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Whilst it is confusing, I'd feel confident that in buying a new door lock you won't be wasting your money.
 
MikeMarsUK said:
Just to make life frustrating, I stopped at a Shell to refuel this morning & they insisted on filling it themselves!!! (so no brim&vent, & hence no idea of actual fuel used). I'll have to get the figure after the next full tank.
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Very happy now ;) I have put the next tank in, and my MPGs are back to what they were at the end of last year :)

Obviously there are a number of different factors so it is impossible to say which of these fixed the problem.
* Service & binding rear/offside brakes fixed by Stealth.
* Weather improving.
* Now have taller/narrower tyres with LRR rubber.
* Tyre circumference increased by 2.7% hence all gears are now a bit longer.
* Aero windscreen wipers instead of the old style ones.


I've also reprogrammed the ScanGauge to give me MPG rather than Miles/Litre. Constantly having to multiply everything by 4.5461 whenever I glanced at the fuel consumption was driving me potty. I short-circuited the initial calibration but will need to fine tune it at the end of this tank.
 
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Todays tank was 77.4mpg :) That beats my previous-best from the A2 of 76.1mpg, and also my previous best from my old Passat of 76.8mpg. That Passat record was proving to be hard to beat so I'm glad I finally broke through.
 
77.4! Well done, Mike! I presume you managed the record in the Passat using P&G, whereas the A2 has returned this latest figure with 'normal' driving?

Tom
 
I posted my best of 67.8 on the last tank, and my "rolling average" is now up to 64MPG, so I'm close to hitting the 70 barrier - I'm hoping swapping on the forged 15s with 15 rubber will push me over the edge!

MikeMarsUK said:
Todays tank was 77.4mpg :) That beats my previous-best from the A2 of 76.1mpg, and also my previous best from my old Passat of 76.8mpg. That Passat record was proving to be hard to beat so I'm glad I finally broke through.
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timmus said:
77.4! Well done, Mike! I presume you managed the record in the Passat using P&G, whereas the A2 has returned this latest figure with 'normal' driving?

Tom
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Well, I was using 'mild' P&G in the A2 (by 'mild' I mean mostly only taking advantage of road undulations and not bothering with the flat bits), whereas on the Passat I was using fairly extreme P&G (engine-off glide, doing it all the time). But ever since I destroyed the clutch on the Passat doing that (effectively a kickstart every 20 seconds), I stopped using that technique.

However the Passat was much more responsive to P&G than the A2 - I think because it weighed so much more, it had a lot of momentum for the 'glide' phase. The P&G only seems to have minimal effect on MPG on the A2 (although gliding has been improved a bit by the LRR tyres).
 
I had wondered whether that was the case. I run semi-LRR tyres and have quite a heavy A2 by A2 standards, but it doesn't glide that far in comparison to bigger cars like Passats.
I'd also thought about the implications of extreme P&G on the clutch. It's all fine and well getting super-high MPGs, but if you're eating clutches in the process it seems to financially defeat itself.

It's nice that you've broken the Passat's MPG record in the A2 without having to resort to a driving technique which is all-round tiresome for everyone, from the P&G driver and their passengers to other road users. Enjoy getting those MPG figures in comfort! :)

Tom
 
dan_b said:
I posted my best of 67.8 on the last tank, and my "rolling average" is now up to 64MPG, so I'm close to hitting the 70 barrier - I'm hoping swapping on the forged 15s with 15 rubber will push me over the edge!
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Good luck on the 70 :)

I've come to the conclusion that the main reason my MPG is better than other people who also cruise at 60 is that I do *no* short trips at all (usually nothing less than 27 miles), and the small proportion of urban driving I do as part of my daily commute is usually fairly free flowing. The local supermarket is only a couple of hundred yards down the road & I don't have to do 'taxi' duties.

The mods & mild-P&G I think is only a secondary advantage. The christmas tank where I had a few short trips to pick stuff up was 8mpg less than the previous.
 
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MikeMarsUK said:
I've come to the conclusion that the main reason my MPG is better than other people who also cruise at 60 is that I do *no* short trips at all.
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I'd concluded this, too. I regularly get over 70mpg on longer trips despite running broad, heavy 17" wheels, but my most frequent place of work is 6 miles away, so my average over the course of each tank is pulled down by trips there and back.
 
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