Just ran a DME report on my 7.2 RS..question:
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marky911 said:
Ooh let's play guess the operating hours! 
I say 184 hours.
That must be one of the most carefully driven GT3s! I don't mean slow, I just mean that the lower ranges are usually in the thousands, especially given the nature and use of GT3s.
That's a credit to you RDMCG.
Been travelling a lot and tend to use my RS.1 more funnily enough. Yep, it was only tracked at the Nurburgring, and generally I do not thrash cars that much. Definitely over serviced too...three oil and fluid changes, full service before storage, clear bra so not a stone chip out of it.Tough on tires though, just fitted third set of PS Cups the other day. Can't keep all cars, and definitely getting 991RS, so not much point in hanging to to everything. Can't bring myself to sell my older viper green 2008 RS.1 so decided to set this one free.I say 184 hours.
That must be one of the most carefully driven GT3s! I don't mean slow, I just mean that the lower ranges are usually in the thousands, especially given the nature and use of GT3s.
That's a credit to you RDMCG.
Slickhillsy said:
Forgive my ignorance but are you saying that this read out can tell how many hours the car was operational / ignition on / in gear and moving? How does that work and what benefit would that have?
The VAL report tells you the operating hours for the car. You can then work out the average speed (mileage/hours) to corroborate the mileage to some extent and to see if it's been a track slag or garage queen. Yep, as above.
I took a stab at average speed for a road GT3 (with some track use) as say 38mph. His mileage is 7000 so divide that by the 38 gives you 184 operating hours.
Of course that will be higher or lower depending on the actual average speed.
It can be used as a guide as Alpine says but you'll of course never know if a car has sat on the motorway a lot or if it's been lapping Oulton Park all of its life. We are talking GT3s though so the latter is what they were made for.
I took a stab at average speed for a road GT3 (with some track use) as say 38mph. His mileage is 7000 so divide that by the 38 gives you 184 operating hours.
Of course that will be higher or lower depending on the actual average speed.
It can be used as a guide as Alpine says but you'll of course never know if a car has sat on the motorway a lot or if it's been lapping Oulton Park all of its life. We are talking GT3s though so the latter is what they were made for.
Not that it bothers me but you just have to be contrary to everyone else don't you?
If we all like a black car you like a red car. If we average high 30s you average low 30s.
When I was commuting 6 miles each way to work through 30 and 50 mph zones I averaged mid to high 20s. Now I live more rurally I average in the 30s no problem. Even my wife's focus averages in the 30s and she's a non petrol head, law abiding school teacher. (Not that I'm not law abiding.)
So if you don't hang about your mph is going somewhere.
What's your fascination with the rev range time compared to operating hours? If they were range 5 or 6 it may matter. They are range 1, so irrelevant.
ETA - That's the last I'll write too as I don't want to derail the OPs topic.
If we all like a black car you like a red car. If we average high 30s you average low 30s.
When I was commuting 6 miles each way to work through 30 and 50 mph zones I averaged mid to high 20s. Now I live more rurally I average in the 30s no problem. Even my wife's focus averages in the 30s and she's a non petrol head, law abiding school teacher. (Not that I'm not law abiding.)
So if you don't hang about your mph is going somewhere.
What's your fascination with the rev range time compared to operating hours? If they were range 5 or 6 it may matter. They are range 1, so irrelevant.
ETA - That's the last I'll write too as I don't want to derail the OPs topic.
Edited by marky911 on Wednesday 30th April 23:36
marky911 said:
Not that it bothers me but you just have to be contrary to everyone else don't you?
If we all like a black car you like a red car. If we average high 30s you average low 30s.
When I was commuting 6 miles each way to work through 30 and 50 mph zones I averaged mid to high 20s. Now I live more rurally I average in the 30s no problem. Even my wife's focus averages in the 30s and she's a non petrol head, law abiding school teacher. (Not that I'm not law abiding.)
So if you don't hang about your mph is going somewhere.
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It goes into stopping at lights, junctions, parking etc etc, If we all like a black car you like a red car. If we average high 30s you average low 30s.
When I was commuting 6 miles each way to work through 30 and 50 mph zones I averaged mid to high 20s. Now I live more rurally I average in the 30s no problem. Even my wife's focus averages in the 30s and she's a non petrol head, law abiding school teacher. (Not that I'm not law abiding.)
So if you don't hang about your mph is going somewhere.
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I would love to see your total hours and miles on your car, but I doubt that will happen.
My operating hours? It was the OP's you were asking about last night. 
What is your fascination with how long other peoples engines have been running for?
Next you'll be asking what I'm wearing.
I shouldn't give you the benefit of a bite. I usually just ignore your posts altogether which is what a few of us on here agreed to do a while ago. As has been said before you are possibly an alright bloke in person, but you just like to rub people up the wrong way on here and constantly argue black is white, especially where GT3s are concerned.
No hard feelings though.
PS I know what "average" mph means and how it is calculated.
What is your fascination with how long other peoples engines have been running for?
Next you'll be asking what I'm wearing.
I shouldn't give you the benefit of a bite. I usually just ignore your posts altogether which is what a few of us on here agreed to do a while ago. As has been said before you are possibly an alright bloke in person, but you just like to rub people up the wrong way on here and constantly argue black is white, especially where GT3s are concerned.
No hard feelings though.
PS I know what "average" mph means and how it is calculated.
Edited by marky911 on Thursday 1st May 07:05
"which is what a few of us on here agreed to do a while ago"
lol never happen :-)
"constantly argue black is white"
No I post up facts and back up what I say with facts, most people post bulls
t and back down when I ask for hard facts :-)
time and time again instead of showing or proving the claims I get abuse because we all know people cannot back up the bullst we read here :-)
my Spyder ave 27 mph vs running hours, I think most people think the total ave should be a lot higher than it is,
hence why I think you are just guessing yours esp the Focus.
my Spyder was a press car also, so would you say it's had a hard life or would you go on the ave 27mph speed over all and say its had a easy life ?
run to run yes you can ave 60mph but a dme total running hours read out, some might be shocked how low the ave mph are.
never any hard feeling by me, just like people to back up their claims, its that simple :-)
lol never happen :-)
"constantly argue black is white"
No I post up facts and back up what I say with facts, most people post bulls
t and back down when I ask for hard facts :-)time and time again instead of showing or proving the claims I get abuse because we all know people cannot back up the bulls
t we read here :-)my Spyder ave 27 mph vs running hours, I think most people think the total ave should be a lot higher than it is,
hence why I think you are just guessing yours esp the Focus.
my Spyder was a press car also, so would you say it's had a hard life or would you go on the ave 27mph speed over all and say its had a easy life ?
run to run yes you can ave 60mph but a dme total running hours read out, some might be shocked how low the ave mph are.
never any hard feeling by me, just like people to back up their claims, its that simple :-)
Edited by mrdemon on Thursday 1st May 13:54
Well..sorry I can't answer any questions about the operating hours..( evidently my original post was to try to understand the DME report). Many thanks to those who clarified it for me. The car has been to a degree a spare car, and had about half of its mileage in its first three weeks in Germany. After my customary few days at the Ring it was not tracked after that. Just too many other things to do.
Interestingly my RS.1 had had a lot more tracking and has 18,000 miles on it. I must run a DME report on that one too, though I am sure it will not have much in the way of over revs.
Interestingly my RS.1 had had a lot more tracking and has 18,000 miles on it. I must run a DME report on that one too, though I am sure it will not have much in the way of over revs.
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