Just driven from Halifax to Ealing

Just driven from Halifax to Ealing

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sparkyhx

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4,143 posts

203 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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..............and used 1 bar of fuel on the fuel gauge.

Filled up to the brim on setting off and it dropped one bar at Newport Pagnall, and stayed there til I got out of the car. I was beginning to thing the gauge was broken.

Range is saying I have 300 miles left having done 220 already.

I'd love to see what the range actually is, but don't have the balls to run it too low. Computer says 62.7 mpg (1.6 diesel i30) supposedly 53 litre tank, but there must have been a couple/three of gallon up the spout to get to Newport Pagnal.

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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Don't know about your car but I find that fuel gauges aren't equally "gapped". On my car

First quarter = 150 miles
2nd quarter = 100 miles
3rd and 4th qtr combined = 150 miles
Low fuel light comes on at 400 when there is approx 1 gallon left in the tank

poing

8,743 posts

199 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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That's nice.

trickywoo

11,706 posts

229 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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729 miles is your range based on those figures.

P I Staker

3,308 posts

155 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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You can't have been driving fast enough. confused

Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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P I Staker said:
You can't have been driving fast enough. confused
This is the correct philosophy.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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How many bars are there in total?

It's not uncommon to drive a long way before you lose a bar on a lot of cars, but then the gauge drops rapidly at first and slows as you use more fuel. I can do 40 miles in my car before any of the segments disappear from the gauge and there are ~30 segments in it! Then it drops very fast from then on; 50 miles later and about 10 of those little segments have gone.

sparkyhx

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4,143 posts

203 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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P I Staker said:
You can't have been driving fast enough. confused
M 1 on a sunday night in the dark - anything from Standstill (3 times) 2 accidents - one in the middle lane and one in the outside lane and one misterious slow section between Sheffield and Derby. The rest of the time was 60-80 with the flow of traffic and some 50mph average speed cameras thrown in for good luck.

I'll see what I get after driving back on Friday night. Its the first run in the car since I bought it so I've been pleasantly surprised. - not a patch on my old Lex LS (sniff)

Not sure how many bars - I think its 12, but don't quote me.

edit fopund a picture and it looks like 12 - which tiesin with the tank capacity of 12ish gallons



Edited by sparkyhx on Sunday 8th December 22:07


Edited by sparkyhx on Sunday 8th December 22:14

fjord

2,143 posts

136 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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We use those i30's at work (bib).

The build quality is nothing short of totally fking terrible.

However, even the one that constantly gets the arse screwed off it 24/7 is still running at 40mpg!

I'd also wager it's a lot quicker than my 320d.

Buff Mchugelarge

3,316 posts

149 months

Sunday 8th December 2013
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I brimmed my little Fiat (£45 34.9 ltrs in a 35 ltr tank cool) in Worthing and drove to Cinderford and it only used 1/4 of a tank.
When I drove back I had 1/2 a tank left and it drank it all!

Funnel shaped tanks I believe? rolleyes

I take it as you weren't in 3rd gear at over 4K rpm for the whole journey your DPF is now buggered? wink

sparkyhx

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4,143 posts

203 months

Monday 9th December 2013
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fjord said:
We use those i30's at work (bib).

The build quality is nothing short of totally fking terrible.

However, even the one that constantly gets the arse screwed off it 24/7 is still running at 40mpg!

I'd also wager it's a lot quicker than my 320d.
which version out of interest - pre 2012 or post or are they both as bad.

I've had mine a month so far, and its the remainder of the 5 year warranty that I bought it for, along with a friends 130k untroubled driving (older version).

Its suprisingly spritely and tractable for only 110 bhp.

With regard to the DPF - the 2k revs at 70mph maybe a bit of a time bomb i'm not sure. The car tends to get used mainly for long journey, but I'm not sure if that is enough for a regen? Any advice?

fjord

2,143 posts

136 months

Monday 9th December 2013
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sparkyhx said:
which version out of interest - pre 2012 or post or are they both as bad.

I've had mine a month so far, and its the remainder of the 5 year warranty that I bought it for, along with a friends 130k untroubled driving (older version).

Its suprisingly spritely and tractable for only 110 bhp.

With regard to the DPF - the 2k revs at 70mph maybe a bit of a time bomb i'm not sure. The car tends to get used mainly for long journey, but I'm not sure if that is enough for a regen? Any advice?
Pre 2012, however we're starting to get a trickle of new ones, which look pretty mint.

We've got an '11 plate which is on 55,000 miles. The steering wheel has totally peeled off and has chunks missing. The drivers door has broken, where you couldnt open it from the inside and had to lean out of the window (our 62 plate did this too). The gearbox crunches in reverse and all other gears are notchy. The back window once dropped and wouldnt go up. The metal part of the key once snapped out of the fob and it blows a headlight bulb every 3000 miles or so.

I dread to imagine what these will be like at the end of the 5 year warranty with 200,000 on the clock...

V88Dicky

7,302 posts

182 months

Monday 9th December 2013
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Pah.

I once drove my old 1988 mkIII Cavalier 2.0L from Rosyth to Sunderland (125 miles) on an indicated 1/8th of a tank.

nuts

sparkyhx

Original Poster:

4,143 posts

203 months

Tuesday 10th December 2013
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fjord said:
sparkyhx said:
which version out of interest - pre 2012 or post or are they both as bad.

I've had mine a month so far, and its the remainder of the 5 year warranty that I bought it for, along with a friends 130k untroubled driving (older version).

Its suprisingly spritely and tractable for only 110 bhp.

With regard to the DPF - the 2k revs at 70mph maybe a bit of a time bomb i'm not sure. The car tends to get used mainly for long journey, but I'm not sure if that is enough for a regen? Any advice?
Pre 2012, however we're starting to get a trickle of new ones, which look pretty mint.

We've got an '11 plate which is on 55,000 miles. The steering wheel has totally peeled off and has chunks missing. The drivers door has broken, where you couldnt open it from the inside and had to lean out of the window (our 62 plate did this too). The gearbox crunches in reverse and all other gears are notchy. The back window once dropped and wouldnt go up. The metal part of the key once snapped out of the fob and it blows a headlight bulb every 3000 miles or so.

I dread to imagine what these will be like at the end of the 5 year warranty with 200,000 on the clock...
Interesting. Like I said we have friends who have a high milage one and has had no problems and that was an older model. It still felt pretty fresh when I was a passenger. My dad is on his 2nd albeit with low milage and again has had no problems.

Time will only tell. I live in Hx and work in London so it either stays outside hx house all week when I train it to london or it goes to london and sits outside the house there instead all week until I drive it home. So it doesn't really get a hard life.



sparkyhx

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4,143 posts

203 months

Sunday 29th March 2015
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Just done the same journey and made it to the North Circular before the gauge dropped one bar. 200 Miles with a full tank.

biggrin

Sir Bagalot

6,463 posts

180 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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sparkyhx said:
not a patch on my old Lex LS (sniff)
You went from a Lexus LS to an i30?laugh Now that is fking rough

Roger Irrelevant

2,899 posts

112 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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Countdown said:
Don't know about your car but I find that fuel gauges aren't equally "gapped". On my car

First quarter = 150 miles
2nd quarter = 100 miles
3rd and 4th qtr combined = 150 miles
Low fuel light comes on at 400 when there is approx 1 gallon left in the tank
Yeah mine's like this - eight bars in total, can do about 100 miles before the first one goes then it's about 40 for each one after that. The cynic in me says it's so when people take cars on extended test drives they seem like they have an amazing tank range, but then I also think the gubmint monitors our brainwaves via WiFi.

romeogolf

2,056 posts

118 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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My car also has a wonky fuel gauge.

1st quarter gets 200, 2nd quarter gets about 150, third and fourth get about 125 each. Fuel light comes on with 8 litres left which is usually about 70-80 miles on the 'range' display.

john2443

6,325 posts

210 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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Because my fuel gauge is cleverer than it needs to be so instead of showing the amount in the tank it does a calculation based on the amount in the tank and the range so if you've been hooning about and then go to a steady speed on the motorway it will go up to start with so you can (according to the gauge) arrive somewhere with more fuel than you started with.

MGgeordie

939 posts

183 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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I hate these new electronic bar things. What was wrong with a good old needle??