puntmeister
Veteran Member
There has been a good bit of conjecture at various times about whether cruising at low speeds (40 to 45 mph) is better (in terms of MPG) in 4th gear or 5th.
I decided to do some logging with VCDS. I will refrain from posting actual results, for now, as I would really want to do some more logs, on different stretches of road, for longer periods of time/distance than I've been able to thusfar, to see if my results are consistent.
However, thusfar, my logging clearly shows, by a significant margin, that MPG is higher in 5th gear than 4th - at both 40 & 45 mph.
This is in a 2004 BEW PD manual. Flat road, no A/C, steady speed.
I decided to do some logging with VCDS. I will refrain from posting actual results, for now, as I would really want to do some more logs, on different stretches of road, for longer periods of time/distance than I've been able to thusfar, to see if my results are consistent.
However, thusfar, my logging clearly shows, by a significant margin, that MPG is higher in 5th gear than 4th - at both 40 & 45 mph.
This is in a 2004 BEW PD manual. Flat road, no A/C, steady speed.