Not long has a vrs fabia mk2 and it's drinking the fuel regardless how I drive it ahort trips driving slow I'll get no more than 34 and long trip at 70 I get no more than 44.9? If I work it I do 280 miles on a full tank, how can I better my mpg?

Sounds about right to me.

Is it a new car? Mine has done 4000 miles now and has improved to about 36 average.

It's got a 180bhp twin charged petrol engine.

What kind of economy were you expecting?

Not long has a vrs fabia mk2 and it's drinking the fuel regardless how I drive it ahort trips driving slow I'll get no more than 34 and long trip at 70 I get no more than 44.9? If I work it I do 280 miles on a full tank, how can I better my mpg?

Lift your foot early, use the road's inclination at your favor and engine-brake as long as it's safe to do so? I've noticed these seemingly obvious things tend to affect a lot the vrs consumption. Also, short-trips are way more "expensive" than longer ones from what I've seen with mine.

Other than that, 35mpg is more than what I'd expect from a car that pushes 129ps/litre. I think I will understand those vrs consumption threads...

Edited 3 May, 201313 yr by newbie69

Those figures sound about right. Mine hasn't got much better but I will see 45mpg on a motorway run and around 40mpg if it's A and B roads but over a longer distance. My commute into Swansea I see about 30mpg in stop start traffic and on track I saw 10.2mpg

Ahh thanks and I've seen people do over 50 that's why I expected, also putting £130 in fuel in 5 days is alot so was just wondering about it

what newbie says, lift your foot early, especially approaching junctions, lights, roundabouts ect .. every time you brake, you waste the fuel it took to get up to that speed.....

you can still make good progress (dont worry about putting your foot down, a petrol engine is most efficient on full throttle) but try to back off much earlier than you normally would, you would be suprised what a difference it makes, and you will still carry speed, not holding people up... that should get you over 50 on a long run.. if its motorways, dont go over indicated 70 mph... this will knacker it 35mpg is what you can expect if you go fast....

but the 45 mpg you mentioned? thats what the book says, so you did well enough there

Ahh thanks and I've seen people do over 50 that's why I expected, also putting £130 in fuel in 5 days is alot so was just wondering about it

If you look back over a number of threads, there are a very small number of mkII VRS owners that get amazing MPG.

The rest get roughly what you are.

If it makes you feel better, reset the fuel economy, coast down a hill, take a picture of the MPG readout and post it on the internet.

Nacker what?

Nacker what?

The fuel economy if you go over 70mph.

Yeah I do alot of miles so I'll start to slow down, also I've had the only for a week so still having some fun now I can slow down, thanks for you lt help everyone

If it makes you feel better, reset the fuel economy, coast down a hill, take a picture of the MPG readout and post it on the internet.

LMAOL....

Nacker what?

Nothing, it's an inside joke...

Edited 3 May, 201313 yr by newbie69

Richard/Boss Fox likes his wee digs at the Fuel Economy that i get, but the pictures i take to keep track for my sake are not faked they are what they are at the time and over distances.

No big deal in cheating yourself, there is no point, and if you know what you get, it matters little what someone else thinks or believes,

i speak about the possible and actual figures achievable, and what is achieved.

but that is not only in a vRS, other cars are easy to get regularly good economy with, or even to hypermile,

its often just how people drive.

Roads and drivers and conditions are not all the same.

Weight carried, weather temperatures (& low temps can improve consumption.) Tyres/pressures, Oil & Fuel used all make a difference.

62 MPG is achievable as is 22, and Averages of 35-45 MPG are normal for almost all Twinchargers.

anyone averaging 42-45 mpg and still having fun at times on a journey must be at times having the car giving high 50's MPG

over some of the journey to average out when only getting mid 20's low 30's

http://www.briskoda....in-a-vrs-45-mpg

george

I'll put myself in the honest 35-40mpg range. Stoke on Trent to Folkestone on just over half a tank and can get from Folkestone to south west Germany with about 100 miles left on the range but as I'm driving at slower speeds locally in Germany, I usually get more than 100 miles before needing to refill.

Keeping below 130-ish kph on the autobahn; if I decide to give it some beans when I hit Germany, I can be almost empty over the last 80 miles of the journey!

It was not aimed at you George.

It was aimed at people (in general) that post misleading information about a car on a public forum which could effect what car other people buy.

I have no problem with you getting 60mpg. But I do have a problem with someone buying the car after reading it does 60mpg thinking they will get that.

This is not only about the VRS mk2, it's about any car on any forum.

As a public source of information we should portray a viable and realistic picture of ownership to help other people.

Something which you do quite often do.

Well an average is made up of lower and higher figures.

that is the point of an average.

So i read your achieved figures from Greenlines, Yetis etc.

If 'sharkrider' achieves good figures through his normal driving and i achieve slightly more through more hypermiling,

and 20 other member achieve low or around average consumption, that seems a balanced view IMO.

Its a Forum with Forum threads, Not 'What Car' or 'Which'. not a ASA controlled advertising publication or EU Official test figures.

People can surely know their self about how they drive.

Or Forums will need to make disclaimers,

'Any thing you read on a forum about a car may not actually apply to one you buy or drive.'

george

Not long has a vrs fabia mk2 and it's drinking the fuel regardless how I drive it ahort trips driving slow I'll get no more than 34 and long trip at 70 I get no more than 44.9? If I work it I do 280 miles on a full tank, how can I better my mpg?

It is both an art and a science.

Burn and Coast.

I do the works, go down long hills in neutral, rarely touch the brakes in normal driving by thinking way ahead but also absolutely cane it sometimes.

Do the overfill trick and therefore routinely geet over 400 miles out of a tank.

Now done 26K miles, once round the world, and it seems to be at it best now.

Don't haul around lots of crap. Driving over 80 mph is a killer, and illegal in the UK I am told, and aerodynamic drag is a cube relationship with power and the Fabia has a dreadful Cd of 0.37.

If a short journey nick the daughter Fabia HTP as VRS's hate journeys of less than 6 miles or so.

Edited 3 May, 201313 yr by lol

i think anywhere between 300-350 between fill ups is ok by me

I've had my vrs now just over three weeks, mine made 300miles from full without the fuel light coming on (was very close to the red section though) so I filled it back to full, works out about 32/34mpg which is what I fully expected, this was driving it exactly how I wanted so I'm happy with that! If you sit on a motorway about 65/70 I get an indicated 40/42 mpg!

I'm sure that going down hills in neutral uses more than going down in gear? Or does the drag of the engine (hence slowing down) outweigh the fuel used keeping the engine at idle?

I agree with the issue of the brick-like aerodynamics. On mainland Europe, you can be doing 75 or 80mph legally (or more on some roads in Germany) and I do see the mpg tumble. Through France at 130k/80mph, it's 40mpg. Through Belgium at 120/75mph (ish), it's 45mpg. Get back into Germany and it takes a bit of a fall..unless keep to the 120kph areas or the 130kph "suggestion" at which point it's the figures listed. This Mondays 580 mile trip listed 42.9mpg from start to end and I wasn't trying - just keeping up with traffic.

I'm happy with that pesonally?

My experience so far... almost 4000km in and for my busy urban commute to work I usually average around 7.4L/100km, can climb to about 7.8.

Recently drove 900kms in a day including through Sydney stop/start for around an hour and averaged 6.1L/100km. I didn't buy this car for economy, but I have to say I'm pretty happy after the MY11 WRX was averaging about 10.2-10.4/100km.

I'm currently testing to see if my recent Stage 1 tune has had an impact on consumption. However, I must say it probably will because the thing puts a huge grin on my face whenever I bury my foot

A 10mph difference doesn't seem to affect it as you would expect. I drove nearly 700KM on the italian autostradas last summer with an almost constant speed of 150kmh (~93 mph) (and I was probably one of the slowest, not in terms of car but of actual speed, I had humble 500's (not abarths) overtaking me like mad) and I achieved a 39mpg during the whole trip. Pretty economic I'd say.

I did 11.1mpg at castle combe last weekend

These threads are a waste of space, can we not delete all of them and have one sticky thread for vrs fuel consumption??

Mine was similar to 99% of all vrs owners, ie not very good even when driving nicely at 70mph on motorways.

I thought it'd be as good as the mk1 in this respect but I think I asked too much from it.