How far on one tank of fuel??

[david500]

I am travelling around France for a couple of weeks, so I would like to know 'roughly' how far you can expect to go on one tank of fuel.

At present I don't go much below 1/4 full before I fill up as I am dubious to the accuracy of the fuel gauge. Although this only allows me to put in about £30 of fuel. If the Griff 500 tank is 55 litres (correct?) then it should cost about £44 to fill up?

Any comments would be appreciated, and yes I can't wait to cane my Griff through frog land!

[keithskip]

My owner's guide says tank holds 12.7 gallons (4 litre). My fuel gauge was made by Jeffrey Archer and I ran out when I first got it, still showing 1/4 full. So I make note of mileage when I fill up & refill when I've done about 220 miles. I get around 24mpg on Super and 22 on cooking.

[david010167]

I have a 500,and it seems that I get about 18 mpg most of the time and about 220 on a tank on a long run.

David

[mel]

quote:
My owner's guide says tank holds 12.7 gallons (4 litre). My fuel gauge was made by Jeffrey Archer

Looks like your owners manual was written by him too.

12.7 gallons is far more than 4 litres

[beano1197]

Run to Leeds and back last week saw two forays into 24mpg territory (five litre or approximately 1.1 gallon Griff, Mel!!!)

I also rarely trust below 1/4 - so in this case 230 - 240 miles - what's that...... about 380 km in Euros??

Having toured around France by bike, I remember only too well those times when I assumed a petrol station might appear in the next 80 miles - good mapwork required!!!

[500 GRF]

I usually reset the mileometer when filling up and usually get to about 220. Having said that my fuel gauge has being showing nearly empty since 175 miles over the weekend although I know it should be OK for at least another 40 ish miles.

Managed to plough through half a tank (indicated) at Silverstone a few weeks ago after only 45 (track) miles!

[jamesk]

What these guys said. I must have a lead foot cos I only ever scraped over 200 miles - although that was rarely long distances at any one time so a cruise would get you more I guess...

[Toffer]

My Griff 500 does an average 23MPG.
230 miles on Shell Optimax SULP and it costs £35.00 to fill-up to brim. This is about 45litres of fuel.

The TVR manual quotes tank capacity as 57litres, 12.7 gals.

There are 4.546l to a gallon...so one or both of the TVR numbers are incorrect?
When I get to 230 miles the tank gauge shows just under 1/4 left, so I must be lucky because everything is about right!!!
I would not trust the fuel gauge below a 1/4 as the needle moves around as the fuel sloshes about?

If you are hooning down the autoroute I suggest fill up every 200 miles...you don't want a rescue from the local breakdown service as they will probably be on holiday!

[jodypress]

well you guys must be doing something right because it cost me between £35-40 to fill up with optimax and i have never got more than 175mile out of a tank, but then again i never risk letting it get that much below a 1/4 full.

[Toffer]

quote:
well you guys must be doing something right because it cost me between £35-40 to fill up with optimax and i have never got more than 175mile out of a tank, but then again i never risk letting it get that much below a 1/4 full.

18MPG doesn't sound unlikely "Jodypress"?

[jodypress]

well those 18mpg are a lot of fun