how much of a bitch are we talking about? not going over 2k rpm in any gear?

It's mostly the style of drivig rather than the speed - if you see a red light take your foot off and use overrun up to it, accelerate at 1/4 throttle, brake as little as possible (cos then you're using overrun effectively) and plan your actions rather than reacting to stuff that happens.

As I said above my 59.9 included 2 city centres (well one town and one city), I was at nearly 63 before driving through Leicester but I was doing the legal limit and above in places, just drove much more gently and smoothly. You can keep up with traffic (and in a town you rarely gain from booting it anyway) driving like this and not annoy everyone, you just get better economy and use less tyres and brakes into the bargain

new and did 60mpg with run in procedure but can go down a bit to 45mpg when going uphil or overtaking a cooper S

the thing is keeping it at around 1800rpm is difficult as if you drop below 1300rpm it starts to chug a bit. Having difficulties with selecting gears as so unsure which to select. 1st and 2nd seem like 2 first gears if you know what I mean.

That's great for a newun!

You'll get used to the gears - I used to struggle choosing between selecting 3rd and 4th as there's a lot of overlap.

yeah, might dot that - first week I had it it chunked though

Had the car 2 weeks now and done 660 miles.... Filled her up once and currently just over 1/4 of the second tankfull...... The average mpg at the minute is 44.7 i think...... That's with mainly 70-90 mph motorway driving to work and back.

Also...... Does the cruise control raise or lower the fuel economy???? Myself and a couple of lads at work assumed it'd raise the mpg but i'm sure i got better mpg on a trip to work without using the cruise than i did using it!!!!!

Cheers

Dave.

Does the cruise control raise or lower the fuel economy???? Myself and a couple of lads at work assumed it'd raise the mpg but i'm sure i got better mpg on a trip to work without using the cruise than i did using it!!!!!

Cheers

Dave.

Depends how you drive normally, cruise will 'accellerate' uphill to maintain speed and hence mpg suffers.

2005 vrs 5000 miles on clock. Was getting 47mpg commuting to work 9 miles each way on A & B roads. Now I'm working further affield - 32 mile trip on motorways & A roaads cruising at 70 to 80mph with a fair few jams amongst it's gone up to 52mpg (Measured brim to brim filling against mileage). Excellent!

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My Fabia vRS now has just over 2k miles on it and the average mpg since new (according to the computer) is around 52. A lot of driving in the week is shortish journeys in traffic. However when I work out the mpg myself for a tankful (brimming the tank and resetting the trip, driving until light comes on and re-filling and comparing fuel added to distance travelled) the 'true' mpg works out 42-43mpg. When I had a Golf tdi 130 the mpg on the computer was within 1mpg of my own calculation and incidently got around 43 mpg too.

While I am quite happy with 43 mpg (my last car did 18!), does anyone else find the trip computer misleading (or miles out as in my case!)? It once calculated 70mpg average on a 35 mile trip of motorway and B-roads!

Anthony

2005 vrs 5000 miles on clock. Was getting 47mpg commuting to work 9 miles each way on A & B roads. Now I'm working further affield - 32 mile trip on motorways & A roaads cruising at 70 to 80mph with a fair few jams amongst it's gone up to 52mpg (Measured brim to brim filling against mileage). Excellent!

Very consistent with my experience, Beerbelly. Also 2005 vRS with 5,000 on the clock, and on my 6.5 mile journey to work I could get 50 mpg if I drove almost as slowly as possible for the first 4,000 miles, but this has now picked up to around 55 mpg driving in the same way.

It certainly does a LOT better on trips - or at least, you can go a lot faster without getting less mpg - but I still don't see the 65mpg etc that others speak of!

I rarely do any decent trips so it's hard to say what it is capable of ... but we're driving from the Midlands to Kent in a few weeks so that will be a good test.

The trip on mine seems to reset each journey but is usually around 60 mpg.

I brim it every time on fill up and this has been improving slightly each time to bang on 50 mpg after 4.5k miles.

This is my wifes car and she does 25 miles each way to work on A-Roads when there is no traffic.

MPG is OK but not great as her Polo GTI used to do 42 mpg and petrol is a bit cheaper so cost per mile is very close. But performance is in another league.

The trip on mine seems to reset each journey but is usually around 60 mpg..

There are 2 "levels" of trip computer. There's the per journey one which resets after the ignition has been off for 2 hours (I believe) and the more permanent one. There's a button on the base of the indicator stalk to switch between them (shown by a little 1 and 2 in the trip computer window). More details in the manual

Chris

Pre-remap etc it was doing 40-45 mpg. I can get higher if I drive below NSL on the motorway' date=' or if I do b-roads without caning it.

The lowest average MPG I've managed was 28 mpg post-remap whilst absolutely caning it - this was me trying to push MPG as low as possible and I was revving up to the red line, which frankly is a waste of time

Whilst pushing on but not exceedingly so, I tend to get around 42-45 mpg average daily, depending on fuel used. With Shell Diesel Extra & BP Ultimate it's generally at the higher end of the scale, Esso is pretty much in the middle, BP normal derv is same as supermarket derv at bottom end.

Whether it's worth the price difference depends on where you live

PS When I drove from Canterbury to Abingdon I averaged 54 mpg - this was sticking to NSL + minor margin of error on speedo at the most, and avoiding hard acceleration[/quote']

Pretty much the same story here mate.

I notice if I do 90 on the motorway the MPG average slowly creeps down and thats on light throttle. Bring it down to 80 and it stabilises allowing a more reasonable figure.

Will be interesting to see if the LPG (propane fumigation) will improve my MPG figures on the derv side - no clue yet

Found the other computer. Said 62 mpg which would be for 4500 miles since new.

My spreadsheet worked out on briming it says I have averaged 48.5 mpg.

Computer a tad optimistic!