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Originally Posted by manicm
Cyee, I have an 18i as well, and yes it is heavy on fuel. I assume you have auto? - I do about 50/50 highway/city and my average is now about 10.5/100km. I know it's a pain, but what will really help is if you use Steptronic in manual mode. What irks me is that in full auto it hangs on too long on low gears when going up hills - sometimes won't change up till 4000rpm or higher.
My situation is a bit worse as I am at high altitude.
The manual mode works quite well.
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i agree with manicm when u drive uphill in auto mode (D) it takes a while to shift gear which i find it annoying, So u really have to accelerate for it to shift gear and that will consume fair bit of petrol. the fix is DS -> Manual. so when driving the car uphill i love the manual mode,. i have had my car for 3 weeks now have done 1000km, mostly drive around the city 9.6L/100km... which i think is ok for this engine. milage is not depended only on the engine but also the driver.