Long term economy on 1.4 COD

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Not very exciting topic but was driving home tonight flicking through the DIS and noticed I had done 3900 miles since buying the car.
MPG over that distance was 47.4.

Was curious what long term figures others have got with the same engine?
 
Not interested in other engines?
 
I've logged all my refuels since I got the car nearly three years ago.

In that time I've averaged 34.65mpg over 19650miles at a total cost of £2919.17 which averages £2.95 a day

90% of my travel is urban though.
 
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Vertigo1 said:
I've logged all my refuels since I got the car nearly three years ago.

In that time I've averaged 34.65mpg over 19650miles at a total cost of £2919.17 which averages £2.95 a day

90% of my travel is urban though.
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In fairness. My data is solely from DIS, so won't be as accurate as yours
 
Vertigo1 said:
I've logged all my refuels since I got the car nearly three years ago.

In that time I've averaged 34.65mpg over 19650miles at a total cost of £2919.17 which averages £2.95 a day

90% of my travel is urban though.
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I would expect an increase to 40-44mpg if it had a manual gearbox as that's what I used to get with mainly urban...
 
cuke2u said:
I would expect an increase to 40-44mpg if it had a manual gearbox as that's what I used to get with mainly urban...
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It is a manual.

When I say urban, I really mean it in the harshest sense - junctions/roundabouts/traffic-lights every half a mile kind of thing, endless deceleration/acceleration. That, combined with my lead foot, is probably the culprit :)
 
Jimbo10 said:
In fairness. My data is solely from DIS, so won't be as accurate as yours
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It's worth keeping track of it as you can get some interesting stats.

I use a mobile app called RoadTrip, just discipline myself to add an entry every time I fill up. It also automatically syncs with Dropbox and generates a CSV file you can load into a spreadsheet with all the stats.
 
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In my 1.0 TFSI over the summer I have averaged about 52mpg on the DIS. A mixture of runs and town work.
More than 60 mpg is easy to obtain if you keep to 70mph.

Expect it to drop slightly in colder weather.
 
1.8 TFSI average 37mpg over 10000 miles. TT but same engine as A3 I think. Can hit 50mpg on motorways.
 
Here's the figures for my 1.4 COD Stronic saloon up to 03 September 2017, which I bought new on 14 April 2014:-

Total mileage: 29392
Total fuel: 3025.70 litres
Total cost: £3392.54
Average mpg: 44.15

The above figures are actuals, taken from full tank fillings since day one.

The majority of my driving is in urban areas, with annual trips of 1500 motorway miles in France.
 
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I have an A3 1.4 COD with S-Tronic:
I also use RoadTrip and note every fill up so the data is brim to brim and not DIS figures:
Total mileage since 4 August 2014 - 18552
Average mpg - 40.54 (mixed roads, I live in Devon so quite a bit of local roads plus motorway trips)
Fuel cost - £2422
Fuel cost per day - £2.23
Cost per mile - £0.129
I also have a TT with 1.8 S-Tronic and for comparison it has done 36.77 across 13,000 miles



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A3 2.0 190 s tronic
8500 miles
Almost all city driving
Average speed 19mph !
Trip computer says 36mpg
On the rare occasions that I get out for a run I get much better e.g. Birmingham to Leeds and back 48mpg
 
A3 1.6 TDI 116 (85kW) manual
4500 miles on the odometer
40% city driving with 6 days a week of cold starts and 1 mile drives then open roads driving for the weekend
Trip computer says 60mpg (did not do a trip computer reset since I bought the car)

Best I've seen was 83mpg driving from southeastern Europe to Switzerland with AC on (about 1000 miles trip).
 
Ha! I keep stats. This including depreciation based on what confused.com give me as a current valuation

Historic costs ex fuel £ 5,708.62 (servicing, tax, depreciation, insurance, etc)
Historic costs inc fuel £ 6,789.82
Historic cost/ml inc fuel 53.1p (all-in cost per mile of owning the car)
Historic cost/mnth inc fuel £ 527.54 (all-in cost of ownership & travel)
Historic MPG 43.96
Effective cost/litre £ 7.22 (all-in cost divided by number of litres of fuel - interesting not to worry about the cost of the fuel itself so much!)

And comparing brim-to-brim filling (the MPG above) with what I see on the dashboard, the dashboard is round about 4% optimistic (shows a better/higher MPG figure).
 
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@Vertigo1 @glospete - Seeing as you both use RoadTrip, I've got a really daft question to ask.

Do I need to start with an empty tank and fill it up (with this being the first entry log)?

Reason for asking. I logged my first fill up a few days ago. Had two bars of petrol left.
I only stuck a tenner in the tank but for arguments sake, lets say the following day I put in another tenner (having driven only 15 miles) surely that would give a horrendous MPG readout, because the app thinks that I've used £10/8.5litres of fuel to drive 15 miles?

I'm so confused.
Here is my first log entry (the second picture is an example of what I tried to explain).

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When I collected the car it had 31 miles on the clock and then I filled it up - see first image. I reset the stats so there is no MPG figure. Next fill was a few days later and you can see this screen also. It doesn't matter if you fill up or not because the average MPG will be correct.
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When you fill up there's an option to specify whether you filled it or not. If you don't brim it then just select the appropriate option.

Obviously the app can only work out MPG between filled tanks as that's the only way it can determine how much fuel has been used. The interim partial fills just add to the total used at the next complete fill. The partial fills show in grey in the history.

It should start calculating from the first complete fill as it's obviously got no reference before that. If you've done a partial fill but not ticked the right box you can edit the entry and it should re-calculate.
 
I never say I filled the tank - I cant see any advantage of that over specifying the actual number of litres. Or am I missing something?
 
Your data says otherwise - the 19th Oct entry is grey as it wasn't a filled tank - all other entries are normal thus a filled tank.

The filled option is the default so, unless you changed it, that's what it'll assume.
 
Just done a manchester to aberdeen run and back in mine. Averaged around 47 mpg over 800 ish miles. Was raining on the way back which kills economy




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