Fuel Consumption

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Fuel Consumption

Post by scillyisles » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:24 pm

Just wondering what everyone else is getting for average fuel consumption as I seem to be getting what I consider poor fuel economy.
Car has done 3500 miles, seems to perform as it should, is run exclusively on Shell V Power and rarely driven hard. Predominantly driven in D mode. Fuel consumption gauge appears accurate when comparing with brim to brim calculations. Average fuel consumption seems to be around the 21/22 mpg. Did a roundtrip 210 mile motorway journey last week using cruise at 70mph with light motorway traffic and got 25mpg which is nowhere hear the overall combined consumption quoted figure of 31 mpg.
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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by SteveCuz » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:54 pm

Would get 28 on most fills. Range 300 plus, best 360 miles on a full tank.

Car has 15k miles now and is better.

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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by Dave_Hedgehog » Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:04 am

i get 21mpg in normal london traffic and got 32mpg on a steady cruise to millbrook this week
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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by turbo roro » Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:08 am

32 is not much !!

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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by Dave_Hedgehog » Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:43 am

turbo roro wrote:32 is not much !!
32 is massive for a 350bhp car :assflash: my R32 would get 25-26 at the same speed

anyway if i gave a <beep> about fuel economy i would have bought a prius or some other beige POS :biggrin3:
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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by turbo roro » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:50 am

let me convert, its 9 liters for 100KM

its quite normal, no ?

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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by chunky79 » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:48 am

scillyisles wrote:Just wondering what everyone else is getting for average fuel consumption as I seem to be getting what I consider poor fuel economy.
Car has done 3500 miles, seems to perform as it should, is run exclusively on Shell V Power and rarely driven hard. Predominantly driven in D mode. Fuel consumption gauge appears accurate when comparing with brim to brim calculations. Average fuel consumption seems to be around the 21/22 mpg. Did a roundtrip 210 mile motorway journey last week using cruise at 70mph with light motorway traffic and got 25mpg which is nowhere hear the overall combined consumption quoted figure of 31 mpg.
Rarely driven hard? How the hell do you drive that and not give it the beans?
How about trying Tesco 99 for a few fills and comparing?
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Post by doodlebug » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:50 am

9 litres is two gallons

100km is 62 miles

So 31mpg is about the same as 100km to 9 litres.

Sounds about right to me.

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Post by doodlebug » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:51 am

chunky79 wrote:How about trying Tesco 99 for a few fills and comparing?
V barsteward gives me better miles.

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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by chunky79 » Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:54 am

Ah, it has been worse for me in the rs6, not by much mind
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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by scillyisles » Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:01 pm

chunky79 wrote: Rarely driven hard? How the hell do you drive that and not give it the beans?
How about trying Tesco 99 for a few fills and comparing?
Car is driven mostly by my other half - she did not pass her test until later in life and went straight from her first car - a 1 litre Nissan Micra to the RS3. I would be concerned if she was giving it the beans.

I drive it on longer runs when we are both out and drove it quite a bit whilst it was running in.

From what I can see from other RS3 owners posts, it looks like I am correct in that the car is well down on fuel consumption particularly non urban driving.
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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by Ian_C » Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:04 pm

turbo roro wrote:32 is not much !!
32?! I'm lucky to get 22! The price you pay for a V8 and torque from 1000 rpm....
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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by turbo roro » Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:48 pm

is consumption lower after "run in" ?



ps: is "run in" the right expression ??

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Fuel Consumption

Post by Dave_Hedgehog » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:08 pm

turbo roro wrote:is consumption lower after "run in" ?



ps: is "run in" the right expression ??
Yes it's the right term

Reports so far is the car keeps getting faster and more economical up to 10k miles so far
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Re: Fuel Consumption

Post by turbo roro » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:25 pm

merci ;-)

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