[Vwdiesel] TD Westy mileage report

[Shawn Wright]

In the interests of accuracy, I should report a slight adjustment to my recent mileage 
figures - I had used a conversion factor from memory for US gallons to liters, which 
was off slightly. I also included the first tank of fuel, for which I didn't have figures 
before. It was the worst due to much testing of turbo, etc. Here are the correct 
figures:

Total Kms / Miles : 	2030 / 1261
Avg MPG Imp / US: 	31.14 / 25.93
MPG Imp max / min: 	32.96 / 28.00
MPG US max / min: 	27.45 / 23.32
L/100km avg / max / min: 9.11 / 10.09 / 8.57

Of interest (to me at least) is a comparison of a similar trip taken one year ago to 
Banff and back with the old 2.1L gas engine in the same van:

Total kms: 2572
Avg MPG Imp / US: 23.52 / 19.59

In other words, a 32% improvement, no big surprise there! I'm hopeful that further 
break-in, tuning, intercooler, etc. will widen the gap even more... :-)

Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D 
'88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy