Just got back off my holidays earlier done just under 400 miles in 4 days on one tank of fuel in my 11 year old vrs. Had the car loaded up, boot full, bike rack on, roof box full

Car is almost on 134k and was trouble free.. Oh no i lie

SON OF A SWITCH

Waaaa!

Looks mint all loaded up ready f9r a paht road trip

What went wrong with her??

400 miles on 1 tank? What size tank does this have?

My 2.0l automatic guzzles.

When I was on holiday in Devon earlier in the year, I got 425 miles to a tank fillup, although I wasn't loaded with as much aero drag as BrownBarge.

 

If you can be a bit sensible on the loud pedal, it isn't hard to achieve, my friend can get 480 in his, but he never goes over 50 - I would get bored with that fairly quickly

 

Tank size is the same as your auto I believe..

The auto box is a bit inefficient I believe.

Been travelling a bit on the A38 between Lichfield and Burton and the traffic tends to be fast. 70-85, and a lot of lorries pulling out so I'm pretty heavy on the throttle when overtaking!

Display reads about 34-36 mpg when cruising at 70. Can't I change that to litres?

Not sure if can be done, will check my users manual and VCDS manual tomorrow.

I got 439 this week in mine.

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I still had some fuel in the tank i just fuelled up when the light came on.

As for the garage visit, the exhaust snapped in the middle. The backbox was almost touching the floor so while i was cable tieing it up on the co-op carpark in hornsea an old chap told me about a nearby garage who luckily only charged me £10 to weld it up. He did comment that the rest of the exhaust is getting on in age so is likely to be kaput soon.

I took this picture just after it was fixed and i was her friend again

Drove my mk1 vrs to Cannes / Monaco from manchester last month. Clocked up around 2000 miles in just under a Week!

Car performed faultless, apart from an intermittent temp sender switch :(

Was averaging around 420 - 450 miles between fuel ups, and that was with 4 people and the boot rammed with luggage etc