FR TDI economy - Is mine broken?

[Hugo Nebula]

Most accurate trip computer I've had ever on this car. Usually within 1mpg from actual.

And so is mine (although whether a 4% variance can really be counted as 'accurate', I'm not sure). It's just that without veryifying its accuracy, it's difficult to rule this out as the apparently low mpg the OP complaned about.

My previous VAG car (Skoda Furby vRS) had a wholly innaccurate trip computer, being a good 6-12mpg over-optimistic. The trained chimpanzees at the dealers, and the combined wisdom of Briskoda knew of no other cases of it being that innaccurate.

 

[S8N]

Drove to Coventry and back today. (2) indicated 48.3MPG!!

I am impressed as the fuel economy is really improving at 13000k+ miles

 

[DaveI]

Got just over 9k miles on mine now and very very rarely see anything over 40mpg, highest i've ever seen was 42 on a trip from Birmingham to Sheffield.

 

[Haddock]

Highest figure Ive had was 520 Miles from a tank - which I thought was pretty good...

Chris

 

[craigomills]

I'm off up to Dumfries in Scotland from Derby so I'm hoping I get some decent results. My FR TDi has 1700 on the clock and up to now I'm not too impressed with the mpg, although when i stick to 65-70 mph i get up to 42. Not good enough really is it for a 2.0 tdi ? I had a 1.9 Jetta as a hire car the other week and was getting 50+ !

 

[thebears]

Linked to heated rear window mate.

Linked to mirror control switch, when you look at it its got a wiggle showing heating element in the central position.

Other day mirrors cleared without even turing on the rear window.

 

[craigomills]

Linked to mirror control switch, when you look at it its got a wiggle showing heating element in the central position.

Other day mirrors cleared without even turing on the rear window.

wrong thread??

 

[thebears]

On long runs I easily get 42-43mpg, but on my commute into work 14 miles about 7 on normal roads and 7 on dual carriage way I struggle to get more than 35-36mpg.

My car currently has 4.8k miles on it....

I'm hoping for an improvement as the mileage builds.

On my previous mapped 150PD Leon I'd get 40+ easily on my work commute.

Jees, i was getting 32 on the S3.

 

[on_the_verge]

300 miles on the clock and tootling on the mway and roads from Derby to Sheffield I am getting about 44-45 mpg which I dont think is too bad, expect it will drop when I can open her up, but what can you expect, all this power and torque to not come at a cost??

 

[craigomills]

300 miles on the clock and tootling on the mway and roads from Derby to Sheffield I am getting about 44-45 mpg which I dont think is too bad, expect it will drop when I can open her up, but what can you expect, all this power and torque to not come at a cost??

You live in Derby mate? whereabouts?

 

[thebears]

My Old man lives in Derby and i'll be taking the Candy up there soon. Mini Meet & Photo shoot?

 

[craigomills]

deffo mate, i'll need to give mine a clean though !!
I'm in Alvaston if it helps...

 

[on_the_verge]

I live in Sheffield but work in Derby 2/3 days a week, will keep an eye out for you - they aint that hard to miss are they? Def meet up for a mini shoot 3 candy whites together - rarer that rocking horse sh*t (sorry for the thread highjack)

 

[brainless toe]

My Fr has just under 30k, best figure I recal was 54.5 taking it steady around 60ish.

Average fiqure through these winter months just under 3k since last reset and ave mpg just under 39. But thats with my style of driving which is usually hard. Will do easy mid 40's if cruise at 70-75mph

Tank range 560miles, can be less but could also do a more I rekon.

 

[BanziBarn]

He was telling me that he'd been running an FR TDI and getting about 42 MPG over short stop-start journeys day in day out.

The vast majorty of my travelling is stop start stuff and my first 3k has produced average mpg of 33.5mpg - so I'm miles out against his.

Similar driving styles from discussing it.

I think this is about right to be honest. I'm urban mainly, and average 35mpg. If you're stop start in jams on top of this then 33 doesn't seem unreasonable.

The most I've managed on a run is 55, so why don't you try a long ish journey at about 60-70 and see what you do. If you get late 40s, early 50s then I think your car is fine.

IMO, dealer is always going to try and sell the car by quoting figures, even if he has driven the FR on a dialy basis I don't expect he's done the same route as you so you can't compare.

 

[thebears]

Out of interest i took the dealers FR for the test before i place my order. It had 57 miles on the clock. On the test which consited of 40% town 60% counrty road and one "fast" stretch on a private airfield doing over a ton i managed 44mpg. Which i thought was resoanable.

Slitghtly off topic in model terms but the Altea XL with the 1.9 tdi as a loan car yesterday managed 42mpg and today 48mpg on the same jouney with the excat same avg speed. The only diference was the outside temp yesterday was -3 today was +7 So i guess temps are hitting mpgs hard this time of year!

 

[AndyVTR]

Linked to mirror control switch, when you look at it its got a wiggle showing heating element in the central position.

Other day mirrors cleared without even turing on the rear window.

Really? So it's permanently on?

 

[AndyVTR]

but what can you expect, all this power and torque to not come at a cost??

50+ mpg easily with my Revo'd PD150.

 

[BanziBarn]

Really? So it's permanently on?

yep, leave the mirror control to one side to avoid the heaters being on the whole time.... unless there is a timer on it, which I'm not aware of.

 

[AndyVTR]

I might RTFM. Considering how much a heated rear window eats your MPG this could be a factor.

Why would the adjusting mirrors position turn them off anyway?