Is something wrong?? (Mileage Question)

[Gails Woofel]

Just bought a a4 3.0 USP Quattro and have gone through 2 full tanks with the first tank only lasting 215 miles and the second tank only lasting 210? Is this normal for a 3.0 V6 or could there be something wrong??? thanks for the help...

[GraysonF]

3.0s are terrible on gas mileage. but i doubt that bad. maybe you have a heavy foot?

[Eyerate]

I get about 275 miles per tank.....normal driving

[TrojanRings]

My 3.0 also gets about 275 per tank (with the gauge reading just below 1/4 tank). May be a stupid question, but you are putting in premium fuel right?

Do you know if all maintenance was done by the prior owner?

[NiveK1970]

try pulling codes, spark plugs need changing? air filter, fuel filter, O2 sensor etc... of course i can't say much i have a 1.8 and only get 21-22 tops all highway around 70mph

[Gails Woofel]

I have not been driving overly aggressive, very rarely do I shift over 4 rpm..I do have all the records it only has 17k miles on it.

Yes have been only putting in Premium.

[b6onboost]

^ I am going to guess you drive primarily aorund town or 'city' driving, and that you fill up shortly after the light comes on. If this is true, 215 sounds normal. During city driving you're getting around 15mpg give or take, and only filling up with 14-15 gallons.

If you fill up with more, or drive on the highway more often...you certainly should be getting better than 215.

[grimlock]

Is your fuel gauge working properly? I know that some B6's have a problem with the sender unit, where sometimes when it gets down to a quarter of a tank the needle just goes all the way down and the computer will tell you you have 0 miles left. My car does this, so I normally just gauge how much fuel I have left off of the trip odometer.

[vance]

I get between 20-22mpg. I have been keeping my receipts for a while now & I enter them in a spreadsheet. This is an 05 3.0 Cab. I put about 110 miles a day on it and I wanted to see any difference that could be noticed by changeing my driving style.
Check your tire pressure. Under-inflation can suck the MPG right out of your tank.
Vince D

[AudiA4Turbo22]

are u Rambo revving the engine? that means pushing the gas and letting go constantly trying to maintain speed?

[dahonam]

are u Rambo revving the engine?

thats some new terminology

[dmoe]

is everyone running premium in the 3.0?? i have heard of some people just putting regular in it....

[AudiA4Turbo22]

^^ Don't!!!!! Ya And Rambo Revving Has Been Around Forever One Of Our Relatives Drives Like This And It Is So Freakin Tiring!

[Gails Woofel]

I don’t think i am Rambo reving or whatever...i have been driving pretty modestly shifting around 3k and never going above 4k...all city driving around town and just getting around 210-220....There must something wrong….always Premium gas too...

[b6onboost]

still sounds right for a 3.0 considering it's all city driving, and you probably have more left in the tank than you think when you fill up.

plus, shifting at 3-4k rpm isn't 'conservative'. I can drive around in my 1.8T without going past 2500rpm...and that is a much smaller motor and the turbo isn't even making boost yet. so a 3.0 should easily be able to get around town without revving past 2000rpm or so. It'll be slow, but you can't zip around and expect good mileage.

[collegedude10]

Just bought a a4 3.0 USP Quattro and have gone through 2 full tanks with the first tank only lasting 215 miles and the second tank only lasting 210? Is this normal for a 3.0 V6 or could there be something wrong??? thanks for the help...

thats about what i get, im all city. i think what makes it worse for me is that i usually take short trips which hurts gas mileage even more.

[Gails Woofel]

yea all my trips are short usually no more than 8 miles...I dont fill up till my the display says 15-20 miles left so i am getting every drop out of the tank...

[Jersey R1]

Whew, thought it was just me with shitty mileage, I get about 300 miles and that when Im driving Ms. Daisy.

ps. love the Rambo revving, cant wait to tell someone!

[skeeball]

Seems low. I get (at worst) 260 a tank doing all city driving. And that is with forced induction.

[jdmsao]

My display says I get 350 miles when Im on a full tank. Im new to Audi's so I dont know how accurate this really is, but its what I've been going by. I drive mostly on the highway though, that might have something to do with it.

[skeeball]

That's calculated based on whatever your average MPG is at that moment. The ECU is known to be wildly inaccurate regarding that. Just reset your trip odometer when you fill up and see how many miles you really get per tank.

[fitch303]

still sounds right for a 3.0 considering it's all city driving, and you probably have more left in the tank than you think when you fill up.

plus, shifting at 3-4k rpm isn't 'conservative'. I can drive around in my 1.8T without going past 2500rpm...and that is a much smaller motor and the turbo isn't even making boost yet. so a 3.0 should easily be able to get around town without revving past 2000rpm or so. It'll be slow, but you can't zip around and expect good mileage.

the people driving behind you musty realy want you to die. slowwwwww

[yioryo nyc]

Don't sweat it, living in New York, with stoplights and stop signs everywhere, I would average anywhere between 200-230 per tank. Car is sold now.

[IronAudi]

hey try a good all highway drive, get on and go if u can grab 80 and drive try cleaning the injectors, new plugs clean the maf, new filter ect. that what i did and i pull over 300 everytank, now that im city driving more now its less try doing a TB reset and see if that helps

[dpatel]

For conservative driving, you don't need to rev over 3K. Go on a long hwy trip and see what you get, it should be about 90 to 100 miles per quater tick. Are you using 93 OCT?
Clean the air filter and the pre-screen air filter.

[Gails Woofel]

hey try a good all highway drive, get on and go if u can grab 80 and drive try cleaning the injectors, new plugs clean the maf, new filter ect. that what i did and i pull over 300 everytank, now that im city driving more now its less try doing a TB reset and see if that helps

Just bought my car it has 17,000 miles on it.....Isnt there a slim chance I would be to replace that stuff...Also I have never had my car serviced yet since ive have(bought it with 16,000) can I just bring it in and have them check all that stuff out??? Thanks sorry for the noob question.