pos

pos

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Hello,

I drove from Leeds to Filey today with my grandad in my 1986 200TDi 90. Filled tank up, drove there and back, filled up again and recorded mileage. Both worked out the mileage and it came back at 42.03MPG :eek: That's on the A64 and various windy country roads with plenty of stopping and starting.

I didn't know that was possible. I've worked over the sum three times just to make sure!

Brilliant,
-Pos
 
Did you fill it right up...can be 3 or 4 liters difference if you dont brim it...but anyway, sounds excellent!!
 
Filled up tank to line I marked in my filler neck before I set off. I then covered a total of 153 miles (round trip) with plenty of hills, stopping and starting and a bit of tractor following etc. Filled up to the same line in my tank again when I got home and it took 16.54 litres.

fuel used = 16.54 litres
trip = 153 miles
MPG = 42.03

-Pos
 
Sean said:
only by people who are crap at math or who's speedo/ability to brim a tank is at fault
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The trip distance was confirmed by both my odometre and my satnav. I filled my tank to the line that I have on my filler neck (about a hands reach into the neck from the filler cap) when I filled up before the trip and when I filled up after the trip. The maths is simple and it all adds up. The only thing that doesn't make sense is that i thought it wasn't possible!

-pos
 
pos said:
The trip distance was confirmed by both my odometre and my satnav. I filled my tank to the line that I have on my filler neck (about a hands reach into the neck from the filler cap) when I filled up before the trip and when I filled up after the trip. The maths is simple and it all adds up. The only thing that doesn't make sense is that i thought it wasn't possible!

-pos
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am teasing ya - I've had around 40ish out of my 110 when it's empty and didn't have the rack or big top box on - that's over a 1500 mile trip to Orkney and back at a steady plodding speed - but that was with some super smooth high pressure road tyres, an immaculately serviced 200 and a disco box

tend to think if your forever working out your MPG then a depender isn't really the right vehicle for you - not you just in general if you get my drift
 
Sean said:
am teasing ya - I've had around 40ish out of my 110 when it's empty and didn't have the rack or big top box on - that's over a 1500 mile trip to Orkney and back at a steady plodding speed - but that was with some super smooth high pressure road tyres, an immaculately serviced 200 and a disco box

tend to think if your forever working out your MPG then a depender isn't really the right vehicle for you - not you just in general if you get my drift
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Yeah. I'm not bothered about how much fuel it uses generally speaking, unless it starts getting ridiculous ofcourse, but it's interesting to know. My grandad is very interested, he was the one who suggested it and he filled up my tank :D
 
pos said:
Yeah. I'm not bothered about how much fuel it uses generally speaking, unless it starts getting ridiculous ofcourse, but it's interesting to know. My grandad is very interested, he was the one who suggested it and he filled up my tank :D
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just think what a disco box would do to your figures
 
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