How Much MPG Can You REALLY Get From A £1000 Skoda?
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- čas přidán 2. 04. 2020
- Alex thinks he’s found the BEST cheap car for mega mpg. But how economical is it really?
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Apologies for the reupload of the video! Something went wrong processing the vid so we pulled it because we decided you needed to see Ethan and Jack ruin Alex in full HD!
Ok
Np
Car Throttle i love you no homo
Are you gonna get a new project car
@Sir Jimmy Savile Get a Roomster then. It's cavernous!
Anyone else's car getting three weeks to the gallon at the moment?
😒😬
iamaparanoidandroid even in the drive way gets 3 miles to the gallon😂
Hahahaha! Good one. 👍
I was pretty happy when my mum's car broke down, so I could drive her on and off to the garage.😅
Mine's getting about 6 months out of the tank right now.
I dont know what is wrong with my car I'm getting 3 gallons to the mile
Any car guy: I’m gonna drive economically
The same guy 2 minutes later: *drops the clutch
Me all the time
same
every time i fill up :D
To my credit i have now given up on the whole drive economically thing lol
@@morganbagert i did too :D and i drive a diesel so it still gets great mpg
Now, make a video where you completely ruin that mpg by adding power.
1,9tdi is still an mpg banger with *added power*
Now i want a vid where they ruin the fabia sh!tbox!
Nah, all they have to do is drive like my dad and they'll get under 20mpg.
@@Trainboy1EJR i drive a bmw 330i e90 and a guy at work has the exact same car. His car does 9l/100km or idk 30mpg? And mine does 16l/100km like 17 to 20 mpg?
Adding power doesn‘t mean that it‘s getting less efficient
I'll give you 20 rolls of triple ply for the Skoda
Sounds like a highball to me!
we use newspappers :D:D:D bit rough but does the job....
I'll give 8 rolls of penta ply. Firm
Don’t waste your rolls, that’s Ferrari money, 10 is more reasonable
4 pack...Quilted...Scented... Talk to me
3:08 is that a damn IPHONE 3GS???.. i thought they were extinct
Excellent phone imo
how u know its a 3gs ? iphones all looke dthe same for 3 yrs, still do now
girlsdrinkfeck The charger
I use it for podcasts. Still chugging away
I saw this too and thought the same.
This is my favorite car!!
My mom bought our glorious Fabia combi/wagon in 2011 (1.2 TDI 75hp), and by feathering the throttle, ours indicated 3,3l/100km or 85,x UK mpg
How many miles has it got now ? I drove one before choosing the 1.6 tdi. I felt the 1.2tdi turbo didnt start to spool up until after 2200rpm. There was no 75 horse power or any useable torque until the turbo starts working. Seriously trying to use 5th gear on 50 or 60 mph B roads was a problem because without the turbo it only has 20 hp, not 75hp. I needed to shift down to 4th gear to rev up the engine up a bit to access the boost. But doing that hurts the fuel consumption. There is a solution, for £500 you can get a full emmission delete which unblocks all the filters and pipes that feeds the turbo. This will spool up turbo from 1400rpm. You also need to adjust the fueling with a remap to match the turbos new performance. It gives you over 100hp and loads of torque low down. 5th gear becomes useable from 45 mph and up. The greenline has very long gears that dont suit the standard engines turbo not spooling until 2200rpm. This emmission delete and remap will transform your car. Id guess you would get atleast 20 mpg more afterwards. Well over 100mpg. My 1.6tdi used to get 70s mpg on the motorway. Now its 100 mpg plus. £500 would pay for itself within a year or 2.
@@hungrysurfer9471 yeah, don't forget about the free stage1 cancer for that "tuning" 🥴
@@cipryan96 not for me, a tunning company did the stage 1 conversion.
I genuinely thought that instagram post was Alex showing his appreciation for Ethan and Jack 😅
same
Yep, me too 😂
“Cheaper than 20 litres of hand sanitizer, with prices of these things starting from 1200 quid”, I am laughing on two folds. 1. I cannot stress how much I love this channel and the pure comedic value it brings. 2. That it is an actually pretty accurate statement (maybe not 1200 but at the cost it is, might as well be). I cover up my sadness of the truth with laughter because I don’t know if I’m going crazy or the world is.
Thank you guys for producing great content. For everyone else, please stay safe. 👍
I sold 100ml of hand sanitizer on eBay for 15 quid so lets say 150 quid a litre, x20 that's 3 grand. So yes, it's true!
I agree! 👍
That and the johnson bit had me dead
It could only get worse if a war in europe starts again!
Hey you can say, “I drive a rally car” with this thing
Edgy Car every Subaru wrx owner
@@daevid21 damnnnnnnnnn
Not really but you can certainly say 'I'm a nonce' with this car 👍
@@Truckerjayjay Dont cry.
You can say you drive a cake
''you gotta love a dp''
we sure do alex
Bet that stings you a bit?
Like Alex said, this is incredible fuel economy for a 10 year old diesel Škoda! 👍
Great content during quarantine
I rented a Fabia in Ireland for a week in 2016 and I was officially impressed. 3.2 litres per hundred km. It was comfortable too. A smashing little car.
Quite special to see a Fabia again on the channel. One of my favourite cars I've owned although mine's is the Monte Carlo spec 👌
I can vouch for this. Had a 500km trip using one of these,. It was a company car, 1.2 petrol using LNG, had 300k KM on the clock and was in generally terrible condition, but even so, it shocked me how a relaxed and reliable drive it was. All in all, if you don't care about the boring looks, this definitely seems like a great workhorse machine, and the 1.2 petrol + LNG combo means its dirt cheap to run.
I love this kind of cars. Cheap to buy, cheap to maintain, cheap to fill up. Reliable, comfortable, small enough to be agile in the city, large enough to move a family, and just powerful enough to be reasonable on the highway. Compact cars for life!
Totally agree, well said.
It's so weird getting mid-roll ads for this video which are also narrated by Alex
Thanks for converting stuff for us! i really appreciate it!
Good video Alex and team. Had a couple of Fabia's. Really capable cars
Reminds me of how my 07' Polo with the 1.9TDI 101hp engine did almost 1000km on one 45L tank of fuel across the valleys and mountains of Norway. 4,7L/100km So impressed by the economy of those engines.
A 1.9tdi is supposed to do that in a Passat, not a Polo. A light car like that should achieve under 4.0l/100km
@@sbstn110 hence why I added the "valleys and mountains" detail, had it been across relatively flat landscapes it should do 4 with some ease, add that I wasn't even trying to hypermile.
Ok, my bad. Don't really know the places there.
@@sbstn110 but remember the passat has a bigger fuel tank. However 600miles (1000km) is not that amazing (75 litre tank?)
@@chrisredfield3240 As you can clearly see from my comment I was talking about the fuel consumption, not the range. So what's your point?
You lift the fuel cap over the cover, and there's a slight kink in the wire that will keep it there. You're totes welcs.
I get 47mpg out of my 1.5 diesel Focus. That’s driving it enthusiastically and using it daily on a mix of country roads, dual carriageways and town driving. Usually averages up to 50mpg on a long run.
A couple of years ago I bought a 1.9 sdi fabia for £500 and, driving it gently, I then achieved 70mpg for the next 3 tank fill ups at ~500 mile intervals. Not as quick as the 1.4tdi but it will run on supermarket cooking oil which was on offer at 70p/litre last time I looked in Tesco.
I had one of these and put 140.000 km on it without a single problem. Really awesome cars if you want something reasonable cheap
really mines opposite time I get it out the garage it’s back in again
Mines been good on fuel but needed £1800 worth of work over the last 60k miles
“You got to love a DP” Alex Kersten during quarantine 2020
Alex is definitely bored and hadn’t only been looking at cars to buy😏
In french PD means gay so it also sounds weird when he says "You've got to love a PD" ahahah
DONT EVER STOP DOING VIDEOS LIKE THIS!!
Ran a 2010 1.4 Tdi Fabia for 5 years and 55,000 miles. Never got less than 65Mpg and made some interesting 3 cylinder noises (whilst not going fast). In our ownership it only needed a pair of front pads. Good cars.
For diesel cars to be cheaper to run than petrol in The Netherlands you need to do at least 20.000KM per year.
They cost 3 times as much in road tax.
And you can't go into cities if it's old.
Politicians haven't got a clue what diesel actually does. The latest models clean the air... Absurd taxing and negative laws around them are just unbelievable.
yep in Germany too. It's ridiculous
Here in Norway the diesel is slightly cheaper. being a gasoline owner whole life it sucks a bit :)
they want as all to go electric and then they will raise the price, yet again.
In the netherlands they make diesel more expensive because the government doen not make enough money of them
Greetings from the Czech Republic :D
I had one of these for a week while my Vovlo V40 was in for repairs after someone reversed into it. I didn't want to fill it up, so played a game to see how high I could get the MPG. On a trip to work, my Volvo averaged around 32.5. This thing got 81. Loved driving it too.
I've owned a slightly older Fabia and I swapped for a Volvo V50 1.6.You can find 1 just as old for a few more hundred quid(300 should do),you can get slightly better gas mileage,you get leather seats,climate control,heated seats,cruise control,heated mirrors(you can also find ones with electric seats and other options) and it is way way more spacious and comfortable (starting from seating position to even arm position),also a lot of compartments anywhere,and the seats in the back are border limousine.Also the trunk is like 3 times as big(like a minivan).It is sluggish,but so was the Fabia in all honesty.The big downside for them is parts are not usually cheap(had a pheasant jump in front of my car going 60mph and destroyed a headlight,cost me 65£ and that was cheap,replacing a mirror is like 50£ - just the mirror),second downside would be the fact that some things are made harder to acces than they should(cabin filter you have to take the fusebox apart and it still is not easy),to change the mirror you have to dismantle the whole door,they are well built but not very ergonomical when you need to work on one.
Should try a 1.5dci Clio, could use mine 😂
I get about 83.2 on the clocks on the motorways and b roads
Had a corsa 1.5d amazing what mpg they can get. Need to be a little bit lighter on the throttle though.
Chris Redfield ah, I think they’re well good, mines a 2014 so it’s got stop start but, very torquey as well about 230nm and weighs about the same as the fabia
@@PritchardGamingUKF1 I really hate start stop. Lucky my 2 vehicles don't have it now. I would forget to turn it off. I'm sure it killed off my starter motor.
Same engine in my wifes Qashqai. She used to get 77 on a long journey.
91 mpg or 3.1 liter/100 km with my 1.6 CR Tdi Golf 6 Variant.
no way! I remember seeing that post thinking it was genuine, didn't think twice. Step up your game when you get the chance again!
Keep up the good work lads
I brought my daughter her 1st car, which is an 04 VW polo 1.4 diesel and that little car gets 68mpg with 138,000 on the clock, she's had it 3 years with no problems.
Great vid was wondering why it was in 360 👌👌
Because YT hates Skodas
Alex Kersten love your content anyway in any quality will always be subbed
I own a fabia 5j 1.9tdi
Cheap daily, 120hp ... enough fun
Much better engine. 1,2 tdi sucks balls
I did own a Fabia 5j Monte Carlo 1.6tdi with the same bhp.
Overdrive what have you done to get 120hp ? They don’t get that as standard
120Hp? Thats pretty powerful
Biggest grandma cars tho 😂
keep us entertained during lockdown with trivia and more vids pls im going mad at home
Skodas are just brilliant if you want a car to get you from A to B in a relaxed drive; they are economic, reliable and well screwed together. That particular model of Fabia (I own an '05 model) does have particularly naff granny looks, but get over that and I say they are the best value second hand car by a country mile. I can't praise them enough, you can even get four adults in that thing, without their knees being around their ears. Fabulous Fabias!
That car is now worth £3000 right now
It's so nice you're using proper units finally.
2:57 that recurring RP voice gag is brilliant
Wow boring Friday video 👍👍💯👍👍 thanks guys always a pleasure watching you 3 do silly stuff, LOVE that Skoda Fabia they go on forever. Stay safe mates
There is a holder for the fuel cap, look in the manual :)
3:47 is that an iPhone 3G?
Idk I know nothing about phones
I've got a 2008 1.9TDi Sport and it's probably the best cheap car I've had, actual 50mpg, 105bhp so nippy enough and mega mega reliable in 18 months so far. I can't knock it!
Always love fuel consumption challenges 🤘🏻 do more hypermiling pls 🙌🏻
What if top gear hired Alex Kersten, Chris Harris and Matt from carwow? : D
I would just watch a heap of top gear
Matt Watson from carwow was my childhood hero
That would be epic and let then grill each other.
Throw in yanni for banter too.
Shadman Sudipto take down the bbc
I’ve own my mk1 vrs and it’s fantastic, especially as a first car, best mpg I’ve had was 69 mpg and it still pulls like a train and no one else’s car my age compairs
Is there a Fabia VRS? Nice!
I've recently brought one of these as a bit of a work horse and love it, trouble free motoring mostly it's just a car to do a job 👍
I have a 2018 fabia with the 1.0 inline 3 cylinder engine, it's boring as hell, but the fuel economy is wonderful, costs jack to run, and is cheap to buy. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to be bored out of their mind while driving.
Mazda rx-8 video
"Give me your mone"
Lol I laughed on the origional video
Rx8?
Rx8*
@@shit_name4097 tnx man I appreciate your reply
"My mx5 is definitely not for sale" Alex🥺
April 1st.
@@BobMonkeypimp I know, I was seeing if anyone believed it... 10 people did
Car throttle doing the lords work keeping us entertained
My wife had one of these as her first car, got 81.5 regularly on long journeys. Remarkable engine!
When I seen the word "Skoda"
And seen "MPG"
AND instantly thought
PD
3:10 still using an iPhone 3G in 2020? I thought they’d be paying enough to at least buy a half decent phone...
woosh
You do realise you're the one everyone singers at here dont you?
Hi guys hope you are well keep well and thank you for the vid
About the "where this go" part at gas station - you can hang the fuel tank cap on the plastic door, there are two cuts on the cap and you just hang it on top of the plastic door.
Can’t believe he’s funding that fart extraction machine idea not a good idea in my opinion
Ummm does Alex use an iPhone 3G which is attached to the dashboard, fair play, you do you 😂
Thnx, for displaying the metric numbers as well.
I had a 2011 greenline 2 (1.2ltr three cylinder) and although dull, it was a very cheap car to run. I used to drive like a nun but normally got 80mpg without trying and once got her up to 95mpg over a long run. Very simple motoring, even main dealer was less than £100 for a service and it was only the lack of an automatic that led to a car change. Skodas are great cars.
I have the estate version 1.2tdi greenline, should I get the same mpg?
(Careful driver)
VW Lupo 3L sitting in the corner, crying...
the 3L was able to achieve even better mpg
@Богдан Кондратов that's because the Fabia, especially the Mk I, is amazingly sturdy and well built. You can drive it for a quarter million miles with next to zero maintenance and it'll still keep driving. (Until the moment it sucks oil through a faulty turbo cooling line and runs away.)
You should get a VW Lupo 3L or an Audi A2 3L for the next time ;)
2.7l/100km highway ;)
I know what you mean, but a 3 litre Lupo sounds like a fun car ;)
Seems like u like Audis
@@hamstirrer6882 it s not a 3L engine, 3L stands for 3L/100 km for diesel consumption
@@bogdangrn6297 i know, was just joking that a 3 litre engined lupo would be coo
I am not a car guy but this channal is just amazing,i am staring to love more cars for what they are and how much fun they are to drive in games as i am only 16,you have to love sounds some of the cars make not the electric boxs
Great day 🌞 weather looks good
CT have really just reviewed a flipping Skoda Fabia🙃
They've reviewed worse
3:26 look a porsche macan
Where’s the Miles update video ? Great job as usual guys!
A year ago, I paid £775 for a 2001 Toyota Yaris 1.0 VVT-i. I flipping love the thing. Gets >50mpg even if you uttery spank it on A/B roads. 55mpg on the motorway. An absolute hoot to drive at well under the speed limit. Cheap and simple to repair/service. Can genuinely fit a washing machine in the back. Plan to run it till it dies/rots away.
Alex is a good replacement for our aging Jeremy Clarkson....shame he’s 3 feet tall 😉 love you Alex.
Haha...he’s brilliant, but not in the same league as Jeremy...
Bank Robber approved! 😁
I have one of these, it's loud af, but pulls quite well and I love it
Absolutely delighted with this video. I have an 08 Fabia greenline and it truely does that kind of mileage. Superb car and would efenitly stick with Skoda!!!!
Alex, after watching the full video I have just one question: "Why is Alex showing us such a boring sh*tbox?"
Because Skoda is paying them to sponsor them constantly..
@@Ivzu yea sponsoring to make adds for 20 years old Octavia and 10 years old Fabia...
Pfff, if it was a shitbox then it wouldn't be as reliable as they are
Plus, it has more style than its counterparts
Can I ask what´s the story of that iPhone 3G on your dashboard? 😅👌
It's a 3GS actually 😁
I test drove a greenline 1.2 tdi before choosing the 1.6 tdi. I felt the 1.2tdi turbo didnt start to spool up until after 2200rpm. There was no 75 horse power or any useable torque until the turbo starts working. Seriously trying to use 5th gear on 50 or 60 mph B roads was a problem because without the turbo it only has 20 hp, not 75hp. I needed to shift down to 4th gear to rev up the engine a bit to access the boost. But doing that hurts the fuel consumption. There is a solution, for £500 you can get a full emission delete which unblocks all the filters and pipes that feeds the turbo. This will spool up turbo from 1400rpm. You also need to adjust the fueling with a remap to match the turbos new performance. It gives you over 100hp and loads of torque low down. 5th gear becomes useable from 45 mph and up. The greenline version has very long gears that dont suit the standard engines turbo not spooling until 2200rpm. This emmission delete and remap will transform your car. Id guess you would get atleast 20 mpg more afterwards. Well over 100mpg on the motorway. My 1.6tdi used to get 70s mpg on the motorway. Now its 100 mpg plus. £500 would pay for itself within a year or 2.
thease videos are hilariously funny and cool at the same time
Now you can afford to go absolutely anywhere your heart desires, while on lockdown.
Being 17 and planning on having my first car after this whole covid situation.
I'm looking to get a reliable and economical car, from what i've seen Toyota Aygo's the best out there in terms of being a very reliable car and very very economical in terms of mpg averaging 60mpg.
Do you know any better suggestions or should i keep to the aygo?
Mansour Mansouri well The fabia he’s using is pretty much all you need for economical. As for reliability the 1.9 is bulletproof.
Just check the insurance cost before buying anything. Some Japanese cars can be quite pricey.
The aygo has a horrible feeling gear shift although that is entirely subjective. Tbh I'd recommend a Ford Fiesta Mk6 if you want something thats fun to drive. I have a 1.4 petrol that I got for £500 and it gets around mid-40s in terms of mpg when driving normally
Aygos are overpriced shit boxes , get a cheap french hatch and you wont cry when you crash it and believe me we all crash our first cars.
@Богдан Кондратов thanks for the advice man. I dont really care about the looks of a car , I just want to find a cheap car with low miles and I know it's going to do good for mpg , so you think skoda fabia is the best?
Nice t-shirt! Gotta love that m20 six cylinder
I LOVE when you poke fun at wheeler dealers lol it KILLS me love from u.s.a keep up the great content chaps? Is that right?
when there no Skoda's or Diesels in USA :(
Austin Hartman no Diesels in the USA? Yeah, right...
wschnitzler there is so some but not like Europe.
So selling Phil was an April fools :)
No, he sold it to me for £75. I had to remove the booster seat and the pedal extensions before I could drive it.
100-200ml per full tank of quality low smoke mineral two stroke in the diesel, (synthetic 2T will fall out of solution) will quiet the engine, make it last longer, increase efficiency, clean the combustion chamber and increase power and especially torque.
I haven't tried Automatic transmission fluid in diesel yet but if it doesn't fall to the bottom of a test jar after a few days it should be even better for cleaning the combustion chamber, and especially the exhaust system including catalytic converters and any sensors within it.
I use about 100-200mls of ATF in the engine oil to help clean the carbon and contaminants out the engine before an oil change which works wonders.
You can safely use the car for a few days with ATF in the oil but it will clean and diffuse so much grot from the engine it will turn golden brown oil to black as night in short order.
I prefer to raise the oil level 5mm above the full line on the dipstick to help ensure all the "high tide" deposits of gunk are removed during the process, however, high RPM is not a good idea when your oil is slightly thinned, and when the level is above the full mark, at high RPM the crank can whip air into the oil vastly reducing the lubricity, cushioning and temperature control of the oil, and I shouldn't have to explain why that's best avoided..
Maybe a test of the different upper cylinder lubricants and even engine oil flush products, off the shelf and DIY, would make a good upload?
These thing have spectacular light housings. You can hang the headlight with one piece of loose tape and it will stay on for half a year no problem.
I have a 2017 1.2 TSI fabia. It’s ok on fuel, but I wish it was a diesel.
James Martindale how many mpg does it do?
I would say 35-40mpg best case scenario
2DBuckShot averages 50-55 on motorways at best and about 40-45 on normal drives. It’s nowhere near as much as it’s claimed, but it’s decent.
70 mpg is that all?
I regularly get over 75 mpg from my 2003 Vw golf mk4 130 bhp tdi. Estate.
Best I ever got was 85mpg on a run from the Midlands to London on cruise control @ 55 mph. ...
Must be down hill Midlands to London I would imagine no a/c tyres 40psi and slip streaming hgv's to get that.
I have own loads of diesels mostly get around 42mpg normal 50mpg best average and just short of 60mpg if I go out of my way to pull away slowly as possible and barely reach 50mph
@@chrisredfield3240
Nope actually,
50 - 55 mph, due to ave speed check cameras. I just got up to that speed, and put it on cruise control . 34 Psi in each corner running on Michelin Cross climate tyres .
I normally get around 50+ around town in moving traffic. I don't drive like a boy racer & use BP or Esso normal diesel as it gives me better MPG than supermarket diesel. BTW, BP makes my motorbikes run better too!!
@@benpar8120 I find supermarket fuel is terrible. I even filled my dads diesel focus with shell fuel without telling him and he told me the car seemed to be going a lot better.
**New Subscriber Klaxon!** Loving your channel. I'm hooked!
I really like the Fabia, want one for my first car specifically, the Fabia Monte Carlo, depending on how much the insurance and stuff costs. Either way, I think the Fabia is a great little car. Great little nipper.👍🏽🚗
The old Audi A2 is way more economical and cool than this Skoda.
With insurance and tax? Doubt it.
You can have that mph on any tdi of the group. Even 1.9 can get it on b roads at 80km/h
Great video as per, however what would be really good is what issues/faults people should look out for when buying!
The mighty Skoda Flabia! I've a 2006, 1.4tdi with 245k miles in the clock. Picked it up for £100 at auction about 8 months ago. Thinking it will get me about for a few weeks whilst I get my VW fixed... The VW is still sat on the drive broken. 55-60mpg all day long with the skoda. Even better economy at the moment with the roads so quiet. 🚗🧻
“My v6 Mx5 is definitely not for sale”
U sure about that
Olly Ward was an April fools day vid
@@413xx6 Olly is an april fool's joke
Its obvious. The *genius* idea he is “selling” the car to fund was getting rid of fart odor in your car.
@@jenifonh.6949 haha i watched that
Eray Kepenek it was funny as hell though thats the thing😂
It weighs as much as it costs
Isn't that awesome?! Pretty much 1gbp per 1kilogram of weight. Mindblowing 🤯
5:58
So enthusiastic
*"That's what she said"*
I drive a '05 Mk1 Fabia and it usually gets a bit over 70mpg in the summer average per tank, mostly rural driving, and maybe low to mid 60s in the winter. The other upside is parts are dirt cheap. Yeah, it's no frills but it's a solid runabout and I'd totally get another.