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The Motors Alcarholics Anonymous Thread

  • 30-11-2011 09:24PM
    #1
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭


    My car's name is Unity and she's an alcarholic. 25mpg at the moment, rising to 30-32 mpg when the loud pedal isn't being mashed into the floor. Ah, happy days :D

    What's your car's mpg? The worse the better. TDIers need not apply.


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  • #2
    Drummerboy08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,090 ✭✭✭✭Drummerboy08


    Haven't been bothered to work it out cos it scares me, but I'm lucky to see 270 miles out of a 65 litre tank.


  • #3
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,314 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Confab wrote: »
    My car's name is Unity and she's an alcarholic. 25mpg at the moment

    LOL, 25MPG is like having half a pint of beer on Christmas day :p

    I've had 20MPG or under cars for well over a decade..
    Drummerboy08 wrote: »
    Haven't been bothered to work it out cos it scares me, but I'm lucky to see 270 miles out of a 65 litre tank.

    Presuming there is still about 2 or 3 litres left by the time you fill up, it is about 20MPG - almost :D

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #4
    Kev.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Kev.


    Hi I'm Karlos,

    Im a Golf GTI and Lurve petrol...

    My owner doesn't seem to mind filling me up every week because he loves me...


  • #5
    Drummerboy08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,090 ✭✭✭✭Drummerboy08


    unkel wrote: »
    Presuming there is still about 2 or 3 litres left by the time you fill up, it is about 20MPG - almost :D

    Yeah, even if you worked it out on the basis of 60 litres. Oh well, great fun the last few mornings in the wet! :D


  • #6
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    unkel wrote: »
    LOL, 25MPG is like having half a pint of beer on Christmas day :p

    I've had 20MPG or under cars for well over a decade..

    I'm still getting used to a low mpg car, once my insurance starts going down I'll care much less about fuel consumption. I'm not complaining btw, I love it! It only brings my fuel bill from €40 pw to €55-60 pw anyway.

    Edit: Unity's actually getting 22.2mpg at the moment. Must ease off the loud pedal...


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  • #7
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭dar83


    I'm running about 24 at the moment.

    And I've taken it easy on this fill...


  • #8
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Confab wrote: »
    My car's name is Unity and she's an alcarholic. 25mpg at the moment, rising to 30-32 mpg when the loud pedal isn't being mashed into the floor. Ah, happy days :D

    What's your car's mpg? The worse the better. TDIers need not apply.

    Well mine only did 12mpg...on the Torr Road. Epic:D


  • #9
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    I have no idea what my MPG is, my car doesn't tell me and life is too short to work it out :p

    I assume anything between 20-30MPG


  • #10
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,800 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    I once emptied my tank in 80 miles. That was a fun few hours, I averaged 250 miles to my 45litre tank. For me it was never about the MPG but the SMG (Smiles Per Gallon)


  • #11
    Apprentice Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Apprentice Mechanic


    i am currently achieving 60mpg in a toyota corrola diesal, when I was learning to drive a car for around the fields and a lane which I had an old type jetta 87 model diesal also I was achieing about 50-53mpg and I was not using green or red diesal or even parrfin


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  • #12
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭dar83


    Gary ITR wrote: »
    For me it was never about the MPG but the SMG (Smiles Per Gallon)

    That's a motorhead's Hallmark card if ever I've seen one! :D


  • #13
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Apprentice Mechanic wrote: »
    i am currently achieving 60mpg in a toyota corrola diesal, when I was learning to drive a car for around the fields and a lane which I had an old type jetta 87 model diesal also I was achieing about 50-53mpg and I was not using green or red diesal or even parrfin

    Here! No Tee-Diddley-Eyes!


  • #14
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭dar83


    Apprentice Mechanic wrote: »
    i am currently achieving 60mpg in a toyota corrola diesal, when I was learning to drive a car for around the fields and a lane which I had an old type jetta 87 model diesal also I was achieing about 50-53mpg and I was not using green or red diesal or even parrfin

    Booooooooo!


  • #15
    Apprentice Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Apprentice Mechanic


    Confab wrote: »
    Here! No Tee-Diddley-Eyes!
    i dont bother using green diesal it just not worth the risk at all cos aload of people living beside me woud report anyone as quick as a cheetah


  • #16
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Every diesel fanboy related post from here now in will be deleted.

    :D


  • #17
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Apprentice Mechanic wrote: »
    i dont bother using green diesal it just not worth the risk at all cos aload of people living beside me woud report anyone as quick as a cheetah

    No, I mean your MPG is too high to be included in this thread. 30mpg is the upper limit here.


  • #18
    Apprentice Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Apprentice Mechanic


    Confab wrote: »
    No, I mean your MPG is too high to be included in this thread. 30mpg is the upper limit here.
    my bad:o


  • #19
    MyStubbleItches
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    27.1 mpg.

    From a TD.

    So there.


  • #20
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    MyStubbleItches wrote: »
    27.1 mpg.

    From a TD.

    So there.

    That's from a Rexton, i.e, an abomination. Doesn't count.


  • #21
    stealthyspeeder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭stealthyspeeder


    I wont see 20 mpg until she's warmed up in 5th gear, average mpg for this year is about 14mpg and that includes a good few "hyper mileing" trips along the M1 where I once saw 32mpg going down a hill with a stong wind!

    4.2 twin turbo was never going to frugal on the juice though..


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  • #22
    kja1888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭kja1888


    I've got an old Rover with a 3.5l V8, weighing around 2 tonnes, you have to keep a close eye on the fuel gauge all the time. This swine loves a drink I tell you!


  • #23
    MyStubbleItches
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    Confab wrote: »
    That's from a Rexton, i.e, an abomination. Doesn't count.

    Wouldn't lower myself.


  • #24
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,770 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    I get 350kms from a tank, ie 50l.


  • #25
    Cionád
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭Cionád


    Last fill was 27mpg, lowest since I bought it 5 months ago, generally 30mpg-ish in mixed driving.

    Did squeeze 35mpg out of it driving from Inverness to Liverpool in the summer though.

    It's a 2.0T Volvo s40


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,497 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Averages 20mpg for me if I'm local, will do 30mpg on a motorway spin, all urban short spins and less than 15mpg can be obtained, my all urban spins I mean trips less than a mile long :)


  • #27
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    Jaysus, I must be getting old and I hate sounding like a broken record but this has been done maybe twice recently...

    But, so as not to be a total cnut,

    850ci
    9 to 14 mpg in town and 22 motorway

    The rest are diesels


  • #28
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,242 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    28mpg , on a good day I might see 30, city driving i can see 22 easily


  • #29
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    My BMW barely managed 30mpg on an economy run. Averages about 20 - 22 mpg.

    The Mercs are worse. The 280 does about 18mpgs average and the 380 does about 15mpgs... They all get driven like theyre late for mass though :p

    Even my economical Bravo van, managed to use half a tank in 60 miles once... Its a real hoot :D

    We have a 2.8 RWD, Italian 2 seater with brembo calipers all round that does a maximum of 24mpg ;) its er...




    ....an Iveco Daily :pac:


  • #30
    101sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    12mpg in the 101, worth it for the noise of the V8 and grin factor.


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  • #31
    si_guru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭si_guru


    kja1888 wrote: »
    I've got an old Rover with a 3.5l V8, weighing around 2 tonnes, you have to keep a close eye on the fuel gauge all the time. This swine loves a drink I tell you!

    Take that motor and dump it in a Series Land Rover... you get my ol' Stage1 V8... single figures round town!

    I know a guy who get's worse... Sean101 - where are you?


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