Can I get there with 15 litres of petrol?

arleitiss

Hey, I am planning to go to balbriggan tomorrow, from city centre. As I am learner I can't go on motorways, so I will be using other roads. Roughly 40 km I think one way. So I was wondering if I have 1.2l opel corsa, would 15 litres of petrol be enough to go there and back?

macshadow

arleitiss wrote: »

Hey, I am planning to go to balbriggan tomorrow, from city centre. As I am learner I can't go on motorways, so I will be using other roads. Roughly 40 km I think one way. So I was wondering if I have 1.2l opel corsa, would 15 litres of petrol be enough to go there and back?

15 litres would be enough to do that journey 2+ times:)

Mr Simpson

Definitely, even with a very heavy foot and city driving I get about 480km from a 45 litre tank.

DylanII

arleitiss wrote: »

Hey, I am planning to go to balbriggan tomorrow, from city centre. As I am learner I can't go on motorways, so I will be using other roads. Roughly 40 km I think one way. So I was wondering if I have 1.2l opel corsa, would 15 litres of petrol be enough to go there and back?

You should have no problem. Im pretty sure my dads 3 Litre car wouldnt even use that much.

arleitiss

oh, alright thanks so

Yakuza

Most cars of that size should be able to do almost 200km of city driving with that many litres, but I tend not to let my car get that low in petrol. If you can, I'd recommend topping up with petrol on the journey as when the petrol tank goes low some of the gunk at the bottom of the tank can get into the fuel lines and the engine, which isn't good for the car.

munchkin_utd

arleitiss wrote: »

Hey, I am planning to go to balbriggan tomorrow, from city centre. As I am learner I can't go on motorways, so I will be using other roads. Roughly 40 km I think one way. So I was wondering if I have 1.2l opel corsa, would 15 litres of petrol be enough to go there and back?

slight tangent, but a question like this shows why l/ 100km is such a copped on way of measuring your fuel consumption compared to MPG !

If your car was doing about 7 or 8 L/100km (say 7.5 for convienence) then 15L will get you 200km down the road. Which for a small car would even err-ing be on the thirsty side so you'd definitely get 200+ km out of 15L

im invisible

or you could say 15 litres? thats just over 3 gallons, and get your mpg X 3, and there you have it...

godtabh

im invisible wrote: »

or you could say 15 litres? thats just over 3 gallons, and get your mpg X 3, and there you have it...

A few extra calculations and not ever one knows how many gallons there is in a liter

Matt Simis

godtabh wrote: »

A few extra calculations and not ever one knows how many gallons there is in a liter

Then the confusion of when they do look it up to find US and UK have different gallons (different liter in a gallon) etc etc. If the fuel is in litres then the consumption should be measured in litres per distance.

piston

munchkin_utd wrote: »

slight tangent, but a question like this shows why l/ 100km is such a copped on way of measuring your fuel consumption compared to MPG !

I would disagree. MPG makes more sense to me as if I have x amount of petrol and my car does y MPG, I can travel xy=z miles on it. The units used are irrelevant, doing it the other way around for me just doesn't seem right.

fasttalkerchat

piston wrote: »

I would disagree. MPG makes more sense to me as if I have x amount of petrol and my car does y MPG, I can travel xy=z miles on it. The units used are irrelevant, doing it the other way around for me just doesn't seem right.

You should learn your car's miles/L and L/miles.

Or more appropriately litres per 100 miles.

firefly08

A few extra calculations and not ever one knows how many gallons there is in a liter

LMGTFY...

https://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=1+litre+in+imperial+gallons



Everyone should learn the Google calculator...it's so clever. You can even type in stuff like:

"40 miles per gallon in km per liter"

...and it'll give you the answer - using US gallons. Want it in proper gallons? No problem:

"40 miles per imperial gallon in km per liter"

..bingo.

Almost anything you need to calculate or convert, just go to Google and type it in plain English and 9 times out of 10 it knows what you mean

ION08

This is the easiest way to get your head around it IMO:

As a general reference for yourself , it would be safe to assume your corsa does about 6L/100km (probably less) ... but we'll assume 7l/100km to be safe.

100km = 60 miles (62 to be precise but again just being safe)


So as a reference, when your odometer moves up 60 Miles (assuming your cars dials are in mph) you have used 7 litres of fuel ( about a tenners wort of petrol)

:-) hope that helps you visualise it it better

Matt Simis

piston wrote: »

The units used are irrelevant, doing it the other way around for me just doesn't seem right.

You are just used to the old way.. even Imperial/non-metric regions are ditching MPG in favour of GPM these days.


You buy petrol in litres, eg you buy 10litres.
Your car's fuel efficiency is approx 5litres per 100km
10/5 = 2 times. 200km range.

You bought 60 litres? Simple, 60/5 = 12 times, you have 1200km driving range.
http://fuel.netcessible.com/FuelEuro/FuelEuro.htm

If we bought petrol in gallons then MPG would have some usage, but all this rubbish about converting to gallons then calculating out, come on.

ION08

Mattsimis and piston, stop arguing, you're both wrong!

L/100km is the most obvious and logical measurement.

arleitiss

I am back, drove there today + spent few minutes looping around places and stopping and turning around as road was weird and I missed turns sometimes, had like 42% petrol ended up with like 22% so that was enough.

Jimbob 83

MPG for prez

Matt Simis

ION08 wrote: »

Mattsimis and piston, stop arguing, you're both wrong!

L/100km is the most obvious and logical measurement.

Which is exactly what Im saying...