Golf Mk6 1.6 tdi DSG 7 gears shocking 35mpg

[andrei]

cant get to the bottom of it ... it looks like 1.6 tdi golf is a pile of scrap once it gets to 85k miles like Peugeot ... sorry to say that will never buy one again . thank you for your time

[Renars]

Mine has 115 000 miles, no problem.
Its 5 speed manual and doing 43 MPG on average measured for last 3000 miles.
Sometimes even at city traffic if AC and electric cabin heater is off it does 43 MPG !
Shorter trips with AC or electric Cabin heater on it can be 35 MPG.
On highway its doing 52 MPG mostly.

[andrei]

that is poor fuel consumption ... seat toledo same engine as my golf on a 520 miles trip Dony to Edinburgh and back with ac on and loaded with tools av 69 mpg ,,, anyway I did change the oil with castrol edge and bosch oil filter and the fuel consumption improve is doing av 45-50 mpg . So I think that quantum III long life is rubbish will never use anything else then castrol in vw engines .

[Rob69]

I think Quantum is just re bottled castrol

[Gazwould]

Was , now made by Fuchs .

Fuchs is a more specialist oil supplier that Castrol...

Must of been fake oil of a 20W50 mineral flavour to get that difference in mpg , lol .

[Rob69]

I've used quantum platinum and long life in all sorts of engines for years no probs, meets all the specs the engines need without the flashy marketing

[Gazwould]

Plus it's VW's own oil .