Real E200k fuel economy

[Stocious]

What are people highest achieve mpg on the E200k

Been keeping an eye on mine and this morn on empty B roads just cruising returned 24.4 and climbing

Will be on motorway in a bit and will keep an eye on it

Highest I’ve ever achieved was 32 mpg, but that was 90% motorway each day to hospital cruising

Is the read out even accurate or just a guesstimate

Thanks in advance

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

What are people highest achieve mpg on the E200k

Been keeping an eye on mine and this morn on empty B roads just cruising returned 24.4 and climbing

Will be on motorway in a bit and will keep an eye on it

Highest I’ve ever achieved was 32 mpg, but that was 90% motorway each day to hospital cruising

Is the read out even accurate or just a guesstimate

Thanks in advance

I can’t answer any of your questions but if you’re getting serious about fuel economy then it would be worth manually calculating fuel economy between fills.

When refuelling always try to use the same pump at the same filling station and stop refuelling at the first click, ie when the pump cuts off, don’t continue filling after that.

Your aim here is to try to consistently fill the tank to the same point each time. Other pumps even at the same petrol station may be calibrated and set to cut off slightly differently.

After refilling, make a note of the number of litres displayed on the pump and mileage covered since the last fill on trip meter. Once noted, press the reset for your trip meter.

If your car has a trip computer then it will probably calculate the average fuel consumption since last reset . Reset this each time you refuel too so you can compare.

Calculate the number gallons used since last fill: this is the number of litres shown on the pump, multipled by 4.546.

Calculate the MPG since last fill: this is the mileage covered divided by the number of gallons used since last fill.

 

[Stocious]

I just find you really have to baby it on motorway to achieve stated mpg on various sites, think I’ll change my driving style, slow down a bit and keep an eye out on the read out, plus I’m also missing the cold air intake pipe which has to add 1/2mpg including a little power, never gave a toss about fuel consumption in any car really, just curious as to people’s experiences,

 

[AimeeWatkins]

Reset and calculate your fuel economy manually.

 

[Gazwould]

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/mercedes-benz/e-class-2002/e200-kompressor

 

[Stocious]

Got it to 26.1 on a short dual carriageway stint , climbing all the time , but hates urban , stop start

 

[Stocious]

Will take on a good steady run just out of curiosity I’d love to see 32 mpg again it was one of the last thing I spoke to my dad with before he past, granted it had just been serviced, and on another note has mysteriously stoped using oil

 

[190]

Got it to 26.1 on a short dual carriageway stint , climbing all the time , but hates urban , stop start

I have the most economical version of the kompressor engine they ever made in the C180K blue efficiency which is a 1.6L version in a lighter car. I get what to you will be unbelievably good economy of 50mpg on the motorway and minimum 40mpg in open road use but like your experience it dives drastically in urban stop start or climbing steep hills. The reason is simply that the kompressor engines are very economical as long as the supercharger is not boosting. It's not a bad compromise in that you get acceleration and hill climbing torque on boost and economy when cruising. Driven hard though it will be boosting all the time and then they are no more economical than a naturally aspirated engine of twice the capacity.

 

[John]

I drove a C200K once for a few days whilst I had my 211 E55K with some light mods and I swore it was doing almost the same economy as the 55.

These figures confirm the difference was only around 6 or 7mpg better!

You might as well have the V8!

 

[fabes]

Wow that's not great
my V6 does 5 to 10 better than that....

Tyre pressures, brakes binding, heavy right foot, been serviced properly....?

 

[wongl]

I have the most economical version of the kompressor engine they ever made in the C180K blue efficiency which is a 1.6L version in a lighter car. I get what to you will be unbelievably good economy of 50mpg on the motorway and minimum 40mpg in open road use but like your experience it dives drastically in urban stop start or climbing steep hills. The reason is simply that the kompressor engines are very economical as long as the supercharger is not boosting. It's not a bad compromise in that you get acceleration and hill climbing torque on boost and economy when cruising. Driven hard though it will be boosting all the time and then they are no more economical than a naturally aspirated engine of twice the capacity.

Wow, 50mpg on the motorway is very good indeed. I have the C300h diesel hybrid which generally returns circa 5xmpg on the motorway, although I did manage once to hit 70mpg on a drive from South London to Ashford. This was achieved almost exclusively using cruise control almost the whole journey. I don't think I could have achieved this economy using my right foot!