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Old 05-19-2011, 05:36 PM
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Question Possible gas consumption problem with my new a4 (b8)

I’m new to the forum and just picked up a 2011 A4 quatro premium tiptronic a few months ago. I fill up with 92 octane or higher and the gas consumption is poor. There are no noticeable signs that there is anything wrong with the car. I drive equally on the highway and city streets (50-50). I'm averaging around 350km per tank and its a 64L tank. This converts to 5.5km/L or 18.18L/100km or 12.94mpg. I am not pushing the car at all. What type of fuel consumption are you getting out of your A4 (B8) and what year is the car? This appears to be a problem, would you agree?
 
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Old 05-20-2011, 02:04 PM
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Either your car has a serious problem, or you've got your math wrong.

I'm getting about 27mpg mix city/hwy... so a tank should last me 460 miles or 740km.

With Quattro you'll get slightly lower numbers.
 
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Old 05-21-2011, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by jpan
I’m new to the forum and just picked up a 2011 A4 quatro premium tiptronic a few months ago. I fill up with 92 octane or higher and the gas consumption is poor. There are no noticeable signs that there is anything wrong with the car. I drive equally on the highway and city streets (50-50). I'm averaging around 350km per tank and its a 64L tank. This converts to 5.5km/L or 18.18L/100km or 12.94mpg. I am not pushing the car at all. What type of fuel consumption are you getting out of your A4 (B8) and what year is the car? This appears to be a problem, would you agree?
Your calculation assumes that you're using a FULL tank of guess every 350KM, but I assume you're filling up before the tank is fully depleted. You need to calculate the MPG based on the miles driven between fill-ups divided by the # of liters of you actually put in each tank. You may be interested in this link:

http://www.fuelly.com/car/audi/a4%20quattro
 
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