in a vRS :( I'm going down to Cov to see a mate.... but really cant afford the fuel (200+ miles each way) so am going for an economy marathon... I will report back! tank is full of 97 BP ultimate...

Drive like a granny, 56mph all the way, cruise control on, no aircon, radio doesnt use too much so thats cool, keep windows up, NO urge to overtake/race (as tempting as it is) and try not to brake too heavy, look far ahead and let the car slow down on its own and try use the brakes as little as SAFELY possible. No harsh acceleration, gently get up to speed etc.

Drive like a granny, 56mph all the way, cruise control on, no aircon, radio doesnt use too much so thats cool, keep windows up, NO urge to overtake/race (as tempting as it is) and try not to brake too heavy, look far ahead and let the car slow down on its own and try use the brakes as little as SAFELY possible. No harsh acceleration, gently get up to speed etc.

Hi Adam any news with motor?, well I went for a little drive in the 105 1.6tdi filled it up with VPOWER diesel WHY I dont know but I did, dont know if it was a placebo effect but way better fuel economy I reckon 5 mpg more per gallon and far better running,smoother and quieter but definate better, even seemed to be far more willing to push on,the temp here is about 24-26 degrees though,but its 9 p litre more so on a tank full will not break the back

Hi Adam any news with motor?, well I went for a little drive in the 105 1.6tdi filled it up with VPOWER diesel WHY I dont know but I did, dont know if it was a placebo effect but way better fuel economy I reckon 5 mpg more per gallon and far better running,smoother and quieter but definate better, even seemed to be far more willing to push on,the temp here is about 24-26 degrees though,but its 9 p litre more so on a tank full will not break the back

9p a litre more.. sod that! I drive too many miles to be spending 9p a litre more lol

Well 'provisionally' a build week of 27.. but each time I get close to the build week it jumps back, this time by 4 weeks! They better start pulling the finger out, whenever you speak to SUK they have absolutely no clue whats going on, John even admit 'We hear very very little from the factory'

Good luck Sharkrider!

I should think if you overill the tank it'll be do-able, but risky on a friday night!

What's the most people have seen from a vRS tankful?

Off to Cornwall in August in my new car (when it arrives!) so from Kent its 300 miles each way ish...

Good luck Sharkrider!

I should think if you overill the tank it'll be do-able, but risky on a friday night!

What's the most people have seen from a vRS tankful?

Off to Cornwall in August in my new car (when it arrives!) so from Kent its 300 miles each way ish...

I've got over 400 miles before, but its MUCH better now its 9500 miles... I struggled to get 40+ mpg at the begining, now its the "norm", I have run half a tank og 95, and lost 5mpg.... (same speed on motorway, same day...)

and whoever said "don't brake" thats the key to fuel economy... approaching a roundabout you know well in this car, back off the gas twice as far away, you'll only loose 5-10 mph so won't really annoy anyone, and it massively improves your results, read the road well ahead.... use paddles to slow down if ness..... no gas = no fuel used!

and yes, i will have to avoid going "quick" i find it hard, i had my ass kicked today for the first time since I've had the car (destroying BMW 120's ect )an 05 plate evo VIII... matched him up the dual carrigeway, he must have though hhmmm (obviously in a higher gear than he could have been) he pulled in, i started to pass then he changed down! lol... needless to say he pulled away... (where's the remap gonna come from then? )

edit: our skoda garage is a brand new one, gonna talk to the service manager, and see if he'll allow a remap + warrenty, the fiat garage did!

if you can get in the slipstream of a lorry you'll also have very little wind resistance and use less fuel.

edit: our skoda garage is a brand new one, gonna talk to the service manager, and see if he'll allow a remap + warrenty, the fiat garage did!

Thought you weren't going to remap the vRS

Thought you weren't going to remap the vRS

yes, but I just got my ass handed tyo me! lol... we can't have that !

yes, but I just got my ass handed tyo me! lol... we can't have that !

I did some timing runs on a 'private road' near mine and managed a 30-70 (thru the gears) of 6.5secs, Autocar managed 6.3secs in the Ibiza Cupra

and whoever said "don't brake" thats the key to fuel economy... approaching a roundabout you know well in this car, back off the gas twice as far away, you'll only loose 5-10 mph so won't really annoy anyone, and it massively improves your results, read the road well ahead.... use paddles to slow down if ness..... no gas = no fuel used!

"Coasting" is the way to go. Shame it's not all down hill to Cov eh?

Managed 850 miles in my Passat but it does have a bigger tank than the Fabia, run it down to fumes and it's over £90 for a fill up now.

Wife did manage very close to 600 miles in her 1.9Tdi Fabia once and I could probably do it if I used it on my commute. Not expecting as much from the 1.2TSi DSG when it arrives but it will only cover 4000 miles a year so fuel bills aren't a big concern.

Cheers

Lee

The wife has just returned from North Wales in her Fabia 1.4 Vrs and managed an Average of 47 MPG

She don't drive that fast though but still not bad

I think it will take more than a re map to beat a evo,he must of been driving like a numpty,a friend of mine has one & it runs rings round my octy(i thought mine was pretty fast! :'( ) Would of like to have seen his face when he was getting his ar*e kicked by a skoda!

The wife has just returned from North Wales in her Fabia 1.4 Vrs and managed an Average of 47 MPG

She don't drive that fast though but still not bad

indeed, if I'm stuck in tourist traffic, 45+ is easily available, even 50+ on a-roads, but on the motorway, I have to control my annoyance with idiots (lane dicsaplin mostly, I WILL drive up the inside of them, and no its not illegal) but the more annoyed I get , i tend to go faster... maybe I should search my 100gig of music for something like the cranberries to chill me out... I've found the 80+mph gives 35 mpg, same as ***+ mph (did I type an extra star? sorry...) there is no difference once you hit that air resistance... but sticking to an indicated 70mph (66ish?) makes the world of difference on the motorway.....

I think it will take more than a re map to beat a evo,he must of been driving like a numpty,a friend of mine has one & it runs rings round my octy(i thought mine was pretty fast! :'( ) Would of like to have seen his face when he was getting his ar*e kicked by a skoda!

yeah, i think he was just in top gear, to be fair it would probably beat most things without changing down, at least I made him try! lol... I accepted defeat very early though :yes:

There is the odd time when i can make some ground on my pal in his evo,its usually when he is off boost,only problem is when it comes on boost he is off like a rocket! He did have a go in my octy though & said some good stuff about it.He does complain lots about people wanting to race him all the time!

just for general 30/40 roads, i knock the stick into manual/tiptronic and go up a gear, tends to give me upto 10mpg more than the box gives in the auto gears, at 30 its usually in 5th, i put it in 6th.. ive had 55-60mpg on 30 roads a couple of times.. roads seemed pretty flat to me too.. my average is 35mpg tho, being late for work in a morning and blasting it down the motorway for 2 junctions isnt good for my mpg at all.. especially not when hitting 120 72 accidentally just on the sliproad to overtake the slow few .. i slow back down to a reasonable pace after overtaking of course :yes:

i cant get my head around why people wait till they get onto the motorway before going over 50mph, as apposed to hitting traffic speed on the sliproad before hitting the traffic..

and the other way round, when they slow down to 50 when the 1st marker appears rather than waiting till theyre out of the chuffing way till they slow down..

Edited 3 June, 201115 yr by Black Howling

Would advise against cruise control for a proper economy run.

Cruise control isn't able to do some of the more advanced economy driving techniques. Of course 500 miles with full-on concentration on economy driving is pretty draining...

Accelerating DOWN a hill to avoid having to use more fuel when coming back up is a useful one. I find accelerating, then coasting, then accelerating, and coasting again (repeat) quite effective too. I'm sure there are plenty of web sites devoted to this sort of thing.

I find I get an extra 2mpg when I take over from the cruise control.

Also I'd stick to 60 rather than 70... painful I know.

The VRS seems to use significantly less fuel at 2000rpm than 2500rpm in 7th.

On the other hand I can't better cruise control.

I drive to work at 4.45am on a deserted M1, DSG in Drive, Cruise control set at 70mph gps speed (73mph indicated) I get around 55-58mpg (Spring-Summer). I know if I dit 65mph or 56mph and sit with the lorries I'd get more but lifes too short.

I've tried every trick in the book, including manual gear changing but still can't get near the consistancy of just letting the car sort it out.

Coming home at 2 or 3pm it's too busy for cruise but I try and drive as economically as possible as near to the legal limit but usually just manage 50mpg.

Oh and I've heard a roumer that if you overlay and have to drive at 85-90mph economy would drop to 45mpg on cruise. So loose 10mpg for an extra 20mph.

oh that's a 2010 Passat 2.0CR DSG

Cheers

Lee

just for general 30/40 roads, i knock the stick into manual/tiptronic and go up a gear, tends to give me upto 10mpg more than the box gives in the auto gears, at 30 its usually in 5th, i put it in 6th.. ive had 55-60mpg on 30 roads a couple of times.. roads seemed pretty flat to me too.. my average is 35mpg tho, being late for work in a morning and blasting it down the motorway for 2 junctions isnt good for my mpg at all.. especially not when hitting 120 72 accidentally just on the sliproad to overtake the slow few .. i slow back down to a reasonable pace after overtaking of course :yes:

i cant get my head around why people wait till they get onto the motorway before going over 50mph, as apposed to hitting traffic speed on the sliproad before hitting the traffic..

and the other way round, when they slow down to 50 when the 1st marker appears rather than waiting till theyre out of the chuffing way till they slow down..

after some playing with tiptronic today I have also realised you can run higher gears and lower revs than drive.... and yes when you do "that blast " it kills the economy, its a real jakel and hyde engine, 50+mpg when tiptoeing along, 35 when making use of your forced induction.... and yes, your motorway rant.. I'm in your corner on those two rants too, on entry, you need to match the speed of the traffic, the exit sliproad is there for a reason, to slow down on! lol....

Would advise against cruise control for a proper economy run.

Cruise control isn't able to do some of the more advanced economy driving techniques. Of course 500 miles with full-on concentration on economy driving is pretty draining...

Accelerating DOWN a hill to avoid having to use more fuel when coming back up is a useful one. I find accelerating, then coasting, then accelerating, and coasting again (repeat) quite effective too. I'm sure there are plenty of web sites devoted to this sort of thing.

I find I get an extra 2mpg when I take over from the cruise control.

Also I'd stick to 60 rather than 70... painful I know.

The VRS seems to use significantly less fuel at 2000rpm than 2500rpm in 7th.

500 miles of driving is no effort for me, I drive for a living in the 2 jobs I do (driving instructor, last 16 years 50k a year, now I do it part time, I'm an EMT for the ambulance service full time, drive the "bus" 50% of the time on a 12 hour shift! so long drives are a part of my makeup, 250 miles a day is a light "average" day for me, and doing a blue light run from the west coast to newcastle, now that drains your concentration 10* more than focusing on an economy drive! lol...)

the accelrating/coasting thing you mention is proven.... an engine is more efficient on full throttle than any other time, and off throttle the ECU cuts fuel flow completley! although I never "speed up then slow down" I always use full throttle off the roundabouts and back off way before the next roundabout to avoid using the brakes, any braking is wasting the fuel you used to get up to speed in the first place!

again, you are right, 60 is much better than 70, but I cannot bring myself to do that under normal motorway conditions, an indicated 70 is the least (and then I'm probably the slowest car on the motorway!)

and the thing is, I bought the vRS for a reason, I normally burn it everywhere, but when lack of money hits for a long journey, these things really matter!

edit: for the other poster, I'd dont have cruise control....

i cant get my head around why people wait till they get onto the motorway before going over 50mph, as apposed to hitting traffic speed on the sliproad before hitting the traffic..

and the other way round, when they slow down to 50 when the 1st marker appears rather than waiting till theyre out of the chuffing way till they slow down..

This does my head in! Glad I'm not the only one who gets annoyed by this! Especially annoying when you're trying to maintain a constant speed and some d1ck starts slowing down to 30mph in front of you!

Same thing with people who slow down to 10mph under the speed limit for speed cameras (then normally blast off again). Really winds me up when I'm trying to maintain a constant speed, and it buggers up my fuel economy as well as theirs!

This does my head in! Glad I'm not the only one who gets annoyed by this! Especially annoying when you're trying to maintain a constant speed and some d1ck starts slowing down to 30mph in front of you!

Same thing with people who slow down to 10mph under the speed limit for speed cameras (then normally blast off again). Really winds me up when I'm trying to maintain a constant speed, and it buggers up my fuel economy as well as theirs!

Where I live the motorways are all up hill, down hill etc.. (Damn you wales!)

I hate when you get caught behind one plonker doing 40mph, you have to try pull out to overtake in a small engined car.. no one lets you out, you get one tiny gap, and you have to floor the f00ker to get past.. that proper RUINS mpg!

Where I live the motorways are all up hill, down hill etc.. (Damn you wales!)

I hate when you get caught behind one plonker doing 40mph, you have to try pull out to overtake in a small engined car.. no one lets you out, you get one tiny gap, and you have to floor the f00ker to get past.. that proper RUINS mpg!

Very annoying. It's mostly flat where I am, but there is a high concentration of bad drivers! Especially on the A2 at 11pm on a Friday night!

Edited 4 June, 201115 yr by Redline Greenline ii

M4 sucks. Though I've surprised one or two with my "wagon" :-D