z22se mpg

[denzilbud]

can any other 2.2 owners let me know if this sounds about right i got 89 miles out of £15 worth of petrol all town driving with one motorway trip of 32 miles.also does anyone elses fuel rappidly drop when it gets low

[rushy]

230 miles from £40 all town/city driving. And yup the last quarter of a doesn't last long.

[denzilbud]

cheers mate still well impressed,but i noticed earlier that on my trip down the motorway my trip computer was reading 107 miles remaining arrived at my destination still showing 107 when i got back in the car it was reading a tad over 80 miles left then when heading home on motorway it rapidly dropped to about 50 and once i arrived home the petrol just disapeared,does this sound normal

[old cruiser]

Reset the computer mine a couple of weeks ago and got 42 mpg on a drive to southampton and back (drove fairly conservatively) and now it's reading 34.7 mpg which is from town and some motorway driving (only doing about 20 miles a day), so at the moment I'm quite impressed with my mpg.
Cheers Pete

[rushy]

cheers mate still well impressed,but i noticed earlier that on my trip down the motorway my trip computer was reading 107 miles remaining arrived at my destination still showing 107 when i got back in the car it was reading a tad over 80 miles left then when heading home on motorway it rapidly dropped to about 50 and once i arrived home the petrol just disapeared,does this sound normal

I find the Range works off what your MPG is at the time not an average. When you start the car the MPG will always be lower. Although I never go by it as as you mentioned the last quarter of a tank really plays havoc with the Range comp.

[mark_647]

Sounds like my old one, about right !

[spennny]

I topped mine up in Livingstone, £52, trip meter is showing 422 miles or something, i did a steady 75/80 comming home,

Got just under qtr tank,

Will fill to the brim again prob tomorrow and work out MPG......... going up the way i got nearly 40 mpg from my car, and thats not a bad return

[denzilbud]

cheers everyone for the replys what sort of things should i be looking at to improve my consumpion

[c_maxx]

Having driven from Leeds 2 Germany and back last week i averaged 36mpg and that was using cruise control most of the trip seem's ok good be better thou.

[Flaninacupboard]

cheers everyone for the replys what sort of things should i be looking at to improve my consumpion

In importance:

1. Accelerate slowly, the slower you accelerate, the less fuel you use.

2. Don't go fast. if going 60mph uses 40bhp, going 120 does not use 80bhp, it uses 160bhp. (speed increase is squared) This means LOTS more fuel.

3. If you are using your brakes, you just wasted some fuel. Think about approaching a roundabout. most people stay on the throttle till about 300yards, then start braking (fuel stops being used) until they get on the roundabout, and then get back on the pedal in 3rd. Far better is to come off the gas 800yards out, in the first 500 yards you'll drop a little speed, and use no fuel, the last three you can brake a little, drop into fourth, and continue coasting over the roundabout, only accelerating on exit. Foot off the throttle, in gear, your car will use no fuel down to ~1200rpm, then change down a gear, repeat. works the same on hills, queing for lights etc.

4. Dump any dead weight from your car. Tools, kids prams, spare wheel etc are all heavy. Don't need em? Don't carry em.

5. Keep your windows closed. Use the aircon, it's more efficient.

6. Pulse and glide. that's a whole other topic you'll need to google yourself, but really only neccessary if you wish to hypermile.