How many miles per full tank?

[andycupra]

im my opinion, if you are doing 6 miles per trip, stop start traffic, even in a diesel you would struggle to get more than 35 mpg no matter how you drive.

can you let us know how many litres you use to fill up to get 384 miles per tank... this way we can get an idea of the actual mileage. Do you wait till the light comes on? in my experience if you fill up fairly quickly after the light comes on your talking about 54 litres. which would be 32.3mpg for 384 miles...

 

[Ad Lav]

I get around 40mpg for the above sort of trips, g/f's house and town and back!

Maybe 330 miles to 38 litres = 39.5mpg

 

[d_cook88]

well like i said i had 55mpg in 6th at either 40 or 50mph...cant quite remeber now, thing with motorway runs is that sum are inclinin and otehr declining, i go to work down hill on M6 and was amazed when cruisin at 70 that i was getting 74mpg...on the way home its about 36mpg.

 

[andycupra]

Very stop start journeys mon to fri - live very close to work. Takes me 6 mins to get to work but most of that time I'm idling or going 10-30mph.

Then it gets a good blast on a weekend, no where near redline though, just a good poke up the dual carridgeway.

hold on, its not 6 miles to work is it. -Its 6 minutes!
like you say you are mostly ticking over or doing 10-30 mph.
so fair to say 10mpg average?

so 6 mins at 10mph means its a 1 (one) mile journey!!!!!
then as you say a quick blast at the weekend including pull throttle in third gear. (and yes its normal to get to single figures showing on mpg readout boosting it full throttle up hill)

if your getting 32-33 your doing bl00dy well, diesel or no diesel.

stop worrying and get your bike out instead is my advice id be over the moon to get those figures.

 

[ChrisGTL]

Yes 6 mins not 6 miles.

According to Google Map Directions its exactly 1.8 Miles from my house to work.

God that makes me feel really lazy! ah yes, prolly cos I am!

I let my tank get really empty on the 384 Mile tank, the light was on for about a week - used it till the needle was just inside the 'empty' block.

Cost me £54 to fill up, using Shell extra @ 1.07p/Ltr - and like i say, with a 1.25 dose of Millers DPS4.

Am I right by saying the Leon has a 55ltr tank? 55ltr = 12.1 Gallons? So i'd need to be getting a constant 50MPG for a 600+ mile tank.......

Shame its all hills round ere!

 

[M90TEN]

iv just got the standard 150bhp fr diesel. I use shell fuel (not V Power) and a full tank is about 45/50quid. can usually get 500 on a full tank. my journeys are mainly motorway bout 130 miles each time. i do give it a good boot aswell and it quite happily sits at 110mph.

 

[andycupra]

im not going to reply anymore.... 33 mpg at average of 10mph on 1 miles trips.
the warning light being good for more than 1 week of motoring and 33mpg aint good enough?... lol
still has made me laugh!

 

[d_cook88]

haha the warnin light comes on when there is 7 litres left in tank approx....i wouldnt think your fuel is so bad becuase your engine wont even heat up properly on such a small trip! wow on a full tank it must last you like a month or sumit!

 

[ChrisGTL]

Got 26.1MPG AVG on the way home.

I wondered if my fuel gage wasnt reading correct as I thought my light came on pretty premeture, saying that I used to drive my 1.6 Focus with the petrol light on for 2-3weeks.

God I wish it was summer so I could have a cruise upto Bolton Abbey or something.........

Thanks for all the info peeps, put my mind at rest now - AND RELAX!

 

[Clone]

i filled mine up and i have 300 on the clock atm and i can get another 50 or so but i thought that was low - i was expecting more when i bought a diesel. I drive about 30-45min to work on the motorway as well not really revving about 2.5rpm very often.

 

[glynnd]

Just to jump in on this one I can get 550 miles to a tank from my leon cupra
Glynn

 

[Ad Lav]

I got 500 miles from my Ibiza - 45 litre tank!

 

[Clone]

perhaps my breaks then or something i'll fill it up aghain next week and see whats what.

 

[b21playa]

you get 34mpg for short trips and think somethings wrong. I've sen mine as low a 21mpg for short trips and mines a diesel as well (not leon), this is why I want to buy a leon cupra tdi

 

[sockpuppet]

I get 510 - 520 per tank!

I do very little in the way of short journeys and I purposely bought the car for the mileage it gets out of a tank.

When I first got the car I was getting about 42Mpg but after watching the MPG on the clock I get between 47 - 52Mpg. Its amazing how much extra milage you can gain by lift your foot up by 1mm. (Honestly)

My worst milage was over christmas with short journeys, it worked out to about 425 for the tank and my best so far was an eye watering 570miles.

SP

 

[Dave H]

Seat Leon TDI SE 1.9 (110bhp)
590 ave miles in summer (can record as high 625)
530 ave miles in winter

I work off the first figures though, as mainly dual carriageway/ mway commuting. I did notice a considerable improvement to economy once i inflated my tyres to the correct pressure. I was driving on 28psi tyres which wont help anything! when was the last time you checked

I sometimes splash a regular dose of Millers Sport additive.

 

[b21playa]

check tdiclub - they have a 800+ club on a tank

 

[jonjay]

430...i get that without fail each month. If i do motorway driving it easily canr each 550-600.

 

[stan_blade]

My experience is very similiar to Sockpuppets.
I have had a 04 Cupra TDi with no Mods since new, and have covered 54k.
I drive 200 miles per week to work and back, and regularly see 500 miles per tank, even though I pay little respect to the speed limit on those dual carriageways.

On long distance trips I have even pushed 600 miles out of the tank.

Since September I have noticed a slight degradation in MPG. How easy is it to do an ECU reset?

 

[daveyonthemove]

If you try hard enough you cram 60 litrs of fuel into the Leon. I've run it very low once or twice and had a receipt for 59.8 litres of fuel when venting. But i saw 630 miles from that tankfull, so i was happy enough.
Wonder how long it would take to walk 1.8 miles to work.......