400 mile club I FINALLY made it!

oldnavy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:53 am

jinstall wrote:

Too bad your don't have a autobahn to enjoy it on. The last E270CDI I drove was peaking at the 149mph mark.

Probably good thing I'm not there to enjoy the Autobahn, I would probably kill myself. I raced a new 5series BMW 3 times yesterday at 3 stop lights in town and beat him across the intersection everytime and he never caught me before having to brake for the next light. I bet he was as mad a old wet hen. :lol:

Hard to beat all my bottom end torque.

jinstall · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:34 am

oldnavy wrote:

jinstall wrote:

Too bad your don't have a autobahn to enjoy it on. The last E270CDI I drove was peaking at the 149mph mark.

Probably good thing I'm not there to enjoy the Autobahn, I would probably kill myself. I raced a new 5series BMW 3 times yesterday at 3 stop lights in town and beat him across the intersection everytime and he never caught me before having to brake for the next light. I bet he was as mad a old wet hen. :lol:

Hard to beat all my bottom end torque.

Yeha I know what you mean, the 270 was not shabby as long as you gave the turbo enough time to spool.

oldnavy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:13 am

Sport mode and ESP off really helps the jack rabbit starts, that and full tank of fuel.

jinstall · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:58 pm

LOL yes the ESC has to be off. I hate that little triangle thing in the middle of the speedo too. Funny how well you can get the car to do 360's!!!!!

oldnavy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:44 pm

jinstall wrote:

LOL yes the ESC has to be off. I hate that little triangle thing in the middle of the speedo too. Funny how well you can get the car to do 360's!!!!!

Yes it will get real squrrially, but not like my old SS 396 Impala with drag pack option of close ratio 4 speed and 4:11 rear gears with advertized 375hp, but dyno would say about 425 or little better. But it did scare the crap out of one of my buddy's who has never had any kind of performance car when I took his for a short ride with about 1/4 tank and hammered it for him, the thing got to fishtailing as it was smoking the rear tires and he white knuckled the sissy bar.

tulsa · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:21 pm

jinstall,
I made it to 491.4 miles before my low fuel light came on this week, 80% road miles

retmil46 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:56 pm

I wish I'd had a camera to take a picture of the gas gauge on the last trip to Texas. Just as I was getting into the outskirts of Nashville on the trip down, I hit 400 miles and it was still showing 1/2 tank. By the time I hit 1/4 tank and chickened out, I was 80 miles east of Memphis, 527 miles and it took 16.5 gallons - dead on 32 MPG. If I'd had an extra jug of fuel in the back, and hadn't been looking at being in the middle of Memphis trying to find fuel, I'd have been tempted to try for the 600 mile club.

oldnavy · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:51 pm

retmil46 wrote:

I wish I'd had a camera to take a picture of the gas gauge on the last trip to Texas. Just as I was getting into the outskirts of Nashville on the trip down, I hit 400 miles and it was still showing 1/2 tank. By the time I hit 1/4 tank and chickened out, I was 80 miles east of Memphis, 527 miles and it took 16.5 gallons - dead on 32 MPG. If I'd had an extra jug of fuel in the back, and hadn't been looking at being in the middle of Memphis trying to find fuel, I'd have been tempted to try for the 600 mile club.

Am I the only one here that has made the 600 mile club?

Reflex · **Joined:** Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:48 pm **Posts:** 567

oldnavy wrote:

retmil46 wrote:

I wish I'd had a camera to take a picture of the gas gauge on the last trip to Texas. Just as I was getting into the outskirts of Nashville on the trip down, I hit 400 miles and it was still showing 1/2 tank. By the time I hit 1/4 tank and chickened out, I was 80 miles east of Memphis, 527 miles and it took 16.5 gallons - dead on 32 MPG. If I'd had an extra jug of fuel in the back, and hadn't been looking at being in the middle of Memphis trying to find fuel, I'd have been tempted to try for the 600 mile club.

Am I the only one here that has made the 600 mile club?

Nope, did it last year on a road trip. Just once though. 31.7MPG on that trip.

nursecosmo · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:00 pm

Nope 600 miles on one tank to Kentucky and back, chickened out south of Knoxville. took 19.5 gallons to fill. Would not have made it all the way home if I hadn't stopped.

jinstall · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:03 am

I am still happy wiht the 400 miles. 500 miles maybe when i get back to the US but not here.

Sissy bar LOL!

Joe Romas · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:46 am

I did 1005 miles on a 96 Passat TDI wagon I owned one time :lol:

The wife was steaming as she said I was going to walk :wink:

Later this week I'm going to take a road trip of just under 400 each way and hopefully come back with a travel trailer

That will be my first real trip in my CRD and I routinley get 400 per tankfull of all city driving.

boilermaker2 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:36 pm

I'd like to know what you guys/gals are doing. I really have to baby mine to get 25mpg. I have never made the 500 mile club and most of my driving is in the flattened midwest. 40 PSI tires. New airf filter (purolator) every 6-12K miles (inspected at each oil change). ORM. Few WOT situations. High quality, all-domestic, sweet crude B2. I have not disconnected the muffler and I do not have the rear air "spoiler" for the back glass. I implemented the ORM when the vehicle was already warm and running, does this make a difference.

nursecosmo · **Posted:** Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:12 pm

Strangely, I seem to be getting better mileage when I drive harder or faster. This is just a feeling right now not scientific. but the last two tanks I have babied, keeping the RPM at 1800-2000, also not going over 65 but still came out with 22.5 MPG. The two tanks before that I drove it hard and fast but got upper twenties. Four different sources of fuel but that is still a pretty big difference.

BlackLibertyCRD · **Posted:** Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:47 pm

Right now I'm at Camano Island, WA that has lots of driving up and down hills. I'm drivings country miles no highways and still get 25 MPG if I keep the RPM under 2000. Since I usally don't go more than 10 miles at a time, the tank last two weeks.

ulsd 2.95

B20 3.35

Jeger · **Posted:** Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:42 pm

nursecosmo wrote:

Strangely, I seem to be getting better mileage when I drive harder or faster. This is just a feeling right now not scientific. but the last two tanks I have babied, keeping the RPM at 1800-2000, also not going over 65 but still came out with 22.5 MPG. The two tanks before that I drove it hard and fast but got upper twenties. Four different sources of fuel but that is still a pretty big difference.

My experience is the same. Seems mine is happiest right around 75 with dashes to 85 here and there :lol:

ORM, EHM, Filter head connections unplugged.... everything else is stock. It seems the optimum range for me is somewhere between 2000-2200. A lot of our break in miles, unfortunately, were spent in that range...perhaps that has something to do with it?

naturist · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:50 pm

Sadly, Old Navy is right. Most folks math skills are so pathetic they are unable to relate to miles-per-gallon. They can barely handle miles per tankful. The VW forum at Fred's has the sad tale of one guys girlfriend who traded in a high-mileage car with a large gas tank for a lower mileage model with a smaller tank, convinced she'd save money: after all, a fill-up costs lest.

jinstall · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:08 am

it is ok try doing Liter per 100 kms and then back to MPG in 2 different languages. I hate math.

400 mile club I FINALLY made it!

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