VW Polo Bluemotion low mpg

Weird_Nev

knightstyle wrote: »

hey caeler my mpg only gets to 199mpg when coasting so your car must be more economical than mine!!!!!
One thing you can do to save fuel is to disable the aircon, remove the belt if possible, plus use electrical stuff sparingly. Every watt of electricity is produced by burning fuel!

Being as Alternator, Possibly power steering (most likely electric too) and engine fan probably also run off of that belt, it may not be the best idea!

knightstyle

You are probably right, I did it to my old Renault when the bearing went and I seem to remember that Land Rovers had separate belts as well. The problem with modern cars is that they take so much away from your control, aircon, heated rear screens etc. come on at random when the exhaust filter needs cleaning, that must increase your mpg!

Loganfire

knightstyle wrote: »

hey caeler my mpg only gets to 199mpg when coasting so your car must be more economical than mine!!!!!
One thing you can do to save fuel is to disable the aircon, remove the belt if possible, plus use electrical stuff sparingly. Every watt of electricity is produced by burning fuel!

lol i like to have some mod cons in me car

anotherbaldrick

I found that on a very long steady run turning off the A/C on my Golf worsened the mpg , not improved it. I have tried this several times now with the same results. On a traffic free cruise back from the south coast on the A24 on the initial slight uphill to Horsham it was doing 54.2 on the trip meter. On reaching the level stretch on the Horsham by-pass I switched the A/C off to see what it would do but mpg dropped to 53 on the meter , towards Beare Green I switched the A/C back on and mpg imroved back up to 54 . now, that is weird.
It was a cool day so the A/C would not have been doing much but it seems to prefer being on idling rather than off.

almillar

kaya - i would take your claims more seriously if you could actually form them in sentances! brim to brim is actually 'as close as you can get to' brim to brim, if you fill up, use loads of fuel until NEARLY empty, then fill again, you know how many litres you used previously, and how many miles you did. Do this again and it becomes more accurate, and again, and so on. I think you'll agree, despite all the inaccuracies you correctly point out, that it's 'accurate enough' if done over a long time, and more practical than your other suggestions!

Loganfire

almillar wrote: »

kaya - i would take your claims more seriously if you could actually form them in sentances! brim to brim is actually 'as close as you can get to' brim to brim, if you fill up, use loads of fuel until NEARLY empty, then fill again, you know how many litres you used previously, and how many miles you did. Do this again and it becomes more accurate, and again, and so on. I think you'll agree, despite all the inaccuracies you correctly point out, that it's 'accurate enough' if done over a long time, and more practical than your other suggestions!

now that's what brim to brim is:o

rodenal

I pretty much constantly average either 46mpg (heavy right foot) or 54mpg (sensible) in any given working week in the civic, driving with pretty much all electronics on, climate/radio/bluetooth all auto sensing stuff on etc etc - the difference of about £3.60/week is completely obliterated by the number of times I decide to buy a takeaway, have some beers or even just go somewhere different at the weekend. I don't need a diesel car I just wanted to have the civic and hated the way the 1.8 drove, didn't want to pay to insure a type R plus there's no dpf in the cdti so it worked for me.

Its too easy to get caught up in sales hype with these cars, a few hundred miles on the clock is definately too soon to judge, try keeping a record over say 5/6k miles.

I could never, ever get 70-80+ mpg out of any car as I just cant bring myself to drive in the manner that's required to get to that kind of level - it would be so so boring. The only cars (made in the last 5 or so years) i've ever driven that can give their claimed economy without making performance sacrifices have been bmws - even the 116d is a decent little performer whilst being quite brilliant on fuel.

Loganfire

Loganfire wrote: »

I just bought my new Polo BlueMotion as you may have guessed I got it for the great mpg VW says it can do. They quote it can do 80.7 mpg on the combined cycle. This grants the Polo BlueMotion a theoretical range of over 800 miles on one tank of diesel. Even taking into account that all car manufactures over state the mpg on there cars the worst thing of all is I am getting about 51mpg on a combined cycle which is well below what i was excepting.

I have had the car for a week and followed all the instructions the car came with so far I have done 358 miles, so I spoken to the dealers yesterday and told them off my concerns they said that the engine need to be bedded in for a few thousand miles before I would see a mpg increase close to the manufactures quote, I did say to them are you sure your not just Bull Sh

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g me they said no. So what I am trying to find out is the VW dealer telling me the truth or was he given me some BS?

Thought i would give everyone a update the milage seem to be improving done 1500 miles and notice a increase of about 6mpg fingures cross it will keep going up

fatbelly

fatbelly wrote: »

On Honest John people are reporting an average of 66mpg in real life, which is very good.

It should improve a bit more, I think, when things warm up a bit.

Trebor16

It will improve in the spring when they go back to the summer diesel.