Is my Mpg low at 13?

[jako999]

Hi all I had the 996tt now for 4 months now 95% of my driving is around town I get up to temp about a third of the way into my journey and I get 13mpg even on a bit more of a run I only got around 15. I wouldn't say I boot it that much just a bit of fun every now and then after all that's what its there for, I had the car plugged in and nothing really showed up. I've had a look around at other posts and it seems a bit low? What do others think? I do need to have a service but that never really makes any difference.
13 is my luck number but I would rather get a bit more to the gallon if I could my mate has an R8 v10 which has the 5.2 Lambo engine and he drives very similar to me and gets 17mpg which I think is more like it.

Thanks in advance

 

[porscheski]

Not long had mine and it's still getting a bit of a spirited drive but I filled it tonight and in just over a thousand miles in a month it's doing 24 average. My car I sane ally 3.4 non turbo.

 

[Maxie]

Hi all I had the 996tt now for 4 months now 95% of my driving is around town I get up to temp about a third of the way into my journey and I get 13mpg even on a bit more of a run I only got around 15.

Town driving in a 3.6 twin turbo, that sounds about right.

~ Maxie

PS. Not good for the health of the car, btw.

 

[Tinker]

Hi all I had the 996tt now for 4 months now 95% of my driving is around town I get up to temp about a third of the way into my journey and I get 13mpg even on a bit more of a run I only got around 15.

Town driving in a 3.6 twin turbo, that sounds about right.

~ Maxie

PS. Not good for the health of the car, btw.

And the "a bit more of a run" 15mpg? Is this "about right", too?

 

[Maxie]

And the "a bit more of a run" 15mpg? Is this "about right", too?

It is if he doesn't re-set the trip computer. Remember the trip computer tells you the average over the whole period. So a 15mpg reading will reflect the 95% town driving and 5% 'bit more of a run' driving. Had it been the other way around, I would say that the OP will be getting late teens to early 20's.

What do you think?

~ Maxie

 

[lofi]

My view is that sounds a bit low. I have a very short journey to work and back, pretty slow and it it does about 17.5. But on a long run on the motorway, up there with the faster traffic, it climbs massively to about 28. Mines a tip. I drive like a granny most of the time.

 

[kas750]

When I brought mine back from cornwall it did I think 34mpg.
In normal use including town work its around 20mpg..Spirited driving will see early to mid teens.

 

[DeathStar]

Make sure you've set the PCM "Trip" function to measure in UK Gallons and not US Gallons ...

 

[T8]

Personally I think you should definitely be doing better than that.

I don't use mine round town but don't spend much time on motorways either. I work out my mpg accurately after every top up.

When I first got the car it was 5 tankfulls before I got more than 19 mpg but now, after nearly 4,000 miles, I always get between 20 and 22.5.

For odd journeys with plenty of :grin: 's I see 14 on the computer but the only time I've seen 13 was after a half wet/half dry day at Brands Hatch.

ps. Why did you buy a 996T if 95% of your use in round town. :?

 

[cheshire911]

That's very low. Mine in that sort of driving does around 19-21. On motorways at steady 2.2 rpm (around 65mph indicated) it does around 33-34mpg. Otherwise with the odd burst up to 90 and cruising at 70 on motorways, 30-32mpg.

Use the Board Computer (BC) button to measure a specific journey - use the "since x time" option. The mpg on the stalk in the instrument cluster is the average since it was last reset and reflects the total miles driven average - not that individual journey.

 

[BillTheButcher]

13 does seem low but around town has always delivered the worst MPG in my cars. Most of my 996T journeys were long distances on the open road; I got an average of 20 in the time that I had it.

 

[Martian]

22-24 seems the norm for me just pootling around but exercising restraint. 18 when using a bit more of the performance, 14 when getting a move on although I saw 7 when on a hot lap of the 'ring! I remember filling up after 4 laps and the range computer showed 70 miles range!

 

[pontypool]

I lived in London until recently and commuted everyday 7 miles in to work and back and would get about 12mpg most mornings in the traffic so sounds perfectly normal to me.

 

[BillTheButcher]

I saw 7 when on a hot lap of the 'ring! I remember filling up after 4 laps and the range computer showed 70 miles range!

:lol:

I saw an average of 8 MPG driving through traffic in Reading in my old RS6. :grin:

 

[Tinker]

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