Nick, remeber a while ago I believed I had an issue with the car changing gear what seemed to be at the wrong time especially approaching junctions or R'abouts where the car would drop down a gear almost immediately after I took my foot off the gas...hence 20 ish to the gallon (mostly short runs). I had it looked at with Farnells Guiseley who said that they had reset something in the gearbox and I an tell you now I'm getting 26 ish, same journeys, either the car didn't like the cold or the gearbox tweak did the trick.
We've changed nothing 'style wise' on driving the car the only other thing I've been trying since then as well is Yamaha Fan's diesel additive

We have noticed a marked drop in economy from the manual, even so I get about 32 to 35 on most tanks the best tankful was around 37 and the worst was 30.7 but that involved 100 miles of towing over the Woodhead and back I never turn the aircon off and I rarely use command shift or Sport mode My usual trip to work is 4 miles and i do that trip 4 times a day.

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Not just me then.
Our auto gets around 24-25mpg around town driving, mixed town and motorway 28-29, driving miss daisy (60mph max on motorway & 20% town work) 34mpg. Towing 980kg van at 50mph = 26mpg, same van only faster = 21mpg. These are all on based on full tank to full tank.

That said I enjoy driving, I enjoy driving the FL best of all, so it comes as no surprise that fuel economy is not high on my list - hope SWMBO never reads this

Our eldest son borrowed her and got 18mpg
Then again I towed the same van with our old Skoda 1.9TDI and got 26mpg, our youngest now has the car and gets 35+ when towing.

Yes we have converted one of our sons to vanning it's just a shame he doesn't have his own van so we can start a convoy and really slow the North Wales traffic  Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

mcphersonstrut...

Was it only 'changing up' when cold?

Because almost all auto's do this. When they're cold the lock up clutch doesn't engage fully until the trans oil has warmed up to a certain temperature, so when it's clap cold I drive like a granny avoiding going much over 2000 rpm. Saying that even when it's warm i Don't really go over that in normal driving.

On the flip side, if they reset something and it improved then there obviously was something a miss.


Andy 131...18mpg?! That's some effort! Have you got some brakes and tyres left too?! Mine: 2012 Golf GTI Edition 35
Family's: 2009 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Auto, Stornoway

Yorkshire - God's County

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Don't get me started on the half tank gauge

£74 to fill empty tank but if it's on half tank then it costs £51  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Npinks .dont feel too bad, I am getting similar milage as you, cant do better then 24 when driving around. Best I have got so far is around 33-34. Service is due in 2 weeks and I am going to ask them to have a look. Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Auto
Zermatt Silver
Side Steps & Mud flaps

I asked them to look at mpg on my old car so I'm not getting my hopes up Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Done 5000 in 6 weeks on my new FL2, last 100 miles average 43mpg, mainly motorway. Drops to around 37/38 for mixed driving, not bad I thought. ______________________
2010 GS Galway Green Manual (now sold)

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Sorry for the delay Big Dave been chauffering kids - No it did it all the time and after the tweak it's noticeably selects what I seem to be a better gear for economy all the time

Aaa ok, to the dealer on that occasion then!

If we're stating what all our vehicles do, My Leon FR diesel does 40ish...

My Triumph bike, only 2 years old, does 30! But quite frankly I'm having too much fun to care when it's doing that  Mine: 2012 Golf GTI Edition 35
Family's: 2009 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Auto, Stornoway

Yorkshire - God's County

Since the weather has warmed up a bit (this itself helps) I've done a couple of 40-50 mile mostly motorway journeys in my auto and got 40mpg. You just have to drive like a granny at 60mph, which actually gets you there with a lot less stress anyway! Driving the same route at 80mph I get 31-32mpg. Freelander 2 TD4 HSE auto Tonga Green/Alpaca

Wow, some of you guy's/gal's are getting the same sort of mpg that I get in the D3, 26 - 28mpg around town, upto 33mpg @ 70 using cruise control on a motorway run, and I don't have a light foot either  ______________________
2011 Full Fat RR 4.4 TDV8
2012 FL2 SD4 Auto HSE
2013 Kawasaki Versys 650

Had to nip down to the NEC today from South Yorks so zeroed the computer and tried to keep it steady, had the lights,aircon and wipers on all the way there and back and there is a really long 50 limit through road works on the M1
Average speed came out at 51.7 mph fuel consumption was 41.9 mpg so not to shabby really for an automatic.