S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

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S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by clarkey88 » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:20 pm

Evening all,

Been running the S6 for nearly 3 months now and loving it!

Im curious as to what owners are getting from there 4.2's in terms of consumption, im getting between 16 and 20 mpg. 20 was achieved on a long run from Sheffield to Darlington so to be honest i expected this to be higher.

Are these numbers normal or should i be looking into fault finding?

Regards

Matt

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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by fox » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:34 pm

Evening Matt,

Welcome.
Not much chatter in the S6 section, I'm afraid, but the RS6-C5 area's always busy, and there's plenty of knowledge you can ponce from there whilst remaining smug about no intercooler leaks or DRC issues on S6's :)


Anyway - S6 auto avant - best I've got is just under 25, on a run from Dorset to Scotland, with cruise on as much as possible. Two-up, plenty of luggage, almost all motorway.
Day to day on my miserable trudge of a commute, about 14, down to 12 when the traffic sucks even more than usual.

That's all on 98RON fuel BTW.

I didn't check the MPG beforehand, but the power was definitely down before I replaced the MAF at ~98k miles.
No errors from that, but the occasional ABS/traction control light made me think about swapping it.

HTH.

Al.

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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by steview » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:08 pm

I'm getting about 17mpg around town. I'm definately glad it's running on LPG.

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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by mooman1000 » Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:51 am

My overall is sat at a steady 14.6 :(, thats my average since sept 2009.

Keep thinking about selling it but then do a crazy 240 mile round trip for a spot of dinner for my missus birthday with friends and think otherwise - no way would I have liked to drive in the pouring rain and snow for nigh on 4 hours in anything else, mind you was broken up with a gorgeous lunch at 15 in newquay :)

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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by decarbon8 » Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:24 am

I know this thread has gone pretty static but thought I'd add my 2p's worth, I'm pretty new to Audi ownership, coming from a 450bhp Skyline I'm familiar to pretty high fuel consumption, so wasn't surprised by the 14.8 avg mpg of the s6 when I bought it 3 months ago, I got stuck straight in and terracleaned after 2 weeks of getting a feel for the car, seeing as I have the equipment and made a big difference to the skyline and other vehicles I've serviced, the S6 has covered 170k so was well due for a for a good clean out, results were quite impressive really, over the past 1.5k miles since terracleaning it its averaged 22-23mpg which has mainly been short journeys, on the longer journeys it returns even better hovering around 26-28mpg, Stuck 67 litres of fuel in the other day before a motorway trip and range display crept upto 490 miles, haven't been on a long enough journey to test whether that is roughly accurate or not but impressive even if I got 400 miles out of it. :blackrs4:

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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by S4quattroCab » Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:29 am

I get about 15-19 around town and about 24-28 on a run, all figures with sensible driving.
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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by bam_bam » Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:29 am

FON.

Rule 1.
No matter where you go, there you are.

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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by decarbon8 » Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:49 pm

bam_bam wrote:FON.

Rule 1.
:bigblink: No photo's of dis but do have the emissions printouts before and after showing over 50% reduction in hydrocarbon output in fast idle and almost the same in co% output in natural idle tests if anyone wants to see them.. :thumb:

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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by bam_bam » Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:38 pm

You're starting to read like one of those little chip tuning ads in the back of evo magazine...
No matter where you go, there you are.

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Re: S6 Fuel Consumption...What ya getting?

Post by decarbon8 » Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:30 pm

Don't mean to come across that way, but can see that it may look that way now reading it back, I was only stating that it was the TC that lowered my fuel consumption, it was only because you wanted evidence or pics (rule #1) that I posted up about emissions which would show the marked improvement, I'm not trying to sell anyone anything, was just putting my 2p's worth in. If you don't like it I'm happy to remove it simples...

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