I've followed some of the mpg threads on these forums and marvelled at some of the figures achieved. My fuel consumption has been all over the place without too much variation in driving style. Anything from the computer showing an average of 58 for one short occasion and down to mid thirties on other occasions of mixed driving. On the whole though, my Furby has shown an average of 43/44 to the gallon which is great, but I would like to achieve consistently somewhere near the fabled figures. My 55 plate car has 5000 on the clock.

One thing I have started doing over the last week is, when starting the engine from cold is to blip the throttle up to 2.5/3k revs before starting off to supposedly get oil pressure up and circulating around the engine before putting any load on it. I then drive gently until the engine is warm and then drive as normal. Most days, I will take a 9 mile drive through light town conditions and fairly fast dual carriageway into Nerwcastle from my home at the coast. Before I started the throttle blipping regime, the average on the trip comp' would show around 42mpg average by the time I hit the outskirts of Newcastle, now, the computer is showing 48/49 average. Do you think this is co-incidental or is it possible that the pre setting off revving could be more effectively lubricating the engine from start and reducing internal engine frictions leading to better fuel consumption?

Any thoughts on this or advice on why I shouldn't rev the engine moderately for a fewseconds under no load from cold would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark

I've followed some of the mpg threads on these forums and marvelled at some of the figures achieved. My fuel consumption has been all over the place without too much variation in driving style. Anything from the computer showing an average of 58 for one short occasion and down to mid thirties on other occasions of mixed driving. On the whole though' date=' my Furby has shown an average of 43/44 to the gallon which is great, but I would like to achieve consistently somewhere near the fabled figures. My 55 plate car has 5000 on the clock.

One thing I have started doing over the last week is, when starting the engine from cold is to blip the throttle up to 2.5/3k revs before starting off to supposedly get oil pressure up and circulating around the engine before putting any load on it. I then drive gently until the engine is warm and then drive as normal. Most days, I will take a 9 mile drive through light town conditions and fairly fast dual carriageway into Nerwcastle from my home at the coast. Before I started the throttle blipping regime, the average on the trip comp' would show around 42mpg average by the time I hit the outskirts of Newcastle, now, the computer is showing 48/49 average. Do you think this is co-incidental or is it possible that the pre setting off revving could be more effectively lubricating the engine from start and reducing internal engine frictions leading to better fuel consumption?

Any thoughts on this or advice on why I shouldn't rev the engine moderately for a fewseconds under no load from cold would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark[/quote']

I cant help you with the revving whilst cold thing, although as far as i am aware, it's probably not the best way of looking after your engine in the long term. MPG wise, every driver is different, and every journey is different too. I have noticed that sitting at junctions, traffic lights, in traffic - all lessen the computer's mpg reading. Next time you are stopped with the engine running, watch how fast your ave mpg deteriorates. My view is that the computer is only a guide, and although a good guide, not entirely accurate. I think some of the figures "fabled" are exactly that. Although all my footwear contains lead in great quantities, so the best results i have ever seen is 49mpg on a run. Worst 18mpg.

HTH

Any thoughts on this or advice on why I shouldn't rev the engine moderately for a fewseconds under no load from cold would be appreciated.

The handbook does specifically say not to idle the car and to drive off as soon as possible, so I'd imagine they don't recommend revving it under no load either.... From other people's comments I think you just have to grin and bear the economy and then miraculously after 10k it starts to improve..... Either that, or ease up on that right foot

Chris

Currently away from home in Norwich. Went to York from home yesterday (280 miles) and then from York to Norwich (140 miles) achieving 57mpg for both journeys. That was using Cruise where possible with an average speed of 70mph for the home to York leg and 56mph for the York to Norwich leg. I wasn't driving any different to normal nor trying to preserve the economy.

Ive always tried to leave the car running for between 30 sec to a minute mainly to try and allow the oil to reach around as far as possible before i drive off. Surley with a turbo its important to help get the oil to it asap.

There is oil just about everywhere even when the engine isnt running. Not all of it drains down to the sump. And oil pressure is up as soon as the engine starts anyhow.

Bear with it , i have the Octy 130 , and in first 10k miles was always looking at fuel consumption , but after that with no change to driving style it got better and better , now up to 20k miles with one service under my belt and the fuel consumption is even better , Trip 2 is now running at a 50 mpg + ,, and as all the long term owners had commented to me in my early days of a Skoda , it just improves with time , i can now achieve 54/58 and a good run of 40 miles , and it seems to improve even when getting the Turbo up and running . Long may it last and improve .

must say at about 7..8k miles it seemed to stabilise, then post-first-service things have stayed stable from what I can tell