Diesel Van

**ed taylor** · 4th November 2007, 09:54

I hired a Transit yesterday to go from Brum to Reading and back, I mentioned it in an earlier thread, I was told they will do about 25mpg to the gallon.

Well this one did not do many to the gallon. I used £40 worth of fuel to do 275 miles, I can get more to the gallon out of my 3.2 V6, I was supprised to how few miles they do to the gallon, But the van served it,s purpose and got the job done.

**AndrewTi** · 4th November 2007, 11:49

You must have had your baseball cap on back to front Ed!

**Gsi3.2** · 4th November 2007, 11:51

thats shoddy fords for you..

...my Merc is much better on fuel..

..

mind you, hire vans are normally hammered within an inch of their lives..

.

**_ZS_** · 4th November 2007, 11:54

£25 did a 200 mile round trip in a Merc Sprinter. Not bad for a 3.2 CDi. Was doing nearly a tonne on the motorway for most of it too.

**chrisgettings** · 4th November 2007, 11:59

Originally Posted by Gsi3.2

thats shoddy fords for you..

...my Merc is much better on fuel..

..

mind you, hire vans are normally hammered within an inch of their lives..

.

i used a had a new transit last year for a shutdown and as you said mark it got hammered flatout all the way to and from work
we had 2 of them 21 days and over 4000 mile

when we picked them up both had less than 10 miles on the clocks
hire vans have a very hard life

**ed taylor** · 4th November 2007, 14:10

Originally Posted by AndrewTi

You must have had your baseball cap on back to front Ed!

I wondered what I was doing wrong Andrew.

**VauxVeteran** · 4th November 2007, 14:41

Thats 31 mpg Ed, not bad considering you probably had it loaded to the gunnels

£4.60 pg

£40 devided by £4.60 = 8.7

8.7 devided by 275 = 31.

**ed taylor** · 4th November 2007, 14:57

Originally Posted by VauxVeteran

Thats 31 mpg Ed, not bad considering you probably had it loaded to the gunnels

£4.60 pg

£40 devided by £4.60 = 8.7

8.7 devided by 275 = 31.

I can get better MPG out of my Vectra on a run, The van was only loaded with a bed and a wardrobe, so not too heavy.

**AndrewTi** · 4th November 2007, 15:01

Drag Ed. Even a slight breeze against a brick wall shaped transit will kill any economy. TBH, I reckon 31 mpg in a Tranny is brilliant, from now on, we shall call you Reverend Taylor.

**ed taylor** · 4th November 2007, 16:25

Originally Posted by AndrewTi

Drag Ed. Even a slight breeze against a brick wall shaped transit will kill any economy. TBH, I reckon 31 mpg in a Tranny is brilliant, from now on, we shall call you Reverend Taylor.

You should have been with us then I had my foot on the floor a few times on the way back, this van did have to work hard, So perhaps it was not so bad after all.