Bluesteve1

What MPG should a stock C5 A4 get in the city? Seems like everytime I get in my car to drive even for a short distance the needle goes down a lot. The dash says I'm averaging 13.6 MPG. I know I didn't buy the Vette for fuel economy and I know it's gonna eat up gas, but is 13.6 normal with nomal driving? Also my A4 has the performance gearingfront the factory(3.15s)

GEMcLean

I've been getting 18 - 20 depending on how spirited I feel.

Vetteman Jack

I get anywhere from 16-20 in town - really just depends on how often I have to stop for traffic and how many hills I have to go up (this area has a lot of hills).

VetteNoob

I average 19 mpg on my H/C/I car. This includes highway, city, and stop/go driving.

Blown 346

The big issue is the type of gas and what station you are getting it from. Here by me, I only use Shell or Mobil. Any other gas station my mileage goes to hell.

Bluesteve1

Filled up with 91 octane Shell. I bought a bottle of techron fuel system cleaner. I'm waiting for the take to be low before I put it in like the instructions say. Hopefully it will help me out a bit lol

BlackY2KCorvette

i average 21, the only hills here are the grade on the bridges over the river.......LOL

Notaustin

If I get on it at all you can really kill the mpg's but if I baby it I can do 17 ish in town

jrose7004

I get about 20 mpg around town.

memmer

In my C5 A4 vert I am getting about 17 with Chevron 91 and I just had a performance tune.I am stock except for a cai and cat back mufflers.
Fred

SCM_Crash

Around town I get about 17-20MPG, but I have a 6-speed.

Do plugs and wires if you haven't already. I only had 50K miles on my car, but when I checked the plug wires, they were so brittle they actually came right off the boot! Doing the tune up on my car made a word of difference in economy, power and smoothness. I must have had a miss.

Katherinejjm

Thanks for all the reports guys, nice to hear that.

jornahow

In heavy rush hour commuting with lots of traffic lights I get 17-18. On the highway 29mpg. 2002 A4

Bluesteve1

Finished my tank of gas today and my avg was 15.4. I dropped some of the chevron cleaner in it as I filled up.
Also does the fuel caps constantly loosely spin on C5s? The cap would not seal after trying to put it back on. After 5 minutes of messing with it it finally stayed on but seems real loose and keeps spinning.

allred

Just over 20mpg around town (3.15 axle) 28mpg on the freeway at 75mph.

No problems with a spinning gas cap.


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coia96vette

Get a new gas cap for sure. It will help the engine managment system do it thing.

Bluesteve1

Just picked one up at autozone for $10 and it tightened up just right! Hopefully I get a better mpg this tank

torchredmadness

Local driving we get around 15-18. Long trips with alot of highway miles it goes up to 25-27. Stock '03 six speed.

Vette_Fan

I get the same on my A4. Have the Z06 rear end (3.42)

SFL_driver

I'm averaging about 14 in the city with my m6. Of course there is a pretty good amount of traffic here in east Orlando.
On the flip side... I'm averaging 29-30 on the highway!