http://www.calculateme.com/cGasMileage/LitersPer100kmtoMPG-imperial.htm

 

6.2 = 45.56

6.5 = 43.45

5.4 = 52.31

I am 1400 miles in and averaging 50 mpg on a 150 Diesel DSG. My commute is 30 miles of motorway then 8 miles along the A40 into London upto Hanger Lane so can be heavy traffic. Hoping it improves with age / mileage.

My 190 DSG (2WD) isn’t much better mind, getting around 44 according to the maxidot, tonight was the best so far @ 49 MPG, but considering they are ‘meant’ to be capable of mid 60’s I am not overly impressed.

 

This is motorway / dual carriageway for 30 miles and 8 miles of country roads, sticking to the speed limits and the roads are usually pretty quiet when I use them.

 

Calculated the last tankful properly, 

46.2 mpg showing on the maxidot, this dropped to an actual 44.5 mpg.

 

Considering Škoda claim:

 

Urban 52.3 mpg

Extra Urban 68.9 mpg

Combined 61.4 mpg

 

My commute is done with very little traffic, and just about all dual carriageway / motorway to say I am not impressed would be an understatement... especially as I have been taking it really easy until it is run in!

Any of these cars built AFTER the scandal? Maybe this is a reflection of the sort of mpg SII cars will get after the recall?

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MPG has always increased with miles on the VAG engines i have found..

 

Also, at the moment theres extra load with lights, wipers, heaters etc..

Any of these cars built AFTER the scandal? Maybe this is a reflection of the sort of mpg SII cars will get after the recall?

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This is what I was wondering, mine was built in November.

 

MPG has always increased with miles on the VAG engines i have found..

 

Also, at the moment theres extra load with lights, wipers, heaters etc..

 

Be leaving home at 0315 most mornings means that my lights are on anyway, yes this extra load will make a difference but not an extra 50% difference. 

I'm on my second tank of fuel and my mpg has gone down to 39 on the Maxidot. Same driving/ commute, 150 tdi.

Trip yesterday from Home to Kessingland (near Lowestoft) to see an old friend. 97 miles of A roads, roundabouts, villages - a right mixture. Wasn't in a hurry to get there and when I did the MAxidot said 71 mpg. At the moment I've only ever used Esso standard diesel in the S3....  If the price of fuel drops to the suggested "below a £1" level I might treat the her to some Shell V-Power....

 

So far covered 2,400 miles.

So far getting 28mpg from my 2.0TSI was expecting a litle better but after only 600 miles and a lot of sitting in the car with the engine running to check how stuff works I guess it is not to bad.

If it can match the 33mpg of my old E class I'll be happy.

You gotta pay to play!!

http://www.calculateme.com/cGasMileage/LitersPer100kmtoMPG-imperial.htm

 

6.2 = 45.56

6.5 = 43.45

5.4 = 52.31

 

 

Same thing but I always use (works both ways)

 

    mpg = 282.481/ litres per 100km

or 

   litres per 100km = 282.481/mpg

Edited 23 December, 201510 yr by bigjohn

I recently switched from an SS2 to an SS3. Here are my latest figures. Initially I was a bit disappointed with the SS3 diesel consumption until I looked at summer versus winter driving. Also, it took me a while to get the best technique of using 6th gear. What seems to work best for me was a steady acceleration to a speed above what I intend to cruise at and allow the speed to gradually drop back. Accelerating in 6th is very fuel inefficient. Comments on my technique welcome.

 

Skoda Superb 2 (2013) 1.6 diesel

Miles 11011, Gallons 193.8, MPG 56.8

 

Measured over 22 refills.

Mixed urban and motorway driving.

Noticeably better in summer than winter.

 

 

Skoda Superb 3 (2015) 1.6 diesel, first full tank

Miles 674, Gallons 13.5, MPG 50.0

Edited 24 December, 201510 yr by Boynesider

190 DSG L&K is sitting at late 40s. No worse than SuperbII 170 DSG. Mainly motorway miles, And I am sitting at higher average speeds as the 190 is more refined and you don't realise you are cruising at 90+.....But using the ACC which brings down economy as it tends to drive less economically.

Something to all bear in mind...  We (via my wife) are lucky in that we get a constant stream of new cars thanks to her working for Ford.  It was always very apparent that the diesels would improve massively over the first few thousand miles.  They were often quite horrific on day one given everything is so tight and needs to loosen up.  I'm talking late 30s in something like a Mondeo being late 40s once it went back with 4k miles on.  My mum's last previous generation Mondeo 2.0 diesel took 8k miles to fully bed in and was doing mid-50s by that point but nothing like that when she first got it.

 

I can only imagine VAG engines are little different so I'm very sure you'll all see big improvements with the diesels (never seemed to be a factor with the petrols) once you've got a few thousand miles on the clock!

 

Merry Christmas by the way.  Just been told off by SWMBO for being on the computer

Just been to Kent and back circa 280 miles. Set ACC at 75mph hit some traffic on M25. Maxi dot was saying 59.6mpg for the trip. Getting better as it does more miles.

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Now at 2,800 miles and still average reads 41.8. Best I have ever seen was a motorway which brought it up to 45. Well below what I would expect. Perhaps it's not just the emission data VW were less than truthful about?

A motorway run along the M4 from London to Camarthen and back over Xmas only turned in 43mpg! Speed 75 and a highly aerodynamic roof box fitted. Same box on the X6 only took 1.5mpg off so I would have expected similar on the S3.

I am 1100 miles in and am averaging 42mpg measured from the pump and trip, not the computer. I do a mix of very short journeys and then some long 75mph motorway cruises. I had a BMW 125d prior to the Superb, and that got driven much harder but still gave 45mpg. Driving for economy it will creep up to 50mpg, but should be hitting 50mpg in normal driving considering what it is claimed to be able to achieve. 

 

Pretty disappointing. Oh, it's a 150 TDI estate.  

Filled my 1.4 ACT petrol for the second time today and have started using fuelly for the first time so I can keep a long term log of usage.

Beginning tank full has returned a calculated 43.8 mpg following a good mix of motorway, rural A and B roads plus town driving, 646 miles in all. Been able to find unleaded at 99.9p a litre so it's working out at 10.4p a mile in fuel.

Like others this is way short of claimed mpg, but it's early days.

I like challenging myself to get high scores and keep the minute by minute mpg reading on the green drive graphic as high as possible, guess others have found this too?

Edited 30 December, 201510 yr by Leeboy

Has anyone compared the real mpg measured at the pump to the trip computer mpg? Presumably the trip computer is inaccurate but hopefully in a consistent way (tankfull to tankfull and car to car).

Has anyone compared the real mpg measured at the pump to the trip computer mpg? Presumably the trip computer is inaccurate but hopefully in a consistent way (tankfull to tankfull and car to 

 

The 42mpg I recorded is at the pump...the computer was showing 45mpg. This tanks of fuel is so far averaging 50mpg (all motorway miles), so I would think that will be a real 47mpg.

Up to 1300 miles on my 150tdi now and still no improvement in economy. Drove 175 miles home yesterday at between 50 & 70 on the a303 and still only returned 47mpg. Hoping it will start to improve soon as my last golf with the 110 tdi returned near 70mpg on the same route.

Maxidot is reading between 1&1.5mpg over the actual figure on my first three tanks of fuel.

I currently have a 62 plate Octavia TDI VRS CR170 62 with DSG. In this I do 20 mile trip each way to work, with 50% urban and 50% motorway driving. I currently average 42.5 MPG on maxidot. Not great, but I have gotten used to it.

 

I should be receiving my new SIII SEL 190 TDI DSG next week (Yay!) and saying good bye to the VRS. It has more power but should be more efficient as it is a newer engine. As long as I get at least what I am getting now the rest is a bonus.

I'm struggling to get anything over 45mpg on my 190 DSG (maxidot averages). My previous 170 DSG averaged in the higher 40s on same type of journeys. I was certainly hoping to get better. Car has done 3k miles, so not expecting things to change. As previous poster said, winter driving does increase electrical load, but won't make much difference.

Disappointed!!

Mine is going in on Friday. Case opened by Dealer with Skoda HQ. I'm not expecting much though as experience tells me they will try every wrinkle in the book and then some to pass the buck, blame the economy tests etc etc.

What I am finding is that using manual mode is improving the mpg because I control the gear change. The current DSG map seems to be determined to select a gear at wrong rpm so the engine is off the power curve, has no turbo assist and needs much more throttle than should be necessary to achieve any performance. 6th seems to be an overdrive and 5th not much better.

I don't know if the engine map is wrong, transmission map is wrong, turbo controller is set wrong or VAG just got something badly wrong. Given their recent faux pas it's hard to be positive although I do understand it isn't the Dealer.

At present I honestly feel that I've been conned somehow. 40mpg is what I expect from a petrol car, not a state of the art diesel unit.

Our 150 TDI 4x4 SE L Estate seems to be averaging around 42mpg according to Maxidot, with around 1300 miles on the clock.

That's mostly driven sensibly by my wife too.

 

Was expecting better - hoping it improves with some more miles, but there seem to be a wide range of figures being quoted on here, with some getting much better figures yet at lower mileages ?

Mine is going in on Friday. Case opened by Dealer with Skoda HQ. I'm not expecting much though as experience tells me they will try every wrinkle in the book and then some to pass the buck, blame the economy tests etc etc.

What I am finding is that using manual mode is improving the mpg because I control the gear change. The current DSG map seems to be determined to select a gear at wrong rpm so the engine is off the power curve, has no turbo assist and needs much more throttle than should be necessary to achieve any performance. 6th seems to be an overdrive and 5th not much better.

I don't know if the engine map is wrong, transmission map is wrong, turbo controller is set wrong or VAG just got something badly wrong. Given their recent faux pas it's hard to be positive although I do understand it isn't the Dealer.

At present I honestly feel that I've been conned somehow. 40mpg is what I expect from a petrol car, not a state of the art diesel unit.

Please keep us updated. I feel the same way on my 190 DSG. It feels like it holds the gears too long, certainly be my Octavia 150 diesel. I'm on 6500 miles and still getting high 30s on average with super careful driving that would have resulted in mid 50s on my old Octavia.

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