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WSMRT18 wrote:I'm doing a 100 miles a day in my Polo on the commute to work mainly motorway driving

I can get about 44 MPG quite easily as its only the last 5 miles or so that i'm in built up areas.

Once got it up to 48 MPG but I am talking some seriously anal driving here, just wanted to see how far I could push it!

Wow, is that a GTI bluemotion?

I struggle to get that out of the family Golf GTD !!

6n2stan wrote:

WSMRT18 wrote:I'm doing a 100 miles a day in my Polo on the commute to work mainly motorway driving

I can get about 44 MPG quite easily as its only the last 5 miles or so that i'm in built up areas.

Once got it up to 48 MPG but I am talking some seriously anal driving here, just wanted to see how far I could push it!

Wow, is that a GTI bluemotion?

I struggle to get that out of the family Golf GTD !!

aha

I am talking like seriously boring driving here, over the three days I did it covering 280 miles I didn't go over 3000rpm, coasted to a standstill at junctions etc anticipated the road braking as little as possible, most of the journey I was just sitting in lane 1 on the motorway.

Don't get me wrong normal driving around town etc I normally get around 37 MPG.

I don't think any one buys a Gti for the fuel economy but my daily commute is such a boring route I wondered much I could really get out of it!

Filled mine up last night, 418 miles on 43.5 litres. Thats nearly 44 mpg!

Impressive is all I can say!

Blimey! Absolute max i can get is just over 40, can replacing the lambda sensors help increase/ restore the MPG somewhat? I changed one on a 1.8t and it made a bit of difference...

I don't think replacing a fault free lamda will do anything tbh. My car ran fine but wasn't brilliant on fuel. Then I had a starting problem out of the blue, did some digging and found the boken wires on the car side of the wiring. Its common on these so worth a peek.

Long story short, better mpg post repair

I'm only getting about 28MPG on average!

I live in Milton Keynes though and only have a short commute to work, usually about 7 miles.

Would this be a problem or just the usual? Its all stop start town driving.

I average about 30 but never get long motorway runs. Always in the country lanes or town roads.

I've never really had a short stop start week to take an average mpg from it in those conditions.

I'd fill it up and do a long stretch just for the crack on a m/way. It'll do the car good too! Fill it up again and see what's its done.

£50 gets me about 240 miles from fill up to when the light comes on, my drives are constant stop starts and im only usually driving for 10-15 mins at a time, can anyone tell me if this is good bad or average??

Also when the light comes on roughly how many miles have i got left ? i never leave it this late but just incase i get caught short

hallie123 wrote:Also when the light comes on roughly how many miles have i got left ? i never leave it this late but just incase i get caught short

I dunno about short runs but I get 60 miles (max) on the fuel light doing a steady 60mph ish, HTH?

I've had 30-40 miles minimum on red light. I tend to not leave it too long before filling up on reserve.

alexperkins wrote:I've had 30-40 miles minimum on red light. I tend to not leave it too long before filling up on reserve.

It gets expensive doesn't it? Lol

It does. I never bought this car for economy though lol that's what my 6R TDI is for.