How many miles have you had to a full tank

silverpolo · Post by **silverpolo** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:21 am

iv had 560 miles about Â£31 of fuel 1.4tdi

better then when i first got my car dont think i could touch 500 miles 2 a tank.

Petrified · Post by **Petrified** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 1:31 am

That's excellent! I didn't think you could get that many miles. Wish I got a deisel now!!

I got 380 miles out of Â£28 Optimax in my FSi 1.4. This was just after the refuel light came on so there was probably another 25 miles in the tank.

But it's difficult driving like an old man for a full tank and the best I've got since then is 350. Hopefully it will go up some more!

I think there is another thread on here somewhere about this.

A good question would be how much can you put in your tank?? They are meant to be 45 litres but I've only been able to put in about 37 litres at most, and this is when the tank is almost empty. I've tried letting the air out of the tank but it doesnt allow much more to go in.

In my old mk5 1.0 I could put 46 litres in when it was almost empty (same size tank) But then you don't really want 46+ litres of petrol in a 1.0 (very slow)

Also optimax around here is 0.78p per litre. It was more like .89 in Ipswich!

James.

polo2k · Post by **polo2k** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 4:35 am

i know what a price hike i pay about 68p a litre here but we can only get 98

ciden · Post by **ciden** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 6:14 pm

I get around 380miles on a tank that costs me R180.00 (Â£14.40 roughly).

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:25 am

Â£14.40 for a tank of fuel!

Babe.... How much is a tank of fuel in Brazil?

I don't know whether to move to South America or South Africa!!

(I could drive to South Africa though... Damn, that would be some road trip - possibly a very dangerous one... Extreme Road Trip! Woohooo!)

Can you tell I'm a little drunk?

Babe RuthLess · Post by **Babe RuthLess** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:54 am

Well, a litre of Shell V-Power (the logo's the same as Optimax but it's got 25% alcohol as required by Brazilian law) costs R$1.97, or 41p by today's exchange rate.

'Regular' petrol costs 39p, and alcohol fuel is 28p (around 30% of the fleet still runs on alcohol, though sales of alcohol-powered cars are now less than 5% of themarket. Now GM and VW are launching dual-fuel or flex-fuel cars which can run in either petrol or alcohol or a mixture of the two in any proportion).

The sale of Diesel-powered passenger cars is forbidden by brazilian law. So only lorries, van, buses and SUVs can run on Diesel.

Babe RuthLess · Post by **Babe RuthLess** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:57 am

BTW, we have the most expensive fuels in South America, as Brazil only produces 85% of its oil needs. So we have to import the rest from Venezuela and Nigeria (not from the middle east, thankfully!).

We should become self-sufficient in oil by 2010 though.

@Josh

Don't worry... I'm now leaving home to go get drunk too! I'm taking a taxi BTW

Cheers,

Petrified · Post by **Petrified** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 3:57 pm

Yesterday I got 430 miles out of a full tank! with about 10 in reserve.

Keeping to speed limits

and had and extra weight in the back of the car. I'll be doing the same 650 mile round trip tomorrow without the weight so I'll see if I can get more.

My car is really starting to run in now at 5000 miles, the engine sounds smoother and acceleration (especially around 50-70) has improved.

James.

Edit: I did the same trip again but this time only got 400 (with 25 in reserve) Didn't have the extra weight but there was a lot of stop/start traffice on the m5/m1/a66/a42/m42/m40/m50/m4... not really a good day for driving.

mk4polo · Post by **mk4polo** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 11:44 pm

how many miles!!!!
i put in about Â£26 in my 16vavler and get about 220miles

oh the fun of a high revving valver!
i spend around/over Â£200 a month on petrol, so roll on the TDI

leonsmith · Post by **leonsmith** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:41 am

Well, I've just used up my very 1st tank in the new TDi. 415 miles covered and cost just Â£29.50 to fill (@74.9) - MFA says 48 to the gallon

Not bad for it's first time out I reckon - things can only get better! My old Polo GTi would have only done 320 miles and would have cost around Â£32 to fill.

silverpolo · Post by **silverpolo** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:52 pm

had 580 miles from mine this week most iv ever had cars done 28k ......

leonsmith · Post by **leonsmith** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 3:10 pm

silverpolo wrote:had 580 miles from mine this week most iv ever had cars done 28k ......

That's a great figure! You must have been tickling that throttle!

My total miles are creeping up, last tank managed 434 and computer was still showing 10 to go and I know I've got at least 5 more after that says zero! The air conditioner is cutting into mine in this humid weather and i've yet to use the car on a long trip where I can just turn the cruise on at 60 and watch the mpg go through the roof!

My car has only done 2.5k miles so it's still got plenty of breaking in to do I think.

silverpolo · Post by **silverpolo** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 2:43 pm

yeah very light foot

roll on 600 miles per tank !!!

used supermarket fuel once from Asda not very good at all was hard work to get 500 miles (stick to esso fuel now )

Ratty · Post by **Ratty** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 7:38 pm

Oh, this is depressing.

Best I've had is 290 miles...and that was with her running on fumes! Mind you, only done about 2200 in total I 'spose.

And it takes about Â£37 of SUL to brim the b1tch.

Apparently, the 65bhp version gives slightly better fuel economy. Looking at my figures, I can't imagine that being too difficult to achieve!

silverpolo · Post by **silverpolo** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 9:27 pm

U wanna get your self a diesel ratty

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