I've just bought a petrol car after 10 years of owning diesels. Now it maybe the fact I've been spoilt but is it right that I should be getting 22 mpg around town when I'm not even putting my foot down. The car has not long been serviced Please help

Sounds about right for stop/start town driving. 

Yep for this time of year and as a stop start drive. I manage about that in a DSG which is supposed to knock another few mpg off but I guess in traffic it doesn't make as much of a difference. Take it out on a run and will easily hit 36-37mpg. Just goes to show how thirsty they are pulling off.

if its just a short trip few miles of stop start your doing well i average about 17mpg.

 

but yeah 22 does sound right for in and around town.

 

as others have said you can get into the 30's at motorway speeds

Sounds about right. My 2.0 TFSI gets between 21-24 mpg's driving around town.

My local skoda dealers said on the down low that if I remap it it should hit the the 30s and mid 40s on a run how true is that?

Around town on my vrs petrol 28 average been really carefull never ever going past 2000rpm and really slow on the throttle pedal. In other words vicar come granny mode.

TFSI or TSI?

30s to mid 40s mpg? The short answer is highly unlikely but not impossible but you have to drive like you're using the last drop of petrol in the world. My stage 2 and 3/4 hybrid gets a max of 32mpg to a tank with mixed, but mostly open road, driving. I also wouldn't drive everywhere below 2k rpm all the time either as I imagine this can have other detrimental effects on the lifespan of certain components.

Mine is a tfsi

My local skoda dealers said on the down low that if I remap it it should hit the the 30s and mid 40s on a run how true is that?

*******s, mines is remaped and i can get 22 at the most....you might, just might be able to if you never hit a red light, never brake, never go about 2000 rpm but as others have said you'd have to drive like you were in a time similar to when mad max is set. where people would kill for a gravy boat full of petrol

Mine is a tfsi

2005/6 to 2008/9ish then?

It's really hard to not be blunt and I know this maybe isn't what you want to read but there's no chance you'll get mid 40s out of a stage 1 TFSI. My best ever tank was 35mpg in Dec 2011, possibly before I even went anywhere near a mapper, and included a return trip to Hull at 60-70mph. You might be lucky - my wife is a hyper miler and even she can't crack 36 mpg in this.

If your reasons for the map are economy related, I'd seriously consider selling and buying a diesel. I bought mine for the drive and still think I've offset the economy with the fuel I've bought with what I didn't spend on buying a TDI.

Not to bad mate mine gets 24/25 mpg around town and around 30/32 on a run

I did a rare short journey yesterday. Only a couple of miles car never got warm.

 

16.7mpg.

You don't buy a petrol to worry about mpg. Just enjoy it, and fill it I up when needed. That's what I do anyway.

Same here. I normally do a quick calculation based on the last tank and if it's between 24 and 28 then I know the car's running ok.

I got 36mpg yesterday Cardiff to Walsall and back. Wasn't hanging around either.

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I normally get close to 40 on my commute. TFSI.

Mine is a TSI so not quite the same - I regularly get over 40Mpg on longer trips but 35mpg would be more normal (fast) commuting