Success with the Blue Meanie
 

Success this is my 500th post and its about my new car.

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A few weeks ago I took a trip to North Carolina to pick up a 2002 Golf TDI with a manual transmission. I had been wanting one of these for years but could not afford/find one. To make a boring story short I found one and purchased it.

My first tank was at 42.2 all highway with big hills for 500mi then to work 196mi round trip mostly highway (filled before getting home). I did not take it easy on the car just had some fun and getting used to driving a manual as for the 10yrs I have been driving I have only driven automatics, I did know how to drive a manual but only had 50mi under my belt.

The remaning tanks in my fuel log are from a fairly consistant drive to and from work about 98mi each way on highways at 70-75mph. So far my tank average is 43.93 my old car the average was 25.8 a good increase of 70%.

I will continue to work on getting better mpg and I will use this post to track my goals and sucesses along with listing my modifications.


Goals completed:
700mi tank
800mi tank 50mpg*

Goals for the future:
Doubble the avg MPG of my Bonneville 25.8*2=51.6mpg
Doubble the BEST MPG of my Bonneville 30.18*2=60.4mpg


55mpg
60mpg
(Tank holds ~16)
900mi tank 56.25mpg
1000mi tank 62.5mpg

I found a station that has BioDiesel that is blended between B5-B20 so I hope to get those goals on a Bioblend.

I will be useing this post to keep track of the modifications completed on the Golf and link to posts showing the changes as they happen.

Eco-mods:
Grill Block v1.5 (Upper and lower blocked)
DRL delete
Yokohama avid ascend LRR tires


Other Mods:
Ventectomy

Best of luck with your new car !

I have made some progress I added a grill block for the upper and lower also I have new tires that have helped me break 50mpg and 800mi on one tank. I cant wait to do more work on this car since I'm getting 50 mpg driving 70-75mph.

Update
To start my last tank is the best yet 51.2mpg only 1 mpg better that my previous best but the current tank is looking better. The last tank got me 848.9mi so it is getting close to the 900mi mark :)

Here is what has changed in the last month:
Car rolled 200,000mi
Replaced temp sensor it died on me and kept fans on for two tanks
Changed t-stat w/hotter 195F
63% coolant + 6oz watter wetter
Oil changed 0w-40
Larger fuel filter eliminated fuel heater
Replaced Vacuum lines