I am curious about a scangauge and where is connects in the car (2011) and where I can get the gauge as well. I was under the impression the VWs were unique in their protocol and were readable using VAG COM only. Is this not the case anymore?I have a Scanguage. My instantaneous mileage for my 2011 DSG is best at 80 kph or 50 mph. At that speed it is about 65 mpg but that drops off to about 50 at 60 mph. My combined city/highway/gravel road mileage over a tank is about 43 mpg.
Its never been the case in regards to using a scangauge. Scangauge gets data from the obd2 port.I am curious about a scangauge and where is connects in the car (2011) and where I can get the gauge as well. I was under the impression the VWs were unique in their protocol and were readable using VAG COM only. Is this not the case anymore?
DSGs have a ratio of 2.31i think the dsg is almost spot on with rpm of the manual. I do agree that [the]
manual will put out better mpg IF the manual driver can drive it right.
Evidently you haven't seen this post or the thread.i think the dsg is almost spot on with rpm of the manual. I do agree that manual will put out better mpg IF the manual driver can drive it right.
You do not say, but I think you have the 6 MT?My read out says something like 74 mpg at 40 mph, but not sure if that's right.. nor would I want to drive around at 40 mph all the time... My car is still not really broken in so I've only once tried to see what fuel economy I could get out of it. I'm waiting until my break in
allows me to drive the way I want to drive to get the fuel economy.
Happy with the 36-45 mpg I'm getting now...
Edit: mind you this was an instant read out, and on a flat road with no ac,
but I did maintain the mpg for a few mins...
Nope I have DSG. Like I said I wasn't sure if it was right, and it is only the instant computer and for a few minutes as I got to the end of the road... but I was getting pretty good fuel economy for the few mins I was on that road.You do not say, but I think you have the 6 MT?
And would '2nd' that observation, as that is what I'm getting with my Golf DSGFm > Kassel
My 2011 Jetta TDI seems to like 60 MPH for max MPG. I routinely get 50 MPG+ at 60 MPH. At higher speeds (65/70) the mileage drops to 45/46 MPG.
1,900 rpmsFm > Jack Frost
What is your rpm at your best mileage speed?
Since he changed the GY LRR 205/65-16s to even larger LRR 215/65-16 Continentals,Derrel H Green (2010 JSW, DSG) also ran similar tests with oversize tires.
Its low because that's the average speed you drive at.my average speed per MFD is always way low, but 90% of my time I'm either doing 65-70 or 35. For best tank over tank MPG's I'd need to drive at 50-55 mph. Speed kills.
I think MPG can only reliably be calculated over at least a tankful of fuel. The trip computer gives only instantaneous readouts, and any momentum gained from previous acceleration or downhill roads, will give one an unrealistic albeit fun figure of 200 mpg ( max of VW computer). My Scangauge sometimes gives me a figure of 2999 mpg on long down hills.
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Whether MPG can be reliably calculated depends on many things. The only difference between MPG calculated over a tank or that read from a ScanGuage (what you call instantaneous readout) is the time interval the MPG reading is estimated over. The tank method is done over the time it takes to use a tank of fuel (which could be a day or a week or a month or more). The instantaneous is not instantaneous but done the same way as the tank method but over a smaller quantity of fuel (typically the amount of fuel consumed in a single second).
Most of us cannot use a tank of fuel entirely on the highway on the same road, with the same weather condstions such as wind. One tank may produce quite a different MPG than another tank. The instantaeous method can be very accurate if one wants to know what the MPG is under very specific and controlled conditions. For instance, I have seen many times that there is a 5% difference in MPG between an older concrete highway and a freshly ashphalted section of it. That could never be realized using the tank method.
The tank method is a better method for estimating your overall fuel costs. Generally I found that the law of averages is very powerful. MY commuting mileage is always withing a few MPG on consectutive tanksfuls. There is about a 2 or 3% difference between summer and winter mileage. However without the instantaneous method, I had no idea of how much fuel that freshly asphaulted highway helped me.
Not quite true. Engine efficiency and peak torque is not the same as fuel economy. I think the charts you really want to see is the BFSC and it's in the thread I posted the link to.To get the best fuel economey you need to know at what rpm, peak engine torque is developed. Once you know that then it is just a matter of setting speed with rpm selected to the gear you are in.
I have not seen a torque chart for these TDI yet. Does anyone know where we can look at one?
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