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Experienced similar results with mine at these speeds, pretty amazing for a big car.

Would there still be DEF on the Passat?

That's awesome, I remember in the early days of these cars when I reported similar mpg's people on this forum wanted to throw me overboard, glad you are finding similar performance. I no longer own the Passat, but it has nothing to do with car, loved it.

I had the same two cars, the 6m Passat got 20-25% better mpg's.....even better in some cases.

I received 2 surveys.....the 1st one had a $1 bill, the 2nd one had a $5 bill in it. I answered honestly, and the 2nd one had a lot more questions.

48mpg is doable, that is about what I averaged, but you are going to have to be careful with the right foot to average that.

I hardly ever had the fan running after turning off the engine, most of my runs were 30+ miles so maybe this had something to do with it.

Think it is closer to 18.5 gallons....

Mine is very difficult to fill consistently, I have a certain pump/station that I use almost every time so I've gotten it down pretty good, but if I use a different pump with a different ground angle I will get different results. Crazy as it sounds if I have the nose of the car pointing up...

Yeah, had mine done too, they did not remove the rear deck.

Yep, I got them too....maybe they figure a fair number of those HPFP failures could have been avoided with the new yellow stickers...lol

OK Niner, you don't make me laugh very often, but that was funny ;) Yeah, the wife loves the Passat as much(or more) than I do, I've been trying to convince her that it is smart to sell it, Eh, not gonna happen, guess I need to attend some more sales classes...lol

Probably 60/40 most of the time, and my 40% "city" is a 20 mile section of road that can have 8-10 stop lights, meaning 0-70 & 70-0 which really kills mpg's...BUT, there are times where I may only hit 1 or 2 lights then it really isn't much of a mix and I can see 54-58 mpg's on my computer over...

Haven't responded here in a while, but had one of my best tanks to date....870 miles, 17.01 gallons = 51.14mpg's....mixed driving

Thanks to everyone who responded. I may be crazy for not selling it as I had quite a few people interested in buying it at 23k+, but for now I'm going to keep it.

I had a 2011 Golf TDI dsg and I averaged about 40-42mpg's over its lifetime. Just for reference my current 2012 Passat TDI 6M averages around 48-50mpg's over the same routes. The Passat does get significantly better highway mpg's than the Golf and similar city mpg's....of course I'm comparing...

I've had several people locally interested in the car(as well as out of state calls), of course a verbal offer is not cash in hand so if I were to sell it we'd see......at this point it may be a moot point as I'm considering keeping it.

Hey Niner, in Georgia you don't pay taxes on a private sale so that is a $1750 savings from buying at a dealer, and you don't have to pay for dealer fees, another $750ish. So in Georgia, pay $25,000 new + $1,750 taxes + $750 fees = approx $27,500 out the door at the dealer.....glad I'm not...

That was the plan/reason, but I may end up keeping it for a while.....has nothing to do with the car, I love the car, one of my favorites.