Just bought the A3, 3.2. I love the styling. Hate the gas milage. I am only getting 14 MPG. I have never broken 200 miles on a single tank of gas. Anyone else driving this machine primarily in the city.

Anyone else find their dealers to be less then helpful?

 

This is not the first I have heard about this problem. My city gas mileage is has been around 20mpg, but people have mentioned getting 14-18 city, so I can't complain. Idle speed adjustment, maybe? I'd take her in if the dealership is closeby.

 

Fact of life....V6's always get lousy milage if you do stop/start driving in the city, with my 2.8 V6 5 speed tiptronic I used to have milage that varied between 12 - 18MPG for engine rated 18/29. Yours was rated 21/29 and I used to get 22 when doing longer drives without too many lights, but on the freeway I managed to get up to 34 MPG when engine fully broken in (>10,000 miles on engine) sometimes when driving constant speeds of 70 - 75 MPH on Freeway. You have two features working against you, high output V6 engine, and Quattro.

 

All of that slow crusin looking for chicks really hurts my mileage too! Opps, I mean drag racing. Opps, I mean running business related activities.

Cheers!

 

Thanks All!,

I get the fact that it is a big engine (which I like) and quatro, but this car doesn't even meet the standards of the class which requires 15mpg. I'm pretty pissed at Audi and my dealer for a) outright lying on the sticker and b) not doing anything about it after repeated visits/calls.

 

Whats your tire pressure? You should be able to easily inflate your 225/45 R17 tires to at least 40 PSI. Also are you driving the car around with air conditioning on? (Auto)
How many miles on engine?

On the dealer not doing anything about it, what do you expect him to do? If the car is working perfectly, then its only related to your driving habits. Your not using sport mode a lot are you?

 

Matwaan;
The sticker is generally from a controlled test that is backed by the EPA and is generally indicative of real world driving.What you have is a "performance car" - with all wheel drive. Sorry dude - the dealer cannot just flip a switch and enable it to get the gas mileage the sticker says. Those are just guidelines, as JohnS stated - they cannot really do anything about it if the car is running fine. If the gas mileage is really what you were looking for - why didn't you opt for the 2.0T version? I've got that and am running a combined 26.5MPG combined per full tank.

 

matwaan - are you filling your tank with premium/plus/regular unleaded?

If you are using the lessor grades, that could partly explain your lower gas mileage.

 

I hope you mean that the sicker is generally NOT indicative of real world driving. EPA mileage stickers are notoriously innacurate and there has been discussion of revamping them to better reflect peoples' actual driving habits.

 

Also, remember that gas mileage peaks after about 1-3 years. When you first have the car, the mileage will be bad, then increase and then decrease again.