56.42 mpg ?

 

this
a ZR160 bettered that? :\
cannot be true. no way

 

I only managed 60 MPG once in the Diesel.

 

ha ha ha

 

Is that the instant MPG readout? Coasting down a hill in neutral? I can do that sort trickery with my Scangauge too, cheater!

 

Indeed 50L, yet i know for a fact that even if i run mine till it clonks out, i can STILL only get 42L in. Bit strange.

 

I know my own results are somewhat irrelevant, but I totted up how much fuel i've put in 'pottering the car around' and I equate to something daft around the 20mpg mark.

BANANAS!

 

During the week I typically don't make trips longer than 3 - 4 miles between turning the engine on and off again... and I've calculated mine at 23mpg... which is abysmal - especially for a 1.1litre engine.

I suppose its down to the fact the engines not given a chance to warm up :/

 

Believe it or not, very recently when I was in extra economy mode

579 miles - 40.14 litres

It was showing 400 miles at roughly half a tank.

I couldn't believe it myself, and thought I'd made a mistake, but I hadn't.

 

65.5MPG!? etevick:

Crikey, sure you didn't throw the odd tenners worth in there and forget?! That well and truely destroys my record lol.

 

surely by that maths you should easily get 500 miles per tank?
that's nearly 11 gallons so at 55mpg you should beat 600 tbh

but you can only get 42l in?interesting....

 

surely by that maths you should easily get 500 miles per tank?
that's nearly 11 gallons so at 55mpg you should beat 600 tbh

but you can only get 42l in?interesting....

It's like there is another 8L in the tank, but you can't seem to "suck it up" for some reason. Lots of people report the same sort of behavior, the gauge can read below the red and the can literally run out. Still never get the full 50L in.

 

Half a tank on the gauge isn't half a tank.

Ever noticed how you get to half a tank with a decent mileage and then it suddenly drops ?

 

I got 200 miles on a quarter of a tank going from Derby to Liverpool and back again, plus a 20 mile round trip to the scout hut. Which worked out at about 72 mpg! I've not really been able to achieve that lately though : (

 

Sorry, going to have to void that entry as it relies on having an accurate fuel gauge.... which you do not What does it work out at when you do a proper tank-to-tank test?

 

I managed 300 miles just above empty line! .....on the back of an aa truck! Haha

 

i have to noticed this, if i as pootling along and then put my foot down my fuel guage goes down a tad and goes back up again when i ease off, well a bout 5 mins after i ease off.
best ive ever had from my rover 25 td is 52mpg. that was on a long run up to newcastle. my usual is about 40-45mpg.

worst ive ever had was 32mpg and that was loads of short runs and alot of foot to the floor stuff.

 

I had this today I gave it some beans for a minute and it used **** loads of fuel, and it's a td.

 

general town driving , get 46mpg, did a few trips to uni only 8 x 20 miles near all A road got 54mpg

 

Will advise...
havent done any math yet as im not finished. I put in my tank on saturday £51 until it clicked on the pump.
It did take the gauge to the top so i reset my clock. I drove back from Great yarmouth and so far i have Done 238 miles and the gauge is just under halfway so im guessing i should pull off 400 miles

 

Bet you don't mate, don't forget the amount in the filler neck before it reaches the tank when full.

It always looks like your doing really well out of a tank but as soon as you pass the halfway mark it suddenly starts to drop.

 

582.3 miles on my last tank and 53.81 litres to fill up again. Works out 49mpg, the best ive ever had from my 600 diesel

 

I defiantly agree with the whole guage is a guide idea my old 400 used to drop a quarter just going up a steep hill if it was half full on level ground shocking!!

I did manage Atherstone to Manchester and back on £20 once in my old ZS 180 god knows how! That included getting lost in manc city centre as well lol

 

39mpg would be my best, drove from Barnstaple, up along the coast, then M5 and M6 and A69 home; filled up just onto the M6 and that tank was what I did the calc on. Epic drive, hell of a way I'd gone for an interview for a job I didn't get.

I tend to get 33/34 mostly. Dismal figures really, but then I remind myself I'm driving a 1.8 petrol, on rural roads, where my mum's 54 plate Megane 1.9dci only got 39.6mpg.

 

Your are right mine does seem to sit in places for a couple of days then sudenly drop!
Its the phantom fuel thief!!
But i didnt fill up the neck, i stoped at the first clunck on the hose cause it stoped pretty much at the cash i had!

 

I brimmed mine the other week. Cost about £52.
So with a 50 litre tank, that's 11 gallons into a Rover 25.

Today, the trip meter was on 316 miles, with roughly an 1/8" of a tank left.
So that's around 33 miles to the gallon, pretty bad by todays standards.
90% of my journeys are on the motorway, averaging 65~70mph.

I'd feel happier if the Rover could manage 40 mpg.

Added another £20 worth this afternoon at £1.37 a gallon.

I.

 

Added another £20 worth this afternoon at £1.37 a gallon.

I.

if only it was that per gallon lolz

 

well i can get 74 miles out of my car on a tenner of fuel my fuel is 135.9 at the moment so not sure how that works out but i have a zr 120

 

45 ish ?

 

Haha, just noticed, been a long week. £1.37 a litre.

 

currently at 323 miles and just above red !! i want atleast 350 out of a full tank

 

Out of 3/4 a tank I managed 255 miles (or there abouts). 1.4 103ps 25 Was well happy, since had a new exhaust definatley seems to have improved too

 

To the people who get stellar MPG out of their R3, can you post a bit about your daily commute / style of driving please? The is probably more relevant to the diesel owners tbh.

I'm quite interested in the common "i drove it really carefully and got worse mpg" syndrome that diesel owners report.

 

I remember reading over on ecomodder something about not loading the engine - changing gear lower can be worse since the engine pumps a lot of fuel in to make up the difference. I notice it a lot since my MAF is damaged I have to choose whether to almost red line it in one gear or put my foot down in a higher gear before the turbo kicks in when joining motorways and such.

I much prefer just driving just on the boost, I seem to use a lot less fuel, but since our diesels aren't too good up to 40 I have to do the above and it sucks! I wish people weren't so pushy on the motorway then I could really achieve an awesome MPG.

 

I can only comment on our diesel pug, but, yes, driving 'really carefully' gets worse average mpg (52ish) compared to driving 'normally' (keeping it between 1.5-2.5k rpm = 55+mpg average). It likes to stay in the boost zone (what little boost you get from the turbo on it!) very much, and everything(drivability, power, economy) benefits from this. Our 207 also has a 50 litre tank (and i've only ever got 45 into it, even when the trip computer thingy told me I had 2 miles of fuel left!), and I get 500 miles minimum every time. :broon:

Thinking of 'real' fuel for a moment dddc, I have found that on a decent motorway journey certainly, both our VVC MGF, and the 25 GTi will get 400 miles from a tank without much trying (got a 430 out of the F once!), where the only time I managed 400 miles out of a tank in my 1.4 ZR was by cruising at 60, slipstreaming lorries! :lol: Normal driving (round town, my 5-mile commute, that kind of thing), however, i'd be lucky to see 300 out of any of them.

 

I can only comment on our diesel pug, but, yes, driving 'really carefully' gets worse average mpg (52ish) compared to driving 'normally' (keeping it between 1.5-2.5k rpm = 55+mpg average). It likes to stay in the boost zone (what little boost you get from the turbo on it!) very much, and everything(drivability, power, economy) benefits from this. Our 207 also has a 50 litre tank (and i've only ever got 45 into it, even when the trip computer thingy told me I had 2 miles of fuel left!), and I get 500 miles minimum every time. :broon:

Thinking of 'real' fuel for a moment dddc, I have found that on a decent motorway journey certainly, both our VVC MGF, and the 25 GTi will get 400 miles from a tank without much trying (got a 430 out of the F once!), where the only time I managed 400 miles out of a tank in my 1.4 ZR was by cruising at 60, slipstreaming lorries! :lol: Normal driving (round town, my 5-mile commute, that kind of thing), however, i'd be lucky to see 300 out of any of them.

Interesting contribution, thanks. Your diesel comments pretty much confirm my initial suspicions on diesel "eco driving".

If you are given a straight road with no traffic, slowly tootling through the gears with minimal revs up to the limit seems less fuel efficient than just getting your boot down a bit (within reason) and getting up to cruising speed.

 

£25 and little bit got me 1858km/h Daventry to Aldershot and back in my little rover 200 which i think good