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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Debs. on 04 April 2008, 14:17:32
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In a previous discussion on V6 MPG; I recall the phrase "In your dreams" being used by another contributor when I mentioned the excellent MPG I can achieve when practicing economy-driving games whilst motorway driving.
Snapped this pic yesterday after 125 miles of 65 mph clear-motorway (on 'cruise')......you`ll notice it`s average not inst consumption! ::)
Whole trip comprising of 237 miles on the motorway and 67 on Welsh (twisty) A & B roads: `door-to-door average for whole journey; 38.4 MPG.
BTW: the MID is very close indeed to the fill-to-fill 'actual' MPG as I calculated it. :y
Kerching!, Miss "Feather-Foot" wins again! ;D
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/Debs_MPGMedium.jpg)
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they can be very good - the one time my MV6 has made it to south of France and back under its own steam I averaged 33mpg over 1800 miles, inc some 130mph sections ::)
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Wow :o
success :y
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You would expect them to be good once at (a reasonable) speed as the drag factor i pretty good on them.
Last year when on holiday, I averaged 35mpg over the whole trip including pootling about whilst there.
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In a previous discussion on V6 MPG; I recall the phrase "In your dreams" being used by another contributor when I mentioned the excellent MPG I can achieve when practicing economy-driving games whilst motorway driving.
Snapped this pic yesterday after 125 miles of 65 mph clear-motorway (on 'cruise')......you`ll notice it`s average not inst consumption! ::)
Whole trip comprising of 237 miles on the motorway and 67 on Welsh (twisty) A & B roads: `door-to-door average for whole journey; 38.4 MPG.
BTW: the MID is very close indeed to the fill-to-fill 'actual' MPG as I calculated it. :y
Kerching!, Miss "Feather-Foot" wins again! ;D
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/Debs_MPGMedium.jpg)
Has that got a CDR500 radio in?
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You would expect them to be good once at (a reasonable) speed as the drag factor i pretty good on them.
Last year when on holiday, I averaged 35mpg over the whole trip including pootling about whilst there.
I should add, that the 33mpg I mentioned earlier in France included the 10 days tottling around whilst down there, and its an auto. I thought that was pretty stunning really, bearing in mind I'm not one for hanging around ::)
No idea if French fuel helped/hindered/unaffected the mpg :-/
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In a previous discussion on V6 MPG; I recall the phrase "In your dreams" being used by another contributor when I mentioned the excellent MPG I can achieve when practicing economy-driving games whilst motorway driving.
Snapped this pic yesterday after 125 miles of 65 mph clear-motorway (on 'cruise')......you`ll notice it`s average not inst consumption! ::)
Whole trip comprising of 237 miles on the motorway and 67 on Welsh (twisty) A & B roads: `door-to-door average for whole journey; 38.4 MPG.
BTW: the MID is very close indeed to the fill-to-fill 'actual' MPG as I calculated it. :y
Kerching!, Miss "Feather-Foot" wins again! ;D
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/Debs_MPGMedium.jpg)
Has that got a CDR500 radio in?
Sad git.... ::) ::)
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In a previous discussion on V6 MPG; I recall the phrase "In your dreams" being used by another contributor when I mentioned the excellent MPG I can achieve when practicing economy-driving games whilst motorway driving.
Snapped this pic yesterday after 125 miles of 65 mph clear-motorway (on 'cruise')......you`ll notice it`s average not inst consumption! ::)
Whole trip comprising of 237 miles on the motorway and 67 on Welsh (twisty) A & B roads: `door-to-door average for whole journey; 38.4 MPG.
BTW: the MID is very close indeed to the fill-to-fill 'actual' MPG as I calculated it. :y
Kerching!, Miss "Feather-Foot" wins again! ;D
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/Debs_MPGMedium.jpg)
Has that got a CDR500 radio in?
Sad git.... ::) ::)
Yeah, and I bet you noticed as well ;)
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Has that got a CDR500 radio in?
Indeed.....`wish it had a bit more 'guts' though; as I love my Jazz [size=14]really-loud![/size] ;)
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My best is 27 over about 40 miles. With a recent long run at 24.5mpg including mways at 80 or so and a bit of cross country blasting past slow cars.
Both on LPG except for starting
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Mines only about 31mpg on a motorway ::)
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In a previous discussion on V6 MPG; I recall the phrase "In your dreams" being used by another contributor when I mentioned the excellent MPG I can achieve when practicing economy-driving games whilst motorway driving.
Snapped this pic yesterday after 125 miles of 65 mph clear-motorway (on 'cruise')......you`ll notice it`s average not inst consumption! ::)
Whole trip comprising of 237 miles on the motorway and 67 on Welsh (twisty) A & B roads: `door-to-door average for whole journey; 38.4 MPG.
BTW: the MID is very close indeed to the fill-to-fill 'actual' MPG as I calculated it. :y
Kerching!, Miss "Feather-Foot" wins again! ;D
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj241/CleverCollies/Debs_MPGMedium.jpg)
Has that got a CDR500 radio in?
Because it doesn't say 'disc x', track x'?
I'll get me coat!
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mine around 25.5 on motorway
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they can be very good - the one time my MV6 has made it to south of France and back under its own steam I averaged 33mpg over 1800 miles, inc some 130mph sections ::)
We holiday in France every year & on 3 trips to the pyrenees, avaraged like you 33 mpg over 3200 miles. That 4 up all the luggage, running on petrol not LPG. I put it down to 2 things, the increased tyre pressures for the near full load & good motorway petrol rather than supermarket bilge water. :)
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:( i just did a 200 mile trip to the cotswolds, cruising on the motorway mostly and got just 23mpg. :( albeit there was a passenger, a boot load of gear, oh and a little box trailer ::) but still it's fairly rubbish by your standards! great by mine tho as my around town pootling generally gets me 18mpg!
Last time i hit 30mpg was for a couple of miles on a motorway once when the moon was blue :'( average is 25 i recall! no lpg for me either!
Debs - what's the secret!? I know i'm heavy round town but still, the crusin should be over 30 shouldn't it? :-/
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:( i just did a 200 mile trip to the cotswolds, cruising on the motorway mostly and got just 23mpg. :( albeit there was a passenger, a boot load of gear, oh and a little box trailer ::) but still it's fairly rubbish by your standards! great by mine tho as my around town pootling generally gets me 18mpg!
Last time i hit 30mpg was for a couple of miles on a motorway once when the moon was blue :'( average is 25 i recall! no lpg for me either!
Debs - what's the secret!? I know i'm heavy round town but still, the crusin should be over 30 shouldn't it? :-/
my 2.2 auto does about the same :'( :'( :'(
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:( i just did a 200 mile trip to the cotswolds, cruising on the motorway mostly and got just 23mpg. :( albeit there was a passenger, a boot load of gear, oh and a little box trailer ::) but still it's fairly rubbish by your standards! great by mine tho as my around town pootling generally gets me 18mpg!
Last time i hit 30mpg was for a couple of miles on a motorway once when the moon was blue :'( average is 25 i recall! no lpg for me either!
Debs - what's the secret!? I know i'm heavy round town but still, the crusin should be over 30 shouldn't it? :-/
Surely yes! :o....I`d be gutted if I couldn`t keep above 30 MPG on any journey!
I`ve found 65 MPH gives the right balance of progess versus economy.
I keep tyre pressures at (rather) the high end of the load-scale and the tracking is spot-on.
Regular oil & filter changes and keeping those 'breathers' clear.
Use only [size=16]really[/size] gentle acceleration (allowing time for the car`s mass to 'catch up with the slowly increasing throttle setting').
Use downhills for overtaking on m`way where safe/possible and 'reading the road' to conserve kinetic energy of car in bends rather than harsh-braking and wasting that £1.07/litre fuel just to heat the brake-discs/tyres.....
All a bit 'sad' isn`t it?.....but as petrol is now priced as a luxury, anything to make it stretch-out has to be good! :y
As I noted, for me it`s an economic-driving game; `to pass the time on boring trips (and save a bit of money too!). ;)
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thanks for waking me up!!
nowadays I was trying to simulate a daily V8 (last letter W ;)) consumption
with full throttle everywhere... ;D
seems an unlogical dream :'(
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Thanks for the pointers Debs!! :y :y Not sure I can work the gentle accel thing very well but will try. And the 65mph thing I'll try next time I leave early enough to!
Thanks to timbuk I do have a clear breather and fresh oil set up so I'm hoping for better future consumption anyway. When you say high end tyre pressures do you mean like 36psi? Mine stay on 32 unless I'm towing or really really loaded!
I don't think it's sad at all tho. my brother used to drive from Birmingham to Bristol every day and by altering his speed he used one less tank of fuel a week! :o I appreciate you long distance motorers have more time to find economy methods that work! :) can't wait to try them out on the trip to Dorset in a fortnight :)
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Thanks for the pointers Debs!! :y :y Not sure I can work the gentle accel thing very well but will try. And the 65mph thing I'll try next time I leave early enough to!
Thanks to timbuk I do have a clear breather and fresh oil set up so I'm hoping for better future consumption anyway. When you say high end tyre pressures do you mean like 36psi? Mine stay on 32 unless I'm towing or really really loaded!
I don't think it's sad at all tho. my brother used to drive from Birmingham to Bristol every day and by altering his speed he used one less tank of fuel a week! :o I appreciate you long distance motorers have more time to find economy methods that work! :) can't wait to try them out on the trip to Dorset in a fortnight :)
I have found that with my 4 (matched) Vredestein tyres; 36 (Psi) Front and 42 (Psi) rear gives the handling, mileage, even-wear and ride-comfort I`d expect, whilst decreasing rolling resistance.....I do nearly-always carry 3 large dogs in the back of my Miggy-estate and maintain a full-ish fuel tank, thus I class that as being 'loaded' :y