I just purchased a second hand 1 owner approved used VRS - TSI, DSG. 

 

I do a 40 mile round trip a day to work and back home. In my Monte Carlo before I was getting 45/50MPG out the 1.2TSI. 

 

Out of the VRS which I've had for a week I can easily get 40-43MPG on the motorway in Eco mode. The VRS has 20K miles on it. 

 

I was worried about the running cost of the 2.0TSI engine but I find it great on fuel over the last week, and its great when getting it into sport mode. MPG depends on how your right foot is. 

My vRS TSI DSG now has 11k miles and certainly appears to be returning better fuel economy than when it was new - journey today on the M4 / M25 (in Eco mode at 70mph) returned 44mpg. Quite impressed with that. Most "normal" journeys commuting etc it returns 30 - 35mpg which isn't too bad.

Kev - I did quite a bit of research, including on here, and the consensus seemed to be 35-40mpg average, which I could live with.  I also made clear enquiries of the dealers as to what I could expect - once I'd pushed past the party-line official figures, they were saying late-30s, maybe 40+ driven gently.  So all of my budgeting was based on 37mpg.

 

I also had prior experience with VAG 2.0T engines delivering close-ish to official figures - as I've said above if you bothered to read the posts.

 

...so, even allowing for the engine needing running-in, when the first tank returned 28mpg (nearly 40% off official figures and 25% off my expectations) I took a very sharp intake of breath!

 

 

It's entirely possible that I've got a Friday-afternoon engine, and that my experience is atypical - but what are my chances of getting anyone at a dealership or Skoda UK to listen / investigate?  It's also possible but unlikely that it'll improve by 10mpg as it loosens-up, but I can't take a £50+ per month risk on that, and I've only got this week to return the car.  And today I did just that - sent the cancellation form to VWFS.  Disappointing all-round...

 

 

 

Final thought - the last two posts above are showing early-40s mpg on a speed-limit motorway run, which is supposed to deliver >50mpg officially.  So even a run-in engine is still c.20% off the official mpg.  So maybe my car is pretty typical - 20% off the official figures when driven like a saint, quite a bit more in mixed, "typical" driving...

my cr170 tdi only does 37mpg commuting so 37 out out of a TSI is a bit optimistic, maybe on a decent run but not urban. if I can get over 30mpg when i get my 230 I will be very happy

 

I don't know what people expect out of a powerful large-ish petrol car but they need to be realistic.. manufacturers always lie about mpg and people always optimistically brag about what their cars can achieve, "well the trip computers says blah blah blah", yeah OK!

my cr170 tdi only does 37mpg commuting so 37 out out of a TSI is a bit optimistic, maybe on a decent run but not urban. if I can get over 30mpg when i get my 230 I will be very happy

 

 

 

After picking up my 230 yesterday the 70 mile run back home up the A1 at a gentle pace, 60/70ish mph, she returned an Average ( on Maxi Dot ) 37mpg. Had 8 miles on the clock when I picked her up so she is still very tight. After a few hundred miles I'll start to open her up. 

Edited 11 October, 20169 yr by Auric Goldfinger

.... 37mpg.

 

Tch, very disappointing 

 

Thought you were aiming for low 20's.

 

G

Tch, very disappointing 

 

Thought you were aiming for low 20's.

 

G

 

Give me a week 

Give me a week 

 

'atta boy!! 

 

Gaz

I think I remember mine getting slightly better over its first 5k miles, or it could just be me learning how to drive it more economically. I've just nudged over 60k now and I often get 45+ mpg tank to tank, lovely engine.

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Edited 29 October, 20169 yr by V6TDI

From new to 20K miles. Dark-blue line show individual tank mpg, light-blue gives average mpg over my cars life.