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What are you getting to a tank if I had a 50 mph 50 mile commute a day my car could reach In the 500's but when I'm on the motorway I don't seem to meet the factory mpg! I seem to be getting between 44-48 mpg but last week I got 51 an this week I cant touch it! This is between 70-80 mph
Is it everyone or just my polo?
Cheers

I forgot to mention i get 450 to a tank motorway driving

What wheels are you running?

80mph in mine will see 50mpg at most. 65mph sees 65mpg. Yours is about right - aerodynamics aren't great on the Polo

I can get 56mpg on me hybrid. (65) I do notice at 70 it drinks more as the turbo is just coming on boost and it wants more fuel to feed the extra air. Big tip keep off boost for mpg:)

Yer iv noticed that I shouldn't stick at 70 cos it's s**t 75 to 80 is the one it's weird tho because I drove to notts at 70-75 and got 55 mpg but I'm failing completely now dave I'm running vw 16's but im putting my Exors on the car in the next
Month hopefully
Iv changed fuel filters and all the others anything else... ?

Dub_Dan wrote:Yer iv noticed that I shouldn't stick at 70 cos it's **** 75 to 80 is the one it's weird tho because I drove to notts at 70-75 and got 55 mpg but I'm failing completely now dave I'm running vw 16's but im putting my Exors on the car in the next
Month hopefully
Iv changed fuel filters and all the others anything else... ?

Where do you fill up mate, you may have had a poor quality batch of fuel in your tank, that combined with the humid weather we have been having probabaly wouldn't of helped your mpg.

i fill up at the bp i sometimes put the higher octane in as well or it shell v power diesel or their extra i dont use the cheap ones :/

You have to put it in all the time otherwise it will run poor when you go back to the normal. If u get it mapped u should map it with v power in it

im thinking maybe once its mapped it will be better on the motorway?

Well I got extra 50 miles to tank when driving really careful

london n back on one tank doing 70s 80s roughly 450 miles

Reading this makes me very jealous. Normal day to day i get around 29 mpg and motorway is about 36 at best.

also when im on full boost worst ive had it is about 4 or 5 mpg

When I give it some it does bout 5 diesal are just as juciy when you rag it

anyone else suggest why i might not be getting 50 mpg plus on the motorway i have changed my fuel filter and other filters anything else...
its got me puzzled!
dan

flat tyres?

what speed are you going? are you breaking a lot?