Wisconsin Q7

2017 Q7 with 30,000 miles on it.

I'm getting 25mpg after a 500 mile trip with cruise set at 83 mph.

This is as good as my Mercedes diesel - without the hassles.

What a good buy getting the Q7 !!

Dasaint

Very nice

Eppieguy

All highway with cruise set at 74 up and down hills in NJ and NY I got 26 MPG, I currently have 5200 miles. My normal commute of 26 miles in stop and go traffic with max speeds hitting 50 MPH then to bumper to bumper stop and go traffic I average 19 MPG.

dsyeggy

Just curious if you are actually calculating out the mileage or relying on the long term trip odometer. I have around 2k miles on my car and on the 4 times I have had to fuel I notice that the computer is 1.5 to 2 MPG optimistic compared to what my calculator tells me.

Eppieguy

I'm using the short term MPG on the car, I have never manually calculated it.

sammy5001

The computer reading is wrong. My car says average 20mpg but when it comes time for fueling it's actually 18.2mpg. On top of that, the car always estimates 500 mile range after refueling which is bull because it will drop 10 miles after each mile driven. I'm highly disappointed with Audi on this.

russ0054

I have checked my mileage using the mileage divided by gals method a number of fill ups and the computer is ALWAYS almost 2 gallons higher than actual mileage. My 2011 Q5 was the same. Seems like the Audi engineers have been messing around again!!!

GaryK4

My Acura MDX did the same thing. I think they all lie.

drive4fun

Do any of you top off the tank at the gasoline station? If so, the vapor recovery system at the pump actually will take back the excess vapor and gasoline, so you're actually putting in less gasoline than you think.

Brimstone

Mine does the same thing I'm typically 1-2 mpg below what the computer thinks I am.

https://www.audiworld.com/forums/q7-...urate-2917196/

(I do top off I let the pump stop itself then maybe add about .1 gal through manual sqeeze).

I was scrolling through and looking at energy producers screen a day or so ago, and had an epiphany about what might be occurring, typically the AC is on for me, and depending on outside temp possibly the seat, so I've found often I'm using 1/16 to 1/8 gal per hour to cool the vehicle (so it says) with my typical driving I'm noticing about 16 hrs. between fill ups, which would use about 1.5 to 2 gals on the energy consumption for the AC.

So if what the computer displays is measured by the throttle and ignores other factors the numbers might make sense I just checked one entry and added about 40 miles to my trip (2 gals at 20 mpg) to compensate for 1/8 gal/h entergy use for 16 hrs. of drive time and the overall mpgs matched to the hundredths. Maybe a coincidence, and useless information to anyone who's not trying to calibrate the energy efficiency of the throttle or the hvac system (or something else), since none of us want to drive in a sauna chamber or an icebox.

They should only have to measure the volume out vs. the distance driven and display the number. I don't expect the numbers to line up due to being hard to measure exactly how much went in (ie did I fill it) volume of gas also changes as a function of temperature but it should be within 5% regardless.

Doing anything else is over engineering to solve a non-problem (dumb) or just plain deceptive. I'm still in EPA advertised range regardless but this is annoying.