Just driven from Halifax to Ealing
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I brimmed my little Fiat (£45 34.9 ltrs in a 35 ltr tank ) 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?
I take it as you weren't in 3rd gear at over 4K rpm for the whole journey your DPF is now buggered?
When I drove back I had 1/2 a tank left and it drank it all!
Funnel shaped tanks I believe?
I take it as you weren't in 3rd gear at over 4K rpm for the whole journey your DPF is now buggered?
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. 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.
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?
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.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?
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...
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.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?
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...
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.
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.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
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.
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