P38 DT/DSE/DHSE owners - how many miles to a tank?
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Chrisfrain2007
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I think datatek keeps quite accurate fuel consumption figures for his car
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Yes but that is his car in his environment. How much mileage you get from a tank totally depends on where you are, what you use the car for and how you drive it. Ten miles worth of stop start town driving in a town with a few hills every day, will give a lot different mileage than someone who pulls onto a motorway or dual carriageway every day and drives five miles to work and back. I think Keith lives in a reasonably traffic free area with open roads. He will get totally different figures to somone who lives in hilly Blackburn for example. At say £1.34 per litre a tank is around £120.00.
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is it ony rr drivers that would be so interested in keeping accurate figures
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Yesterday we travelled from Essex to the Southern France, 625 miles consumed 25.5 gallon of diesel, works out at 24.5 MPG, about 20 miles only on single carriage way roads.
Travelling on the auto-route about 80 mph, air-con on most of the way down, not trying to save fuel just keeping up with the traffic, 2 adults/2 kids plus luggage for 2 weeks.
The diesel tank has a 90 litre (20 gallon) capacity, so should be around 500 mile to a tank, Datatek has an auto with cruise control which will help (I believe), plus the northern half of France is fairly flat which will also help to an extent.
Travelling on the auto-route about 80 mph, air-con on most of the way down, not trying to save fuel just keeping up with the traffic, 2 adults/2 kids plus luggage for 2 weeks.
The diesel tank has a 90 litre (20 gallon) capacity, so should be around 500 mile to a tank, Datatek has an auto with cruise control which will help (I believe), plus the northern half of France is fairly flat which will also help to an extent.
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yeah sure, but I'm talkinb about Joe averag with no mountains, temp extremes, towing, who does a bit of town driving and some motorway action (so gets 20mpg to 25mpg) which probably includes say 50/60% of DT owners, like me.
I can drive flat out and reduce my tank miles significantly I agree, but lets say I stay sensible, not try too hard but not drive like I stole it - is 300 reasonable expectation?
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Ok so you say about 20 mpg times the tank size equals distance for the tank simple math. If I knew how many gallons of fuel your tank was i could do it for you
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totally agree, but could be used as a reference, no one will ever get exactly the same even with the same car on the same journey,
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19.82 imperial gallons, 90 litres.
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I have filled up three times since buying the car, light first comes on at about 700 km but tank seems good for 800km so 500 miles to a tank, but only if you are prepared to drive for a while with the light on. Costs around €110 to fill it, so a bit over 20cents a mile. Would be around 20p a mile in the UK.
This is typically 75% motorway driving at 70ish and the rest town or country roads. I do drive it gently, so think this probably represents about the best you could realistically expect....
Not too bad really!
Hope this is useful input
Mine is a manual gearbox btw, and these figures are with a/c off
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This is typically 75% motorway driving at 70ish and the rest town or country roads. I do drive it gently, so think this probably represents about the best you could realistically expect....
Not too bad really!
Hope this is useful input
Mine is a manual gearbox btw, and these figures are with a/c off
Cheers
Jerry
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us gallons please
I've never actually completely filled it to the brim to be honest.. gets fookin expensive and I can't help thinking dragging around that amount of fuel in weight would reduce the overall mpg (like towing a bowser!!)
Mind you not like the car doesn't weigh anything anyway..
Mind you not like the car doesn't weigh anything anyway..
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us gallons please
Us gallons 23.8028.
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I've never actually completely filled it to the brim to be honest.. gets fookin expensive and I can't help thinking dragging around that amount of fuel in weight would reduce the overall mpg (like towing a bowser!!)
Mind you not like the car doesn't weigh anything anyway..
Correct just keep enough fuel onboard to do what you have to do. 90 litres weighs in at around 154 pounds. The more fuel you carry the more fuel you use.
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from 476.056 miles per tank @ 20 mpg
to 595.07 miles per tank @ 25mpg
So you should get any where in between those numbers
Was only after a rough guide - as TAH says, -/+ 50 miles for driving style and conditions in normal use, so we looking at 300/400 miles to a tank? 500 even??
Cheers zzr1200 - that is great as one of the uses will be driving down to the Alps in ski season with 4 adults and a lot of luggage. How many miles did you get from a tankful then? Sorry, no idea how big a P38 diesel tank is!
Cheers zzr1200 - that is great as one of the uses will be driving down to the Alps in ski season with 4 adults and a lot of luggage. How many miles did you get from a tankful then? Sorry, no idea how big a P38 diesel tank is!
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