Recently purchased a 1.9tdi 2008 Caddy.
Its been incredibly well look after, has 119,000 on the clock and is a DSG. I had a 1.9 tdi near identical about 6 years ago and remember it being a very economical van. This one however seems to be drinking fuel! Only had it two weeks, not doing mega miles but I've worked out its averaging just about 30mpg. I know its done a few miles and is nearly 12 years old which will be contributing but surely I should be getting better mpg?
Any help/advice/tips appreciated.
before anyone says it, I don't have a heavy right foot too
Im a business owner and the company next door to me are Remapping and Tuning specialists. They plugged into to it for me as I mentioned it to them, it had already had a terrible map so they removed that. I ran it for a few days on standard map then they put their map onto it. Nothing made any impact on the MPG
How's the cam belt, has it been changed recently?
I know cambelt stretch can cause a problem with timing and the knock on effect is poor MPG. My old 1.9TDI used to respond greatly in MPG with a cambelt and oil service.
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Another thing to look into are your tyres mate. Are they inflated correctly? Are they decent tyres? I know it won’t make a huge difference but it all helps.
Is the 1.9tdi just poor for mpg in Caddy? My own only ever does 40/41mpg measured tank to tank. Not loaded and even one trip I kept to 60 on the motorway and it made no difference.
