W204 C250 CDI MPG Concern

[MiltonRX]

Hi all,

I've recently bought the above car (facelift, estate) and while it is a great car I have some concerns about the fuel consumption as it's only averaging around 37mpg. It's an auto that's been driven fairly conservatively in E mode nearly the whole time and the miles I've done so far have been a 50/50 mixture of town and 50/70mph A roads. I know you can't trust the official figures but this does seem remarkably low and if there is a problem I'd like to get it sorted while I still have some recourse with the dealer.

Does anyone have any experience of real world MPG or what might cause it to be low?

Cheers

[MiltonRX]

Sheepshanks said:

It's lowish, but not remarkably low.

What distance is your typical journey? What did you drive before?

Anything between 5 and 20 miles, longest journey was about 30 miles of mostly A roads and a bit of stop/start traffic and managed about 41mpg there and back. ECO (stop/start) seems to randomly not be available/turn yellow as well sometimes. Will try and stretch its legs on a longer run next week and see if that improves things.

Drove a Toyota MR2 Roadster before and was hoping for an improvement in economy!

[MiltonRX]

Tinker2 said:

Seems lower than it should be when reading this

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/mercedes-benz...

Thanks for that, it's interesting that the C250 does seem to be the worst performer in relation to the reported figures.

[MiltonRX]

Thanks for your input everyone, hopefully when it starts getting used for some longer journeys and we get used to driving an automatic diesel barge we'll see better figures.