Mk1 Focus Rs MPG

[Diablos-666]

Just want to know your thoughts really.

I've recently bought a scanguage 2 to show me the MPG and water temp and I've been getting around 19-24mpg around town and on A & B roads. Is that about right or do you my car is over fueling and needs to be checked?

[stevep944]

Depends how you're driving it i suppose, I would say mine does around 25 but it could easily get a lot less with a heavy right foot!

[Diablos-666]

Yeah well when I put my foot down it showed 7mpg haha

But overal I get 25mpg but that's driving everywhere in 4th, which isn't much fun :-(

[Diablos-666]

The main reason I asked is cos my mate drives an astra VXR and he easily gets 30+mpg

[neiljohnson]

Diablos-666 said:

The main reason I asked is cos my mate drives an astra VXR and he easily gets 30+mpg

i worked mine out at 22mpg a while back but not really worried as its a fun car now the rs always fuel heavy its part of the reason they last so well (rich is safe) mine fuels off the scale at high rpm. Your mates vxr may read 30 mpg but the vx fuel computers are known to overread

[Diablos-666]

Ok, I feel better now. Was just a little concerned that something might be up.

Not that worried about fuel costs cos the car is soooo good :-)

Thanks for the replies

cheeRS

[ALY77]

I'll let you do the maths but we just had a run yesterday up round the hills and glens and I went through £50 of fuel (almost full tank) in pretty much 200 miles though I'd expect 300 to a completely full one on a motorway run.

[AMST09]

I get about 28MPG but with a heavy right foot I got 12MPG...
Got a mate with a corsa VXR and he gets about 22mpg...

[jeevescat]

I average about 25, pretty much unchanged over 7 years and 65,000 miles.

[neiljohnson]

ALY77 said:

I'll let you do the maths but we just had a run yesterday up round the hills and glens and I went through £50 of fuel (almost full tank) in pretty much 200 miles though I'd expect 300 to a completely full one on a motorway run.

On one of the kent runs managed to get 120 miles to a full tank

[Diablos-666]

Neil - Wow! Did you forget to come out of second or something

Would installing the bluefin remap improve the mpg?

[neiljohnson]

Diablos-666 said:

Neil - Wow! Did you forget to come out of second or something

Would installing the bluefin remap improve the mpg?

was an 'intense' day i run a dreamscience but havent really noticed any differance in mpg

[Diablos-666]

i was looking into getting a dreamscience but they don't sell the handheld unit for the RS anymore. I imagine the bluefin and dreamscience being quite similar, would you say the £400 bluefin was worth it?

[neiljohnson]

Diablos-666 said:

i was looking into getting a dreamscience but they don't sell the handheld unit for the RS anymore. I imagine the bluefin and dreamscience being quite similar, would you say the £400 bluefin was worth it?

really? Im surprised they stopped doing it there are a couple for sale on the rs owners site at the mo the dreamscience can be used on 5 cars as long as the map is set back to standard on the last car its used on. Dont know ouch about bluefin tbh but its fixed unlike the dreamscience and i have heard of problems with the deact files and engine lights although this may have been sorted now

[Diablos-666]

Yeah they have. I emailed them with an enquiry but they said it was discontinued but i could find some on ebay.

I've read pros and cons for both bluefin and dreamscience and both cost about £400 new.

I'm not bothered about the 5 lives of the dreamscience as i dont plan to use it on my next car.

Do you notice a big difference in performance with the re-map? I dont have and dont plan to modify the car in anyway. I want to keep it as standard apart from the re-map.

Noticed on the other thread yours has dont 70k miles, mine is still a whipper snapper at just 36k miles

[GingerWizard]

I get 20-25mpg out of my Civic Type R. Which is way lower then everyone else pretends. 200bhp, 2.0 ltr lump, 25mpg. I know its a different car but its useful perspective.

[ALY77]

Their is another option, sure I've mentioned it to you before. AE/Tuna. I can get you contact details if needs be. Its less than half the price of Bluefin and Dreamsc. but you don't get a handset, once its on, its on.

[Diablos-666]

I'd rather a handset so i can put her back to standard if need be. Thanks for the advice though.

[neiljohnson]

Diablos-666 said:

Yeah they have. I emailed them with an enquiry but they said it was discontinued but i could find some on ebay.

I've read pros and cons for both bluefin and dreamscience and both cost about £400 new.

I'm not bothered about the 5 lives of the dreamscience as i dont plan to use it on my next car.

Do you notice a big difference in performance with the re-map? I dont have and dont plan to modify the car in anyway. I want to keep it as standard apart from the re-map.

Noticed on the other thread yours has dont 70k miles, mine is still a whipper snapper at just 36k miles

Remap brings the car alive but was a slippery slope for me the Dreamscience is worth buying 2nd hand due to the lives & also means it can be sold on when you either get a live map or sell the car (as long as its flashed back to stock) the bluefin is worthless once used as it is locked to that car.

[rb5230]

Diablos-666 said:

The main reason I asked is cos my mate drives an astra VXR and he easily gets 30+mpg

my mate had an astra vxr and he usually got about 25mpg which was similar to my focus st.