I just traded my 01 Wolfsburg w/ 103k in on an 05 Jetta GLI automatic w
10k miles. The mileage on my Wolfsburg was about 28-29 mpg in the city.
The GLI is coming out about 23 mpg.Why the big drop? Is there any way
to increase the mileage on the GLI? For example not use the tiptronic,
use premium instead of midgrade etc? Any tips would be appreciated.

Unfortunately using a premium grade rather than regular, even if it would
get you better gas mileage (which is unlikely), will not be helpful because
of the price differential.

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Papa wrote:

My wife has a 2003 GTI (upstate New York). She tells me that she recently
compared the mileage she gets using regular gas with the mileage on
premium gas, doing the same kind of journeys on each tank. It turned out
that she got almost exactly 10% better mileage on premium, which works out
to less expense per mile on the more expensive gas. fwiw.

-s

what's the EPA mpg rating?

"grifty" <grifty121 (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote

I did the premium vs. regular comparison on my 2002 Passat 1.8T and
found no difference in mileage.

Steve Thompson wrote:

I did the premium vs. regular comparison on my 2002 Passat 1.8T and
found no difference in mileage.

Steve Thompson wrote:

Lost In Space/Woodchuck wrote:
IIRC it's around 23 city.

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Mike Smith