£15 = 50 miles - Poor MPG

[mattgt]

Whats up here?

£15 of super unleaded 98 is getting me around 50 miles???

Passed emissions test for MOT last week with flying colours?

any ideas?

[JohnnyC]

How do you know you've used up the £15 worth of fuel?

And how many litres is that? I've no idea how much you paid for it?

Brim it to the top with fuel, reset the trip, run it to nearly empty, brim it again and see exactly how much fuel you put in and how many miles you did

[g.lewarne]

in a turbo, can well believe it.

would do about the same in my n/a around town in the terrible traffic here at the moment,

on the other side on a recent trip to wales from plymouth, brimmed the tank and by the time i got to newport it had only just come off the full mark wasnt particurly gentle either

[mattgt]

Last two or three fill have been £15 and within the last 2 weeks so let assume price per litre has been the same.

Fill up when needle is just above empty and run untill needle is in the same place = ~50miles

Journeys have been mainly town outskirts (30's and 40's) with a couple of short dual carriage way blasts of maybe 3 or 4 mins.

Only had the car 5 months and driven it very little in that time so only really just noticed the MPG.

[Super_red]

Sounds about right, I get 150 to a tank round town and its £45-£50 to fill up.

[mattgt]

Proberly is about right, i just remember my last 2 mr2's doing more. Then again it was just over £30 to fill the tank back then!

[SonicSW20]

Never understood why people measure the consumption of a liquid in currency.

OP, do a proper MPG test - brim the tank, reset your mile counter, run it to empty, full to the brim again, note down mileage and litres used and from there work out your actual MPG.

[wickermonkey]

w w w.torquecars.com/tools/uk-mpg-calculator.php


this is a good quick online calculator you can use

[Sideways Si]

My Corsa 1.2 16v I use for work gets £15 a week of normal unleaded, And this only gets me 90 to 100 miles.

So I can easily believe that's right.

I'm so addicted to this board, I'm using someone's laptop during my lunch break. LOL

[willfinch36]

Mine does about the same...

[alanmr2turbo]

£15 is only around 2.5 gallons so that's about right.

I put £30 a time in and get around 100-115mpg but that's in a tubby and off boost most of the time.

[willfinch36]

£15 is only around 2.5 gallons so that's about right.

I put £30 a time in and get around 100-115mpg but that's in a tubby and off boost most of the time.

100mpg? I must be doing something wrong...

[alanmr2turbo]

£15 is only around 2.5 gallons so that's about right.

I put £30 a time in and get around 100-115mpg but that's in a tubby and off boost most of the time.

100mpg? I must be doing something wrong...

oops LOL i wish

i meant 100-115 miles LOL

[rgb]

its not the car its the price of petrol im on 19 mpg but i do get 10 more minutes in bed every morning youve just got to take the price of snooze into the equasion and it wakes you up (and most of my neighbours)

[Harold]

That sounds about right to me, doing mostly short town journeys mine will do about 50 miles to 2.5 gallons.

[Razor04]

£15 in the tank dont get you f all these days mate however i reckon you should be seeing about 80 miles for that not 50. are you running an aftermarket dumpvalve? if so switch back to the oem recirc one mpg will improve slightly.

[Steve-O 2007]

£40 of town driving with me = 100 - 110 miles

[Dan23]

£15 getting 50 miles sounds good to me, my last s13 i was lucky if £15 got me 30 miles lol

[cvega666]

my car gets about 200km (120 miles) from half a tank - that's about 25 litres (~37 quid). Not that horrible, obviously sucks it down a lot faster if I'm on the loud pedal..

[Trevmr2]

Don't forget we're being ripped off for about £6.40 per gallon (haha remember the protests when we said we would never pay as much as £5 per gallon) so £15 is only 2 and 1/3 gallons.

Overall I get 23 mpg from mine (decat/1bar) which is like heaven compared to my Zed which does 17 mpg (decat/0.9 bar).

Also, see how easily we've all been conditioned in to accepting being ripped off? Yeah we moan about it, but always do nothing, they know that. The price of a gallon will hit £10 within a few years. At the moment fuel is being taxed at the mind numbing rate of around 250%!!

Don't get me started on the upcoming electicity and gas rises of 20%. The power companies are being stung by the government for huge payments under the con of carbon permits (you couldn't make it up) and so obviously will pass that charge on to their customers under the guise of increased overheads. You will be paying 20% extra for the con of saving the planet, the government makes a mint, and harmless carbon dioxide emissions remain exactly the same. Great con!