Our engine bay is hotter than most cars, its normal. Either that or is your brake smell.

Fofi can reach 200kmph leh 
(on slope la)

is your car very new?
this normally happens with new car and will eventually go off

It is a very subjective comparison. Too many variables involved; driving style & behaviour, daily traffic conditions, route taken, etc.

Distance traveled on a full tank is also another area where inaccuracies can take place because the average daily driver on the road is not going to continue driving till the car dies due to having absolutely zero fuel.

Plus, based on specs listed on VW M'sia's site, the Golf's tank capacity is approx. 55 litres (vs Fiesta's 42 litres).

Depends on what traffic conditions that you have been subjected to. Assuming that you always pump 3/4 tank (or 31.5 ltr), your FC would be 11.1 km/ltr which is what I would expect if significant time is spent on urban roads.

I'm driving a sedan. No trip computer. Even with a trip computer, I don't have any faith in its accuracy due to constant change in driving situations (e.g. one moment heavy jam and another moment smooth flowing traffic). I prefer to know what distance I am actually capable of rather than what I might be capable of. From there only can say whether distance is bad or not.

Being a compulsive number cruncher, I prefer to use actual data (which I am more comfortable with). There's also Fuelly down in my sig for quick reference. Just take note that while I usually fill up when the tank is 1/4 full but I might push the distance a bit more or hold back depending on how confident I can push it. Hence, my distance sometimes might be less but that correlates to less litres pumped.

Historical data I keep track using Excel. It's always based on amount pumped till full tank (first nozzle auto-release) after driving a certain distance.

Dias, you are really light-footed and your car super efficient!!

i am getting really awful consumption compared to yours

full tank only get

500 best (when i speed up genting ironically) 

worst

300 kms 

current and the average

400 kms 

total mileage 2,500kms 

bro what ride is yours? my fiesta used to clock 280km on first fuelup, 330 on second n now 405 on the previous one lol.
also just did my third refill 2 days ago. somehow the car guzzles more petrol when i pump petronas vs bhp.

-been seeing a lot of fiestas on the road nowadays. woohoo!
averaging 380km per fuelup of 32 litres. 90% city driving grrr..

hey XTR buddyyyy
where are u usually based at? im usually around Bkt Jalil or city centre. .. aa not very light footed if im rushing. but otherwise trying to see how much i can juice the petrol for this baby.

Today is the first official record taking of Shell 95 Fuelsave. Previous two records are now omitted from the statistics summary (due to being transition fuel mix).



Was working extremely late the past two weeks (left office around 11pm - midnight for half of the duration and past 8pm for most of the rest). That gave me a lot of opportunity to coast on momentum (from 140 km/h freerolling till around 60km/h) since there are no vehicles behind me that I need to worry about.

Too bad it could not best two earlier records from Esso 95 of 16.527km/l and 16.777 km/l respectively. Maybe that is because I used the NKVE previously to go home while this time I used the LKSA and onto Hicom (was feeling stingy since it was RM 3.50 vs RM 1.10 in toll charges). There's also one instance of getting caught in the KESAS highway jam after getting off the LKSA.

I am looking forward to seeing how the FC will be like on normal driving conditions (i.e. no late night drives) but that has to wait till my workload eases (which is still far far away). Hopefully next week will be a better week and I'll be able to leave the office earlier.

As for fuel performance, the lack of power can definitely be felt on climbing mild gradients. Accelerating up a gentle slope takes a bit longer compared to Esso 95 and on leveled roads, it struggles to go faster once hitting past 110km/h (with the same foot pressure on the accelerator, the Esso 95 might have hit 140 km/h). The upside is that you tend to stick to lower speed and revs since 110km/h is around 2600 RPM (and maybe as a result, better FC). That said, it takes a lot of driving discipline to fight the urge press the pedal harder to hit the 140km/h that you are so used to.

Claims of Shell 95 being underpowered is a reasonable claim but whether it gives better FC versus other brands is something that will take months of record taking to find out.

ehh.. guys.. how accurate is the meter that shows your remaing km/fuel???

i took my car last thursday n lasted till today. tats 8days with 124km to go the needle jst touch the mini 3 dotted b4 the red.

how much do u rekon it can go more??

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Added on September 23, 2011, 10:46 am
u can directly ask them for the promotion discount. dunnit to be shy lol

or u can say i heard from ppl that there's a discount on xxx model is it true??

Sad to say, none at all  Fofi only have the 3 years free services promotion

Nope But when you're doing at 5K i think you can pay them for the engine oil.. indicating that you would like to have this done at 5K. But paying at your own cost