I guess there should be lots on this but I can't find it in another thread. Please redirect me if I'm wrong.

Had the car for three months now and am delighted. Done about 2500 miles.

Best fuel consumption was home in Essex to Christchurch, Dorset when I got 73mpg. It was mainly the M25, A35?, M27. I was trying pretty hard and rarely going above 75mph and 60mph on the A roads.

Most other long journeys average about 64mpg, fairly well loaded and often with A/C running.

Short journeys can be much lower but a journey of about 10 mins around town in light traffic with a few stops is about 52 mpg. Overall, since I've had it the average is around 59mpg.

The only thing I still don't like is the engine management deciding I'm going too slow for my gear and hitting the accelerator on my behalf, attempting to career me into things I am approaching!

(I'm changing my driving style to accommodate this but after 50 years of driving I hardly ever remember stalling or getting the engine mountings shaking!)

I have the 1.6 with the 7 speed DSG..........only had the car 10 days, its done 6500 miles so should have started to loosen up, filled her up yesterday and a manual calculation shows 58.7 mpg over 512 miles of fairly mixed driving, Air Con has been on all the time.

Mines only the S pec so I dont have a trip computer, experiences with previous cars shows them to be very optomistic by c.10% when its comes to fuel consumption.

Early days with the car but very pleased with the engine/gearbox combination.

Regards all

Juan

mixed driving with quite a few short stop start rund interspersed with occosional motorway work = 55mpg

longer sensible speed runs = 60mpg

fleecing on the motorway =low to middle 50's

all computer figs but comp only a couple of % optimistic, that is to say less than 3%, from a good few continious anal-retentive brimmed tank miles when the car was newer.

6000 mile touring over 4 weeks incl motorway and mountains =61.2 actual calc figs.

air con always ON.

Edited 9 September, 201213 yr by dieseldogg

My Greenline II is doing exactly as the OP states.

In regards to the ECU applying throttle, every diesel I've ever had has done this. Is it not just the engine driving you at idle speed, where a petrol would stall because of the lower torque/higher engine drive speeds?

In simplistic terms from the era of steam power, is it not "the goveners" bringing the egnine back up to mimimum revs.

Now done electronically rather than by a set of rotating metal spheres.

I was aware of this quite pronounced phenomena in der 1998 VW 1.9TDI, keep foot off throttle, select higher gear, clutch bites, revs dip briefly then the ECU feeds in the required extra diesel to come back up to tick-over revs.

got up to 30MPH in 5th doing this along Benone Strand, without ever touching the throttle.

m

In simplistic terms from the era of steam power, is it not "the goveners" bringing the egnine back up to mimimum revs.

Now done electronically rather than by a set of rotating metal spheres.

I was aware of this quite pronounced phenomena in der 1998 VW 1.9TDI, keep foot off throttle, select higher gear, clutch bites, revs dip briefly then the ECU feeds in the required extra diesel to come back up to tick-over revs.

got up to 30MPH in 5th doing this along Benone Strand, without ever touching the throttle.

m

Not good for the DMF though!

If there was a DMF fitted, it did not suffer, I took her to over 250,000 without any such spannering being required

cheers

m