Lately my vRs has very poor fuel economy.

A full tank (which costs 45 euros) gets me a miserable 240 miles before the reserve light comes on. Also the car only has 8k miles on it after 12 months and I actually got it serviced and the oil changed at 5k. The kind of driving I'm doing is just to work and back every day in heavy traffic, visits to the shops. Not much motorway driving for the last couple of months. Could this explain it, or do I have a problem.

thx

Sounds like it's the driving route that's the problem - sometimes I only get about 220 miles out of a tank if I'm doing lots of start-stop driving with bursts of acceleration. What sort of average MPG is your trip computer showing for these journeys?

Rob.

Usually beween 22 and 23mpg. I think the manual quotes 26mpg on urban routes. But I am doing a lot of starting and stopping.

As with all fuel injection engines the vRS is going to be susceptible to the type of journey as well as your driving style. Round town /heavy traffic you would get under 30 whereas on the open road over 40 is achievable if you keep the speed to the legal limit. Nothing wrong with what you are getting IMO.

Chris

Fair enough. Just seemed unusually bad lately. I have noticed on longer journeys that fuel economy is much better. I just didn't think it could get so bad driving back and forth to work every day.

I started this fairly recent thread on Octy vRS economy. Maybe others are getting similar figures.

Fuel economy on the octy vrs

I've noticed that I get very poor economy (< 15mpg) until the engine has warmed up fully. The absolute best average consumption that I've got was 44mpg on a 65 mile journey, (I'd forgotten my wallet and was running on fumes!) I've also noticed that the instantaneous fuel consumption rises considerably on rougher road surfaces, (level & constant speed/throttle). Here in the west of Ireland we have some apalling surfaces on main roads. Also, you can switch the trip computer over to 'Mode 2'. If you then reset it, you will get an average of all journeys from that point on. Useful after a service or some other change of car set up. Well that's my Bob's Worth!!

On the same (kind of) subject the range on my TDI has dropped from around 420 on a tank of diesel (before Jabba) to around 375 miles a tank now. I should point it this is with a lot of playing as it's a new thing for me, so perhaps this will settle down t an even 400? Anyway, I'm further upsetting the testing by spending just over