Re: 4KQ Feulishness

["Richard Klein" <rklein@concentric.net>]

On 15 Sep 96 at 13:50, mike tipton wrote:

> Pat, how many gallons, or liters, of fuel, does your 4kq hold?  What
> size tires are on the car? What type of motor oil are you using?
> How many miles are on the engine?
> 
> Alot of different aspects, effect fuel consumption.  The trip computers
> on alot of the Audi's work on an "average scale", not absolute scale.
> The computer is giving you an average figure, based on average driving.
> The trip computer on my 86 Coupe, always reads 425 miles if I fill the
> tank to the rim!  But on the highway at 70mph average speed, I'll get
> about 325 miles to the tank, on average. Which is a 12.? gallon tank.
> Thats about 26mpg on the freeway.  In the city it gets about 17mpg
> I haven't played with the adjustment on the back. I never found it
> nessary to try to fine tune that aspect of the car.
> 
> A quattro, weighing more, should get less milage.
> However 425 miles on a tank, with a larger capacity tank is not unusual.

My '85 5ks, on several trips between Michigan and Massachusetts 
(taking the 401, 403, etc. through Ontario) gets somewhere close to 
500mi/tankful.  That's doing 75-80mph from Bay City to Port Huron, MI 
and 70-75mph the rest of the way.  My Haynes manual says I've got a 
21.1g tank, which sounds plausible.  Tires are 185/70R14s.  No 
Quattro, no turbo, no trip computer (though donations are accepted).

   -Rich

   '85 Audi 5000s   It ain't over 'til the fast lady sings!

    in beautiful Bay City, Michigan