golfdave
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Scotland (U.K.)
- Car(s)
- Mk7 Golf GT Estate
If you have not fitted these covers..DO IT!!!!..best MPG gains for the cost & ease of fitting!!
Having just done the same trip in the same weather & load conditions as previously mentioned, I now got 50.5MPG (UK)!!!! The traffic conditions were slightly different, but I would normally expect to get 46.4MPG to a max of 48MPG in these traffic conditions.
That's at least a 2.5MPG gain & possibly a 4.1MPG gain!!, which is a 5.2% to 8.62% gain!!
These types of aero covers have been used by VAG & other manufactures on high performance & "Eco" cars for many years as they smooth the air flow which is very turbulent around the rear lower arms on multilink suspension. VW should have designed/used these from the beginning on the MK5/6/7 Golfs to get better MPG instead of rigging the software that ended up in the "Diesel-gate" scandal. To make these covers & fit to every VW car would have been far cheaper than the software fix, buy-back schemes, legal actions etc., etc....!!..
Yet again penny pinching bean counters ignoring basic aerodynamic engineering!!!...IDIOTS!!....
Having just done the same trip in the same weather & load conditions as previously mentioned, I now got 50.5MPG (UK)!!!! The traffic conditions were slightly different, but I would normally expect to get 46.4MPG to a max of 48MPG in these traffic conditions.
That's at least a 2.5MPG gain & possibly a 4.1MPG gain!!, which is a 5.2% to 8.62% gain!!
These types of aero covers have been used by VAG & other manufactures on high performance & "Eco" cars for many years as they smooth the air flow which is very turbulent around the rear lower arms on multilink suspension. VW should have designed/used these from the beginning on the MK5/6/7 Golfs to get better MPG instead of rigging the software that ended up in the "Diesel-gate" scandal. To make these covers & fit to every VW car would have been far cheaper than the software fix, buy-back schemes, legal actions etc., etc....!!..
Yet again penny pinching bean counters ignoring basic aerodynamic engineering!!!...IDIOTS!!....