What's your MPG?

[widu13]

id take no notice of them clocks myself don't know why there in there for one says your doing 39 mpg and the other clock tells you your got 78 miles left in range to find 20 miles later a visit to top up just my opinion !!

That's why I ask. Mine reports high 40s on a run and ends up being 41mpg and I drive sssslllloooowww up the gears and rarely above 60/65mph.

 

[t6 steve]

yea mine says 39 but think more like 34 ish but I love the van and if it means putting extra gallon in on top so be it .id rather have the adblue clock on it was saying 2500 miles still saying 2500 miles 2 months and 650 miles later so I suppose that will drop to 500 miles over night .don't help maters I do lot short journeys

 

[Lukavell]

No loosening for me.
My 150 kombi dsg still struggles to get better than 32mpg whilst empty and travelling at 62mph, and its got 15000 on the clock.
Its the worst part of T6 ownership for me.

I'd be dissatisfied with that mate. I'm on my third transporter variant and the score is two out of three. My 2003 Caravelle was bang on, 2008 Panel Van was crap, 28mpg at best no matter what I did and my 2017 Caravelle is not so bad.

Nothing will loosen up. Engines are fully run in after several hundred miles nowadays.
Day one 400 delivery miles in I got average 29mpg. 3 years 60k miles later still getting 29mpg, engine feels the same.

I'm no expert, so please don't think I'm trying to say you're are wrong, I'm not. I share with the forum from my experience but, it is different to yours. Maybe it took me 6000 miles to get used to driving mine and that's why my mpg went up around the 10k mark, perhaps the fuel supply changed in my locale, there are lots of possible variants which disable us from objectively testing, I'm not a mechanical engineer or economist, but, my mpg increased notably after about 10k. I don't do short runs. I mostly have 16" wheels and BFGoodrich tyres on. I keep up with the traffic when necessary but tend to sit around 2k revs when it is convenient to do so.

There is NOTHING I haven't tried to improve my mpg.
I drive it like an absolute grandad.
I had standard 16" wheels with tyres pumped right up and even when I took a mate down to the airport at 55mph, I still only managed 34mpg.

It TRULY baffles me that people say they can get upto 40mpg out of the same van but with big 20" inch alloys, a camper conversion and doing 70mph.

No big wheels or heavy conversions in mine. If I sit at 70mph for a tank I can get a solid 35 mpg. This is worked out tank to tank, not from the dash. Got the 38 mpg sat at 62 mph, fairly well loaded. 5 x humans plus luggage. Mostly uphill but only very slightly. I remember thinking it would be great to have the incline displayed.

That's very good for a DSG, what does the dash MPG report- high 40s?

I know you weren't asking me but my dash mostly reports 10% ish more on a steady run. Every once in a while, for about 20 minutes, possibly during a DPF regen, it reports well below, sometimes 40% less than, what it's actually done when I work it out. It's working on averages though so I just take it with a pinch of salt.

 

[James1000]

I’m not seeing average speeds here -I see too many T6’s trundling down the motorway at 50-60, I would easily get 40-50mpg but probably die of boredom and spend the whole weekend just getting there and back!!

I have noticed a significant drop in economy and adblue consumption is up over the winter - anyone else?

 

[dubber36]

Economy always drops in the winter. Winter diesel is not as efficient, a lot of the engines heat energy is been pumped into the cab and there is a greater draw on electricity due to lights and fans being on more often. It all adds up but is relative. Even the smallest most eco city cars will see a similar percentage drop in mpg.

I can't comment on Adblue consumption, as when I got my van it said 4500 miles to go. 5000 miles later, it says 3000 mile worth left.

 

[Dannyb6467]

I think some of us miss the point when discussing fuel consumption in our T6s...overall in my opinion its rubbish. I also own a transit custom LWB DCIV, 170hp, auto. It's getting a real 45 when mixed driving and 50 on a run.
Theres no excuse for 28s and 30s from VW for what essentially is a similar van.
I prefer my T6 though !!!

 

[widu13]

Look at all the current van offerings on test and their mpg results. VW is the worst On my Dacia 4x4 I fit a cover in winter to the grill which significantly improves the winter mpg (between 3-5mpg).

 

[s2ulk]

Have had my T6 150 Caravelle a few weeks and MPG has been impressive but this morning I took it to the shops and back - 8 mile run with mix of 30mph and 50mph and for 47.8 mpg!! Surely that can’t be right - I didn’t get that on my diesel 3 series

 

[Scruffy]

Yep, you would be correct in thinking its not right. The MFD is a thing of fiction, but I do find the number two setting ( an average taken over 5k or more) to be very close to what I measure when I do brim to brim calculations.

 

[RedUn]

My 150 is the same when knocking around nice and steady, on a reasonable journey with motorway etc I always seem to get between 40 and 42.

Never checked the mfd against real life mind you, it's good enough to not bother

 

[.50]

Still blows my mind that some can get between 40 and 50mpg from the same spec van that many, (me included), struggle to get 30mpg out of.

The best I can get my empty 150 DSG kombi to do is 32mpg average but only if I do a long run on the main road keeping speed below 55mph.

 

[BognorMotors]

You can get 50mpg out of a 150. So yes that could be right

 

[.50]

You can get 50mpg out of a 150. So yes that could be right

Not on God's earth will my 150 kombi do 50mpg.

How do I get it do 50mpg?.

If anyone can get 50mpg out of my van under normal driving conditions, they can have it !!. (is a completely factory standard, empty 150 dsg kombi with 19" alloys which only robbed around 2mpg when swapped for the standard 16" ones.

 

[Skyliner33]

Still blows my mind that some can get between 40 and 50mpg from the same spec van that many, (me included), struggle to get 30mpg out of.

The best I can get my empty 150 DSG kombi to do is 32mpg average but only if I do a long run on the main road keeping speed below 55mph.

I got more than that from my 180 driving round the passes in the Lake District last week.
I would love a go at your challenge

 

[DXX]

I got more than that from my 180 driving round the passes in the Lake District last week.
I would love a go at your challenge

Same here, 180 getting a regular 38-40 these days, without the afterburner!

 

[Big.mac]

I calculate mine based on the actual mileage recorded brim to brim and how much fuel i put in the tank, I don’t use the MFD. I’m with @.50 on this. There is not a chance I’ll get 40 MPG let alone 50. Standard 150 Kombi van with 19” alloys and usually empty.....

 

[.50]

Same here, 180 getting a regular 38-40 these days, without the afterburner!

So a genuine question for you.

What do you think when you see that people like me are really struggling to get anywhere near the same mpg figures as you?.

Do you just assume that I/we are driving like loons just in towns, fully loaded with massive wheels fitted?, or are just crap drivers who can't anticipate the traffic and are on and off the brakes all the time?.

Saying, 'I get more than 32mpg driving X,Y and Z, is not the same as getting 50mpg.

All I'm trying to understand/learn is, quite clearly, what I'm doing so wrong in my van thats costing me nearly 20mpg.

Please, please don't read this response the wrong way, its not meat to funny or argumentative.

 

[Skyliner33]

So a genuine question for you.

What do you think when you see that people like me are really struggling to get anywhere near the same mpg figures as you?.

Do you just assume that I/we are driving like loons just in towns, fully loaded with massive wheels fitted?, or are just crap drivers who can't anticipate the traffic and are on and off the brakes all the time?.

Saying, 'I get more than 32mpg driving X,Y and Z, is not the same as getting 50mpg.

All I'm trying to understand/learn is, quite clearly, what I'm doing so wrong in my van thats costing me nearly 20mpg.

Please, please don't read this response the wrong way, its not meat to funny or argumentative.

Well, in all honesty I am probably as puzzled as you. if you were nearer it would have been interesting to do a journey following each other’s driving style as closely as possible and compare the vans mfd at the end.

 

[.50]

Well, in all honesty I am probably as puzzled as you. if you were nearer it would have been interesting to do a journey following each other’s driving style as closely as possible and compare the vans mfd at the end.

Thanks for you reply.

I'm a very logical fellow, and I just cannot understand how machines that are similarly built can perform with such wildly differing rusults.

 

[RedUn]

I don't think the DSG helps, my dad has a 150 DSG shuttle and it gets no where near my 150 manual kombi.

I've not done many miles in it but I put it down to the mapping on the gearbox, it feels like it's mapped to a car? Even on light throttle the rpm is always quite high? I'd say I'm always in one gear higher than the DSG in the manual?

If your talking manual vs manual and same engine then I'm with you @.50 no clue why it would be so different