Consumption.

arleitiss

Hey, so I have Corsa C 1.2L, and I filled up tank which is around 45 litres on monday. Now today I looked and the fuel meter is around 80% gone. So 20% left (rougly). Meter says 195 miles.
I feel like that's kind of **** consumption isn't it?

I shift usually at 2500 RPM. I shift to 5th nearly as soon as I reach speed 60 km/h, so I spend most of the time in 5th gear and RPM at around 1000-2000.

Does the point that I drive at 80-90 km/h (from City centre to Lucan on N4) for about 15 mins change anything?

CiniO

Your figures show consumption at 8.75 litres/100km which is way too much for 1.2 corsa.
But are you sure your figures are precise. Checking by fuel gauge is usually way out of accuracy.
Best fill up your car to the top, note mileage, drive to nearly empty and fill up to the top again and note mileage then. Best repeat this action few times.
This will give you most accurate figures.

PS - Driving 1.2 corsa on 5th gear at 1000-2000 rpm has nothing to do with saving fuel. It's rather killing the engine slowly by making it labour.
With such small engine, on 5th gear, you should never be below 2000rpm on straight stretch, and way more than that when going uphill.

Mr Simpson

I get 455km from 40 litres in a 08 1.2 Corsa, thats with a heavy right foot

barura

Are you sure you filled the tank? 20euro 1/2 fills my Polo apparently according to the dial, but that's only 11litres!

So I guess the question is did you brim the tank?

TestTransmission

Follow the advice you were given here OP

arleitiss

barura wrote: »

Are you sure you filled the tank? 20euro 1/2 fills my Polo apparently according to the dial, but that's only 11litres!

So I guess the question is did you brim the tank?

I did fill up full. Pump didn't give more, it automatically stopped as it was overflowing.

dgt

Is that 195 miles of driving or 195 miles left?

I wouldn't be inclined to believe guages, can be deceiving

And your driving style is not suited to that car. I don't think it'd be even suited to most diesel cars.... More to a tractor

People automatically think "oh I better shift up asap to save fuel" when the torque band usually isn't happy about it and labours the engine, stressing it, deterioriating it and increasing fuel consumption.

Corsa getting what it deserves :pac:

Stheno

dgt wrote: »

Is that 195 miles of driving or 195 miles left?

I wouldn't be inclined to believe guages, can be deceiving

And your driving style is not suited to that car. I don't think it'd be even suited to most diesel cars.... More to a tractor

People automatically think "oh I better shift up asap to save fuel" when the torque band usually isn't happy about it and labours the engine, stressing it, deterioriating it and increasing fuel consumption.

Corsa getting what it deserves :pac:

I initially read 60kph as m/hr

I'm rarely out of third gear at 80 kph :eek:

Can't imagine how that feels 60 kph in fifth? In any car?

challengemaster

arleitiss wrote: »

I shift usually at 2500 RPM. I shift to 5th nearly as soon as I reach speed 60 km/h, so I spend most of the time in 5th gear and RPM at around 1000-2000.

There's your problem, stop driving like a granny. Use the appropriate gears for the speed, not just 5th gear.

Mandzhalas

challengemaster wrote: »

There's your problem, stop driving like a granny. Use the appropriate gears for the speed, not just 5th gear.

60 in 5th:eek:.thats trully shocking.how long takes you to get from 60 to 100? 1 minute?

djimi

I would never drive at 60kmph in 5th gear, and I would suggest that a car that spends too much time driving at 1000rpm is probably doing more harm than good...

CiniO

djimi wrote: »

I would never drive at 60kmph in 5th gear, and I would suggest that a car that spends too much time driving at 1000rpm is probably doing more harm than good...

I would even remove that "probably"

Supergurrier

55 litres = 310 miles here and every one of them is fun

Also i see no readout of milage you are doing, if you want an accurate figure you need to give us an odemeter readout on milage done, maths doesn't work when there is only 1 number in the formula

Henry Ford III

It's possibly higher than you'd expect due to the extra weight of carrying a fully licensed passenger.

dgt

60kmh in 5th is 1500rpm for me. 64kmh is 2000rpm in 4th

It's a sad fact that I know this as its my only form of telling the speed accurately

In 5th:
2k rpm = 80kmh
2500rpm=100kmh
3krpm = 120kmh

and so on

CiniO

dgt wrote: »

60kmh in 5th is 1500rpm for me. 64kmh is 2000rpm in 4th

It's a sad fact that I know this as its my only form of telling the speed accurately

In 5th:
2k rpm = 80kmh
2500rpm=100kmh
3krpm = 120kmh

and so on

Is your speedo broken?
What car is it?

166man

CiniO wrote: »

Is your speedo broken?
What car is it?

It's not really a car of sorts, more just a Silver body with many many different other parts stuck to it and a Peugeot badge on the front. There's probably bit's of Mercedes, Alfa and Fiat in there! :pac:

dgt

CiniO wrote: »

Is your speedo broken?
What car is it?

406. Not broken just incorrectly callibrated. I must see about sorting it the next time I have the speedo out, it reads fast