Skoda Fabia Greenline 1.2 TDI CR75 Consumption

[sashaalx03]

I've had a fabia 1.2 tdi for a week, the car can use very little fuel but only when you are driving very slow. I got it up to 9l/100 Km due to the fact that i had to drive it very hard to keep up with traffic.

[pitpieterify]

...at 5200 km my consum is not less than 4.2l/100km...i wonder if sometimes will be...hope so

,otherwise will be a bad choice...and in the trafic,is a car like other else,eat much more fuel

[luridi]

Realistic test at 100 km/h instead 50. At 50, my lupo 3L brings up oil :) Cheers

[MacAudio18]

I don't think that should be an issue, despite of DSG models, which shift up pretty fast and drive a car at low rpm.

[robiahlin]

What about stress on engine in low RPMs? Can you damage engine?

[Scyzzorr]

@robiahlin If you push much throttle it is worse than high rpm. And you save maybe 1 litre per 100 to kill your turbo 2x faster... useless. But who cares about that, new cars are like poly cups one use, after 200k kilometres they are dead...

[nlty2000]

@Scyzzorr why would low rpms kill turbos? whats the technical explanation?

[Scyzzorr]

@nlty2000 Too low exhaust gas pressure to push burned air/fuel out. After a while all the soot can block the variable geometry off turbo and FAP filter. It costs a lot more to repair all this than drive normally @1800-2000rpm and accelerate until approx. 2200-2500rpm. A diesel engine must take a "breath" from time to time by Hi-rpm cruising or hard acceleration. I am not an expert. I drive '98 tdi 110hp with avg consumption of 4.2 liters and 2.9-3.2l on highway @90-100km/h. Still eco.

[MacAudio18]

Slightly downhill. The smallest calculated long route was at 3,1l/100km. That was on sunday and vmax was 65km/h. But if you want to keep up with traffic it ends at round 3,5-4,0l/100km.

[ryjeks]

@MacAudio18

A good result. But I thought that you can do below 3l/100km going about 70-90km / h.

At max. 70km / h my Fabia RS (1.4 TSI 180PS) will take about 4.5 l/100km. Coming around 90km / h takes about 5-5.5 l/100km. Good luck.

[ryjeks]

It was downhill?

What is the smallest consumption of the long route??