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Title: MPG
Post by: Pete on February 20, 2014, 21:23:10 PM

I've worked out over the past few weeks that I'm spending £75 a week on petrol. I travel pretty much bang on 240 miles a week.

According to this fuel cost calculator (http://www.fuel-economy.co.uk/calc.shtml) my car is doing 19mpg.  :-X

The onboard computer says I'm averaging 29mpg and tells me that on a good run I'm averaging 36-38mpg.

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Title: Re: MPG
Post by: Russell on February 20, 2014, 22:33:24 PM

Ouch that's not good, thats nearly £4k a year in fuel costs alone!

I'm sad in that I write down my mileage and zero the trip when I fill up then plug the numbers into a spreadsheet, for the entire of last year I spent just under £600, but I only did 4800 miles admittedly I only had a 1.4 TDCI Fiesta at the time (got a 1.6 TDCI Eco Fiesta at the begining of Jan) but what are you driving?

Title: Re: MPG
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on February 20, 2014, 23:29:26 PM

I swear my car is getting worse on MPG, I must be getting 20-25mpg at best. I'm positive I'm no heavier with my right foot than usual either.

Title: Re: MPG
Post by: Eggtastico on February 21, 2014, 08:19:52 AM

i get 450-550 miles a full tank
MPG is reported as 44.7
dont really care as I get paid per mile. Hence I got rid of my l200 truck & now drive a citreon C4 diesel - for the MPG
twice the mileage per tank & £25 cheaper to fill

Title: Re: MPG
Post by: soopahfly on February 21, 2014, 10:35:13 AM

Your real-world MPG average is 20.82

:D :ptu:

Title: Re: MPG
Post by: knighty on February 21, 2014, 10:56:41 AM

what soopah said, you forgot to type in the price/litre into that calculator


as a side note, I'm swapping over to petrol vans and getting them converted to mains gas (not lpg, mains gas)

spending 600 to 700 a week on diesel and I begrudge paying every penny of it !

Title: Re: MPG
Post by: Bacon on February 22, 2014, 18:36:15 PM

I'm running a Corsa Diesel, don't know what the MPG is, but i put £20 in every now and then and it goes on and on.  :rock:

Hated crushing my MK4 Astra but then look how much cash i'm saving. :D

Title: Re: MPG
Post by: Jaimz on February 23, 2014, 20:21:32 PM

If you want an easy way to track it use Fuelly (http://www.fuelly.com).

Jaimz  :rock: