Your car's fuel range display on a full tank
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donkmeister said:
I suspect some of the lower numbers in the posts above are either people who never leave their city, sit revving at lights, drive everywhere in first and second... or maybe haven't understood the question! 
Most I've seen on my car (Mercedes E500) was over 600 miles. I want to say 620 miles. My OH was driving, she is very smooth and gets better MPG than I do on long drives. We were on a long trip up to Scotland so I'd brimmed it around 20 miles before with an already-warm engine. Left the petrol station with five hundred and something miles and it steadily increased until it was showing 620 miles, then decreased again. V8s have surprising cruising efficiency... But are also very much capable of single figures when driving around town.
Lazy V8 sitting just under 2000rpm on cruise I have seen it come up around that figure too on mine, but on my stop start 7 mile motorway journey to office I see 13 to 19 mpg which gives me only 240miles, but when roads are clear that same journey I see 24mpg.Most I've seen on my car (Mercedes E500) was over 600 miles. I want to say 620 miles. My OH was driving, she is very smooth and gets better MPG than I do on long drives. We were on a long trip up to Scotland so I'd brimmed it around 20 miles before with an already-warm engine. Left the petrol station with five hundred and something miles and it steadily increased until it was showing 620 miles, then decreased again. V8s have surprising cruising efficiency... But are also very much capable of single figures when driving around town.
I get scare when I seen range of less than 100 left as I know it can drop from 100 to 20 when stuck in traffic.
430 miles from the LS460 even when driving carefully for the preceding 50 miles. I have found that when driving carefully the range rarely goes above that, but the "miles since filling" goes up quicker than the "cruising range" goes down. I reckon you could get 600+ miles to a tank on a very long steady run at 65-70mph.
T5R+ said:
Davie said:
Davie_GLA said:
2004 Volvo S60 D5. Full tank showed 1080 miles. Briefly.
Agreed.I've had over 600 miles acheived in my 2011 C3 Picasso 1.6 HDi and just over 700 miles once in a 2000 Megane 1.9 DTi i had years ago. (can't remember what the displayed range figures were but those mileages were made.
1085 is something special....can anyone better it?
Although i appreciate this takes the thread away a bit from 'displayed' to 'achieved'.
TurboHatchback said:
Between 450 and 550 in my E90 330i depending on how it has been driven beforehand. It's right as well, pretty decent for a 3.0 petrol six.
That is it. If you have driven gently before filling up, it will often give an optimistic display of the range. My F30 335d usually shows about 520 miles. However, I am not sure to what forward point that range refers, at the point of ‘50 miles left’ warning?If I fill to 7/8ths full, the needle on the gauge points to the 'F' at the top of the gauge.
If I fill to 8/8ths the needle goes off the top of the gauge and hides behind the bottom of the speedo.
The track-toy doesnt have a fuel level gauge, it has a multimeter strapped to the dashboard with very long test leads running to the level sensor. A full tank shows 240-245ohms and an empty tank shows 8-10 ohms.
If I fill to 8/8ths the needle goes off the top of the gauge and hides behind the bottom of the speedo.
The track-toy doesnt have a fuel level gauge, it has a multimeter strapped to the dashboard with very long test leads running to the level sensor. A full tank shows 240-245ohms and an empty tank shows 8-10 ohms.
Drive Blind said:
i had a fabia vrs - the diesel one - and the fuel computer on that regularly told huge porkies
one time after brimming the tank it was claiming a range of 800 miles.
I think it managed 600 miles once, 500-550 was the norm.
Seems to be common on Fabia. I've got a little 1.4TDI ( great fun as it's half the BHP of a VRS ,but with a lighter engine ) which can show a lot more miles than the car can do on a tank, but once it gets into the warning zone- porkies galore. one time after brimming the tank it was claiming a range of 800 miles.
I think it managed 600 miles once, 500-550 was the norm.
I guess we all know that the figures shown on the range / mpg meters in our cars are an approximation only The figures shown will also be affected by fuel tank size, and driving style especially the driving style employed immediately before the fill up. The only true way of establishing `likely' range is to brim the tank, and then check the actual mileage achieved before the tank is brimmed again.
On a trip to Inverness from Essex, I was not in a particular hurry, I decided to see what I could get out of a full tank, and the answer was an actual 1102 miles, but driving like that is not really a sound option. You also have to be aware of who is behind you, and make sure they can get by easily, or at least speed up to let them travel at the speed they want to, a until it is possible to slow down when the road layout makes it possible for them to get by without having to slow down themselves.
On `normal' driving, the best `indicated; range I have seem is around 950 miles.
On a trip to Inverness from Essex, I was not in a particular hurry, I decided to see what I could get out of a full tank, and the answer was an actual 1102 miles, but driving like that is not really a sound option. You also have to be aware of who is behind you, and make sure they can get by easily, or at least speed up to let them travel at the speed they want to, a until it is possible to slow down when the road layout makes it possible for them to get by without having to slow down themselves.
On `normal' driving, the best `indicated; range I have seem is around 950 miles.
I had a 2.0 TDI Passat with a 60 litre tank which, with a bit of deliberate soft-pedallling, once showed about 120 miles driven and 880 miles remaining. Way too optimistic; on a very good day I could only squeeze 700 miles out of it.
My current mount regularly gives a brim-to-brim mileage a couple of mpg under what the trip computer thinks it's done. So on a 500 mile trip, the car thinks it's used 10 gallons @ 50mpg but I know I've used 10.4 gallons @ 48 mpg. So who's pinched my 0.4 gallons?
My current mount regularly gives a brim-to-brim mileage a couple of mpg under what the trip computer thinks it's done. So on a 500 mile trip, the car thinks it's used 10 gallons @ 50mpg but I know I've used 10.4 gallons @ 48 mpg. So who's pinched my 0.4 gallons?
Pan Pan Pan said:
I guess we all know that the figures shown on the range / mpg meters in our cars are an approximation only The figures shown will also be affected by fuel tank size, and driving style especially the driving style employed immediately before the fill up. The only true way of establishing `likely' range is to brim the tank, and then check the actual mileage achieved before the tank is brimmed again.
On a trip to Inverness from Essex, I was not in a particular hurry, I decided to see what I could get out of a full tank, and the answer was an actual 1102 miles, but driving like that is not really a sound option. You also have to be aware of who is behind you, and make sure they can get by easily, or at least speed up to let them travel at the speed they want to, a until it is possible to slow down when the road layout makes it possible for them to get by without having to slow down themselves.
On `normal' driving, the best `indicated; range I have seem is around 950 miles.
We have a new leader..1,102 miles....what car is this in?On a trip to Inverness from Essex, I was not in a particular hurry, I decided to see what I could get out of a full tank, and the answer was an actual 1102 miles, but driving like that is not really a sound option. You also have to be aware of who is behind you, and make sure they can get by easily, or at least speed up to let them travel at the speed they want to, a until it is possible to slow down when the road layout makes it possible for them to get by without having to slow down themselves.
On `normal' driving, the best `indicated; range I have seem is around 950 miles.
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