My current and average fuel consumption readings (14.9 l/100Km or 19 Mpg) seem all over the place. The current can go up to 40 l/100km and 0 when driving. The average yesterday was over 20 l/100Km. I have reset to factory default and checked the units are all correct, but no change. I do city driving short distance but this seems well wrong. Car is mainly in ECO mode.

 

Options find a known problem and self fix, back to dealer or turn off the consumption readings in the MaxiDOT and forget all about fuel economy..

 

Edited 30 May, 201412 yr by Steveh3

The "current" reading is probably actually an "instantaneous" reading over the last 10 seconds. Sat still, this obviously goes to 0.0 because you're burning fuel and not moving. On the over-run it can theoretically go as high as 999.9 mpg (my personal record is 760.0 or so before it went to ---.- which means that the over-run cutoff is operating and you're moving but using no fuel).

 

There are 2 different average readings. Since you've apparently got an instantaneous reading, I'll assume you're seeing the mode 1 average, which is the average for the current journey (or for trips under 2 hours, all trips in the last 2 hours). This is very affected by cold starts, and I regularly see it climb from 15 to about 50mpg in the first 10 minutes driving.

 

The mode 2 average is calculated over the last 100 hours driving and may give more the sort of reading you were expecting.

My current and average fuel consumption readings (14.9 l/100Km or 19 Mpg) seem all over the place. The current can go up to 40 l/100km and 0 when driving. The average yesterday was over 20 l/100Km. I have reset to factory default and checked the units are all correct, but no change. I do city driving short distance but this seems well wrong. Car is mainly in ECO mode.

Options find a known problem and self fix, back to dealer or turn off the consumption readings in the MaxiDOT and forget all about fuel economy..

There are 4 readouts for fuel consumption which can be chosen by pressing the right hand scroll wheel on the steering wheel

Current: changes every 10 seconds as you drive

Since last refuel: resets to 0 when you fill up then starts to recalculate

Since start: resets to 0 when you set off on a new journey then starts to recalculate

Long term: gives you your average until you reset yourself

This why it looks as if it is all over the place, different averages

I need to check on a longer run but still seems incorrect to me. Mine goes to 0 when stopped with the start/stop active normal, but also when driving with the revs up. It can flip from 40 to 0 and is very erratic. I get no where near the advertised 7 l/100km mark. I will check it with the dealer.

Thanks Tony will try that as well. Cheers. May explain things.

I need to check on a longer run but still seems incorrect to me. Mine goes to 0 when stopped with the start/stop active normal, but also when driving with the revs up. It can flip from 40 to 0 and is very erratic. I get no where near the advertised 7 l/100km mark. I will check it with the dealer.

 

That's working correctly.

I need to check on a longer run but still seems incorrect to me. Mine goes to 0 when stopped with the start/stop active normal, but also when driving with the revs up. It can flip from 40 to 0 and is very erratic. I get no where near the advertised 7 l/100km mark. I will check it with the dealer.

Been driving my car few days only, but my average since refueling is 8.1l\100. When i go gently i can manage 7-7.5, not so bad. 20L\100 sounds way to high for me. Even when driving in sport and really pushing the car it does not get so high for me.

Current: changes every 10 seconds as you drive

 

That's hardly current, is it?  If this is the case, it's going to annoy me considerably when I get my car...  :no:

The  "current average" reading within my VRS is real-time. Flooring of the accelerator shows an instant drop into single-digit MPG, lifting off shows an instant increase, and when I stop Zero is shown. This is correct behavior.

That's hardly current, is it?  If this is the case, it's going to annoy me considerably when I get my car...  :no:

The current on my VRS is... current! Changes as much as the speedo does!

 

I like to set the average screen to since start of journey. On my way to work (very early, no traffic) I get about 40mpg. On my way home I get about 29 - 32 mpg. Long term average is now 31.8. I do very little motorway driving, mainly quick country lanes / town.

I need to check on a longer run but still seems incorrect to me. Mine goes to 0 when stopped with the start/stop active normal, but also when driving with the revs up. It can flip from 40 to 0 and is very erratic. I get no where near the advertised 7 l/100km mark. I will check it with the dealer.

 

Welcome to city driving the TSI VRS in slow moving traffic and short trips. Since you're using the metric system, I'll give you my results. Over my daily trip of 4 km one-way, I usually get ~13-16 l/100 km, but can be even worse. If the traffic is especially slow I'm getting even 18l/100km. If I do longer city trips (8km or more), I may end up with an average of 11-13l/100km. The best I got was 9,5l/100km when there was absolutely no traffic and just stopping at traffic lights. Also when you've just started, you'll easily get numbers between 30-40l/100km.

 

You'll hardly ever get the advertised official figures, maybe if you can go long distances at 100 km/h. On motorways (130 km/h speed limit), you'll end up at around 7,5-8,5l/100km. I'm sitting at ~8,5l/100km at a constant 140 km/h.

Thanks Tudor. Mine seems inline with yours then currently at 10.7 so no problem. May be it will improve after a few extra Kilometers as well. Still don't know how Skoda can state 7.7 with equivalent urban driving. Would like to know how they do that, as I have eco drive, no AC running and driving relatively slowly. 

If you look here you'll see how the official numbers are obtained and how they're completely irrelevant to real driving.

If you look here you'll see how the official numbers are obtained and how they're completely irrelevant to real driving.

 

Not sure I could even attempt to drive that slow in my car, or even my old Peugeot 107!

Not sure I could even attempt to drive that slow in my car, or even my old Peugeot 107!

Me niether

These figures seem worryingly low. I have a Superb 1st generation 1.9 tdi 130 bhp and get 600 miles plus per tank with a 57 or 58 l refill. Shows 50 plus on average but often exceeds 60 mpg indicated. Best figure displayed 72 mpg.