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is this right?
« on: 18 June 2009, 00:31:50 »
just back from isle of wight. 750 mile round trip,used £130 fuel :'(. computer said average of 33.4 mpg,was driving around 80-90mph and average on comp said 66.1mph. Seems a hell of a lot of fuel. is it? :-/
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Re: is this right?
« Reply #1 on: 18 June 2009, 00:46:14 »
just over 26mpg by my calculations

£130 = approx 130litres, 130x0.22 = 28.6gallons
750/28.6= 26.2mpg  :(

about right for tanking it around


i avg 20mpg on short trips - maybe 30mpg on longer runs
« Last Edit: 18 June 2009, 00:47:24 by bannjaxx »
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Re: is this right?
« Reply #2 on: 18 June 2009, 01:04:23 »
I reckon thats about right or even better for a 2.5 at that speed (touching 80 / 90)  :y
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« Reply #3 on: 18 June 2009, 01:07:07 »
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I reckon thats about right or even better for a 2.5 at that speed (touching 80 / 90)  :y

Agreed :y Sounds about right

I roughly get 35ish on the motorway with my little 4 ::)
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« Reply #4 on: 18 June 2009, 01:22:08 »
recon thats not bad for a 2.5 when your doin 70-80 mph  :y
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Re: is this right?
« Reply #5 on: 18 June 2009, 08:01:36 »
Thats crap, were you towing anything.

I used to get 38 at 65 and about 32 at 70-80
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Re: is this right?
« Reply #6 on: 18 June 2009, 08:54:39 »
Where in the Isle of Wight were you able to do those sorts of speeds? :D :D
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Re: is this right?
« Reply #7 on: 18 June 2009, 09:33:30 »
I can do a run from Swansea to Stanstead on a tank of petrol (on a clearish run) and still have a bit spare which works out about 450 miles full load up empty coming back :y
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Re: is this right?
« Reply #8 on: 18 June 2009, 10:46:18 »
 :-/ ...So a couple of you guys say thats pretty good and couple more seem to think not so good. Still,she ran well,smooth as silk,very comfortable and after a 6 hour drive i wasnt tired or crippled.
Last year i drove down in my VW Passat 1.9TDi ,V reg. The fuel consumption was unbelievable,there and back for £80 so thats why i was asking if my Omega was being a greedy girl. Allowing for the fact it was a deisel, with a smaller engine and fuel prices were slightly lower i thought that was superb.
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Re: is this right?
« Reply #9 on: 18 June 2009, 12:02:22 »
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Thats crap, were you towing anything.

I used to get 38 at 65 and about 32 at 70-80
Its when you creep over 80/85, mpg plummets.

I can manage 34mpg over a long distance at a constant 80.  This begins to nosedive to mid/high 20s at 90, then looking around 20mpg much faster than that (3.0l auto).
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« Reply #10 on: 18 June 2009, 12:24:35 »
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Thats crap, were you towing anything.

I used to get 38 at 65 and about 32 at 70-80
Confused me a bit there Mark. I was doing 80-90 most of way and getting 33.4mpg,is it me or does that sound better consumption,for a higher speed,than you get at 32 for 70-80?
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« Reply #11 on: 18 June 2009, 16:41:46 »
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Thats crap, were you towing anything.

I used to get 38 at 65 and about 32 at 70-80
Confused me a bit there Mark. I was doing 80-90 most of way and getting 33.4mpg,is it me or does that sound better consumption,for a higher speed,than you get at 32 for 70-80?

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« Reply #12 on: 18 June 2009, 16:48:49 »
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Thats crap, were you towing anything.

I used to get 38 at 65 and about 32 at 70-80
Confused me a bit there Mark. I was doing 80-90 most of way and getting 33.4mpg,is it me or does that sound better consumption,for a higher speed,than you get at 32 for 70-80?

That will be because if you really did use all of the fuel that £130 got you to do 750 miles, your actual mpg was 25.71, not what your trip computer said!
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Re: is this right?
« Reply #13 on: 18 June 2009, 19:58:45 »
I do a 17km run to work now and get 8km/l. Quite pleased with that considering I was getting 5km/l on a 7km trip.
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