Have had my Octy estate since 1st March and have done just over 1000 miles. Am averaging 53 mpg. I was wondering if this is good? Can anyone else with an Octy estate tell me what they average mpg? My journeys are mainly on dual carriageways, A roads and quite a few B roads. I very rarely do motorway driving, haven't even been on the motorway with this car yet!

24-25 mpg in a Mk 1 Octy vRS estate.

Glad the company pays for my fuel

Between 17 - 29 in Vrs II

I assume you have a diesel estate and would suggest that you are not doing to bad with that figure.

I have an Ellegance Estate 2.0 TDI DSG, which I have had since late December. I have got a figure in the mid 40s, but most of the driving has been restricted to very local driving and a lot of engine idling, especially in the recent cold weather. I am recovering from cancer so my driving has been restricted by my lack of physical ability to do long drives, but this is now changing. I am off to France shortly so hopefully I will then get some more normal driving figures.

Looked at another way I use around half a tank of fuel every 2 weeks.

I drive an Octy II 2.0Tdi DSG hatch, and get around 45 mpg in mixed driving, although I never see above 46 mpg on the motorways which is a little disappointing. The cars only done around 1800 miles so far, so I hope this will improve a little.

Thanks Toneboy, yes I have a 1.9 diesel engine. My main drive is 25 miles to work and 25 back again. This is on some 4 miles of B roads, 9 miles of dual carriageway (one of those noisey concrete ones) and 12 miles of A road. I was thinking that it was doing ok for the first 1000 miles, but wasn't sure. It has registered that it is doing 54.3 on average but everyone on here has said that we can take off a few miles as Skodas computers state more than they are actually doing. So I think it is doing about 50.

Enjoy your trip to France, hope the weather is sunny for you, a trip well deserved from the sounds of it.

Lady Elanore

Thanks for your comments. Yours must be doing well too as I am told that automatics do less to the gallon than manual and your engine is bigger. From what has been said on the forum mpg should be at its optimum by about 10,000 miles.

Katie that 1.9 engine would be a bit more frugal than my 2.0 and that of Lady E and as you say all of our engines have only a very few miles on their pistons, in my case around 2800 miles. It will take at least 10,000 miles before we can even consider theses engines are fully freed up, you can often feel and even hear it change if you are on a long fast run, such as a Motorway.

This DSG box is an electric shift using two frictional clutches so there should in theory be no slippage loss that you get with a conventional hydraulic auto box, so let's hope that the theory becomes fact.

The other factor to take into consideration is the heavy foot of the driver, which could be so in my case as until recently I could not feel any feed back from the control pedals. Now I have a much larger degree of feel back in my feet so hopefully I can get back to that feather footed touch and the fact that I use both feet should mean, again in theory, that I have better control of the vehicle.

I like that DSG box so if it does cost a few mpg it is a price worth paying, I find manual shifting is for the birds as is struggling with manual steering, I am all for an easy driving life.

Hopefully those long French roads will provide more stable test conditions and if I can get close to your 50 mpg then I will be happy.

Perhaps I

Ive got a 2.0tdi hatch. max on motorway so far has been 62 normal driving I get about 45-50.

Dave, how many miles on the clock and where do you live, rural/town or a bit of both?

I think with auto boxes there is a tendency for drivers to try and impose what they think and feel is the required engine/vehicle speed for the box to shift up or down rather than let the shift management system make those decisions.

Whilst I accept that in say a straight contest of say a quarter mile sprint the driver may get better times, in normal driving conditions, especially in town and suburbs that auto box will always give you better travel times.

If good fuel consumption is paramount over your acceleration then the practice of lift foot up shift may well give you that improved consumption.

If when using an auto box and you and you passengers are being subjected to that neck moving back wards and for wards as the box shifts then you are a lead footed driver.

The Chrysler International top Chauffeur who taught me how to drive an auto Chrysler limo thru London used to put a three quarter glass of water on the dash and if I spilled any I got a *******ing for not providing a smooth drive. It has served me well those lessons over the years.

13000miles and live in edinburgh. Bit of both:). I will be sad to see the car go.

That is very good then, because even at 13000 miles that engine has barely loosened up, if I can get those sort of averages in due course I will be very happy.

I take it from the way you speak you are about to make a car change?

L&K 2.0 TDi Estate DSG - over 5,000 miles since new it has averaged 47 mph. However, I have noticed that the mpg is improving as the mileage increases so could possibly get 48 mpg average. On normal long distance (50+ Miles) with mix of Motorway (75mph) and B roads I get about 51 mpg.

You have given me hope, I am a tight fisted git when it comes to running cost as I have long ago lost the desire around on congested roads inhabited by dreaming idiots.

In my first tank the milage was 8.2l/100km, that´s about 34,3MPG. W´vRS mk2.

During the weekend was driving drunk friends at night. Run about 100km and the milage was 37,1MPG. :P

I take it from the way you speak you are about to make a car change?

VRS MKII should be here this week:)

1.9 Estate with 14,000 Miles on and average 45 to 47 on a normal run. Very very rarely see more than 50mpg on the display.

Thanks for the info DaveI. I shall watch with interest, am quite pleased with the 50ish mpg at present as was hoping having a much larger car than the Fabia VRS wouldn't raise my fuel costs too much, at present it seems to be about the same. Haven't done a long motorway journey in this car yet, with the Fabia VRS that averaged 63mpg, but on my normal trips to work it averaged 53mpg. At present the estate is doing 52mpg. Have done 1400miles since 1st March.