at 1500 miles with no real improvement so it's time to start investigating.

We're getting between 25 mpg around town on short runs to a personal best of about 33 mpg on the motorway...from the bits and pieces I've read here that seems pretty low (Brochure claims 27.7/44.1 and 36.2 combination) but wondered what others typically get on these before I go bang on my dealers door?

Thanks in advance for any info.

DAVE

I'm not sure I'd consider 1500 miles as "run in".

Can't talk for petrol engines, mind, but it took somewhere between 20k and 30k miles before I saw a significant increase in economy with my 2.0 PD.

Fraid it may be a waiting game yet.

Niall

Folks,

We picked up a new Petrol Scout about six weeks ago. The car is great and I _love_ the four wheel drive (coming from a Diesel vRS which could spin it's wheels when you breathe on the pedal) BUT the fuel consumption seems pretty poor so far. I thought it might be a running in issue but we're now at 1500 miles with no real improvement so it's time to start investigating.

We're getting between 25 mpg around town on short runs to a personal best of about 33 mpg on the motorway...from the bits and pieces I've read here that seems pretty low (Brochure claims 27.7/44.1 and 36.2 combination) but wondered what others typically get on these before I go bang on my dealers door?

Thanks in advance for any info.

DAVE

My 1.8 TSi 4x4 isn't a Scout, but seems to be mechanically similar in spec. I've covered just under 5K miles now and am seeing an average just under 30 mpg. According to Fuelly my best is 31.9 mpg / 388 miles to a full tank. The best I've seen on the OBC is 39 mpg. By way of comparison I owned a 2008 1.8 TSi octavia hatchback a little while ago which was around 10% more economical than the 4x4. I imagine this difference is accounted for by the extra weight of the drivetrain and estate body.

My current fuel economy is in line with my last car - 1.2 TSi Yeti, so given the extra 50 BHP I'm not complaining!

My 1.8TSI Scout is about 7 months old and covered 12K. I haven't noticed a great deal of difference in fuel consumption since new, if anything its got less economical (but that might have something to do with me driving it a bit harder as I get more used to the very nice engine). The best I've got on a run is 40mpg and my average is low 30's. I live in a rural area.

Same here, low 30's in town, 40+ in motorway.

Folks,

We picked up a new Petrol Scout about six weeks ago. The car is great and I _love_ the four wheel drive (coming from a Diesel vRS which could spin it's wheels when you breathe on the pedal) BUT the fuel consumption seems pretty poor so far. I thought it might be a running in issue but we're now at 1500 miles with no real improvement so it's time to start investigating.

We're getting between 25 mpg around town on short runs to a personal best of about 33 mpg on the motorway...from the bits and pieces I've read here that seems pretty low (Brochure claims 27.7/44.1 and 36.2 combination) but wondered what others typically get on these before I go bang on my dealers door?

Thanks in advance for any info.

DAVE

10-12 K to being run in, as for brochure figures they're there to keep your tax bracket down

On my work run my 1.8Tsi Scout is doing about 19-20mpg. It's done just over 4000 miles. Thats a 3 mile run from cold, stop / start with hills both ways.

Last week on our hols it did 41mpg. That was mainly motorway their and decent A roads.

Both taken from the trip so probably not perfect.