58.3mpg no word of a lie

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Must try harder:

There's summat wrong with your trip mate. The Ecomotive only gets 88 average out of town! You must've been free wheeling down a 100 mile hill to get that!

 

[depresion]

Just drive very economicaly, it dose help that I didn't have to stop once on that trip.

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Just drive very economicaly, it dose help that I didn't have to stop once on that trip.

You should get free road tax for that!

 

[depresion]

If only Darling thought like that.

 

[Space-Black]

Do i smell photoshopping...............lol, J/K!

 

[sssstew]

could probably get that if you reset the counter then did some free wheeling.

 

[Zipcode]

^^^ Yip,

What is the point of saying you got 105mpg. It's just silly and it doesn't make you any cooler!!!!

 

[alastor_dmc]

Hi, would love to get that sort of mpg... am running an 07 2.0 tdi DSG, and have not managed to get it above 45, (even on a run) when the combined is 49 and extra urban in the 50s. Have tried running it at 70, 60 and it did better one day when i gave up and plonked it at 80. My tyres are at the right pressure, its been run on shell, not supermarket diesel, just had its first service (done 10k in it) PLEASE can someone give me a hint what I'm doing wrong.

 

[sssstew]

is it a 140 or 170 bhp version?

 

[Space-Black]

^^^ Yip,

What is the point of saying you got 105mpg. It's just silly and it doesn't make you any cooler!!!!

Not cooler maybe - but more economical!

 

[alastor_dmc]

is it a 140 or 170 bhp version?

It's the 140bhp version

 

[sssstew]

strange then, ive heard of the 170 giving poor mpg, but the 140 is generally much better.

Do a long run like i said at the start of the thread and see what you get

 

[alastor_dmc]

hmmm I will have a go at that again since she's newly serviced. Just to be a thickett what is the PD and non-PD malarky?

Also, just to join in used to get 57 mpg (not driving gently, on run from rotherham to skeggy) in the old R reg Ibiza 1.9TDi (90bhp) and 45 mpg everyday in the hour-long 10 mile crawl to work. I miss that mpg!!!! I miss that car too but had to get DSG as sometimes my legs are a bit wobbly lol.

 

[sssstew]

the old 90 in the mk2s were always great for economy due to good torque and light weight meant it was never stressed.

PD means Pumpe Deuse, german for unit injector, its the type of high pressure injection system in the newer generation VAG diesels (although they have changed to common rail now) it used one in injector per cylinder. Non PD engines, so the 90 and 110 versions used a rotary high pressure injection pump. Theres loads about it in the tdi section.