Really enjoying my TDi at the moment. Happy with the performance and the consumption. Seems to be a pretty good compromise to me. Fuel consumption is roughly mid 40's and it's solid as a rock at motorway speeds (though it's extremely easy to exceed the The speed limit). Bear in mind I'm coming from a 140hp Scirocco and not an RSAMGM Wagon though . 

 

Rich

 

 

4 hours ago, Gerrycan said:

I did put the get out  'near' in front of the 'ideal but I bow to your M8 knowledge.

However 70 to 75 mph averaging 39mpg is abysmal, especially compared to your own figures.

 

I agree with Gerrycan.

My commute is about 70km driving at around 75mph & I easily get 55mpg.

 

But with the vRS because of the agressive pedal a lot of the consumption is down to the driver.

For the same journey my wife can easily wipe 5-7mpg off the consumption because she is constantly accelerating-braking-accelerating-braking to maintain a constant speed.

Never managed to reach 55mpg in my VRS CR Tdi even when resetting it whilst already at speed. Best I achieved was around 53mpg in a 50mph average speed zone with cruise control on a flat road, very disappointing coming from a 2.2 diesel Mondeo that 10 years older and much heavier that could hit 60mpg without really trying. I had hoped it would get better after a service with new oil and filters but actually got slightly less.

I could only put it down to the DSG gearbox but changed the car to BMW 320d automatic and first trip out in that was over 56mpg with much wider tyres fitted and spirited driving so I guess my Skoda was a lemon

1 hour ago, CWARD said:

Never managed to reach 55mpg in my VRS CR Tdi even when resetting it whilst already at speed. Best I achieved was around 53mpg in a 50mph average speed zone with cruise control on a flat road, ....

I guess my Skoda was a lemon

If I'm doing a steady 80kph in my 1.4tsi past the local salt ponds (very flat) my instant display will better 4L/100 (so 70+mpg) but that is usually in accompanying traffic which gives some 'following breeze' benefit so lets be conservative and say actual consumption is probably 4.5L/100 (63mpg).

You really should have been getting at least 70mpg in the diesel at 50mph, which would then equate closer to Skoda's claims for the vehicle.

Agree totally with what I should have been getting but the reality was very disappointing and nowhere near official figures. It irritates me that the best consumption I got was with me only in the Skoda, no load other than bag with laptop and files.  The 10 year older Mondeo fully loaded and with passenger would trounce the Octavia without even trying. I can't put it down to tyres as they Michelin PS3's on both cars and the Skoda once serviced actually got worse not better. I thought it was down to the gearbox as stated above but the BMW wipes the floor with Skoda again. All just very disappointing which just about sums up my experience of owning a Skoda.

I have a friend that struggles to get better that 34mpg from his tsi, where i get 48 mpg from my TDI both DSG and similar journeys althought not identical.

if you want TDI mpg dont drive it like a TSI, if you want more grunt get a TDI and a custom map best of both worlds but dont thrash it or you will end up with TSI MPG again.

 

if I have my time again I would have gone for the TSI but at the time of purchase I struggled to find an estate DSG that wasnt spoken Ordered Mid January 17.

8 hours ago, CWARD said:

I could only put it down to the DSG gearbox but changed the car to BMW 320d automatic and first trip out in that was over 56mpg with much wider tyres fitted and spirited driving so I guess my Skoda was a lemon

 

I was prepared to accept that mine was a lemon too but there are a plethora of posts on this forum that seem to suggest that low to mid 40s is par for the course for the TDI.

 

Ironically, I drive the exact same journey to and from work now in a Focus ST petrol 250bhp and I get 38mpg which puts the efficiency of the Skoda diesel into perspective.

4 minutes ago, SkodaVRS1963 said:

 

I was prepared to accept that mine was a lemon too but there are a plethora of posts on this forum that seem to suggest that low to mid 40s is par for the course for the TDI.

 

Ironically, I drive the exact same journey to and from work now in a Focus ST petrol 250bhp and I get 38mpg which puts the efficiency of the Skoda diesel into perspective.

 

I've lost faith in Skoda altogether. Everything I'd bought the car for has proved to be false:

 

Build quality. May have had it once but not any longer.

Economy. Pure work of fiction

Emission. I paid RFL on the official figures which I was happy with but unfortunately they were a bit economical on the truth on how they achieved this.

 

It's like a check list on how to destroy a brand.  

33 minutes ago, CWARD said:

 

I've lost faith in Skoda altogether. Everything I'd bought the car for has proved to be false:

 

Build quality. May have had it once but not any longer.

Economy. Pure work of fiction

Emission. I paid RFL on the official figures which I was happy with but unfortunately they were a bit economical on the truth on how they achieved this.

 

It's like a check list on how to destroy a brand.  

 

In fairness to Skoda, my only gripe with my VRS was the fuel economy.  I honestly don't know how Skoda can offer up 61mph as a combined figure and get away with it.

 

Everything else (barring the wafer thin paint on the spoiler, the constant regens and the headlight washers which never retracted fully) was good.

An impression that I get, and it may not stand up to close scrutiny, is that 150hp 2.0tdi gets better and more consistent consumption figures reported in this forum than the more powerful vrs tdi.

That's just from looking across the Superb and Octavia sections here, and have not really looked at any VW forum to see if it shows a similar trend.

 

Could also be the type of driver in the type of car influencing things too?

On 14/03/2017 at 13:34, Cankov said:

What about the reliability of the engine? Any problems after 150k?

Is there a different feeling when driving at low rpm beacuse the tdi has only 30NM  more... I will need that diesel torque for overtaking. :(

my 2013 2.0cr just clicked over to 160k still runs sweet as the day i got it,no issues at all,

after 50K+ km my TDI VRS gets 4l/100km when driven on flat road at 80-90km/hr and at 110km/hr it increases to 5l/100km/hr. fitting a DTUK tuning box the indicated consumption is out by approx 10% (under reads), from keeping records at each fill up overall the DTUK box gives approx 3% improvement over stock and there is all that extra torque to use.