Has anyone carried an accurate calibration of the fuel consumption gauge.

 

Coming home on a 10 mile journey a few nights ago on a deserted country road, I was travelling at around 40/45 mph and the average MPG went up to around 67 mpg. This seems amazing for the 1.2 TSI and just wondered if this was likely to be an accurate figure?

Nobody but yourself can know if it is an accurate figure, only you can find out your average MPG by doing brim to brim fill up and mileage calculations, all 3 of my Skodas have been 9-11% optimistic, it can be corrected in VCDS but after doing so I always feel hard done by

 

I decided that ignorance is bliss!

If you are going to get an average 47 mpg from 10 gallons in a tank then considering that sometimes on a short cold start trip you are getting 30 mpg maybe, then sometimes you need to be getting high 60's.  That is how averages work.

 

Perfect weather / temperature, good road surface, tyres / pressures, not to heavy a load and rolling along up hill and down dale then good efficiency must be possible sometimes. 

That is how people hypermile.

 

This is a Euro 6 1.2 TSI. Mk3 Fabia.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/503738-fuel-economy

 

 

Edited 16 September, 20223 yr by roottoot

On 16/09/2022 at 13:07, constantsqueezer said:

Has anyone carried an accurate calibration of the fuel consumption gauge.

 

Coming home on a 10 mile journey a few nights ago on a deserted country road, I was travelling at around 40/45 mph and the average MPG went up to around 67 mpg. This seems amazing for the 1.2 TSI and just wondered if this was likely to be an accurate figure?

I got 68mpg on a 20 mile journey last spring at a speed not exceeding 50 mph.  Yesterday evening I got 60mpg on the same journey.

So your figures I share with you.

Edited 26 September, 20223 yr by edbostan