I think Danny is referring to the guy who claims to get 60-70 MPG in his 1.4 TSI.
I drove a 1.4 TSI for 30,000+ miles as my previous car and it is not possible to get anywhere near 60-70MPG. The best I ever got was 45-48 on a motorway.
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I think Danny is referring to the guy who claims to get 60-70 MPG in his 1.4 TSI.
I drove a 1.4 TSI for 30,000+ miles as my previous car and it is not possible to get anywhere near 60-70MPG. The best I ever got was 45-48 on a motorway.
I think we just need to face up to the fact that the 1.6TDI is obviously set up to impress on the combined cycle test as described here http://www.green-car-guide.com/news/official-mpg-v-real-life-mpg.htm.
I imagine the test car has a completely clear dpf also.
I can't complain with the MPG at 30 mph, it loves 30 mpg and 4th gear, the mpg just keeps going up, and up, and up, until i get to traffic or a dual carriageway.
I imagine the test car has a completely clear dpf also.
I can't complain with the MPG at 30 mph, it loves 30 mpg and 4th gear, the mpg just keeps going up, and up, and up, until i get to traffic or a dual carriageway.
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I picked up my car last Friday, in the first 50 miles mostly motorway I saw an average of 55mpg, Yesterday on a trip via the A roads to the midlands (180 miles round trip on the A429) it's up to 60mpg although there was plenty of traffic on the road so didn't often get much above 55mph. It peaked at 64 before a few spirited moments on the way home.
Evening all.
My mrs recently bought an Ibiza 1.6tdi sport rider. We have just driven it 280 miles along the motorway at 70mph and we got a poor 46mpg. I got better than this 3 months ago in my old 1.6 petrol bora which is a bigger heavier car.
The Ibiza is a 2011 with just under 20k on the clock. The previous owner did short journeys in it but had the DPF regenerated 12 months ago. I thought this long journey would have cleared the DPF of anything inside but we still got poor MPG. I have checked oil, water levels and checked tyre pressures. All are fine.
Has anyone solved any issues yet with results in improving mpg?
Cheers.
Whole reason for the diesel was because my mrs travels to work and I don't so she has an economical car and I have a toy. Hasn't worked well so far as I got my toy last week and hers is only 15mpg better
My mrs recently bought an Ibiza 1.6tdi sport rider. We have just driven it 280 miles along the motorway at 70mph and we got a poor 46mpg. I got better than this 3 months ago in my old 1.6 petrol bora which is a bigger heavier car.
The Ibiza is a 2011 with just under 20k on the clock. The previous owner did short journeys in it but had the DPF regenerated 12 months ago. I thought this long journey would have cleared the DPF of anything inside but we still got poor MPG. I have checked oil, water levels and checked tyre pressures. All are fine.
Has anyone solved any issues yet with results in improving mpg?
Cheers.
Whole reason for the diesel was because my mrs travels to work and I don't so she has an economical car and I have a toy. Hasn't worked well so far as I got my toy last week and hers is only 15mpg better
They're not very good, I owned one for 4 years and did 70k averaging 42mpg, I was glad when I traded it in for my much faster Leon FR 1.4 tsi which averages 35mpg doing the same driving, done 44,000 miles in this so far over 18 months. It doesn't matter what sort of driving you do, the dpf will still fill up and won't clear itself till 45% full. It managed to clear itself in all but the worst of traffic i.e. if it started a regen and you were stuck in stop start traffic for 90 mins you'd get the light. But even doing slow 20 - 30 mph speeds it would regen itself but would take over an hour. If regen started on the motorway it wouldn't take no more than 15-20 mins.
You may want to Google active and passive regeneration if you don't already know, but whatever you do don't take it down the motorway thinking you're clearing the dpf because that's not how it works. The dpf fills up and when it reaches 45% it will then clear itself, it will clear itself by either regenerating passively at speeds above 40 mph ~ or regen actively below 40 mph ~.
If you take it down the motorway and the dpf is below 45% full you will be filling it up and not helping yourself.
You may want to Google active and passive regeneration if you don't already know, but whatever you do don't take it down the motorway thinking you're clearing the dpf because that's not how it works. The dpf fills up and when it reaches 45% it will then clear itself, it will clear itself by either regenerating passively at speeds above 40 mph ~ or regen actively below 40 mph ~.
If you take it down the motorway and the dpf is below 45% full you will be filling it up and not helping yourself.
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Oh and my mpg is calculated over the last 5.5 years using fuelly so is accurate.
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However you will need to take it on a run at higher speeds if the light comes on.
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The most economical car I've driven is a 2013 corsa 1.3 ctdi, had it for a week, did about 600 miles mainly around town, never saw less than 50mpg and 60-70 mpg was easily achievable without effort even from learner drivers.
how well has it been serviced? any evidence of a proper service history?
I'd start with an oil service plus the air and diesel filters if none.
Mine achieved them results with full dealer service history and I was careful to try and "bed" it in for 1000 miles.
Had a 1.6 tdi for 42000 miles when we sold it and averaged 58.2 mpg overall,calculated not computer.
Please don't waste your time and money trying to get better economy. The only way I ever got good economy was by driving like a snail. I could eek 70 mpg by keeping it below 1500 rpm on a long slow journey behind a lorry at 50mph. 70mph with reasonable acceleration would achieve no more than 45 50mpg on a long motorway journey. I gave up trying to get good economy.
It is amazing how bad it is as 2k rpm in 5th at 70mph though. Just done a slower twisty turny back road and got 50mpg. Better than the motorway journey. Crazy!
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