The Trip Challenge

savagethegoat

Just for interest/fun/because I'm bored....zero your trip computer and take a photo after a couple of hundred km.



Focus 1.6 Diesel

RandomAccess

Are we aiming to burn the most or the least fuel?

Or you are just showing off your fancy trip computer ;-)

OldMrBrennan83

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savagethegoat

RandomAccess wrote: »

Are we aiming to burn the most or the least fuel?

Or you are just showing off your fancy trip computer ;-)

Fancy? in a bog standard Focus? Don't most cars have these now? My 2000 Mondeo did!

There's no aim it's just for interest, if you aren't interested to take part, just move on.

OldMrBrennan83

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savagethegoat

really? I thought nothing much of it!

Foxhole Norman

I'll take my 20 MPG and be happy with it :pac:

CIP4

My average trip consistently reads between 4.9-5.1 l/100km I reset it every tank. However if you work it out using the brim test 5.6-5.8 l/100km so it's not that accurate about 6mpg difference In old terms.

Mena

No pic but it read 15.3l/100km this afternoon after dropping the young one at drama classes. 9.8l/100km after a drive to France 1000km) a few weeks back which is better!

quadrifoglio verde

I don't have a trip computer. I don't even have a working fuel gauge. I just put petrol in it when I think it needs it and generally the amount it takes coincides with the amount of fun I've had with the happy pedal

Toyotafanboi

this is my analogue trip computer. the one on the left is the engine loudness gauge, the one in the middle is the penalty points gauge.

OldMrBrennan83

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corradoman

99 Tdi Passat 51mpg on a full tank mixture of town driving and national roads

R.O.R

Didn't take any pictures as was dropping it to a customer, but took a Civic 1.6 I-DTEC Hatch from South Dublin to the City North Hotel, Julianstown (so mainly motorway) last week.

Roughly 50km, driving to achieve economy, in Eco mode - according to the on board computer, achieved 3.5 l/100km - that's a shade over 80mpg!

In Eco mode, there are green lights on the dash, that turn blue then red if you aren't driving efficiently, so I was trying to keep them green. Not really much slower than the rest of the traffic was travelling anyway, and I certainly wasn't a rolling road block.

Without Eco mode on, if you want to drive on, there is plenty of power there to have a bit of fun in.

savagethegoat

that's exceptional....I got my Focus down to 4.0 on a 35 mile trip, but usually it's around the 5.0 mark with mixed driving.

Jesus.

ROR, what speed did you find the most economical on the Mway? Around 55 mph?

Cee-Jay-Cee

Mine is currently sitting at 9.6l/100km after 220kms.

R.O.R

Jesus. wrote: »

ROR, what speed did you find the most economical on the Mway? Around 55 mph?

It was M50 / M1 in rush hour so traffic was only doing about 80kmh anyway.

christy02

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Must be foggy your way?????

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Daniel S

savagethegoat wrote: »

Just for interest/fun/because I'm bored....zero your trip computer and take a photo after a couple of hundred km.



Focus 1.6 Diesel

I get around 9.8L/100km. Ford Focus 1.6 Petrol.

Trying to eek every last drop of efficiency, I managed 5.9L/100km on a trip.

savagethegoat

Daniel S wrote: »

I get around 9.8L/100km. Ford Focus 1.6 Petrol.

Trying to eek every last drop of efficiency, I managed 5.9L/100km on a trip.

we got talked out of a petrol model by the dealer.(thank Dog), Never had a diesl before and I'm kicking myself for all the money wasted in the past .

fancy pigeon

No trip computer
No common rail
Not much electrics
Not much in refinement

Agricultural clatter and ear piercingly loud turbo at the front, smoke and cooooo at the back, brimmed tank once a week that lasts on average 700 miles from a 70l tank plus filler.

I like my d-turbo and f*ck what anyone thinks of that

Toyotafanboi

that's it FP

my trip computer consists of asking for a receipt in the petrol station and keeping a bic pen in the glove box to use to write my mileage down on it :pac:

Jesus.

R.O.R wrote: »

It was M50 / M1 in rush hour so traffic was only doing about 50mph anyway.

That's about right ROR. Folk often say around 60 is most economical but in most cars its less than that. Its actually not much above 40 (but you can't go that slow on an Mway ). Perhaps for a big V8 it might be closer to 60

Jesus.

Daniel S wrote: »

I get around 9.8L/100km. Ford Focus 1.6 Petrol.

That is very bad

Donnelly117

christy02 wrote: »

Must be foggy your way?????

Patww79 wrote: »

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Unlucky

The Z4 is on 28.2 at the moment, that day off mad traffic in cork last week killed it

Dartz

10L/100km

RX8 at steady 100-120kph.

13/100km

RX8, normally.

22L/100km

RX8 around Dublin city.

35L/100km

RX8 around Mondello

savagethegoat

Dartz wrote: »

10L/100km

RX8 at steady 100-120kph.

13/100km

RX8, normally.

22L/100km

RX8 around Dublin city.

35L/100km

RX8 around Mondello

sometimes Smiles per gallon is more important.

Mint Sauce

My 2006 1.4 Astra only shows kms done since the last reset.

But the most on one fill, about 46L of unleaded, was about 700+ kms. Sligo to just ouside Middleton Co Cork, in and around Middleton, Cork City and Cobh, no refill till I got back to somewhere between Gort and Clairegalway.

Do I win?

CIP4

Mint Sauce wrote: »

My 2006 1.4 Astra only shows kms done since the last reset.

But the most on one fill, about 46L of unleaded, was about 700+ kms. Sligo to just ouside Middleton Co Cork, in and around Middleton, Cork City and Cobh, no refill till I got back to somewhere between Gort and Clairegalway.

Do I win?

43mpg / 6.6L/100km I don't think youll win with that it's fair going in a 1.4 petrol Astra in saying all that.

DakarVert

68.8MPG over 110 miles.
Sitting around 66MPG after 350miles.

Not driven gently either.

Fiesta 1.6TDCI

Mint Sauce

CIP4 wrote: »

43mpg / 6.6L/100km I don't think youll win with that it's fair going in a 1.4 petrol Astra in saying all that.

In fairness, if it was just driving to and from work, it could drop to around 600km per fill.

Dartz

savagethegoat wrote: »

sometimes Smiles per gallon is more important.

Something wasn't right... it ws scuttering unburned fuel out the pipe for the last tank, but it stopped as soon as I filled it up again. ****ing hate petrol in this country - it's so variable.

166man

Dartz wrote: »

RX8 around Mondello

You must have been absolutely hooping about in Mondello!

How did you get on? Break any land speed records?!



My car is doing about 16mpg at the moment so not sure what that is in liters or whatever...!

coolbeans

Getting a solid 26mpg in my month old Abarth 595 180 atm aka FIAT 500 Turbo. I can't help myself hooning around the place in it so I suppose the smiles per gallon are good...

Donnelly117

coolbeans wrote: »

Getting a solid 26mpg in my month old Abarth 595 180 atm aka FIAT 500 Turbo. I can't help myself hooning around the place in it so I suppose the smiles per gallon are good...

Got any pics of it? Sounds awesome!

coolbeans

Donnelly117 wrote: »

Got any pics of it? Sounds awesome!

Would love to but I don't have a desktop Pc as it's bust and the one at work has all kinds of admin restrictions on it. On mobile devices there doesn't seem to be a way to attach a pic in a post. Not on my Android phone and tablet anyway.

_Kaiser_

Can get her down to around 6.9-7.2 l/100 on a motorway run... doing local spins is far more depressing (3.0 TDI V6 A6), but she still makes me smile every day over two years later

OldMrBrennan83

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coolbeans

https://goo.gl/photos/GwJ8HKc1DWs6kA7d9

If that works I'll fire a few more up.

OldMrBrennan83

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coolbeans

Patww79 wrote: »

Works grand. Can see your name on the album title though in case that bothers you.

Lovely looking car.

Thanks. No name doesn't bother me. I've put a few more up but they're in the pics thread as that makes more sense than than derailing this one.

Lord Nikon

I can drive 100 miles for a tenner of diesel. Bluemotion Passat.

Truckermal

Not bad for a 3.0 V6 petrol plus I was driving on with heated seats, A/C on etc..

Lord Nikon

Funnily enough, unless it shows MPG, I have no idea what I'm looking at.

Supergurrier

Truckermal

550km done today of non stop driving and this is my average. .A4 TDI..

fancy pigeon

I had the Z brimmed, did 132 miles and it took 40 litres to fill (70 litre tank). Mixed driving (town/country roads/motorway etc). I reckon if I pulse and glide, pulse and glide then slipstream that lorrey infront....

F*ck mpg's and f*ck logical sense. It's a fun weekend car and makes me smile every time I drive it

CIP4

Truckermal wrote: »

550km done today of non stop driving and this is my average. .A4 TDI..

That's not great at all should be doing at least 5.5 l/100km on a long trip like that unless you were driving the ring out of it. In saying all that diesels seem to keep inproving economy wise until they hit 30k km so it should get better.

Truckermal

CIP4 wrote: »

That's not great at all should be doing at least 5.5 l/100km on a long trip like that unless you were driving the ring out of it. In saying all that diesels seem to keep inproving economy wise until they hit 30k km so it should get better.

Wife gets free DERV plus I'm not used to the hardship of changing gears..:)