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Diesel, Diesel EVERYWHERE !!!

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  • #102
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Just divide 282.5 by the l/100km figure.


  • #103
    Zen 2nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Zen 2nd


    Just checked that website, I got the US MPG value not the UK one. Long live the metric system!


  • #104
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Zen 2nd wrote: »
    Just checked that website, I got the US MPG value not the UK one. Long live the metric system!
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  • #105
    micks_address
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭micks_address


    Zen 2nd wrote: »
    Just checked that website, I got the US MPG value not the UK one. Long live the metric system!

    The link i posted? As per Muppercheck - it gives me 282.4809363 mpg

    might be some defaults i have overridden with having visited the page below.. there is an option on right for Destination Unit, set to miles per gallon uk...


  • #106
    Zen 2nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Zen 2nd


    Yeah I'm currently in work which routes through an American VPN so that is probably why Google gave me the US MPG.


  • #107
    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,028 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    Zen 2nd wrote: »
    I have a new Audi A3 TFSI myself and checked the average fuel consumption there this morning and got 6.5l per 100km (36 43 MPG). Driving to work I would have a lot of stopping and going so I don't think it is too bad?

    Second that. I don't care the slightest about fuel consumption, if I did I would drive a diesel Skoda Fabia, but the last time I checked the 159's fuel usage on a mixed trip it was around 11 Km/l (it's time to move to metric, folks!); It was on a nice bendy road where I...well let's say "gave her plenty", the car weighs nearly 1700 kg plus the JTS technology is over 10 years old and never was exactly fuel efficient.

    A newer petrol engine with more "average" driving can easily do better than that.
    jimgoose wrote: »
    Is it me, or does the exhaust from newer turbodiesels reek with a chemical stink that could not be healthy, and will cause big trouble one of these days? My theory is that they're blowing orders-of-magnitude more carcinogens and what-have-you like aldehydes, which aren't even tested for given the current obsession with CO2.

    Yes they do, but it's not too much of a recent thing nor limited to specific cars - I used to notice it from time to time and I suspect it might be connected to fuel treatment/additives.

    Funny fact: Italy has probably an even bigger love affair with diesel cars than Ireland has; A few years ago, news started spreading that a certain type of cooking oil could be used to "stretch" diesel fuel.
    The result of this was that, for quite some time, traffic jams smelled like a chipper's skip!


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