WarwickL
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Having made my comment above, E mode is the work of the devil and my S3 will never see it again
To be Honest with you, I shouldn't have bought my S3, I had a perfectly good A3 1.4TFSI Ultra (COD) before it, bought brand new. Everytime I'm out of the car I think "I should sell up and get something more practical and much more like my previous car. Everytime I'm in the car or near it, it's like it brainwashes me with it's Sepango Fandago Brilliance and I can't bare to part with it. Jekyll & Hyde attitude towards it, you could say.
There are loads of things I love about it, not many things I loath about it. This 6mpg extra will help my bank balance and lessen trips to the cash stealing stations. I know it's a performace hatch and I know that I new what to expect fuel wise when I bought the car, but every pound counts right?
I've got a 1.4 TFSI 8P right now but want to get an 8V so was deciding which one and your situation is how I feel (without having driven either cars). If only there was a car in the middle of the 2, from what I've heard the 2.0 TFSI seems too focused on economy for my liking. No idea how the 1.8TFSI is.
My Advice is to stick with the current car, you aren't getting that much more of a car to be truthful changing for an 8V, ok you can spec B&O and if sound matters to you as much as it does me, then change. But your current car is nice and above all cheap to run. Is it a 150BHP one with COD? I don't think it is because iirc that engine is new for the 8V. But I could be wrong.
I'll wait and change mine when a totally new A3 is released, I think the facelift hasn't really done much for the car, hate the rear valance/diffuser surround and don't like the huge grill on the front. Nice looking car but not something i'm willing to fork out a load more cash for.
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Well the first tank of BP Ultimate has gone, covered approx 230 miles and was still showing 50 miles left till empty. That was a mixture of efficiency and dynamic mode and mainly around town?!
I've just filled up with Tesco Momentum and will leave it on dynamic mode until it's showing 50 miles to empty. Tesco petrol was 11p/lt cheaper too!
I'll report back with my findings.......if anyone is interested!?!?
Right then. This, dear friends, is an intervention.
Your fellow members are concerned that some of you S3 owners are becoming a bunch of misers more concerned with 'eco' than 'evo'. This just won't do.
Worse still, some of you appear to have advanced to extreme measures to eek out a miserable couple of extra miles from a gallon of fuel, and have forgotten that when you buy a car with four times the power any sensible person would consider it actually needs to do it's job, you have a responsibility to use it and show 'those who can no longer be saved' (Diesel owners) the error of their thrifty tightwad ways at every opportunity.
So, further mentions of the use of 'Efficiency' mode in an S3 will leave us with no choice but to recommend you are immediately sectioned and taken away by burly men in a plain white van in order to have your bumps felt and to be administered sufficient doses of electrical therapy that you start to consider the aquisition of a V8 engined vehicle as 'almost sensible', just like us normal people.
Right then. This, dear friends, is an intervention.
Your fellow members are concerned that some of you S3 owners are becoming a bunch of misers more concerned with 'eco' than 'evo'. This just won't do.
Worse still, some of you appear to have advanced to extreme measures to eek out a miserable couple of extra miles from a gallon of fuel, and have forgotten that when you buy a car with four times the power any sensible person would consider it actually needs to do it's job, you have a responsibility to use it and show 'those who can no longer be saved' (Diesel owners) the error of their thrifty tightwad ways at every opportunity.
So, further mentions of the use of 'Efficiency' mode in an S3 will leave us with no choice but to recommend you are immediately sectioned and taken away by burly men in a plain white van in order to have your bumps felt and to be administered sufficient doses of electrical therapy that you start to consider the aquisition of a V8 engined vehicle as 'almost sensible', just like us normal people.
Such an interesting read...I've now done just over 500 miles in my new S3 and it's averaging 29mpg since start. Round town, journey to work 4 miles each way it averages around 20-25mpg.
That's a mix of efficiency and Dynamic
Im not an S3, more like 1.6tdi, but as i have been very pro V-Power i just wanted to throw a curveball! I got 54mpg from latest tank of V-Power and I'm currently on 61.9 with BP Ultimate! Last night went from Calais to Milan, Filled up in Dover with V-Power and Swiss boarder with BP Ultimate. No real difference in performance i don't think. Roads were all very similar and if anything the last stint was hillier as it was over the Alps. Only real difference was temperature. France got down to -7 whereas in Switzerland it went to +6 and over. could this affect it? used dynamic mode & cruise control all the way.
real difference was temperature. France got down to -7 whereas in Switzerland it went to +6 and over. could this affect it? used dynamic mode & cruise control all the way.
Oh yes, ambient air temperature has wide ranging and very marked effects on the efficiency, power, cooling and friction losses, exhaust temperatures, fuel flows and many their variables in an internal combustion engine. It's a long time since I looked into the thermodynamics of the Otto cycle, but to be able to truly compare your experiences the effects of these temperatures on your car it would have to be measured, which is a long, laborious, tedious and very boring job to do. It's far easier to say that you should only really compare fuel efficiency figures at the same ambient temperatures.
Now that's a drive and a half!
Through the Mont Blanc Tunnel?
Interesting stuff. Thought & hoped it might be the case. Must say the engine seems much smoother when the temp is above zero. didn't seem that comfortable in -7.
Frejus tunnel on way to UK and then i went Switzerland (Basel to Como) on the way back. It was so much cheaper. Frejus was 40euros each way, same as Mont Blanc i think. Switzerland has much nicer roads and its just such a beautiful country to drive through. I would really recommend it to you all. Would have loved to have been in something a bit more sporty to be honest. I didn't dare go off the motorway due to ice & snow but will have to explore when its warmer.
A question to those that drive in dynamic in a stronic s3 . When does it change up to 6th gear? For me at motorway speeds is stays in fifth.
Mine engages 6th under 50mph
Mine engages 6th under 50mph
Probably makes a difference if PFL or FL also as to whether it never uses 6th or 7th, respectively.
Mine is the pfl
Must admit, I've only read page 1 then skipped the rest but I was at Surrey Rolling Road years ago and said I used BP Ultimate, the bloke there said it was **** and actually recommended I use the likes of Tesco fuel instead, have only every really used that since and have had no issues - MPG is pretty **** but I think that's more down to the 3.2l sitting up front.
A question to those that drive in dynamic in a stronic s3 . When does it change up to 6th gear? For me at motorway speeds is stays in fifth.
Shell is what I use ...... I prefer it!
I couldn't care less about the price of fuel ..... its a necessity, that all cars need.
If people want to use cheaper fuels in their expensive cars, thats up to them
I always get less mpg using alternative fuels and it certainly does effect top end performance!
May have missed in this (long) thread, but is there any practical difference/impact of using supermarket fuel from an engine longevity point due only to the different types/levels of additives used in the cheap supermarket vs 'branded' fuels?