Miles per litre of petrol

burkey85

Hey,

Having a bit of a problem with work and paying my mileage.
Can someone give me some advice on what kind of mileage I should be gettin per litre of petrol?
Car is a 04 1.8 litre petrol Mondeo.

Thanks in advance

CiboC

Impossible to answer based on what you have said, it's a 'how long is a piece of string' question.

Depends on your driving style, what kind of roads you use, how fast you go, how much traffic you are stuck in etc.

Easiest thing is to measure it yourself.

Next time you fill up, fill to the 'click' and reset your odometer to zero.
Drive away, and when you fill next go to the 'click' again and take note of the reading on your odometer and the quantity of fuel you put in.

You should be able to easily work out how many kms per litre or any other way of measuring it from that.

Alanstrainor

burkey85 wrote: »

Hey,

Having a bit of a problem with work and paying my mileage.
Can someone give me some advice on what kind of mileage I should be gettin per litre of petrol?
Car is a 04 1.8 litre petrol Mondeo.

Thanks in advance

Surely they will pay you per km covered? And the payment depends on the engine size of the car.

Zubeneschamali

burkey85 wrote: »

Car is a 04 1.8 litre petrol Mondeo.

Say you get 28 Mpg, that's about 6.2 miles per litre.

Sam Kade

burkey85 wrote: »

Hey,

Having a bit of a problem with work and paying my mileage.
Can someone give me some advice on what kind of mileage I should be gettin per litre of petrol?
Car is a 04 1.8 litre petrol Mondeo.

Thanks in advance

Why do you want miles per litre? Stick with one type of measurement as mixing imperial and metric doesn't make sense.

burkey85

Thanks for the advice, know its a hard one to answer perfectly.
Boss reckons i'm doing 3 to 4 miles per litre, I should be doing 8 to 9, but I cant help how my car burns fuel, I just do the driving I'm asked to do!!!

iceman777

Could you propose to get paid based on distance and for your company to cover any toll costs?

For example, currently, I get €0.31 per km travelled.

In my previous company, it was €0.72 per km travelled.

Caliden

Only way to do it is fill the tank, reset odometer, drive, refill and then use the refill amount (total litres filled & distance driven since fill) to calculate what you're asking.

Special Circumstances

burkey85 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, know its a hard one to answer perfectly.
Boss reckons i'm doing 3 to 4 miles per litre, I should be doing 8 to 9, but I cant help how my car burns fuel, I just do the driving I'm asked to do!!!

At 3 or 4 miles per litre you are looking at about 150 to 200 miles from a tank without going right into red. Ballpark figures, assuming 55l tank of which you only ever fill/drain 50l (well I rarely go beyond that anyway).

8 or 9 would bring you to 400 or 450 miles per tank. A little optimistic maybe.
I would guess 350 to 400 miles per 50l for open road driving. So, 7 or 8 miles per litre.

Really you wanna be getting a rate per km that compensates you for wear and tear and devaluation as well as petrol, but dunno howow likely that is going by your current negotiations...

cocoman

Should definitely be doing more than 3 or 4 miles per l. Maybe not as much as 8 or 9 though. Test it as outlined above. SEAI website has good info on mpg for all cars.

vectra

burkey85 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice, know its a hard one to answer perfectly.
Boss reckons i'm doing 3 to 4 miles per litre, I should be doing 8 to 9, but I cant help how my car burns fuel, I just do the driving I'm asked to do!!!

Boss is not far off the mark there,
I had a 1.8 zetec mondeo '02 and it drank fuel around town. Also drank it with aircon on.
My best would have been in the early 30's with it on a run.
Foot down a bit and I would fail to do a return trip to Dublin and Back ( 300 miles or less )

vandriver

3 miles a litre is 13.5 mpg. I suspect your boss is right!

Zubeneschamali

burkey85 wrote: »

Boss reckons i'm doing 3 to 4 miles per litre!

That's only 15 mpg. If he's right, there is something wrong with the car.

vectra

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

That's only 15 mpg. If he's right, there is something wrong with the car.

Not really.
My one had only 32k miles on it and I wouldnt do much better than that around town on stop start short runs.

burkey85

Yeah, im mainly doin just short distance driving, prob why it burns so much.
I just suspect shes bull****ting me about the mileage, i believe im getting more than what she saying but she has the records!!!

Alun

burkey85 wrote: »

Boss reckons i'm doing 3 to 4 miles per litre, I should be doing 8 to 9, but I cant help how my car burns fuel, I just do the driving I'm asked to do!!!

Where is your boss getting his mythical ideal "miles per litre" figure from? Nobody uses units like that. Old fashioned mpg or l/100km are the only published figures.

vandriver

Fill it to the brim,drive for a week,fill to brim again and get back to us with figures.

It BeeMee

burkey85 wrote: »

I just suspect shes bull****ting me about the mileage, i believe im getting more than what she saying but she has the records!!!

What records?
If she has hard data of the fuel purchased and the distance covered, then her calculations may be correct?

ardmacha

My horseless carriage does a score of furlongs per quart of petrol, but I believe if I get a diesel I can get two dozen of it.

kirving

You should try to insist on a €/km figure, since getting petrol money alone doesn't take account of wear and tear to your car.

braddun

30 mpg average

do you do city driving or motorway

Sam Kade

vandriver wrote: »

Fill it to the brim,drive for a week,fill to brim again and get back to us with figures.

At 13.5 mpg he'll be running on empty after 2 days

Sam Kade

I've a 07 mazda 6 1.8 petrol (same as mondeo) and regularly get 40 mpg. Going by the crazy calculations on here that's 8.8 miles per litre

Hachiko

burkey85 wrote: »

Hey,

Having a bit of a problem with work and paying my mileage.
Can someone give me some advice on what kind of mileage I should be gettin per litre of petrol?
Car is a 04 1.8 litre petrol Mondeo.

Thanks in advance

they are not very economical tbh from what i heard plus they like oil. I would say in or around 400miles on a tank is what you would get give or take

professore

The cost of fuel is only a fraction of the cost of running a car. Look at civil service mileage rates and use those.

jca

professore wrote: »

The cost of fuel is only a fraction of the cost of running a car. Look at civil service mileage rates and use those.

Ha ha.... Two hopes on that op. Civil Service-->Private Sector is a bit like Father Ted's Dreams-->Reality:):)

vandriver

Sam Kade wrote: »

At 13.5 mpg he'll be running on empty after 2 days

Well he can get back to us tomorrow evening then!

MuppetCheck

jca wrote: »

Ha ha.... Two hopes on that op. Civil Service-->Private Sector is a bit like Father Ted's Dreams-->Reality:):)

I wouldn't use my car for work if they paid civil service rates. They're quite low.

kirving

MuppetCheck wrote: »

I wouldn't use my car for work if they paid civil service rates. They're quite low.

I think they've come down alright. I get €0.40 per km in private sectors, and I think that's fair since it would really just be the odd 2hr motorway trip.

dr.fuzzenstein

MuppetCheck wrote: »

I wouldn't use my car for work if they paid civil service rates. They're quite low.

Hardly pays to take a half day off to cash non-existent cheques!:pac:

+1000 on the miles per liter calculations, who uses such ridiculous measurements!
Use MPG, since the MPG brigade always claim they don't understand l/100km, but fortunately us metric boys have the brains to understand both!

Alun

jca wrote: »

Ha ha.... Two hopes on that op. Civil Service-->Private Sector is a bit like Father Ted's Dreams-->Reality:):)

Not necessarily. My wife works for a private sector company and she gets Civil Service rates when she uses her own car for private use.

jimgoose

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Hardly pays to take a half day off to cash non-existent cheques!:pac:

+1000 on the miles per liter calculations, who uses such ridiculous measurements!
Use MPG, since the MPG brigade always claim they don't understand l/100km, but fortunately us metric boys have the brains to understand both!

Get a two-inch drag-pipe up ya, Captain Euro!