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Posted By: Clive 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 3:24pm
What causes a car to use so much petrol, its had new airfilter, oil change, new plugs, new throttle housing, new exhaust, new tryes.
There is no fuel leaks.
I dont go speeding.

So why a quarter of a tank for 76 miles
Posted By: chris123 Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 3:28pm
Dont sound too bad, were you driving like you nicked it?
Posted By: Clive Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 3:29pm
Originally Posted by chris123
Dont sound too bad, were you driving like you nicked it?
I dont do speeding
Posted By: chris123 Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 3:31pm
what sort of mpg do you normally get? I normally get about 60 miles to a £10 on a 1.4 newish astra varies between 30-40mpg depending on how i drive it
Posted By: Clive Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 3:34pm
60miles to £10, i wish i could get that, £10 gets me about 30miles
Posted By: chris123 Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 3:45pm
hang on, what car you got? So it would cost £100 to fill your tank and get 300 miles?
Posted By: Clive Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 3:48pm
Originally Posted by chris123
hang on, what car you got? So it would cost £100 to fill your tank and get 300 miles?
£70 to fill it from empty, its only a 1.2 and it guzzles it, the last time i filled it i got 320 miles out of it, b4 the light came one
Posted By: chris123 Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 4:18pm
Mines about the same for normal town driving better on motorway bear in mind you've still prob got 70-80 miles left when light comes on if its £70 to fill a full tanks around 52 litres which gives you around 11.5 gallons to the tank and an mpg of around 35 mate I wouldn't say that's too bad?
Posted By: rhoobarb2002 Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 4:54pm
Depends on your driving style and what type of driving. A lead foot will always guzzle the juice. Motorway cruising will give you a lot better mpg than town centre, stop/start, rush hour traffic.

On motorway cruising I can get high 40's but around town sometimes it can drop to 15-20mpg, maybe lower.
Are you measuring the 1/4 tank from full? My tank appears to drop very quickly for the first 1/4 - 1/2 then levels out as it get close to empty.
Posted By: KevinFinity Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 6:37pm
Do you try to drive economically or does your car control consist of stop, go, left, right?.

Do you drive everywhere in 1st?.

I would struggle to get such crap mpg out of a car that small. Mine would go about 80 miles off just a tenner.
Posted By: Clive Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 7:06pm
Originally Posted by Softy_Southerner
Are you measuring the 1/4 tank from full? My tank appears to drop very quickly for the first 1/4 - 1/2 then levels out as it get close to empty.
no measuring it from when i fill it to quarter
Posted By: Clive Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 7:07pm
Originally Posted by KevinFinity
Do you try to drive economically or does your car control consist of stop, go, left, right?.

Do you drive everywhere in 1st?.

I would struggle to get such crap mpg out of a car that small. Mine would go about 80 miles off just a tenner.
its all stop start round town etc etc
Posted By: KevinFinity Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 7:15pm
I mean varying amounts of accelerator combined with a lot of costing along in gear when going down hill or when the lights ahead are red etc. Letting the engine slow the car over a distance as aposed to just swapping between stomping on the accelerator or the brake straight away.
Posted By: DavidB Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 8:02pm
A sensor sounds knackered, try the air flow meter, coolant temperature sensor, lambda sensor. I'd go with the lambda first. More money eh?
Posted By: Clive Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 4th Nov 2011 8:16pm
Originally Posted by DavidB
A sensor sounds knackered, try the air flow meter, coolant temperature sensor, lambda sensor. I'd go with the lambda first. More money eh?
mine dosent have a air flow meter, i also replaved the coolant temp switch, so looks like it will be lamba sensors, money money money
Posted By: FiremanFil Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 5th Nov 2011 10:00pm
Sure you haven't got a hole in your petrol tank?
Posted By: Clive Re: 76 miles, and used quarter of a tank - 5th Nov 2011 10:51pm
Originally Posted by FiremanFil
Sure you haven't got a hole in your petrol tank?
no hole in tank, but defo hole in brake line, they failed going down a hill, my god my arse started twitching
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