I manage to get 300 town miles out of the car over a week, which is a bit better than what I have been getting, does the difference of two diffrent people driving make a diffrence as mentioned the ECU learns the driver, because I know SWMBO is a mixed driver ie can give it a wee blast and then drive like miss daisy as well as me but she seems to get better figures compared to me.

Some of the MPGs posted here are really bad. FYI a friend has 2 months ago bought a £5k Golf GT TDI 130 so a heavier car which clearly should have less MPG and he drives with a shall we say "making progress" style. Anyway he knows Im interested in MPG & part of his justification of changing cars was to up his mpg from 25 Petrol to well over 50mpg.

Anyway His first 2 weeks which was well over 1,000 miles ranged from 52-57mpg. Since then he has had the TDI 130 nearly up to 65mpg on the M way on a long distance run and the range is now 52-65mpg but pretty much day in day out he will achieve 55-58mpg no problems and his words "no matter how I drive it is gives more or less the same".

I believe that since he bought it he has covered around 4000-5000 miles and its nicely bedded in with give or take 120,000 miles under its belt.

Some of the MPGs posted here are really bad. FYI a friend has 2 months ago bought a £5k Golf GT TDI 130 so a heavier car which clearly should have less MPG and he drives with a shall we say "making progress" style. Anyway he knows Im interested in MPG & part of his justification of changing cars was to up his mpg from 25 Petrol to well over 50mpg.

Anyway His first 2 weeks which was well over 1,000 miles ranged from 52-57mpg. Since then he has had the TDI 130 nearly up to 65mpg on the M way on a long distance run and the range is now 52-65mpg but pretty much day in day out he will achieve 55-58mpg no problems and his words "no matter how I drive it is gives more or less the same".

I believe that since he bought it he has covered around 4000-5000 miles and its nicely bedded in with give or take 120,000 miles under its belt.

I can easily achieve a 60-66mpg average when motorway cruising. Unfortunately it's the side roads and cold starts either end of the motoerway that tend to drag the overall mpg down.

at the obligatory 120K mile Golf comparison

Cause obviously, an engine that's does 120k will be no different to one that's done 10, 20... even 40 will it?

Nerr-uh! Not at all!

mattandy - I think I need to take up vegetarianism!

Just checked with Skoda again. Apparently it takes about 1000miles for the EM to learn your driving styles if you have it reset. If you don't it can take you up to 10,000 miles to acheive the same.

If you bought your vRS privately or not from Skoda and getting rubbish MPG then have the Engine Management reset.

....of course certain rules of physics will apply, harder the driving, the lower the MPG, but you should find it will help greatly, according to Skoda that is.

As far as I understood from Platinum Skoda in Bath ( they great Briskoda reviews, and I concur) when you buy a new Skoda or used from a dealership, the Engine Management is reset and takes about 2 weeks to learn how you drive before it (in his words) "beds in" and pretty well keeps the settings.

I'd be interested to know more details on this. My understanding (at least from the Ford perspective) is that the ECU has an area of memory which contains the MAP and then an additional part of memory which contains the fine adjustments to the MAP. When the ECU is "reset" the MAP remains but the fine adjustment memory is erased which means that when you restart the engine it goes into rapid learning mode to rebuild that bit of memory so how you drive for those first 5 minutes will have a big effect of what is in there. It will continually learn though so it will always be adjusting.

I've not ever noticed any economy benefits of clearing that bit of memory though and think economy is down to throttle pedal position more than anything else - the lighter your touch, the less fuel you use.

Chris

I'd be interested to know more details on this. My understanding (at least from the Ford perspective) is that the ECU has an area of memory which contains the MAP and then an additional part of memory which contains the fine adjustments to the MAP. When the ECU is "reset" the MAP remains but the fine adjustment memory is erased which means that when you restart the engine it goes into rapid learning mode to rebuild that bit of memory so how you drive for those first 5 minutes will have a big effect of what is in there. It will continually learn though so it will always be adjusting.

I've not ever noticed any economy benefits of clearing that bit of memory though and think economy is down to throttle pedal position more than anything else - the lighter your touch, the less fuel you use.

Chris

You could well be right, am just posting my understanding on it. Guy in Bath reckons it takes about 1000 miles to "learn" you. If there is anyone that can shed a bit of expert light on Skoda ECU, it'd be pretty useful

Always makes me laugh when people who drive uneconomically blame the car or ECU map. Look ahead and act accordingly. I rarely saw below 50mpg in my vRS when I had it and I can't remember ever obeying a speed limit in it!

It's not how fast you drive that affects mpg, it's how you drive fast

If the mpg's poor, then the implication is that the driving style (and level of safety) is also poor. :(

If the mpg's poor, then the implication is that the driving style (and level of safety) is also poor. :(

I get around 37mpg as an average. This isn't because I have a poor level of safety, it's down to the fact that I spend most of my driving time on country roads with stop-starts, gear changes and pulling over for tractors.

If I manage to get on the A30, my mpg rockets up to around 55mpg.

I get around 37mpg as an average. This isn't because I have a poor level of safety, it's down to the fact that I spend most of my driving time on country roads with stop-starts, gear changes and pulling over for tractors.

If I manage to get on the A30, my mpg rockets up to around 55mpg.

Why on earth are you stop-starting all the time on country roads? Your countryside is evidently a whole lot different to the countryside around here...

It's either stop-start of hit the car coming the other way. Down here, country roads are mostly tracks you can just about squeeze a car down.

I see what you mean now - I thought you meant decent B roads...

Decent B road? Never heard of one....

Agree if your just sat in traffic in a town your going to get 30's mpg or at least I used to + if you are sat in traffic do you not turn off the engine when stationary? those 80amphrs of the battery certainly pay for themselves then

I would only switch the engine off in a traffic jam if I was going to be any longer than say 10 mins.

But you do notice the MPG going down on the trip computer.

I'm hardly stationary for any period of time when stopping-starting. Certainly not long enough to warrant turning off the engine.

Down here, country roads are mostly tracks you can just about squeeze a car down.

I experienced some of them last summer on holiday. :scared:

Thankfully it was someone else's car, and they were driving.:nervous:

I'm hardly stationary for any period of time when stopping-starting. Certainly not long enough to warrant turning off the engine.

Hello mate, as you know I'm driving same environment as you, not long after getting my

vrs in October, I was struggling to get to 40mpg around the lanes too. I got home one day and did a re-set on the no1 mpg setting and went back out, by the time I got from mt hawke area to dales roundabout my reading was mid 40's, then on to chivvy, past smokey joes, got to chivvy reading 50mpg.

This is an interesting experiment you may or may not want to try out, it lends weight to the 'learning' issue with computer. Also found at time of experiment that, having previously struggled to get high 40's on A30 (short trips) it was then rocketing up really quickly ie chiverton>Redruth exit reading from memory 58mpg.

I agree with skodaboy, short trips = about 300/320 to tank

Skodaboy, don't know if you've tried this either, I like you do many short journeys,it certainly put my mind at rest I used to obsess about mpg worrying if there was a problem or something, now I don't even look at mpg unless I go on a long run.

I have a 9 mile commute to work and get 47mpg (confirmed brim to brim) which is really good considering its starting from cold and there are 12 junctions to negotiate and I dont hang around. Worst I ever got was 38mpg (giving it all) and best was 60mpg on the M42 in rush hour with 50mph limits in operation (never doing that again though)

Got 50 mpg fully loaded with SCUBA gear on a trip to Cornwall . Overrall I think its brill.

Having said that driving technique is really important when it comes to MPG. SWMBO has a Freelander 2 - she gets 29mpg and I get 36-28mpg yet I definitely drive faster - its all in the wrist action

Hello mate, as you know I'm driving same environment as you, not long after getting my

vrs in October, I was struggling to get to 40mpg around the lanes too. I got home one day and did a re-set on the no1 mpg setting and went back out, by the time I got from mt hawke area to dales roundabout my reading was mid 40's, then on to chivvy, past smokey joes, got to chivvy reading 50mpg.

This is an interesting experiment you may or may not want to try out, it lends weight to the 'learning' issue with computer. Also found at time of experiment that, having previously struggled to get high 40's on A30 (short trips) it was then rocketing up really quickly ie chiverton>Redruth exit reading from memory 58mpg.

I agree with skodaboy, short trips = about 300/320 to tank

Skodaboy, don't know if you've tried this either, I like you do many short journeys,it certainly put my mind at rest I used to obsess about mpg worrying if there was a problem or something, now I don't even look at mpg unless I go on a long run.

Oooooooo, I know what I'm trying tomorrow.

Oooooooo, I know what I'm trying tomorrow.

:thumbup:Be sure to post your results, I'm sure you'll be similarly pleased, and subsequently less concerned about mpg = more beans!!:mischief:

Out of this fresh tank of diesel, I have never been any lower than 38mpg according to the computer, returning 40mpg in the town more than I did than the last tank, just by changing up the gears and sticking it in fifth above 30mph.

Will be intresting to see what I get out of this tank.

Davy

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(oh and my computer was telling me 49.5 mpg average - first time I've caught it being pessimistic!)

Filled up tonight, 50.83 Ltrs pumped

Odometer - 451.6 mls

To empty - 45 mls

Fuel comp - 47.3 ave

Actual - 40.39 mpg

And i saw 70 mpg ave. on my way to work (briefly)

And 49.8 mpg ave. on my way home

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(oh and my computer was telling me 49.5 mpg average - first time I've caught it being pessimistic!)

Where can i get that, Noticed a lot of you guy's have the average consumption thingy. Mikey want's