S4 Owners - Your Best & Worst Average MPG Figures (According To Your DIS)

[Bristle Hound]

Calling all B8 / B8.5 S4 owners

What's your best & worst average mpg figures according to the DIS display

Let's see who drives like an old lady and who drives like Lewis Hamilton

 

[wild westie]

5mpg 200mpg

 

[StuBill]

14.2mpg (first few miles after a cold start)
37.8mpg (flat steady 50mph hot)

Giving it some beans when warm seems to be around the 18mpg at the moment (550 miles on the clock)

 

[Bristle Hound]

5mpg 200mpg

There's always one ..

 

[Tfsi gone]

Apparently I had 50 mpg in my 2.0 TFSI (211) once but when I hit traffic it misfired. It did use near enough a litre of oil in the process so not bad figures when combined really! That's another story...

 

[benjie]

28.7 on a drive from Swindon to Holyhead.

13.something on the way home from work where I found out the limiter isn't at 155.

 

[Tfsi gone]

I knew my limiter didn't work when after changing from 3rd-4th on an ambitious drive I was at already at over 1 and a half times the motorway limit plus! We need an autobahn!

 

[opelfruit]

32mpg, car fully loaded with wife, 2 kids and a boot crammed with all their stuff. Constant 70(ish) over quite a few motorway miles.


.......er.....11mpg .......or 11.something, I wasn't really looking at my DIS at the time as I was looking at the next set of bends. Manual mode with the revs firmly in the optimum power band and lots of twisty road ahead and behind.

Both cases are not that common, my DIS says I've averaged 26.8 over 4000 miles which is nearly a year's worth of mixed town and fast A road with a little motorway here and there....With plenty of moments of joy....so ill take that from a mental estate car any day of the week.

In short; it's much better than I dreamed of.

 

[jdp1962]

There's always one ..

You should have specified average rather than instant mpg.

 

[Chop.]

19.7mpg average in dynamic 24/7 can be seen on the school run just not caught

 

[scotty76]

I don't know about the worst but this is about the best I recall.

 

[Bristle Hound]

You should have specified average rather than instant mpg.

@jdp1962 - Amended!

Just for you my friend

 

[jdp1962]

@jdp1962

Errrr.....

 

[Bristle Hound]

Errrr.....

Going all shy on me Jeff?

 

[ERBY]

28mpg
21mpg
*Ahem* - I'm still running her in ok..!?!

 

[Chief29]

38.5 over 300 miles from Scotland to Shropshire.
14.3 is the best.

 

[Tay]

32.7 mpg best in many miles of average speed cameras.
11 mpg worst! (And see low teens regularly in a very slow commute).

 

[ub7rm]

Saw 35 once on a steady 60 / 50 mph run starting off with a warm engine.

Long term dis average over 5000 miles is 27 mpg.

I'm quite delighted with the mpg in this, its not exactly what the car is about but talk about having your cake and eat it. I don't notice any real world difference in petrol costs between this and my old 8p S3. But it is in a lower tax band that the S3 which is nice!

 

[Keef]

8000 miles in – i don’t bother looking at the DIS as its not accurate.
I use the road trip app, so calculated every time i fill up

Best 27.1
Worst 21.4

...worst in my B6 S4 - 11mpg

 

[ERBY]

8000 miles in – i don’t bother looking at the DIS as its not accurate.
I use the road trip app, so calculated every time i fill up

Best 27.1
Worst 21.4

...worst in my B6 S4 - 11mpg

Haha - I actually used to think there was a little hole in the tank of my B6 S4.
My road trip routes always revolved around appropriate & convenient petrol station locations!! Gawd, anyone would of thought we were driving around in TVR Tuscans

 

[Alan Dickinson]

Calling all B8 / B8.5 S4 owners

What's your best & worst average mpg figures according to the DIS display

Let's see who drives like an old lady and who drives like Lewis Hamilton

 

[Alan Dickinson]

Driving through Germany last year, opened it up on the d-restricted roads still got reasonable mpg. Showed 175mph with more to go !!

 

[Bristle Hound]

View attachment 56244Driving through Germany last year, opened it up on the d-restricted roads still got reasonable mpg. Showed 175mph with more to go !!

@Alan Dickinson - So I'm assuming the factory 155mph restriction on the B8 / B8.5 S4's are a load of rubbish then Alan?

 

[Alan Dickinson]

@Alan Dickinson - So I'm assuming the factory 155mph restriction on the B8 / B8.5 S4's are a load of rubbish then Alan?

165mph was in 6th gear, you can just about see it in picture (wife took picture by the way I wasn't about to take eyes of the road) a great car to drive, good fun and comfy on the long runs.

 

[jdp1962]

How do you get the speed reading in the DIS?

 

[StuBill]

How do you get the speed reading in the DIS?

You just scroll through the DIS display functions, speed is one of them. Always have mine set on this, I find it much easier at a glance than the speedo.

 

[jdp1962]

You just scroll through the DIS display functions, speed is one of them. Always have mine set on this, I find it much easier
at a glance than the speedo.

Hey, Planet B8 just gets better and better. Can't wait to land.

 

[Bristle Hound]

You just scroll through the DIS display functions, speed is one of them. Always have mine set on this, I find it much easier at a glance than the speedo.

The speed in the DIS and the HHA on my old B8 A4, were some of the best surprises I had when I got that car

Though the 'curry hooks' in the boot of the saloon I had were great too

 

[jdp1962]

I tried fitting a set of those to my B7, but just couldn't get them to screw in tight. Gave it up in the end. Might revisit the idea with the S4.

 

[Bristle Hound]

I tried fitting a set of those to my B7, but just couldn't get them to screw in tight. Gave it up in the end. Might revisit the idea with the S4.

@jdp1962 - They came as standard on my old saloon B8, so assuming they will on the saloon B8.5 S4 Jeff

 

[StuBill]

You can also hook the metal rings on the cargo net up on the curry hooks to form a triangle. It keeps stuff secure in the pocket
And my tip for an audio mod.......put some sticky foam pads on the underside of the rear shelf under the curry hooks in their resting place....they vibrate like a bar steward when the sub is kicking

 

[TahirS]

With Lewis getting the win today I got a bit enthusiastic and got a whopping 12mpg. Great fun taking BMW enthusiast out. Made his 6 series seem like a slow coach.

Calling all B8 / B8.5 S4 owners

What's your best & worst average mpg figures according to the DIS display

Let's see who drives like an old lady and who drives like Lewis Hamilton

 

[Hear-Vier]

Best achieved to date on a sedate 140 mile mostly motorway drive with quite a bit of 50mph average camera nonsense:

It was showing 40.3 before a bit of stop start stuff at the end.

Usually much worse than that!

 

[TahirS]

Best achieved to date on a sedate 140 mile mostly motorway drive with quite a bit of 50mph average camera nonsense:

View attachment 59781

It was showing 40.3 before a bit of stop start stuff at the end.

Usually much worse than that!

Wow that's good, I don't drive mine much but this was that day I mentioned earlier. Sorry for the poor picture quality

 

[xpoweruk]

My average is OK so far I think

 

[MFM]

Don't know, don't care as I don't pay for fuel.

 

[bigyin]

Currently tracking my MPG on an app so I'm pretty accurate at an average of 22.33 over the last 7000 miles.
Best: 25.31
Worst: 18.06

Not exactly the most frugal of machines these things!. Tho I'm pre-facelift so dont have start / stop etc to improve economy.

 

[Bristle Hound]

Best - 32.7 mpg on a steady run. Majority at 75mph set on cruise control. 50 mile round trip
Worst - 18.8 mpg the other day 'playing' with a blue BMW 235

Averaging around 25-27 mpg at the mo which is more than I expected as I'm still running it in, apparently

TBH I don't drive my S4 with an eye on fuel economy. Didn't buy it to worry about fuel consumption

 

[Blackwhite]

Best - 32.7 mpg on a steady run. Majority at 75mph set on cruise control. 50 mile round trip
Worst - 18.8 mpg the other day 'playing' with a blue BMW 235

Averaging around 25-27 mpg at the mo which is more than I expected as I'm still running it in, apparently

TBH I don't drive my S4 with an eye on fuel economy. Didn't buy it to worry about fuel consumption

BH, Can you explain the "playing with the blue BMW"?

 

[Chop.]

TBH I don't drive my S4 with an eye on fuel economy. Didn't buy it to worry about fuel consumption

Here here that man