February 2006 Monthly Mileage Competition

jnecr

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Joined
Oct 9, 2004
Location
Raleigh, NC
TDI
2014 BMW 328d
Here it is:

Post your results like this:


Driver:
Miles:
Gallons:
Model Year:
Model:
Tranny:
Fuel type:

Please post ALL of your tanks for the month. Individual tanks are also much easier for me to deal with rather than monthly totals. One tank reports will no longer be classifieds in the overall results at the end of the month...



 
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ericdrob

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Joined
Jun 26, 2005
Location
Lansing, MI
TDI
'03 ALH jetta... .658 5th gear, Kerma Tuned with PP520
Driver: wife of ericdrob
Miles: 667.5
Gallons: 14.252
Model Year: 00
Model: Jetta
Tranny: 5m
Fuel type: D2

fueled up last night, 8 oz PS(grey) added.
 

osesu96

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Joined
May 29, 2004
Location
Mooresville, NC
TDI
2004 Jetta GLS TDI - Platinum Gray
Driver: osesu96
Miles: 741.1
Gallons: 15.34
Model Year: 2004
Model: Jetta
Tranny: 5sp
Fuel type: B5

first fill-up in Feb.

 

scooperhsd

Top Post Dawg
Joined
Aug 19, 2003
Location
Kansas City KS
TDI
NB, 2000, RED(5 Speed conversion) 2015 Golf SE
Feb 1
Driver:scooperhsd
Miles: 525.6
Gallons: 13.638
Model Year: 2000
Model: New Beetle
Tranny: 4A
Fuel type: D2

mpg to date - 38.539
 

Dan_P

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Joined
Sep 9, 2005
Location
Mississippi Gulf Coast
TDI
First time VW and TDI owner as of 1/4/06
2/2

Driver: Dan_P
Miles: 601.4
Gallons: 14.502
Model Year:2006
Model:Jetta
Tranny:DSG
Fuel type:D2

600 mile club - yeah! Actually could have stretched the tank a little further but fuel price and distance to next station encouraged me to stop early. Also still learning how to interpret the fuel guage (wasn't quite on E but low fuel light had been on for about 30 miles). Fuel used for this interval was Texaco "Extreme Diesel" - which sounds like D2 w/ Power Service added to it. The refuel was Chevron and I added about 5 oz of Power Service to the fuel. I won't use this station again since it only had the "big rig" nozzle and it was very difficult (read slow) filling the tank without spilling. Tank was filled to the threads on the neck.
 

Snipely

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Joined
Jan 7, 2003
Location
Chicago
TDI
2003 Jetta TDI Wagon, Indigo
2/2

Driver:Snipely
Miles: 872.0
Gallons: 17.45
Model Year: 2003
Model: Jetta Wagon
Tranny: m5
Fuel type: B10

Needed to add 2 gals of D2 at 803.6 before fillup...had 750.4 at low fuel light. I have a 40 mile commute...
 
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thelemite

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Joined
Aug 16, 2005
Location
blakelee PA
TDI
2009 jetta black
Driver: Thelemite
Miles: 581.4
Gallons:12.602
Model Year:99
Model:NB
Tranny:5spd
Fuel type:d2

bleh.. LOONNNG slow nyc traffic.
 

Dakota2004

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Joined
Sep 22, 2005
Location
North Dakota
TDI
2002 Jetta
Driver: Dakota2004
Miles: 503.6
Gallons: 12.8
Model Year: 2002
Model: Jetta
Tranny: Automatic
Fuel type: D2
MPG 39.34
 

Bayou_Flyer

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Joined
Nov 8, 2000
Location
Mississippi Gulf Coast
TDI
2010 Golf 4Door 6M
Driver: Bayou_Flyer
Miles: 716.7
Gallons: 14.06
Model Year: 1999.5
Model: Golf
Tans: 5M
Fuel: D2


99% highway commute @ 75 mph.
 
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gdr703

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Joined
Jun 13, 2002
Location
Vancouver, Canada
TDI
Golf 2 door 2002 Indigo
Driver: gdr703
Miles: 870.5
Gallons: 14.844
Model Year: 2002
Model: Golf
Tranny: 5M
Fuel type: D2

58.64 mpUSg

cheers
 

Audi5000TDI

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Joined
Jul 25, 2005
Location
CA, Good old USA
TDI
Passat, 1996, Grey
Dang gdr703.... I can only dream about those kind of numbers in my B4 Passat. Nice job you are doing there in the mpg department! I'm gonna shoot for a milk run of 55mph for the whole tank to start February off. Still trying to chase down Lug_nut and Rammstein, whose been Broke Butt Mountaining me in the summer mpg contest. When all else fails, drive slower, longer, than your competitors.
 
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hank miller

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Joined
Dec 15, 2005
Location
Monticello, MN
TDI
'06 Jetta
Driver: Hank Miller
Miles: 510
Gallons: 11.121
Model Year: 2006
Model: Jetta
Tranny: M5
Fuel type: B2 (Or so the pump says, might be D1 while MN gets biodiesel sorted)

Sorry about no 10ths in the miles, I didn't reset the trip computer this tank.
 

Brock_from_WI

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Joined
Sep 19, 2002
Location
Green Bay, WI USA
TDI
2003 wagon
Driver: Brock_from_WI
Miles: 790
Gallons: 14.848
Model Year: 2003
Model: wagon
Tranny: 5M
Fuel type: D2
MPG 53.21

Has to be fuel and the Hakka's, it should have been a 60 mpg tank ;)

How the heck are you other "up north" guys still getting great mileage? Still running summer slicks?
 

sodapop6620

Veteran Member
Joined
May 8, 2004
Location
Lancaster, Pa
TDI
Jetta 2000
Driver: Sodapop6620
Miles: 742
Gallons: 13.275 with some spillage since the pump did not shut off on its own:mad:
Model Year: 2000
Model: sedan
Tranny: 5M
Fuel type: D2
MPG 55.895
Rolled over 238,000 today:eek:
 

Audi5000TDI

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Joined
Jul 25, 2005
Location
CA, Good old USA
TDI
Passat, 1996, Grey
Driver:Audi 5000TDI
Miles:87
Gallons:1.61
Model Year:1996
Model:passat
Tranny:M5
Fuel type: D2

MPG 54.04

Bit of a break today, temps were in the high 70's, low 80's F, slight tail wind, and I had a drive where I could set the cruise at 55mpg indicated, no stops. Previous tank is almost all Flying J, rather aromatic in content smell wise, compared to the ULSD I got the last time in L.A.

Brimmed to the threads on the tank neck, both times.

Speed costs MPG, how far do you want to go?:D
 
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Mike_M

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Joined
Sep 23, 2003
Location
Phoenix, AZ
TDI
Black 2002 Jetta GLS
I'm choosing to skip posting this month's first fill (today). I just got ventecomied, so there's about 2 gallons I didn't actually use last tank that would get unjustly accounted for in this tank, dropping my average. So, I'll wait till next fill to post. Hopefully, my timing will have been corrected by then, too. (Long story, but basically, the place that did my TB change will have to take off the belt and re-time it...the sprocket adjustment is already at the end of its travel to the "advanced" side, and the timing its still "too retarded to read" per VAG-COM.)

Mike
 

vikingrob

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May 18, 2004
Location
Minneapolis
TDI
2021 Tesla Model 3 (delivery estimate May 2021)
Brock_from_WI said:
Driver: Brock_from_WI
Miles: 790
Gallons: 14.848
Model Year: 2003
Model: wagon
Tranny: 5M
Fuel type: D2
MPG 53.21

Has to be fuel and the Hakka's, it should have been a 60 mpg tank ;)

How the heck are you other "up north" guys still getting great mileage? Still running summer slicks?
 

Beas

Member
Joined
Oct 22, 2005
Location
Bloomfield Twp., Michigan
TDI
2006 New Jetta, Black DSG Pkg 2 2009 Touareg V6 TDI
Driver: Beas
Miles: 612
Gallons: 12.18
Year: 2006
Model: Jetta
Tranny: M5
Fuel: D2
MPG: 50.2


Note: Used 8 oz Stanadyne One Shot
 

Hookstra

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Joined
Sep 14, 2005
Location
Raleigh, NC suburbs
TDI
Passat, 1996, grey
Driver: Hookstra
Miles:586.2
Gallons:13.26
Model Year:1996
Model:passat
Tranny:5M
Fuel type: D2

Increased tire pressure from 30 to 38psi all the way around shortly before this tank
 
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vikingrob

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May 18, 2004
Location
Minneapolis
TDI
2021 Tesla Model 3 (delivery estimate May 2021)
2006-02-04 | 0257.5 mi | 05.781 gal | B2 | 44.54 mpg | $13.26 | 229.4¢/gal | 5.15¢/mi | Rogers, MN
 

Ernie Rogers

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Joined
Oct 15, 2001
Location
Pleasant Grove, Utah
TDI
Beetle, 2003, silver
My car sat in the carport for two weeks in Fresno while I was away visiting. On Feb. 1, I got back in the bug, filled my tank and drove back to Utah. Here are the results:

Driver: Ernie Rogers Feb. 1
Miles: 103.1
Gallons: 2.391 ---> 43.1 mpg (Short trips around town, early Jan.)
Model Year: 2003
Model: Beetle
Tranny: M5
Fuel type: B2 + Powerservice grey

Driver: Ernie Rogers Feb 2
Miles: 866.1
Gallons: 14.114 ---> 61.36 (Highway, 62 mph, one day, favorable wind.)
Model Year: 2003
Model: Beetle
Tranny: M5
Fuel type: B2 + Powerservice grey

Note: I removed my drag reducer for about the last 250 miles, as I approached rainy weather. (Water hurts it over time, it has wood inside.) I did some highway speeding the next morning, 40 miles at 80 mph, to keep an appointment and filled the tank afterwards. I may have got a little higher mileage otherwise.

Remember that I correct gauge readings-- odo and speed are true.

My car has been doing fantastically well since last summer, even better now it seems allowing for winter fuel. I haven't changed anything. Beetle with drag reducer (Cd = 0.3, about); slightly larger tires-- 205 /60R-16 Michelin MXV4 S8 w. 55k miles, 41 psi cold; Motul oil 506.01, 0W30; engine is unmodified except for EGR turndown, has 118,000 miles, new belt and water pump.

Randy (Audi5000) points out that I get an advantage from driving at higher elevations. By the way, Randy, congrats on the fantastic mileage you posted, and that was on Utah winter fuel. In summer, you would have been nudging 60 mpg.

My next tank will be around town here (Utah), expecting much lower mpg.

Ernie Rogers
 

Audi5000TDI

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Joined
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Location
CA, Good old USA
TDI
Passat, 1996, Grey
Ernie,

It's all doable, but you really have to pay attention to all of the little details... Take a tailwind when it comes your way, not press too hard fighting wind resistance and gravity going up hills, maximize all rollouts when a down hill comes your way, pay attention to all the minutia.

BTW, I shared with Ernie a very interesting observation coming back from my last steelhead fishing trip on I-5. A Scan Gauge is an amazing piece of equipment that can enlighten your knowledge if you make use of what it offers. Driving on 1-5 on polished concrete on level ground, I observed the "LOD" or engine load reading inside my ECU.

A bumpy truck lane, the far right slow lane, on a 4 lane section each direction of I-5 yielded an "LOD" reading of 54% while doing 65 indicated, 62mph true, verified with a GPS. Switching 1 lane over, out of the bumpy truck lane, dropped the LOD reading to 52 or even 51%. I tried this out over about 20 miles, 10 readings in each lane. What does it mean in laymans terms? That rough bumpy truck lane while you are doing 62 mph is costing you an actual 2 to 3 mpg while you are doing the humpty dumpty in the truck lane. Moral? Go for the smooth lane and save your suspension system and your struts/shocks.
 

Biscuit

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Joined
May 7, 2005
Location
JPL, CA
TDI
Jetta, 2000, Black
Driver: Biscuit
Miles: 638.4
Gallons: 15.47
Model Year: 2000
Model: Jetta
Tranny: M5
Fuel type: D2

First fill up of '06 and 41.3mpg...not too bad for L.A. city driving.
 

Bayou_Flyer

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Joined
Nov 8, 2000
Location
Mississippi Gulf Coast
TDI
2010 Golf 4Door 6M
After participating in this for the last three months, I'm beginning to understand how addictive this competition really is. During my commute, I keep hearing the voices say: "imagine what you can get if you'll just slow down to 70"!
 

Matt65

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Joined
Dec 30, 2005
Location
Alabama U.S.A.
TDI
2006 Jetta DSG
Driver:Matt65
Miles:120.1
Gallons:2.138
Model Year:2006
Model:Jetta
Tranny: DSG-6
Fuel type:BP / Exxon

56.174 MPG (U.S.)

Few stops speed kept under 65 MPH.

Oil change last week, about 5100 miles on her now.
 

Sweeps

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Joined
Jul 24, 2005
Location
Orillia, Ontario, Canada
TDI
None currently. MK4/5/6 Jetta's in the past.
Driver: Sweeps
Miles: 540
Gallons: 12.7
Model Year: 2000
Model: Jetta GLS
Tranny: 5M
Fuel type: D2

42.52 mpg

Dam Snow covered roads killing my mileage!! We got a dumping of about a foot of snow around here, and I had some places to go with the highways covered in snow and slush. There is some dry road driving in there though.

Actually the worst Milage I have ever managed!
 
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