Whos Fuelly. Yours?

 & is that not set at US Gallons 3.758 litres,

which is rather less than the Imperial Gallon of 4.546 Litres.?

 

There are Briskoda Members cars here.

http://www.fuelly.com/car/skoda/fabia_vrs/2013

 

PS

Skoda do not make Claims do they,??

Just publish the EU Test Results which we are told are 'for Direct Comparison'. purposes..

http://skoda.co.uk/en-gb/fuel-consumption-statement

Edited 8 July, 201510 yr by goneoffSKi

According to Fuelly:

2013 = 28.6 MPG

2012 = 28.3 MPG

2011 = 30.5 MPG

2010 = 29.8 MPG

These are quite some way off Skoda's optimistic claims

 

It is not that Skoda's figures are optimistic but that they do not include the warm up phase where the above figures do.  If you do 5 miles journeys the first half or so the engine is warming up and my experience is you only get half the MPG.  On the 3 miles school run, in urban areas, I would tend to only get about 25 mpg (but 50 mpg on the touring run).

 

The Fabia 2 VRS I see as the Grand Touring role as it is not good at all as it is quite a heavy engine, and chasis, which takes some warming up.  I try and take the little city cars for the urban runs ie one litre Spark or my new Logan, far quicker to warm up and therefore suffers much less on warm up phase and urban runs. 

http://fuelly.com/car/skoda/fabia_vrs/2011

Some Briskoda member blasts from the past and present on Fuelly.

 

(where is your Fuelly results with your Skoda Fabia vxh26?)

Edited 8 July, 201510 yr by goneoffSKi

If you look at Fuelly over the years 2010 to 2013 in UK Gallons I think you will get an average figure of about 36.1 MPG.

This sounds more reasonable and means my figure of 39 MPG is acceptable.

As to freewheeling and slipstreaming (tailgating), I don't think these practices are either legal or safe - not for me.

That is a long term Average. which is what you are looking at, an Avarage of all fuel used.

 

The average will come from highs and lows.

'Slipstreaming does not need to be tailgating, as many that hypermile well know. (the HGV will be able to see you in their Mirrors done well.)

in fact if in the Eddy where you get the best 'tow', you are possibly that far back some Tailgater, will overtake and go into the space.

 

It is just as well that some get better fuel consumption to bring up the average from then that get Low MPG.

 

But basically what others get is neither here nor there, they pay for their fuel, you pay for your own.

 

2010-2012 CAVE engine cars can get pretty good MPG, as many with them know,

but then they do have different Engine Management and Maps from CTHE.

Then not all CTHE cars from 2012-2014 run the same Map from the factory or updates.

Motorway: 45-50MPG ish at 70

Drive to work over 17 Miles: 35-38MPG

Spirted around town: 28-30 MPG ish

 

Overall 33MPG

i never get more than 40mpg at 70mph on motorway. all tyres 3 bars. tesco 99 petrol

 

either you all lying or something wrong with my car. 

 

long term average mpg 31mpg. i did not buy the car to save mpg  :p

Edited 16 July, 201510 yr by wesleyuk

It is nice to get to the roads where you want to enjoy the cars sporting ability and still have fuel in the tank to start using up at twice the rate though.

(nice to have your tyres at the right pressure when you want to enjoy the performance, after all you never bought the car to save MPG.)

My mpg seems to have improved since had new spark plugs fitted the other day. Would new sparks help with mpg? I got 44mpg on a 20 mile trip at 70mph. Never had that before, same route and speed I usually get 37/38.

if there igniting the fuel mixture properly, and the previous plugs wasnt, then yeah it would help with mpg

My mpg seems to have improved since I had new spark plugs fitted the other day. Would new sparks help with mpg? I got 44mpg on a 20 mile trip at 70mph. Never had that before, same route and speed I usually get 37/38.

 

I have just completed a 65 miles journey of which about 40 miles was on a Motorway. According to the MFD, the average speed was 39 MPH and average MPG was 43.2 so I would say that your 44MPG figure is not at all bad.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwhrp0i0BMMwZlUybDVpWmxLb00/view?usp=docslist_api

After 24.3k miles I have averaged 39.8 MPG.

On a recent 300 mile mostly motorway trip at an overall average speed of 54 MPH I averaged 41 MPG.

I average about 43-50mpg in 40 miles to Ashford, however anywhere within 5-10 miles I'll struggle to achieve 30-odd due to the engine warming up, I only really like doing long trips :p

Edited 3 March, 201610 yr by Skyl1n3

My trip says 31mpg :-0. Don't know how accurate that is but its stayed around that mark for a year or so now haha. I don't generally rag the car. I do fairly short journeys with work for the most part. On a good run, I usually get between 38/40mpg.

Just done a 300 mile round trip in mine today, some local roads, mostly motorway driving as fast as allowed (mostly...) 47.2 mpg, pretty happy all things considered.

Got my lowest mpg in a trip yet yesterday, thanks to a GT-R I was trying to follow

After 26.6k miles I have averaged 40.0 MPG based on fuel purchased and miles covered.

Drove over 500 miles yesterday down to Tatton Park from Scotland I seen:

 

43 MPG

34 Psi All Round

205*45*17 Uniroyal Rainsports 3

Powerflow Exhaust

Shell V+

 

Car has just passed 7000m miles

 

Speed was just over 70 mph give or take 

Edited 25 July, 20169 yr by A9X SJ

If im lucky I touch 30mpg usually average 24-27mpg always use super unleaded/the higher octane option if its avialable

While travelling back from Weston-Super-Mare on Saturday and sticking to the speed limits while having little 'blips (me putting my foot down to overtake) i got 41.mpg which I was quite pleased with.

I was chuffed to get over 600 miles from a tank by venting in to the expansion tank and getting over 50 litre in there and doing two 300 mile long runs.

 

I just noticed that the Clio has a warning on the filler cap saying "only 3 filling cutoff clicks". 

Edited 26 July, 20169 yr by lol-lol

I have not had 450 Miles out of a tank for a good while now because i get bored too easily,

but must try again sometime.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/261562-450-miles-in-a-vrs-45-mpg

 

& another. 400 miles.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/323776-vrs-first-ever-400-mile-trip

I have not had 450 Miles out of a tank for a good while now because i get bored too easily,

but must try again sometime.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/261562-450-miles-in-a-vrs-45-mpg

 

& another. 400 miles.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/323776-vrs-first-ever-400-mile-trip

 

I had one of those return trips where the journey is so long ie Worcester-Glasgow-Worcester, that there was little point in rushing and just choose to absolutely cruise it.  About 60-65 mph most the way, relatively tiny warm up (where fuel consumption is usually half the norm for those first few miles) phase percentage wise on such a long trip, ideal conditions is temperature about 15C I would reckon, lucky with little traffic and I absolutely crammed the tank with Tescos Momentum in Worcester ie probably about 51 to 52 litres.  

 

A bit of Free wheeling down those Borders and Cumbrian hills.  Probably averaged about 60 mph over the journey which is not bad as if you push it you would have to fill up and therefore used some time doing that, ie Tortoise and Hare.  

 

Just went to show that it is possible to get around the Extra Urban figure of 55 mpg is it?     

 

Brilliant bit of kit but would have loved to see the 1.8TSI twin injection 192 hp in a Fabia 3 chassis but was not to be and hence my next hot hatch, hopefully in the next few months, will be a Clio RS ie 200 or 220 hp variety as Skoda has pulled out of that hot hatch market. 

29k miles at 40.2 MPG based on 97 RON fuel purchased and miles covered - happy with that.

Edited 4 November, 20169 yr by SeaGoat