fuel consumptoin

[robbo]

hi all just a quick one, im geeting about 190 miles to a full tank of fuel in my rev 1 gt turbo and thats driving at normal speeds would you say this is about right.

[G-force]

hi all just a quick one, im geeting about 190 miles to a full tank of fuel in my rev 1 gt turbo and thats driving at normal speeds would you say this is about right.

How many litres do you put in at the petrol pump? Because if you look at my "petrol tank capacity" thread, the tank has 55 litres in the tank. I fill up 42 litres when my clock is on 160 miles. Which means I have 13 litres left in my tank, which would actually total my miles to 209. I do think my car is drinking more than it should though.

[JohnnyC]

160 miles for 42litres is 17.32mpg, that's bad

Assuming robbo is getting the fuel light on at say 13litres left and is also using 42litres, then he's getting 20.57mpg, which is also bad.

BTW. as you both have turbos, sure those 'miles' aren't kilometres?

[Extubby]

Thats not good!
Full to the brim down to light just flickering I got 342 miles from mixed driving.

[G-force]

Nope, mine is mph. I'm aware my mpg is very bad, I could probably afford the petrol on a supercar (without being able to afford the car itself).

But, I think mine is over-fuelling anyway, I need to see an ECU specialist.

The annoying thing is that my car is slower than a normal turbo but drinks more petrol! And I drive quite sensibly.

[G-force]

Thats not good!
Full to the brim down to light just flickering I got 342 miles from mixed driving.

Is yours N/A?

[Frustrated Pilot]

Not good m8...

my tubby gets 27 - 32 MPG and thats with hard driving

thats usually around the 300 mile mark

[Steve-O 2007]

I think I must hold the record for a near stock (bolt on mods) tubby fuel consumption £40 to every 120 miles which someone worked out at about 13mpg this is with just normal sort of driving as well

I tightened my DV Spring up and it seems to have got better, going to go on a RR soon and see what they say

[robbo]

Mmm thats not good news as mine is reading in mph while driving so i persume the the miles are clocking up in mph as well if this is true can anyone give me some ideas as to correcting this as i know when i bought this car 4 years back i was getting more miles to the tank im sure

[mr_rusty]

Hmm, this is not good reading.

I'm only getting about 28mpg from my n/a and in this weather i'm driving like a grandad's grandad

Just put new plugs, leads, dizzy cap and arm and air filter in, looks like I got some checking to do


Chris

[Lauren]

Nope, mine is mph. I'm aware my mpg is very bad, I could probably afford the petrol on a supercar (without being able to afford the car itself).

But, I think mine is over-fuelling anyway, I need to see an ECU specialist.

The annoying thing is that my car is slower than a normal turbo but drinks more petrol! And I drive quite sensibly.

Most likely fault for bad fuel consumption, particularly so if it's got noticably worse is a dead oxy sensor.

[JohnnyC]

I'm only getting about 28mpg from my n/a and in this weather i'm driving like a grandad's grandad

I'm only getting around 29mpg currently, think it's the weather

Don't think there's anything wrong with my car, a year ago I got just under 48mpg (NOT on a regular basis )

[JeffD]

28mpg on my rev3 turbo on the motorway.

[robbo]

what do you think could be wrong with mine then it seems like it still has the same power just a tank full only gives me 190 ish miles surely that cant be right

[Lauren]

what do you think could be wrong with mine then it seems like it still has the same power just a tank full only gives me 190 ish miles surely that cant be right

Dead oxy sensor.

[Pete_MR2]

Depends on what type of journey your going on m8!

Im sure you'd get more miles if you were on motor ways going 70mph for miles on end.

I got the same as you but my journey to work is stop start, accelerate, stop etc etc with no long stretches of motorway.

I put my down to also wanting to get to 60mph asap all the time

HTH

Cheers

Pete

[Steve-O 2007]

what do you think could be wrong with mine then it seems like it still has the same power just a tank full only gives me 190 ish miles surely that cant be right

Dead oxy sensor.

I was told that sensor only does stuff at idle, does it also do stuff while your driving around??

[Extubby]

No it's a turbo.

[wizzer]

Imho if you're worrying about the amount of petrol you're using in this day and age then it's time to get rid of the MR2 and get something else!

[JohnnyC]

Imho if you're worrying about the amount of petrol you're using in this day and age then it's time to get rid of the MR2 and get something else!

Don't be daft, you don't put up with ~17mpg just because it's an MR2