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What MPG are you getting from your vehicle?

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    #272
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭corks finest


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    At constant motorway speed, does eco mode actually do much then?

    Reckon it does


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    #273
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭corks finest


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    one thing I notice it does is the air conditioning goes in bursts probably to save energy

    A/C in eco mode is well down , I drive in eco all the time


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    #274
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    OK for a 3 litre

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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    #275
    Car99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Car99


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Cement mixer?

    143M V8


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    #276
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,830 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Car99 wrote: »
    143M V8

    Scania beautiful sound from the V8 especially on open pipes, lovely!!


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    #277
    kirving
    Registered Users Posts: 5,911 ✭✭✭kirving


    Drove from Tuam, Galway to Dublin yesterday evening, via 70km R roads @ 70km/h, 130km motorway @ 120km/h.

    330e which I had fully charged before leaving and can do up to 18km on that charge. Cost me about €1.00 on standard rate electricity.

    Petrol engine did 5.3l/100km (53mpg in old money), so cost about €16 in petrol, plus €1 electric. Not bad for 250bhp IMO.

    With no charge, it would have been around 6.7 - 7.2 l/100km, or about €20-22.

    Say €4 per journey, twice per week, saves €400 per year potentially, but I'm not that disciplind in plugging it in if I'm honest. Around town, savings are more like 70% vs petrol.


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    #278
    maddness
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭maddness


    CrowdedHouse wrote: »
    OK for a 3 litre

    A 530d?. We’re you driving downhill?


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    #279
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    maddness wrote: »
    A 530d?. We’re you driving downhill?

    330d and no :)

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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    #280
    PaulRyan97
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭PaulRyan97


    maddness wrote: »
    A 530d?. We’re you driving downhill?

    He was being towed.


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    #281
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭corks finest


    PaulRyan97 wrote: »
    He was being towed.

    VG


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    #282
    maddness
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭maddness


    CrowdedHouse wrote: »
    330d and no :)

    That’s seriously impressive so.


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    #283
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    I went fairly handy and did 3 hours 49 minutes 312km 43.6mpg this morning. About an hour of 120 motorway then mixed 100km with reductions for villages etc.. followed every speed limit trying to see mpg

    Tried eco mode a few times but never really saved much on it +1km here or there so went back into comfort.

    It puts it into neutral while you are coasting rather than engine braking so that's probably where a lot of gains could be made

    335d. Will see if the way home is downhill but the weather was very bad this morning anyway so won't be a fair comparison


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    #284
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,830 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    I went fairly handy and did 3 hours 49 minutes 312km 43.6mpg this morning. About an hour of 120 motorway then mixed 100km with reductions for villages etc.. followed every speed limit trying to see mpg

    Tried eco mode a few times but never really saved much on it +1km here or there so went back into comfort.

    It puts it into neutral while you are coasting rather than engine braking so that's probably where a lot of gains could be made

    335d. Will see if the way home is downhill but the weather was very bad this morning anyway so won't be a fair comparison

    Engine braking provided the rpm is above about 1200rpm uses no fuel at all, coasting in neutral uses fuel.


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    #285
    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    I've a right mixed bag in the Leon (184PS diesel). The best I've gotten was 4.1l/100km driving like a saint from Cork to Longford (motorway to Portlaoise, cross country after that), the worst I've gotten was 7.5l/100km (two days driving a course car in a rally). It's typically 5.2l/100km day to day (20 minutes to work). I leave the car set-up with the engine turned up full. I spend time messing with putting it normal and eco modes and they saved nothing. Eco actually burned more fuel as it REALLY killed the engine performance (so was driving with wider throttle openings to compensate).

    There's a '11 140PS diesel Octavia at home and over one 200km gentle spin around West Cork it got 3.9l/100km. That typically gets 4.3l/100km.

    The Ducato based camper is a funny one. Driving here in Ireland I get 10.5l/100km, no matter if it's gentle or hard. Pegging it down the Autobahn on German high cetane diesel I get 9l/100km. Running it on proper diesel makes it run a LOT more economical with extra pep in its step also. Funny that......


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    #286
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,830 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    ianobrien wrote: »
    I've a right mixed bag in the Leon (184PS diesel). The best I've gotten was 4.1l/100km driving like a saint from Cork to Longford (motorway to Portlaoise, cross country after that), the worst I've gotten was 7.5l/100km (two days driving a course car in a rally). It's typically 5.2l/100km day to day (20 minutes to work). I leave the car set-up with the engine turned up full. I spend time messing with putting it normal and eco modes and they saved nothing. Eco actually burned more fuel as it REALLY killed the engine performance (so was driving with wider throttle openings to compensate).

    There's a '11 140PS diesel Octavia at home and over one 200km gentle spin around West Cork it got 3.9l/100km. That typically gets 4.3l/100km.

    The Ducato based camper is a funny one. Driving here in Ireland I get 10.5l/100km, no matter if it's gentle or hard. Pegging it down the Autobahn on German high cetane diesel I get 9l/100km. Running it on proper diesel makes it run a LOT more economical with extra pep in its step also. Funny that......

    Try millers diesel additive in the Ducato, after a few goes you'll notice a big difference.


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    #287
    MacronvFrugals
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭MacronvFrugals


    Had a 250 KM trip in my GFs Suzuki SX4 S-Cross the weekend, its a 1.0 litre 3 cylinder from 2018


    45MPG @ 120KM/H

    50MPG @ 100KM/H



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    #288
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    About 70mpg on a 330e...Always charge at home and mostly can charge in work :)



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    #289
    jmreire
    Registered Users Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭jmreire


    2014 MB E class 220, 8.2 Ltrs / 100 Klms. Actual fill to fill calculation, but with a mixture of driving...with lots of hilly and back road driving, and occasionally pulling a trailer included. On board computer gives me silly 5.5 averages at times.



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    #290
    MacronvFrugals
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭MacronvFrugals


    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117612507#Comment_117612507

    Very good for a non clattering diesel comfort bus :)



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    #291
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117613102#Comment_117613102

    Mines the PHEV, its a 2 litre petrol with electic engine :)



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    #292
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,508 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    according to the trip computer in my 2012 1.2TSi octavia, i've averaged 5.4l/100km for the last 3k km.

    i usually stick to about 95-100km/h when on the motorway and it'd usually manage about 5l/100km in those circumstances.



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    #293
    MacronvFrugals
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭MacronvFrugals


    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117614161#Comment_117614161

    Yup that's what i meant, lovely big bus to be getting that MPG and not being an noisy diesel :)



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    #294
    honda boi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭honda boi


    2006 Volvo S40 1.6 petrol, driving it in eco mode 99% of the time.

    I seem to always get 7.2-8 litres per 100 km. Or 35-40mpg.



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    #295
    ofcork
    Registered Users Posts: 5,363 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Average 7.7l/100km in a 2012 diesel avensis mix of city and N road driving.



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    #296
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Swapped out my 3.2 Volvo XC70 AWD (which was averaging about 11-12l/100kms

    To a Saab 9-3 2.0T sports wagon which is averaging 7.5 l/100kms while having plenty of power !



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    #297
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,508 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    were you towing boats in the volvo?

    maybe there was a leak in the fuel tank.



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    #298
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117625894#Comment_117625894

    No no it was just the Volvo, I was running it on 87 and it recommended 89/91, maybe that was the issue. But a heavy AWD 3.2 N/A engine is gonna be bad 😬



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    #299
    Isambard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,796 ✭✭✭Isambard


    5.4 l/100km over the past 6 months. Opel Grandland. Mostly local driving at that,



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    #300
    galson
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭galson


    5.5l/100km in Skoda Fabia Estate 2010 (1.2 engine)

    8.7l/100km in Renault Scenic 2007 (1.4 engine)

    Don't know why the difference is so big.



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    #301
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    I have a 2013 Ford Focus 1.6 diesel. I average 4.8 - 4.9 litres per 100 kilometres mostly driving on horrendous West Offaly roads. It feels like I am in a different country when I cross the border into Westmeath or drive on the Motorway.



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