King of the Rank!- 51 plate Skoda Octavia 1.9tdi purchased..

[320touring]

LukeST said:

Nice update OP

Good work on the seats also!

Cheers chief! I like the fact that everything so far has been straightforward to sort.

Lets hope it continues is a similar vain

[LukeST]

I would actually consider these if I needed something really cheap, not sure my works allowance would agree tho!

[320touring]

LukeST said:

I would actually consider these if I needed something really cheap, not sure my works allowance would agree tho!

Yup-ideal beater material!

[320touring]

Passed 100miles on this tank today- figures look fairly decent. Got some good runs about the place-70%motorway, 30% town

Tomorrow may kill them though, as it is a cold start hop to the station..

Mpg average:


Miles:


Average speed:

[320touring]

This is still plodding on doing mega MPG..


Also wrote a touch more about what its like to drive here:
https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/flyin...

[LukeST]

338 miles and nowhere near half? That's mental!

[Barchettaman]

Entertaining blog!

[320touring]

LukeST said:

338 miles and nowhere near half? That's mental!

its a 55l tank too!

[320touring]

Barchettaman said:

Entertaining blog!

thank you my good man

[320touring]

this fooker better do over 70mpg or I'll feel cheated

[320touring]

passed 400 miles tonight- still showing 1/2 tank and an average of 73.6mpg.

hopefully this keeps up!




Took it to a local crap car meet too

Edited by 320touring on Thursday 25th June 00:05

[320touring]

They say misery begets misery,

So my brother bought its taller but younger brother today..

[Poisson96]

What a shed. Perfect then. Enjoy

[320touring]

Poisson96 said:

What a shed. Perfect then. Enjoy

I shall indeed

[320touring]

Happy day today- got time to service this and sort the brakes out properly!

https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/tinke...


A fair bit done for once- but not without its issues

[Jw Vw]

Amazing mpg figures for the mileage!

[320touring]

Jw Vw said:

Amazing mpg figures for the mileage!

Thanks- I reckon it's overreading the MPG a bit- should be this week that the tank needs filling again- and we'll get actual figures

[anonymous-user]

I am going to have a 90 mile round trip commute to work soon, so one of these is high up on my list. I have another car for the weekend so something like this would be perfect.

[320touring]

Joey Deacon said:

I am going to have a 90 mile round trip commute to work soon, so one of these is high up on my list. I have another car for the weekend so something like this would be perfect.

it soes seem to do grand job in saving you hunners of money doing mundane journies so you can burn plenty fuel having fun

[320touring]

So finally made it to fuel light on in this for the first time..

672.1 miles, on 45.66L of fuel!that is 66.9MPG (imperial) or 55.7MPG US

1081.6km travelled before refuelling- nice to get a kilo tank on the first run.

I refilled it with 15L of WVO (at 50p/Litre) and 30.66L of Derv (at 116.7p/L) Total refuel cost was £43.28, giving a cost per mile of 6.4p

Total Runtime to use the tank up


Average Speed


Matching Miles


Range Remaining


The trip computer seems to be 7.7% out


15L of WVO later


Fully Derved up

Edited by 320touring on Saturday 4th July 17:47