400 miles?!! I couldn't get that if I drove with an egg strapped to the sole of my right foot.....

I get about 380 miles to £65 of fuel. I don't like to let it run too low so the OBC will normally still be showing 40-60 miles left.

But I drive like a nun most of the time to save money. Long term mpg was 35.7 but that's heading down now with the temperature.

That's on Tesco 99 mostly.

Edited 8 November, 201114 yr by Aspman

On my second tank of Tesco 99 and easily gettin 400 miles to a tank (£70)

35mpg.....how?.....how?

lol its easily done and i also think the remap helps as does running on 99 with a sensible head on.

35mpg.....how?.....how?

I got 37mpg this morning MWAHAHA.

I commute on a 60mph A road with very little stop/start traffic and that's is what lets me get the number up.

At a steady 70mph on a flattish road I can get 35mpg also.

Any overtaking, roadworks etc will very quickly bring it down.

And certainly no fun driving :(

A while back I had a long, no hold-ups run, and was in no rush, so I played about with cruising speeds. I found if I kept at a steady 58 to 60 on the clock, the mpg readout crept up and up, unless on a steep hill. Eventually it got to nearly 49 m.p.g! But then the hold ups started so I never got to 50. And that is petrol 1.8 running on Tesco or Esso 95. At my more normal cruising speed it sits on about 42 m.p.g.

On a 30 mile round trip on dual carriageway at 60 mph with cruise on (kids were sleeping so i didn't want to get home too fast), the readout was showing 45.6 mpg by the end. Very impressive for a 2.0 petrol. At 70mph it will hover around 41 ish. And yes, I do appreciate that the readout isn't 100% accurate.

I'm going over to the Lake District next weekend, A64 A1 A66. I'll see what I can achieve running tesco momentum.

Interesting thread; although I don’t have a Tesco near enough to home or on my commute to try Momentum, I have tried regular and high octane in my 2.0 TSI.

I ran a few tanks of BP Ultimate against the normal BP unleaded and TBH I saw no MPG improvement and possibly a little better initial pick up from low revs in low gears. I didn’t think this was worth the extra per tank, especially as I drive a high mileage. The only thing I thought of was back in the days of my driving old carburettor bangers, I used to hear pinking when booting it at lower revs – running up to a roundabout and going for a gap. With new ignition systems retarding ignition to get rid of pinking all I can think is that high octane retards less, so pick up feels better?

Anyway, I wasn’t convinced to pay more…