The range game

[Col]

Right then,

(Many thanks to Erl off UKPassats for the piccy she took at the South East meet last weekend for me)

The aim of the game is to post up your maximum tank range.
You can do this at any point on a tank full of fuel by adding the 'miles remaining' plus 'miles driven.

Here is a quite extraordinary effort by me as a result of filling up and driving like an old granny for the 68 miles shown on the odo. It was actually over 800 milles at one point (as shown MFD) but the last five or six miles to the meet was very hilly which kills mpg and subsequently the range.

Anyway;



My range is 755 + 68 = 823 miles !!!

Beat that !! (photographic evidence required!)

The car is a 2002 Passat Estate TDI (130) Engine code AWX

[Col]

Just to add,

Despite all the woes and problems you read about on here with this and that going wrong with our cars.

These MPG / Range figures really do show and remind us how very, very good these cars are !

[paul b]

Do you need an on-board computer for this? I've only got the standard DIS. Or is there a special series of buttons I have to press?

Paul

[Col]

I would assume your A6 would have the same or a very similar cluster to my Passat ?

The answer is in the display. Does yours have the computer readout where the clock is on mine instead ?

[paul b]

I would assume your A6 would have the same or a very similar cluster to my Passat ?

The answer is in the display. Does yours have the computer readout where the clock is on mine instead ?

It has a clock just like yours, only with red lighting like the instrument cluster. It normally only tells me the temperature outside.

Paul

[a8 tech]

i hope no one is tampering with there dash adaption channels to cheat

[andy8442]

Standby....... I regularly see over 900 miles on my T5........80 litre tank though.

Most I've had out of it, 720, and 725 out of my A6 1.9tdi 130 avant!

[Col]

Ok....

I'm currently on course to smash my previous record !!





Not the best photos but;

880 range plus 143 miles driven (this morning) equals a total tank range of 1,023 miles !!!!!

This was achieved immediately after filling it up grannying behind lorries on the M25 and back again with the cruise on.

It did, on the outward leg and again on the inward leg go about 30 higher on the total range but a bit of stop start driving brought it down a bit.

Again, the car is a bog standard tuning wise 2002 TDI 130hp AWX engined 5 speed Passat Estate. It does however haul along my 18 stone bulk plus about 2 stones worth of ICE.

Not bad for an old banger !

[dansansome]

hmm, this should be titled "the diesel owners dahboard pictures" thread lol. i havent got a hope in hell of getting a worthy picture up here (unless i fiddle with vagcom as A8 tech has said...).

[Col]

It really does suprise me.

I thought Audi's were posh and would have more kit in them than the humble VW's.

Do you not have buttons on the end of your wiper stalk to cycle through the computer functions? Older VW's instead of the red central display had the computer readout where the clock is, you still cycled through the functions with the wiper stalk buttons though.