Gen 2 cooper s - 18mpg can that be right?
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I decided to see how much we spend on petrol in my wife’s mini as we’re trying to budget. She does 4 miles each way in heavy traffic commuting. (Although it seems further?!)
I brimmed it last Sunday then this Sunday, so I was very surprised she had only done 68 miles and it cost £21 quid and was 16.5 litres. I’ve never checked before.
What the hell! I always assumed it was probably 28 mpg or something. Bit pissed off. The car is in good order no faults.
I brimmed it last Sunday then this Sunday, so I was very surprised she had only done 68 miles and it cost £21 quid and was 16.5 litres. I’ve never checked before.
What the hell! I always assumed it was probably 28 mpg or something. Bit pissed off. The car is in good order no faults.
These engines do suffer from a build up of carbon don't they? Certainly if always driven in traffic for short journeys this could be an issue. Look after the car and take it for a decent longer run from time to time to clear the cobwebs.
CoolHands said:
Damn ok. So I’m stuck in that zone of sell the car and lose a couple of thousand to buy a more ‘economical’ car!
£20 a week isn't a huge expense - you'd save a fiver or so a week if you found a car which did 25mpg in the same stop-start circumstances, so almost certainly not worth the expense of changing. She'd be better off working flexibly somehow and travelling at times when the traffic is not so heavy!I do mostly short suburban journeys in my R53 Cooper S, typically 2.5 miles (4 km) and back again. Also lots of trips to take my wife to the station - 1 km and back again - so the engine doesn't fully warm up.
I got 29 miles per gallon from my most recent half tank of Shell V-Power, driving relatively sedately and short shifting. One thing I only discovered last year (having started driving in 1987) is that my Mini does not require the use of the throttle pedal at all when crawling in traffic.
The car is taken for a good blast every now and again, when I make sure the entire rev range is used at least a few times.
I got 29 miles per gallon from my most recent half tank of Shell V-Power, driving relatively sedately and short shifting. One thing I only discovered last year (having started driving in 1987) is that my Mini does not require the use of the throttle pedal at all when crawling in traffic.
The car is taken for a good blast every now and again, when I make sure the entire rev range is used at least a few times.
Edited by Dickie-D on Sunday 24th November 10:39
CoolHands said:
Just filled up again, 57 miles this week but 23mpg! Overall average now 20.3mpg! Not much I can do so I’ll stop looking
Brim it, take it for a long-ish drive at 70mph and brim it again then manually calculate the MPG (or use an app or whatever, not the car's computer). If it's still low, then take it to a garage in case for example the thermostat is not working
Dickie-D said:
One thing I only discovered last year (having started driving in 1987) is that my Mini does not require the use of the throttle pedal at all when crawling in traffic.
This may blow your mind but you can probably get up to 20-30 through the gears with no use of the throttle pedal Edited by Dickie-D on Sunday 24th November 10:39
CO2000 said:
Dickie-D said:
One thing I only discovered last year (having started driving in 1987) is that my Mini does not require the use of the throttle pedal at all when crawling in traffic.
This may blow your mind but you can probably get up to 20-30 through the gears with no use of the throttle pedal Edited by Dickie-D on Sunday 24th November 10:39
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