And not just the bits and bobs I keep buying for it.

Only had it 6 days, filled upon day 1 and I've had to fill up again yesterday 380 miles later. (35 MPG)

 

In my vRS I filled up once every 3 weeks. :think:

Are you doing mainly motorway work with the 1.2TSi?

Are you doing mainly motorway work with the 1.2TSi?

No. Over the moors 15 mile each way to work mainly but 2 trips on the motorway to Old Trafford included in this. One at 60 mph both ways. Averaged 40 mpg for this one.

So your vrs was getting 100mpg?

So your vrs was getting 100mpg?

No it averaged 50 mpg over the life of the car. I could get over 480 miles to a tank full to and from work, and I've been know to get over 550 miles to a tank. Admittedly I've done the miles so that's why I've used the fuel but I was pinning my hopes on closer to 40 mpg.

 

Apart from this the car's a pleasure to drive.  :love:

I generally do short trips (often 5 miles each way or thereabouts) with the occasional longer runs - hence the decision to go for the 1.2 petrol - and over the year I've had mine I have seen the mpg creep up. Just recently, with around 7,000 miles on the clock, I seem to be getting a genuine 40mpg (filling brim to brim). I've also noticed the maxidot has crept up from a consistent 38.5 (+/- a fraction) to 40.5 over the last few weeks. If this estimates mpg over the whole mileage since resetting (I did this in error at about 2,000 miles) this would confirm that from about 6,000 miles the mpg has been improving. 

 

Hopefully things improve as you get some miles on the clock.

25,000 miles on mine.

I generally do short trips (often 5 miles each way or thereabouts) with the occasional longer runs - hence the decision to go for the 1.2 petrol - and over the year I've had mine I have seen the mpg creep up. Just recently, with around 7,000 miles on the clock, I seem to be getting a genuine 40mpg (filling brim to brim). I've also noticed the maxidot has crept up from a consistent 38.5 (+/- a fraction) to 40.5 over the last few weeks. If this estimates mpg over the whole mileage since resetting (I did this in error at about 2,000 miles) this would confirm that from about 6,000 miles the mpg has been improving. 

 

Hopefully things improve as you get some miles on the clock.

Over 17,500 miles I have averaged 40.5 MPG in a 1.2 Tsi DSG. High speed motorway driving increases rule consumption considerably - worst was 32 MPG against a howling gale of a head wind but driving at an indicated 75. Best is 55 MPG on a 20 mile run with a 50 MPH limit. Overall in mixed driving I am happy with 40.5 MPG. 

The aerodynamic efficiency is, by today's standards, woeful combined with a substantial frontal area that makes higher speeds problematic unless you have a tail wind (a BIG factor). And they're not light either.

At my age I avoid trafficked routes and just tootle.....being retired helps of course.

I have been tootling, barely 33 mpg coming to work this morning. I got that out of Golf GTIs.

I ran a (manual) 1.2 TSi for 10K miles several years ago. This averaged low 30's mpg over 1 year - "big" car vs "little" engine??

 

A long motorway trip once saw the maxidot up to mid 40's MPG, but actual brim-brim showed mid 30's. As previously mentioned speed and large frontal area is a factor.

 

Prior to the Yeti I'd run a 1.6 Petrol Qashqai for 20K / 2 years. This was marginally better on fuel (mid 30's) but offered no where near the all round "driveability" of the TSi Yeti.

The aerodynamic efficiency is, by today's standards, woeful combined with a substantial frontal area that makes higher speeds problematic unless you have a tail wind (a BIG factor). And they're not light either.

At my age I avoid trafficked routes and just tootle.....being retired helps of course.

It's a good job Bobdog is not about, because he would make something of those tail winds! LOL

Ive always found smaller engines are ok for town work but their lack of torque in hilly conditions or when laden costs in terms of mpg! Ive always achieved better results with larger capacity, higher torque engines where theres simply no need to work them as hard.

I'm pretty happy with the economy of our 1.2TSI. It's 35mpg since new, but this is mainly short very hilly trips.

 

On a round trip (so 0 net altitude change) to my mum and dad's in the peak district yesterday I got 44mpg. That's a 35 mile round trip and is extremely hilly and included a couple of 60mph uphill overtakes. I can live with that. My Dad gets about 20-25% better in his 1.6CR DSG7 Touran (great vehicle btw).

 

What really seems to kill the economy in my opinion is a long, fast uphill run when cold.

Averaged in excess 40 mpg over 12000 miles in my last Yeti (1.2 TSI manual). However, once exceeding 65 mph the mpg dropped like a stone - just planned my journeys to take account of cruising at 65 mph - often easier said than done.

After 3000 miles in my Yeti getting an average of 35mpg, clearly need to drive a little slower!

Aerodynamics and the weather play havoc with fuel consumption.

Now my Freelander is an auto TD4, but the principles are the same. Driving up the motorway at about 65/70mph with 2 bicycles on the back and filled to window height with gear against a high wind and rain, it returned 33mpg. On the slower windy roads up and over the Highlands it went up to 36mpg.

Driving it home, keeping the speed down, in still weather it returned 41.7mpg on the motorway.

I have been told though that it is all downhill from Scotland to South London :lol:

My Freelander is 40mm higher than a regular one and 70mm higher than a sport, so this makes things worse as well, not withstanding the even worse drag co-efficient to start with

And of course, it is remapped.......

Nick P,

 

interesting that above you mention dads Touran. I am selling the 100 bhp 1.9 6 speed manual diesel to buy a 110 bhp Yeti diesel. I have owned from new and the economy is one of the things I have been amazed at. It usually returns 48/52 mpg.solo. On a run 2 or 3 up I am unlucky to get less than 60 mpg if keeping to a satnav speed of 60/65 mph. I have managed a couple of personal bests on long and boring solo runs at the magic 55 mph returning just over 70 mpg. Readings are brimming the tank, as the Yeti dash read out is a bit more generous.

 

Colin

38.9 mpg this morning over the same route , but setting off 2 miles closer from my girlfriend's house.

There is a long 2 - 3 mile up hill section. I'm trying this in manual and left in 5th or 6th instead of the box moving up and down itself. Sometimes an engine can be labouring a touch and use more fuel than if it revved a bit more.

I did get stuck behind a slow van for a mile or so too.

Poor Consumption on Motorway

Was going to ask about this but previous posts would tend to give me the answer.

Only had my 1.2 TSI a few weeks, only done 5,000 miles, very happy with consumption around town, 35/37 but struggling to get much more on motorway.

2 trips recently 60 miles each way average 36/38 only doing 65 one way 65-70 way back.

Previous 2.0L   BMW 3 series petrol, would do 50 mpg on same trip easily.

Might improve with mileage, will just have to take it easier.

 

Did question dealer about size of engine, in relation to body size, and it felt OK on test drive.

apart from that, like the car.

I averaged 40 mpg to Manchester & back on Saturday, 90% motorway. Staying around 60 mph.

Back down to 34 mpg coming to work today. :(

I recall becoming quite excited when my old 59 plate 1.2 TSi reached an indicated 47 mpg. This was following a trip through a 16 mile section of M1 roadworks limited to 50 mph.

 

The brim to brim readings were much lower though.

 

The maxidot on my current 2.0 TDi Yeti reads 73 mpg through a similarly 50 mph limited section. The reality is however mid to high 50's.

35 mpg from a teeny engine in a 'we small car, is absolutely shocking, to be honest. 

 

41.6mpg is the average, over the past 15,996 miles, from my 2.2 twin-turbo 7 speed auto diesel merc estate with 204 bhp weighing in at 1840kg kerb! - and this includes some miles with 1700kg's of caravan on it's back! 

 

but i suppose that's the problem, with the modern way, of decreasing engine size, and having to make them work harder to get what you want out of them. take the new 1.0 125bhp fiesta for example...  claimed 65 - average 44

 

when dad bought his Yeti, he went for the 170 tdi 4x4 - he gets mid-40-something out of that too; he's got a bit of trailer towing in that. 

 

Al. 

Completely agree. But for our usage the 1.2 still makes sense, based on the lower purchase price, our low (projected sub 8k per annum) and improved NVH. A couple more thousand more miles and year and I would probably have given the greenline more consideration. And if I was the main driver of it rather than my wife and I was commuting I'd have gone 170CR.