pammy
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Bless - a very happy chappy then 
sounds like a miracle ... if you believe in such things
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Hi
But what is it really doing, i had a loan 220cdi for a fortnight or so and at the end of each journey home from work the mpg was always in the high 50's or low 60's when i brimmed the tank again it only got 43 or so. I really could not have driven that thing any easier, only thing i put it down to was the fact that it only had 2000 miles on it and that it might have improved with age.
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But what is it really doing, i had a loan 220cdi for a fortnight or so and at the end of each journey home from work the mpg was always in the high 50's or low 60's when i brimmed the tank again it only got 43 or so. I really could not have driven that thing any easier, only thing i put it down to was the fact that it only had 2000 miles on it and that it might have improved with age.
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GrahamC230K
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fuzzer said:yepgives me a 981 mile range on a single tank
I would get filling station withdrawal symptoms!
Would need to fill up 3 times to get that! Only got 280 miles out of my last 55 litres.
pammy
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GrahamC230K said:
ditto
but it's fun 
sym
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RichardM said:
Yeah - was gonna' say ... watch your 981 miles range & 72 mpg rise and fall as you go up & down hills ! My 'range' seems to lose 50 miles or so every time I stop & start the engine, and then gains 100 once I start cruising again ... not the most accurate indicator ! Makes you very aware of your driving style though !!
S.
I know , it did go down when i went up a hill , went down to 65mpg.
then i got fed up and just booted it and it ended up over 120 miles at 56mpg with me not hanging about over country roads.
Ill take a camera tonight , im doing the same journey again.
It just seems to be the car that keeps giving ... why oh why didnt i buy a diesel before this?
then i got fed up and just booted it and it ended up over 120 miles at 56mpg with me not hanging about over country roads.
Ill take a camera tonight , im doing the same journey again.
It just seems to be the car that keeps giving ... why oh why didnt i buy a diesel before this?
PJH
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Fuzzer, that is a very long hill you've been driving down, where is it ?fuzzer said:
griffin5
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My magnetic fuel device is still fitted, but the banana is long since gone.
These figures I can only dream of. 26-27 mpg in mixed conditions and a great car to drive.
These figures I can only dream of. 26-27 mpg in mixed conditions and a great car to drive.
fuzzer said:
Did you reset the trip computer after the car warmed up? Cold starts seem to really kill my mpg, it takes quite a long time for the average to go up, reset the computer after its warmed up and it will easy average over 40.
fuzzer said:
Was that going from Ayr to Glasgow just at the start of the M77?
It's downhill from there almost all the way to the Kingston bridge. My 420 goes off the econometer (i.e. more than 30mpg) at 85mph down the first big long hill on the M77. Of course it drops to between 10 and 0mpg all the way back !!
Have you tried the new Stevenson-Ardrossan bypass? A nice place to try top out and nowhere for the police to hide, but watch out for the ill placed roundabouts.
RichardM said:
yeah , i reset it after the engine had warmed up. I get about 43 if i don't reset it.
RichardM said:
No , it was going over the eaglesham moor road and heading through the roadworks towards ayr. its not a great big hill , just a slight decline. Ill look into that bypass tho
fuzzer said:
cos it sounds like a tractor
seriously cant speak for a 270 but was persuaded by dealer to try a c200 cdi out , reversed it out of parking bay and drove it staight back in again.
i know theres the torque and mpg but you pay for it!
also having done calculations doing only 7000 mls a year the diesel option would have cost me £2700 more and only saved me £90 a year on fuel. and aren't services more? the insurance was and then theres the noise
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