Managed to hit 790 km(full tank) or 13.5km/l

[Echelon]

Through Koolaba's technique, i finally managed to hit 13.5km/l and on fuel to km possible to travel hit 790km, used to be 550km..... woo hoo. Just wanted to share this here with the Skoda enthusiast.

 

Koolaba taught to,

1. Shift up to 5 gear as quickly as possible when driving off, theory is at higher gears, less consumption.

2. Apply enough pressure to the accelerator to keep the car in momentum.

3. Release accelerator and allow car to roll in situations going down gentle slop or when red light roll towards it than hard braking.

4. Light footed all the way.

 

Was so happy end of the day to see the consumption control can be applied.

 

I am 50% highway, 50% city. - but really light footed.

Edited March 31, 2008 by Echelon

[Adawang]

thats good figure.

Is it fun driving this way or boring?

[Beanoyip]

I'm truly amazed, can we switch cars to make sure there's absolutely nothing wrong with my car?

[Fortress]

Well done. One more point to add, if you put your air con temp to 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock, you would do even better. Believe and done that in my A4, 16.7km/l.

Edited March 31, 2008 by Fortress

[Beanoyip]

Ours on climatronic, there's not knobs on it.. But i usually set it to 22-23 degrees

[King]

so good,

my best is yesterday at 630km red light come out, pump at 43-45L of gas

 

at half tank mark is 400km

not bad hor

[Othello]

I used to do that for my old car, one of my friends also doing that. But how does the aircon control for our car work ? Thermostat style or ?

I read somewhere before that in some cars, as the knob turn towards RED, more hot air is allowed into the aircon duct, hence increasing the temp.

[Othello]

superb on your superb !! . I'm also applying the koolaba method, a lotta discipline needed. Have to keep monitoring the instantaneous readings. Any slight increase in pressure will make the reading go up 1 - 2 L but speed maintained.

Well, but occasionally must drive spiritedly to enjoy

[Arowana1]

thats good figure.

Is it fun driving this way or boring?

 

it be fun and addictive if u got the indicators to show how u r progressing. i do all the above for my civic hybrid and every step of the way, the challenge is to keep good fc. sometimes u can end up staring too much at the readings instead of on the road

[Friendstar]

LOL BEANOYIP

 

U"R LAME

hahahaahaha

[Friendstar]

yes then one day all it takes is for u to rear end one fellow and all ur "savings" are gone

[Beanoyip]

 

but its true? What so lame about it? Most Octavias are on analog knobs whereas the superb are on digital?

[Uno_hu]

But driving an auto got no chance to apply this technique.

[Othello]

I'm truly amazed, can we switch cars to make sure there's absolutely nothing wrong with my car?

you may have to switch your right foot

[Fortress]

I see...is there a way to raise the temp setting if it is too cold?

[Fortress]

Aircon works on a thermostat. The hot air you are saying is because the car's aircon is truly an aircon, which allows temp setting in cold weather, which has often been taken out by many local distributor to save cost of OMV, means more profit for them. Will not go into how they divert the air to warm the compartment. In fact, you have a better chance to extend the life of your a/c compressor because it has a chance to "rest" more when the achievable temp is reached.

[Adawang]

thats good figure.

Is it fun driving this way or boring?

 

it be fun and addictive if u got the indicators to show how u r progressing. i do all the above for my civic hybrid and every step of the way, the challenge is to keep good fc. sometimes u can end up staring too much at the readings instead of on the road

 

thats good, keep it up

[Beanoyip]

Yes, there's a blue and red button to change the temp settings. And being climatronic, there are sensors within the car to detect the interior temp.

 

Which is why you notice these cars doesn't fog up the windows during a cold day, because it knows to how to moderate the temperature so that its not too cold.