sledgeweazel Posted February 22, 2006 Report Posted February 22, 2006 Hi all I have now had my mk1 gal for about 3 years and no problems but in the last few weeks the fuel consumption has gone right up I am now returning about 35 to the gallon, dose anyone know where to start and look for the problem I have vagcom and will be plugging in this weekend. Ta Sledge Quote
Masked Marauder Posted February 22, 2006 Report Posted February 22, 2006 Cold weather is the culprit! Quote
Scorpiorefugee Posted February 23, 2006 Report Posted February 23, 2006 I second that. I've only had mine 8 months but, until the cold weather started, I was getting 46/47 but that has droppd to 40ish and I do mostly long runs. An important consideration is the Aux. heater. I only found out that mine actually worked about a month ago and now, partially because of a coolant temperature sender fault, the ###### thing is on permanently. Nice and warm within a couple of miles or so but I can only get 600 miles to a tankful now. :ph34r: Seriously, cold weather does make a considerable difference, 10 - 20% but you may have a problem. Is everything else behaving normally? Ron. Quote
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