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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Steve Brookman on 25 August 2009, 11:00:20
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Hello all.
Just returned from two gloriously sunny (80-90 degrees) and hot weeks in the Vendee. Took the Elite estate. Covered around 1100 miles-850 of these towing a large fully laden caravan with three bikes on the car roof. Overall consumption was 20.4mpg according to the trip computer. Car performed faultlessly-just glad I had the climate regassed a few months ago.
Did have a few wiffs of oil after getting out of the car after long towing stretches-but had this with the previous 2.5 estate-I'll check the rocker gaskets.
I've said it before-but I wish Vauxhall still made the Omega-theres no estate around at the moment that comes anywhere close.
Steve 8-)
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Sounds like you had a top holiday. 8-)
20.4mpg seems unbelievably good for a 3.0 Omega with fully laden caravan and bikes! :y
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Sounds like you had a top holiday. 8-)
20.4mpg seems unbelievably good for a 3.0 Omega with fully laden caravan and bikes! :y
20.4mpg?
I didnt even get that with my 2.5 manual saloon.
18 about town and 26 on a run.
Mind you.......heavy right hoof! ;)
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Sounds like you had a top holiday. 8-)
20.4mpg seems unbelievably good for a 3.0 Omega with fully laden caravan and bikes! :y
20.4mpg?
I didnt even get that with my 2.5 manual saloon.
18 about town and 26 on a run.
Mind you.......heavy right hoof! ;)
Stone me, heavy right hoof - you're not kidding! :o Thats about what I get from my 3.2 MV6 auto and I'm not exactly light footed!! ::)
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20.4 mpg ...... Not dissimilar from what I got when going to & from France earlier this 'summer' while towing our caravan - & if you could have seen what SWMBO packed :-? :-? half of which came back having never been worn. I remember that the trip computer recorded 78 galls! :-? :y :y
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I had the same problem-brought most things back unused.
My 2.5 auto would only do 20mpg with a much lighter caravan.
And don't forget that the computer is not spot on-although I like to believe it is ;)
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And don't forget that the computer is not spot on-although I like to believe it is ;)
On the odd occasion I've checked it against brim to brim I didn't it was that far out. :y :y :y :y
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Sounds like you had a top holiday. 8-)
20.4mpg seems unbelievably good for a 3.0 Omega with fully laden caravan and bikes! :y
20.4mpg?
I didnt even get that with my 2.5 manual saloon.
18 about town and 26 on a run.
Mind you.......heavy right hoof! ;)
Stone me, heavy right hoof - you're not kidding! :o Thats about what I get from my 3.2 MV6 auto and I'm not exactly light footed!! ::)
But you are limp wristed ;D
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Thats a good result Steve. I love france, wanted to take my MX5 over there but there's not much room for luggage, mind you I do have a rather large old bag on the passenger seat ::)
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Sounds like you had a top holiday. 8-)
20.4mpg seems unbelievably good for a 3.0 Omega with fully laden caravan and bikes! :y
20.4mpg?
I didnt even get that with my 2.5 manual saloon.
18 about town and 26 on a run.
Mind you.......heavy right hoof! ;)
Stone me, heavy right hoof - you're not kidding! :o Thats about what I get from my 3.2 MV6 auto and I'm not exactly light footed!! ::)
But you are limp wristed ;D
Hmmm.....I've oviously been spending too much time with you Pete!! ;D ;D ;D
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Thats a good result Steve. I love france, wanted to take my MX5 over there but there's not much room for luggage, mind you I do have a rather large old bag on the passenger seat ::)
...........and plenty of hairdriers!! ;D
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Thats a good result Steve. I love france, wanted to take my MX5 over there but there's not much room for luggage, mind you I do have a rather large old bag on the passenger seat ::)
...........and plenty of hairdriers!! ;D
I bet you've had no use for one for a while :P ;D
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Wife had an MX5 once.
Would never put the top down because it was always too cold she said.
:D :D
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Hello all.
Just returned from two gloriously sunny (80-90 degrees) and hot weeks in the Vendee. Took the Elite estate. Covered around 1100 miles-850 of these towing a large fully laden caravan with three bikes on the car roof. Overall consumption was 20.4mpg according to the trip computer. Car performed faultlessly-just glad I had the climate regassed a few months ago.
Did have a few wiffs of oil after getting out of the car after long towing stretches-but had this with the previous 2.5 estate-I'll check the rocker gaskets.
I've said it before-but I wish Vauxhall still made the Omega-theres no estate around at the moment that comes anywhere close.
Steve 8-)
Hi steve, a little off topic i know but i'm thinking of doing a run myself with the Omega and caravan to France but been trying get info together as to best price's on the ferry and the best site's to stay at. If you dont mind me asking what price did you pay for both ferry and site :) :)
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Hello,
I used the a company called Select Sites (www.select-site.com)
They were recommended by a lot of people in work.
The total cost including ferries and camp site was around £1000.
Over £600 of this was for the crossing from Caen to Portsmouth. Dover-calais is much cheaper.
I looked at the Brittany Ferry website and the camp website and by booking independently I would have saved £10. It wasn't worth the hassle.
Select Sites were superb.
Have a look at the website and request a brochure.
I found towing in France to be much easier than in Britain. I did 270 miles in 6 hours yesterday without any jams-and this was around major cities such as Nantes and Rennes.
If you want any more info let me know :y :y
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Hi steve, a little off topic i know but i'm thinking of doing a run myself with the Omega and caravan to France but been trying get info together as to best price's on the ferry and the best site's to stay at. If you dont mind me asking what price did you pay for both ferry and site :) :)
You didn't ask me ::) but ...... We used the Chunnel! It was brilliant. 35 mins and you're in French France. I know you're passing other ferry posts on your way east to get to Dover but we both thought the Chunnel was brilliant. As for cost, it was about £50's worth of Club Card vouchers - if used in the store they would have been worth face value, but at various places for various things, days out etc, they can be worth up to 4 times the face value, the Chunnel being one of them. Worth considering IMHO :y :y :y
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Select sites are brilliant !!! been using them for 15 years. Well done on the trip and the consumption ....
[smug mode on]but if you were running on LPG you'd have saved a small fortune !!!! [smug mode off]
but you can't use the chunnel with an LPG car !!! even though the 'van has 2 bottles of the stuff in the front !!
:) :) :) :)