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[The Sheriff]

Anyone any experience of them? Any good?

Window shopping again

Meant to say, it's the V70 I'm considering...

Christ,are you fed up withe Merc already

It's a bit more complicated than that

Would have thought fuel would be crippling for you compared to the Merc.

In fuel cost terms, the Merc costs the same as my 3.2 Omega, a lighter right foot has seen the economy improve, but daily, it's never over 38-39mpg and over 19k miles it's sat at 33.5

I sometimes wonder how 'honest' the trip computer is.

There must surely be a temptation for the manufacturers to make their products appear more frugal than they really are. 

IIRC its based on a calculation of how much fuel is being injected. ISTR seeing a test where they were usually about 10-20% optimistic...

Sounds about right. Mine says 32mpg and I reckon its about 28.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Anyone any experience of them? Any good?

Window shopping again

Meant to say, it's the V70 I'm considering...

Christ,are you fed up withe Merc already

It's a bit more complicated than that

Would have thought fuel would be crippling for you compared to the Merc.

In fuel cost terms, the Merc costs the same as my 3.2 Omega, a lighter right foot has seen the economy improve, but daily, it's never over 38-39mpg and over 19k miles it's sat at 33.5

I sometimes wonder how 'honest' the trip computer is.

There must surely be a temptation for the manufacturers to make their products appear more frugal than they really are. 

IIRC its based on a calculation of how much fuel is being injected. ISTR seeing a test where they were usually about 10-20% optimistic...

Sounds about right. Mine says 32mpg and I reckon its about 28.

Yep....and yet many people take the figures from the trip computer as the gospel truth.

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Anyone any experience of them? Any good?

Window shopping again

Meant to say, it's the V70 I'm considering...

Christ,are you fed up withe Merc already

It's a bit more complicated than that

Would have thought fuel would be crippling for you compared to the Merc.

In fuel cost terms, the Merc costs the same as my 3.2 Omega, a lighter right foot has seen the economy improve, but daily, it's never over 38-39mpg and over 19k miles it's sat at 33.5

I sometimes wonder how 'honest' the trip computer is.

There must surely be a temptation for the manufacturers to make their products appear more frugal than they really are. 

IIRC its based on a calculation of how much fuel is being injected. ISTR seeing a test where they were usually about 10-20% optimistic...

Sounds about right. Mine says 32mpg and I reckon its about 28.

Yep....and yet many people take the figures from the trip computer as the gospel truth.

If I dared work out my fuel economy accurately, Id be doing half a dozen brim-zero-brim tests, then comparing them to the trip computer.

But then I would realise the 3.2 doesn't have one...

[05omegav6]

Mine does, and the Range is pretty much spot on against the odometer... Merc, brim to brim is between 480 and 580 miles typically from 75 litres so somewhere between 32 and 38 mpg, so 33.5 isn't too far wide of the mark...