Just driven from Halifax to Ealing

[sparkyhx]

..............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.

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P I Staker said:

You can't have been driving fast enough.

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

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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?

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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]

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

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Sir Bagalot said:

sparkyhx said:

not a patch on my old Lex LS (sniff)

You went from a Lexus LS to an i30? Now that is fking rough

I know - but believe it or not it was by choice. Just needed a A-B car to do 30k a year that wasn't going to cost me a fortune. With hindsight maybe not the best move. Would get another Lex in a heartbeat, but I plan on screwing the i30 all the way till the end of its very good warranty.



Lex was based on ECU - so the gauge used to go down even on LPG, then every now and then it would reset itself.

My gauge has 12 segments. I did give it a serious fill up though. Longest I've done on a tank is 660miles, with computer saying range of 80 still left. but didn't want to risk having to fill up on silly motorway prices so filled early when I had the chance.

Still - can't grumble at Halifax to London return 422 miles for £35ish

Edited by sparkyhx on Monday 30th March 16:55