Very happy with my 90k miles, 02 2.7T A6 6MT.

Currently averaging 24.97 mpg, with highs as high as 28.6MPG for the tank, and lows in the 20-22MPG mark.

Took 3 tanks of driving "respectfully" to get it to come up from 22 to 28MPG, but man, still awesome.


Also, about to do Turbo-Back, and wondering if I should go catless DP's. I have a VAGCOM and can code out the CEL, but as it's mainly a cruiser, I'm not sure I should bother.

Price difference between CAT and NON-CAT DP is about $70.

Thoughts?

 

I don't want to rain on your parade, but did you ever compute the MPG manually over a full tank of gas? My last two Audi trip computers have been optimistic by 5-7%. I have entered new calibration factors with my VAG-COM and now they are good to about 0.5%. Unfortunately I lost about 1.5 mph in the process.

 

I log all trips via obd2 and torque pro using gps.

Mileage is calculated based on actual distance travelled not the cars calculated.

Reset after each full up for comparison.
I recalibrated the car because of the swap between summer and winter wheels too.

All trips are then entered into fuelio and mileage is then calculated.

 

Wow. You are more **** than I am. I'm impressed!

 

Yeh...I'm a weirdo :P

No I just like to see what the car can do if it's driven nicely (read babied), as I know what it does when it's not.

Also very impressed to see it retune itself from harsh driving, to relaxed driving.

 

I have calculated my gas mileage at actual from 37-216k miles. I rarely get better than 22-23 mpg at 75mph but I have achieved 25-26 mpg at 55-60. I drive a lot of long distance highway and accelerate reasonably slow, but I have a bad habit of running speed bursts of 80-90 on trips (especially if I find fast bear bait to follow). So your mileage is excellent. I find my dash mpg calculation is about 1.5-2 mpg optimistic (higher than I manually calculate).

 

I have an 2000 2.7t 6 speed with 112,000 and recorded 24 mpg during a recent highway trip. Based upon an actual calculation using regular grade fuel.

 

If you have a VAG-COM there is a consumption calibration factor you can adjust to make the MPG computation quite accurate. If you need instructions, let me know.