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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2012, 08:41:10 pm »

The other, very cold night I did 65-70 for 80miles and failed to get over 32mpg avg...  :confused:

I've previously managed an easy 35-37.

I was in Stock map too

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2012, 08:52:20 pm »

The other, very cold night I did 65-70 for 80miles and failed to get over 32mpg avg...  :confused:

I've previously managed an easy 35-37.

I was in Stock map too

I always thought if it was colder it was better, as the fuel and air burnt better? Maybe im wronf then :confused:
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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2012, 08:55:23 pm »
worst 100miles
That must have been exciting/frightening. :grin: :scared: :surprised:
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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2012, 09:04:06 pm »
worst 100miles
That must have been exciting/frightening. :grin: :scared: :surprised:

one extreme to the other, Anglesey trackday or 108miles daily commute all motorway at 70mph  :happy2:

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2012, 09:04:58 pm »
worst 100miles
That must have been exciting/frightening. :grin: :scared: :surprised:

12.1 gallon tank, that would be 8.2 MPG :laugh:

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2012, 09:06:27 pm »

The other, very cold night I did 65-70 for 80miles and failed to get over 32mpg avg...  :confused:

I've previously managed an easy 35-37.

I was in Stock map too

I always thought if it was colder it was better, as the fuel and air burnt better? Maybe im wronf then :confused:

I think it's worse fuel consumption in the cold, better in the warm.
But vice versa for performance purposes... could be wrong.

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2012, 09:12:50 pm »
You just get more power in the cold because the air is denser, but its also harder for the car to move through the air so it's much of a muchness at higher speeds.

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2012, 09:15:32 pm »
I did 5 laps of the Nurburgring to pretty much a full tank! Lol.
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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2012, 09:31:48 pm »
worst 100miles
That must have been exciting/frightening. :grin: :scared: :surprised:

12.1 gallon tank, that would be 8.2 MPG :laugh:

thats pretty much what the DIS displays average by the end of the day

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2012, 09:37:05 pm »
worst 100miles
That must have been exciting/frightening. :grin: :scared: :surprised:

12.1 gallon tank, that would be 8.2 MPG :laugh:

S3 has a 60 litre (13.2 gallon) tank

so 7.5mpg!
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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2012, 09:43:56 pm »
300-320 on average, but there's usually quite a lot of town driving. Traffic around Woking/Guildford is shocking.

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2012, 09:54:06 pm »
My best result in summer was 650 km and usually 550 km

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2012, 10:05:30 pm »
worst 100miles
That must have been exciting/frightening. :grin: :scared: :surprised:

12.1 gallon tank, that would be 8.2 MPG :laugh:

S3 has a 60 litre (13.2 gallon) tank

so 7.5mpg!

 :laugh: don't think it ever gets that bad, 8.6 average is the lowest I've seen the DIS read

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #28 on: December 13, 2012, 10:07:39 pm »
You just get more power in the cold because the air is denser, but its also harder for the car to move through the air so it's much of a muchness at higher speeds.

The air is denser when its colder but you are getting more volume of air in because it is denser so the car puts in more fuel to keep the AFR the same.

I am getting better MPG  just now but that is only because the roads are icy so I am driving to the conditions

I normally put in £40 a week from the fuel light coming on and get around 180-220 miles from that

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Re: How many miles you getting on a Full Tank?
« Reply #29 on: December 13, 2012, 10:10:38 pm »
I always fill till it clicks off once. Always use V power. Stage1 map

Used to get 300-330 but recently its slipped to 280-300.
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