Even on your worst TDI fuel economy day, you've made the right choice! Here is a sampling of what I'm leaving for my TDI... (This is a copy/paste that I wrote from one of my Audi forums)
Just for ****s and grins I did some quick math after I filled up the tank in the S-pig yesterday. The trip odometer read 355.4 miles and I filled up with 18.307 gallons @ $3.05 per gal. I am not happy! Thats 19.413339 MILES PER GALLON! 19!?! Jeez! And I was driving very easy this week. I wasn't getting into the boost ever (much), I was driving nice with traffic and I just had to do this, I just had to run the numbers.... I bet my wife's 2.8 liter A6 gets better mileage. My total was $56.00 this tank and @ 355.4 miles yesterday against a 650 mile weekly average (just to and from work) thats at least $112.00 per week of fuel that I have been doing for almost two years. (give or take fuel costs/per gal) At $112 per week for 52 weeks is...drum roll please.....$5824 per year in fuel cost with this S-car. And these totals are typical for this car since I started driving it every day coming up on two years. [slaps forehead!] Just yesterday I was saying to myself.."self, your going to miss this car" and I'm still sick to my stomach thinking about it all the money I've wasted at the gas stations. For all of you guys out there that can offered to drive a "modified, high horse power" car out there as a Daily Driver, in any flavor, good for you. I make half way decent salary, but I'm done with this game. I can't believe it has taken me so long to jump onto the fuel economy wagon. 19 MPG isn't even half of what the TDI gets, so my annual fuel saving will be even higher than originally estimated. I guess this is the price you pay when you want to a drive 400 HP Quattro as a daily driver.....I'm an idiot! It's just not worth it!
There are guys out there getting 700 miles per tank with their TDI's. That's a once a week fill-up for me. Diesel at $3.21 per gallon was the lowest I found while driving my normal route to work. The Golf has around a 16/17 gal tank, so if I even took it to fill up with 16 gallons, that would yield 800 miles at a 50 MPG rate. Now thats not real world driving, so factor in the slower traffic, stop and go and idling and that 700 MPG figure starts to look very good! So at $3.21 per gallon for 16 gallons (and I'm sure that's stretching it between fill-ups) is $51.36. That a fuel saving at the gas station of about $5.00 right from the start. Not having to buy fuel until the next week, I've saved another $56.00 that week buy not driving the S-pig, so my yearly annual fuel cost (assuming I drive every week for a year) would be $2670.72....you get the idea... With my original yearly estimate of $5824 per yr of fuel, I've saved $3153.28 by switching to a TDI. I've just re-cooped the funds I paid for my paint job for the UrQuattro with that money savings. That's a good way to look at it!
So even if diesel is more expensive than 93 octane..I still saved money. LOL!
Just for ****s and grins I did some quick math after I filled up the tank in the S-pig yesterday. The trip odometer read 355.4 miles and I filled up with 18.307 gallons @ $3.05 per gal. I am not happy! Thats 19.413339 MILES PER GALLON! 19!?! Jeez! And I was driving very easy this week. I wasn't getting into the boost ever (much), I was driving nice with traffic and I just had to do this, I just had to run the numbers.... I bet my wife's 2.8 liter A6 gets better mileage. My total was $56.00 this tank and @ 355.4 miles yesterday against a 650 mile weekly average (just to and from work) thats at least $112.00 per week of fuel that I have been doing for almost two years. (give or take fuel costs/per gal) At $112 per week for 52 weeks is...drum roll please.....$5824 per year in fuel cost with this S-car. And these totals are typical for this car since I started driving it every day coming up on two years. [slaps forehead!] Just yesterday I was saying to myself.."self, your going to miss this car" and I'm still sick to my stomach thinking about it all the money I've wasted at the gas stations. For all of you guys out there that can offered to drive a "modified, high horse power" car out there as a Daily Driver, in any flavor, good for you. I make half way decent salary, but I'm done with this game. I can't believe it has taken me so long to jump onto the fuel economy wagon. 19 MPG isn't even half of what the TDI gets, so my annual fuel saving will be even higher than originally estimated. I guess this is the price you pay when you want to a drive 400 HP Quattro as a daily driver.....I'm an idiot! It's just not worth it!
There are guys out there getting 700 miles per tank with their TDI's. That's a once a week fill-up for me. Diesel at $3.21 per gallon was the lowest I found while driving my normal route to work. The Golf has around a 16/17 gal tank, so if I even took it to fill up with 16 gallons, that would yield 800 miles at a 50 MPG rate. Now thats not real world driving, so factor in the slower traffic, stop and go and idling and that 700 MPG figure starts to look very good! So at $3.21 per gallon for 16 gallons (and I'm sure that's stretching it between fill-ups) is $51.36. That a fuel saving at the gas station of about $5.00 right from the start. Not having to buy fuel until the next week, I've saved another $56.00 that week buy not driving the S-pig, so my yearly annual fuel cost (assuming I drive every week for a year) would be $2670.72....you get the idea... With my original yearly estimate of $5824 per yr of fuel, I've saved $3153.28 by switching to a TDI. I've just re-cooped the funds I paid for my paint job for the UrQuattro with that money savings. That's a good way to look at it!
So even if diesel is more expensive than 93 octane..I still saved money. LOL!