same car as yourself and i can get 34 mpg on motorway and around 26 mpg around town !
Yeah, hopefully I'll be able to get up to that once I've got used to it a bit more!
same car as yourself and i can get 34 mpg on motorway and around 26 mpg around town !
Well the full horror of how poor my MPG is has dawned on me today when I worked it out...
490miles from fill up to fill up (from the same remaining range and point on the fuel gauge), which works out as just over 38mpg. And it's a 1.9tdi.
Thankfully I did cotton on to this at the weekend, and then after a quick search on here realised my temp gauge should be at 90c not 70c, so replaced the thermostat ASAP and temps are now normal. So hopefuuuuuuuuully it should equate to a more normal tdi mpg and approx 180miles of that was one motorway trip too. I'm thinking EGR clean is next...
My temp guage has also been tempremental, i thought it was the sensor at first so got ripped off by TPS £28 +VAT for the sensor which sells on ebay for £10, (i know silly me) but guage still sitting between 65-90 and never dot on 90, so i guess my next port of call is thermostat...
Well the full horror of how poor my MPG is has dawned on me today when I worked it out...
490miles from fill up to fill up (from the same remaining range and point on the fuel gauge), which works out as just over 38mpg. And it's a 1.9tdi.
Thankfully I did cotton on to this at the weekend, and then after a quick search on here realised my temp gauge should be at 90c not 70c, so replaced the thermostat ASAP and temps are now normal. So hopefuuuuuuuuully it should equate to a more normal tdi mpg and approx 180miles of that was one motorway trip too. I'm thinking EGR clean is next...
Well mine went from a solid 70c with no fluctuation to now a solid 90c within about 10mins of 30mph driving. I just hope with the next fill up tomorrow the mpg increases accordingly.
most likely thermostat m8... But you can plug vcds in and check for stored faults if the cts is faulty it will be there if there isn't a cts fault then your thermostat is faultyGetting around 33 average in my 1.8t cabriolet after having it for a few weeks and a few hundred miles. Bit disappointed actually, seems a bit lower than the 1.8t I owned a few years ago.
temp gauge on mine seems to get to 90 after 10 mins and then drop way down again for a few minutes. Does this sound like a faulty thermostat or coolant temp sensor? Any sure fire way of finding out?
If your car is taking 25 mins stu to warm up the stat is stuck open slightly so its stopping the water to get to temp should be hot within 5 mins really...
yes m8 if the heaters are set full it will take some heat out the engine so yes will take longer to warm up..... Best bet is to try it with heaters fully off and time it to 90 and make sure it stays at 90 if it does this you have no probsIt gets warm within mins at the heaters but at times can take up to 25 mins to get to 90 I must point out this is the missus driving and I bet she has the heating on full which won't help when I drive its closer to 15 mins to 90
It's had a new stat from audi not so long back when I did the cam belt as the old one was stuck slightly! It warms up quicker then it used to!
yes m8 if the heaters are set full it will take some heat out the engine so yes will take longer to warm up..... Best bet is to try it with heaters fully off and time it to 90 and make sure it stays at 90 if it does this you have no probs
Once its at 90 it stays there all the time I often just have the heating at about 20 and it warms up steadily usually takes about 15 mins to get there never less then that though
Hi mookie. I've got similar problems. The last week or so I've never seen over 40 mpg. It took nearly 9 miles for the temp gauge to hit 70. How hard was the thermostat to change and where on the tdi is it..
Cheers moggie.
Cruise control might make you more disciplined in terms of not booting it everywhere but it will be worse that genuinely disciplined driving on the pedals.
Peposhi your post made me laugh out loud lol