Does anyone else do this?

[B'stard Child]

I'm kinda sad LM24 has finished but having topped up the tank and checked the car over I have the scores on the doors for the trip to Le Mans - I have no idea why I do this but I just do......

Breakages

1 x 15 amp fuse

Consumption

100 mls of oil,
1 litre of screen wash
196 litres of UK and France’s finest (98 octane or above)
No other fluids required

Distance and stats

Total distance of 1055 miles
23.67 mpg average (best 27 worst 21)
Highest speed achieved wrong side of 140 mph

Speeding tickets - awaiting feedback

Fuel cost £282.33

Number of times my brother pressed the imaginary brake pedal on the passenger side - TNTC

TNTC is a microbiology term for when the contamination in a sample is too numerous to count

Thanks to Galileo (long story) for not breaking down on the way down or back and actually being a real pleasure to drive - even if cup holders weren’t a thing in 1991 (apparently cup holders are important)

Sorry that was rude I didn't introduce your first - Galileo meet PH - PH meet Galileo

[outspan]

Respect for the Lotus Carlton!

No 10W60 added here surprisingly, normally have to chuck in a liter on long trips.

Fuel cost? Well euhm....

[B'stard Child]

outspan said:

Respect for the Lotus Carlton!

No 10W60 added here surprisingly, normally have to chuck in a liter on long trips.

Fuel cost? Well euhm....

Top work like the sticker

Saw this on my FB feed




I may have to do something similar

[anonymous-user]

How do you measure 100ml of oil usage so accurately?

[citizensm1th]

keirik said:

How do you measure 100ml of oil usage so accurately?

BC has a fetish for spreadsheets and lists ,i am quite confident he even knows his tyre wear down to the nearest .005mm .

[delta0]

I saw your Lotus Carlton on the way back. I was in the blue RX8 R3. I haven’t gone through my receipts yet to know how much.

[B'stard Child]

keirik said:

How do you measure 100ml of oil usage so accurately?

When I left oil was exactly on the max of the dipstick - level ground warm engine and 5mins after stopping - checked it twice at Le Mans (same conditions) and it was down by 2mm.

On return checked it again and it was 5mm down - required 2 full 50ml syringes of 15/60 competition oil to bring it back to max - so 100 mls of oil

It has a smoking habit - turbo seals let oil by on the exhaust side at tickover when hot so you get a very smelly blue haze out the back.

Doesn’t burn it in the engine just dribbles it into a hot exhaust downpipe hence the smoke is very distinctive

[B'stard Child]

citizensm1th said:

keirik said:

How do you measure 100ml of oil usage so accurately?

BC has a fetish for spreadsheets and lists ,i am quite confident he even knows his tyre wear down to the nearest .005mm .

I only have a tread depth checker that works in mm so rather hard to get the level of accuracy you suggest I will measure......

Haven't measured tyre wear yet but as there was none of "this type of activity" I wouldn't expect it to be excessive

[Pericoloso]

Not Le Mans ,but I just did a trip to Italy ,5741 miles and wrote down every petrol fill up.

How many litres and how many Euros spent.

Completely pointless as I will never refer back to it in the future.

Although I do like to see how many miles between fill ups.

FIAT didn't use any oil on that trip though.

[B'stard Child]

delta0 said:

I saw your Lotus Carlton on the way back. I was in the blue RX8 R3. I haven’t gone through my receipts yet to know how much.

Is that a "because you dare not" - A mate had an RX8 and it was very thirsty even if you drove it like your gran.....

[sherman]

B'stard Child said:

Is that a "because you dare not" - A mate had an RX8 and it was very thirsty even if you drove it like your gran.....

I had an rx8 and on a spirited run I used the entire tank of petrol in 120 miles. Best I ever got was 210 miles from a tank.

[B'stard Child]

Pericoloso said:

Not Le Mans ,but I just did a trip to Italy ,5741 miles and wrote down every petrol fill up.

How many litres and how many Euros spent.

Completely pointless as I will never refer back to it in the future.

Although I do like to see how many miles between fill ups.

FIAT didn't use any oil on that trip though.

Just to comfirm what CS said - I keep a spreadsheet on mpg, fuel used, litre cost and total cost plus journey conditions for all my cars - each car has it’s own tab linked into a summary sheet giving a yearly high level view. LC has all fuel documented since 2000 when I got it.....

That spreadsheet covers all my cars and motorbikes since 1988

So yes very sad unless like me you got into a habit and just like smoking you can’t quit

[outspan]

B'stard Child said:

Top work like the sticker

Saw this on my FB feed




I may have to do something similar

I identify as a Vauxhall?

[citizensm1th]

B'stard Child said:

Pericoloso said:

Not Le Mans ,but I just did a trip to Italy ,5741 miles and wrote down every petrol fill up.

How many litres and how many Euros spent.

Completely pointless as I will never refer back to it in the future.

Although I do like to see how many miles between fill ups.

FIAT didn't use any oil on that trip though.

Just to comfirm what CS said - I keep a spreadsheet on mpg, fuel used, litre cost and total cost plus journey conditions for all my cars - each car has it’s own tab linked into a summary sheet giving a yearly high level view. LC has all fuel documented since 2000 when I got it.....

That spreadsheet covers all my cars and motorbikes since 1988


So yes very sad unless like me you got into a habit and just like smoking you can’t quit

Without people like you the world would be a very boring place, never stop being a bit strange.

And now we all know what to get you for the PH secret santa

https://www.zoro.co.uk/shop/automotive/wheel-and-t...

Edited by citizensm1th on Tuesday 18th June 17:14

[850R]

What an eventful trip, 850 spat it's dummy before we left so didn't make it, took the D5 and just put some freshly refurbished BBS split rims on it, north or Rouen 1 rim decides to remove all but 3 split rim bolts, by the grace of god we didn't end up in the central reservation.

Space saver on, tried to get wheel fixed but no luck even a set of wheel shipped down to me but no joy

Had to wing it all the way home on the space saver (50mph)

Every cloud though, the V70 as worked out by receipts etc

Averaged 78.7 mpg!!

Sorry if we held anyone up on the way back!!

Here's to next year already!!

[B'stard Child]

outspan said:

I identify as a Vauxhall?

Opel

[RL17]

Looked at miles and average as turned back to miles and mpg on last few miles in Kent

870 miles at 20.8 mpg (car figures so probably a couple of mpg high) - detour on way down and a few trips around Le Mans included

[RobbyJ]

850R said:

What an eventful trip, 850 spat it's dummy before we left so didn't make it, took the D5 and just put some freshly refurbished BBS split rims on it, north or Rouen 1 rim decides to remove all but 3 split rim bolts, by the grace of god we didn't end up in the central reservation.

Space saver on, tried to get wheel fixed but no luck even a set of wheel shipped down to me but no joy

Had to wing it all the way home on the space saver (50mph)

Every cloud though, the V70 as worked out by receipts etc

Averaged 78.7 mpg!!

Sorry if we held anyone up on the way back!!

Here's to next year already!!

Wow, I thought I’d done well averaging 26.8 mpg for the trip, 78.7 is next level!!!!

[RL17]

RobbyJ said:

Wow, I thought I’d done well averaging 26.8 mpg for the trip, 78.7 is next level!!!!

"Less is More"