Fuel Consumption - What do you get?

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Hi all, since changing to the A4, I would have thought the fuel consumption would have been alot better, however its actually worse!!!

On my 8L S3, I would constantly get 100 miles from £20 of v power petrol, which was more powerful, alot older and with a whole lot more miles on it!!

With the A4 I am barely getting 80 miles. Doing the same town driving and style of driving too.

To confirm, it is a 2.0 tfsi quattro petrol engine, what are others getting on there's?

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Nilz
 
25p per mile seems steep, is that less than 20mpg?


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How are you measuring the mpg, Nilz? The only accurate way to do it is to brim the tank, zero the trip, run it for a couple of hundred miles of mixed driving, then brim again (at the same pump). Then, convert the number litres put in on the second fill to gallons and divide those gallons into the number of miles driven on the trip.

There might be an app to do this now, but any other methodology is guesswork.
 
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I started a thread about this not too long ago. 2.0tfsi quattro here too. If I am driving around town I get 20mpg shown in DIS. And £20 getse about 80 or 90 miles. On a long motorway run I get maybe 35mpg shown.

They are bad on petrol amigo. Big heavy car and four wheel drive. If you find the solution please let me know. Otherwise youll have to swallow the mpg and reat easy knowing you are driving a silky smooth quiet petrol engine and not a mono-Nitrogen Oxide spewing smoke machine
 
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According to my calculations its working out about 23mpg!!

Guess that aint too bad now that I look at it that way.

I wasnt actually measuring mpg @jdp1962 , just going off the how many miles off get off £20 and it seems to be less than what I was getting on the S3.

@the_muzza Coming from a 14 year old car, i thought this would have been alot more economical and efficient but I guess not......good thing i didnt go for the S4!!!
 
Mate the S4 is actually better on petrol. Makes it even harder to accept!
 
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My S4 has just done 25k miles and my overall average is 24mpg. I use the 'road trip' app.
 
I think if you want a good balance of fun<>economy, maybe you should move on to an S4, I initially was aiming for a 3.2V6 quattro saloon as my entry point into A4 ownership, luckily I dodged that bullet and saved a lot on fuel costs by buying an S4 plus lots more car and fun!

Edit:- I've noticed that you can get rid of a lot more engine oil as well with the 2.0TFSI engine.
 
It's a bigger heavier car with permanent 4WD rather than the S3 which was mostly FWD. Bigger wheels , wider tyres probably 150Kg more weight it all adds up.
 
It just seems that that engine in that car is a very bad combination for getting reasonable MPG figures, as comparison I used to have a B5 Passat 2.8V6 4Motion, in normal running I'd be expecting close to 30MPG, but there again I never deliberately plan to use my (big) cars, in town - that is just adding to problems for everyone. Roll on the time when people will get "hammered" for using large engine cars in confined areas!
 
I've been doing some economy driving over the past few weeks in the S4.
I'm getting between 24 & 27 MPG depending on how generous I am with the throttle :) (DIS average)
 
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Oh man!!!

I'm pretty sure the next car on the list will be an S4.

Oh well, it is what it is, im not complaining, everyone used to tell me its time to get rid of the S3, its old, not economical, blah blah blah.....what do they know hey!!
 
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Today's trip to work

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Haha nice one I just checked my average mpg on dash, 15.2

@rum4mo not having a go mate just curious what you mean by not using your big engine cars in town as it causes more problems for every one ? How come ?

Are you saying People should get penalised for taking eg an s4 into town and other people shouldn't for taking a 2ltr or less etc ?
 
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B8.5 2.0 TFSI Quattro Avant Black edition - always fuelled with Shell VPower Nitro.

This morning I went 4 miles in rush hour city traffic (max 30mph lucky if for 1/2 mile!) which took 28 minutes and the average mpg read just short of 15mpg.

Tonight I went from city straight onto motorway travelled 15miles in roughly 25 minutes at steady 50 - 55 mph and achieved average 35mpg.

My fuel app summary since Aug 2015 is as follows: avg 27.63mpg, min 20.82mpg and max 32.59mpg.

I do a lot of short miles and as already mentioned live around 4 miles from motorway which is traffic light crazy until reach motorway and clearly doesn't like the stop start.

However as you mention with S3, previously I had an Astra VXR which was more powerful, a lot faster and more fuel efficient! Ok it wasn't as heavy or have Quattro. 300 miles in VXR 52ltr tank = easy. 300 miles in A4 61ltr tank = a bit of a struggle!

Interested to know if anyone noticed difference using super unleaded over standard or if have Apr/revo remap and this has helped fuel economy?
 
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in town - around 37mpg, unless traffic is a hell, when it gets around 32mpg
out town - 51mpg consistently, with passengers, luggage and A/C on

2.0 TDI 143hp
 
You've all got it good. I struggle to get 200 miles

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3.0tdi avant 2009 remapped Revo Stage 1 - averaging out at 34.1 over 1000 miles. daily commute mode on...............
 
2.7tdi avant 2009 stage 2 remap about 36mpg, long run on motorway 43mpg minimum
2013 a5 3.0tdi fwd 40avg
 
Chop. said:
Haha nice one I just checked my average mpg on dash, 15.2

@rum4mo not having a go mate just curious what you mean by not using your big engine cars in town as it causes more problems for every one ? How come ?

Are you saying People should get penalised for taking eg an s4 into town and other people shouldn't for taking a 2ltr or less etc ?
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Sorry for missing replying to this sooner, but yes, being realistic, with too many places in inner cities ending up reporting high pollution figures and it is not just DERV stuff, it makes sense for more people to minimise contributing to this problem that is all, the facts don't lie, just exactly the same as wind turbines having huge carbon footprints but lovely kick backs in the shape of grants - and probably most of these electric cars with their high demands on rare earth minerals. I don't mind having a gutsy/dirty car, but I try to only use it on the open car, and normally join the "unclean masses" in public transport things for inner city visits, horrible but it has to be done!
 
42mpg in B8.5 A4 Allroad 2.0TDI Quattro (177bhp) on mostly A-class roads on efficiency setting. Equates to 500 miles per tank. Don't take it into town if I can avoid it.
 
I used to run a 2.0 TFSI Quattro - that gave around 26 mpg around town and 32 mpg on a motorway run. Measured top up to top up.
I've moved to a B9 2.0 TFSI Quattro and that does 32 mpg around town and 38mpg on a motorway run.
 
Just rubbing it in, I got an average of 66.6MPG over a 28 mile journey today driving my wife's August 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI 110 SEL - as per normal, not so good on the return trip so ended up with 55.4MPG over both journeys with a bit of running around in between - who needs DERV?
 
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I used to run a 2.0 TFSI Quattro - that gave around 26 mpg around town and 32 mpg on a motorway run. Measured top up to top up.
I've moved to a B9 2.0 TFSI Quattro and that does 32 mpg around town and 38mpg on a motorway run.
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Is that running 95 Ron? I use vpower nitro and getting the same mpg in my 2014 B8.5 2.0 TFSI Quattro avant. Good that you have seen an improvement.
 
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