MPG - any help?

[suave]

Folks - I run my 05 GTI very smoothly and often drive like a funeral director. However, my average MPG never goes above 35 even when i'm on the motorway.

Is 35 MPG typical on our GTIs?

Is there anything realatively cheap that i could do to maybe improve my MPG a bit? Plugs or whatever??

Cheers

[stealthwolf]

Buy a diesel?

Seriously, the GTI isn't horrendously economical. 35mpg is about right. I've hit 40mpg but that's sticking to 60mph strictly. Other than the usual (make sure you're not carrying extra weight, tyres correctly inflated, making sure it's had a service, etc), there's not a huge amount you can do. If you want better mpg, you'd need to look elsewhere.

[suave]

Cheers

I'm not that bothered (not enough to buy diesel anyway) but have recentlt seen posts on here with pics showing MPG in the mid 40s!

It's too good a driving car to worry too much about the MPG.

HNY!

[Gene Hunt]

Folks - I run my 05 GTI very smoothly and often drive like a funeral director. However, my average MPG never goes above 35 even when i'm on the motorway.

Is 35 MPG typical on our GTIs?

Is there anything realatively cheap that i could do to maybe improve my MPG a bit? Plugs or whatever??

Cheers

............about the same from my ED 30.   

[Tinytim]

I've noticed more and more of these MPG threads popping up.
I don't understand why. If you're asking the question it tells me this is the wrong car for you and a oil burner is the ideal car.

The GTI or any other performance petrol is never going to be economical.
I say enjoy the car and forget about MPG.

Do you think this is a topic discussed by M5 and M3 owners? I doubt it.
I've had an R32 before and the amount of times I saw threads from potential buyers asking what the MPG was like became tiring. I mean who in their right mind thinks about buying a 3.2 litre V6 and expects or hopes it will be cheap to run.

[gti yorks]

Wow, your complaining about 35 mpg, I have never seen near 35 mpg in mine, 32.5mpg is the highest I have had, and that was on a 200 mile motorway trip cruising at 80mph.  As has been said they are not the most economical of cars, best to just enjoy it while you have got itm

[GrayMK5GTI]

Do you think this is a topic discussed by M5 and M3 owners? I doubt it.
I've had an R32 before and the amount of times I saw threads from potential buyers asking what the MPG was like became tiring. I mean who in their right mind thinks about buying a 3.2 litre V6 and expects or hopes it will be cheap to run.

Believe it or not the M3 owners forum is just as bad 

[WhiteGTI]

Do you think this is a topic discussed by M5 and M3 owners? I doubt it.
I've had an R32 before and the amount of times I saw threads from potential buyers asking what the MPG was like became tiring. I mean who in their right mind thinks about buying a 3.2 litre V6 and expects or hopes it will be cheap to run.

Believe it or not the M3 owners forum is just as bad 

+1 !!!  Too many threads to count on my M3 forum about fuel economy!

[am1w]

The OP is soooooo lucky with his 35mpg.
My 7 mile (each way) daily drive through Central London presents me with a merry maximum of 23mpg. There have been times when I have averaged 11mpg on this journey from HELL!
35mpg? I'd have a joyous manly moment if this ever happened. Not a pretty sight, though!

[sanj]

30's to mid 30's is about right,i've managed to get 33mpg from my ED30 on a motorway run,and that was with mixed driving!

[DJM]

Consider yourself lucky to get average of 35mpg. I think most me tanks end up average of around 28-30mpg. Weekend goes down to 24 ish lol.

[Mk5 GTian]

I've noticed more and more of these MPG threads popping up.
I don't understand why. If you're asking the question it tells me this is the wrong car for you and a oil burner is the ideal car.

The GTI or any other performance petrol is never going to be economical.
I say enjoy the car and forget about MPG.

Do you think this is a topic discussed by M5 and M3 owners? I doubt it.
I've had an R32 before and the amount of times I saw threads from potential buyers asking what the MPG was like became tiring. I mean who in their right mind thinks about buying a 3.2 litre V6 and expects or hopes it will be cheap to run.

 


Spot on mate. I tried tget better mpg out of mine like this. I was driving around like Mother Teresa getting overtaken by Hyundai i10's just to see if I could get an extra 5mpg. I thought "What the hell am I doing?" I guess I got sucked into itby these threads.

[Black9]

35mpg, really? Don't think I've ever seen my mpg that high so count yourself lucky. Seems good for a 2LT car, but a good service helps, good quality oil, filter and plugs would do the job. Also maybe an air filter and fuel filter too

[swgti]

I've never seen higher than 33mpg on mine even on a long journey, at the end of the day exactly what I'd expect from a turbo charged 200bhp hot hatch, sure you can probably do way more but the way id have to drive to achieve it would be an insult to the badge! 

[nathangallo]

i recently did a run from cardiff to thatcham(just outside newbury) and i was doing 70-80 and some little blasts nothing major though and i hit around 35mpg this includes non motorway driving which i thought was awsome, i have hit 39mpg on a short a road and motorway run .