# Bad gas millage 2001 jetta

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/bad-gas-millage-2001-jetta/42727>\
**Category:** Power/Fuel\
**Tags:** jetta, volkswagen, gasoline\
**Created:** [January 17, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bad-gas-millage-2001-jetta/42727 "2010-01-17T18:03:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![chefmicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@chefmicky](https://community.cartalk.com/u/chefmicky)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bad-gas-millage-2001-jetta/42727/1 "2010-01-17T18:03:14Z")

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I own a 2001 VW Jetta 4cl manual transmission and I am having a problem with gas millage and unfortunately it is not that I am getting too good of millage. I am getting around 250mile a tank, around 17-18 miles/gallon. If I am really lucky I can get up to 23ml/gal, but that would be the very best day ever. I have pretty much had this problem 6 or 8months after I bought the car. I bought the car from the shop I go to and they tried and tried again to fix the problem. Replaced the O2 sensors and the mass air flow. This is has been an ongoing problem for about 2 or maybe 3 years and never really has been fixed. When they replaced the sensors it got maybe a little better for awhile, but then back down soon after.  
  
  
  
 Every once in awhile in the winter ice and snow gets pushed up in the car and it sounds like I have an exhaust leak, it mutters for a few minutes but when the car warms up the sound goes away.  
  
  
  
 So I wonder if there is a connection to exhaust leaks and bad gas millage? Is it possible that I have a bad connection or something near the front of the car, causing the car to have back pressure from the exhaust, tricking the engine to run rich and burn my almost $3/gallon 87octane gasoline more than it needs?  
  
  
  
 And if this is not true, why does my car burn so much gas?